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    Why wasn't MFS directed by a Henson director?

    Does anybody know why Muppets From Space wasn't directed by anybody invovled with the Jim Henson Company? According to the Joey Mazzarino intwerview at Tough Pigs, Russell Klieser was originally hired to direct, and then was replaced by Tim Hill. All previous Muppet movies except for TMM were...
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    Muppet Spring Break Week

    Enjoy this series of fan fics. This is the week that the high school I went to has spring break, so I will post a five-episode mini-series. I will try to post one epsode per day. Enjoy it. Episode 1 Opening [Note: This opening is basically used in every "episode". This is the only...
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    Minor Muppetz' TMS outline: Shari Lewis

    Enjoy this outline, which was suggested to me by kathy26. It takes place in the fourth season. Cold Open Scooter tells Shari Lewis that the show starts in fifteen seconds. Lamb Chop has a bit of stage fright, but then Gonzo tells her she'll be fine. Lamb Chop figures that if Gonzo can make...
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    pigs haven't been used much this decade

    I've noticed that for the majority of this decade, most pig characters besides Miss Piggy haven't been used at all in any productions. Howard Tubman had a cameo in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, and a similar-looking pig was used in Tinseltown, but otherwise we haven't seen the pgis...
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    Miss Piggy's two recurring sketches

    I've recently noticed some similarities and contrasts to Miss Piggy's two recurring sketches, Veterinarian's Hospital and Pigs in Space. For one, both sketches feature three regular characters. And in both, the three usually appear in the same spots in every sketch, but in contrast, in VT...
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    comedy duo billing

    I've often wonder, are there any known reasons why, in a comedy duo, the straight man usually gets top billing over the comic?
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    Pigs in Space wasn't realy exploited

    It seems like Pigs in Space is one of the most popular Muppet Show sketches, and yet it seems like Jim Henson didn't really take advantage of the sketches popularity. I was looking at the Muppet Wiki page for Pigs in Space, and under the merchandise list it appears that only one Pigs in Space...
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    Bert and Ernie vs Ernie and Bert

    Over the years, Bert and Ernie haven't had a consistient billing. Sometimes, Bert is billed first, and sometimes, Ernie is billed first. Though it does seem like in recent years Sesame Workshop has been giving Bert top billing most often (in video clips on the website, the new Bert and Ernie's...
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    Miss Piggy wasn't very mean to Kermit in the 1980s

    Has anybody noticed that during most of the 1980s, Miss Piggy didn't karate chop or get mad at Kermit very much? I wonder if there were plans to soften her or something. But it seems that she eventually did go back to karate chopping him in the 1990s, in Kokomo, Muppet Treasure Island, and...
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    Fan Fic: The Muppets 55th Anniversary Planning Special

    Enjoy this fan fic, in which the Muppets make plans for a 55th anniversary special (sort of like the Studio DC specials, only better). (A "The Muppets 55th Anniversary Planning Special" appears before the show begins. The show takes palce in an editiing studio, where the Muppets plan on...
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    Trademark laws

    I've been wondering this for awhile, and after l looked it up at wikipedia I still couldn't find (or understand) the answer. Mayeb you all know. Anyway, I've read that ficticious characters are trademarked instead of copyrighted, and a trademark is good as long as it's still being used. But...
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    SST Season 20 Outline: Saving Hooper's Store

    Thanks to a private message request by Kathy27, here is a season 20 outline. She actually requested this plot, but I have decided to make it a multi-episode story. Here is part 1. Scene 1 Big Bird welcomes the viewer to Sesame Street, and goes to Hooper's Store, where he finds David...
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    My Thoughts on JHH: MuppeTelevision Half-Hours

    I watched every episode of The Jim Henson Hour on you tube recently (well, I didn't watch all of Living with Dinosaurs or Dog City... and the later has been taken down), and thought I'd post my thoughts on all of the MuppeTelevision episodes. I'll include the MuppeTelevision pre-show for Dog...
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    The Darkwing Duck Thread

    Let's discuss that great animated series Darkwing Duck. It sure was great. My favorite characters were Darkwing, Launchpad, Honker, Megavolt, Quackerjack, and Steelbeak. It is interesting that Darkwing Duck uses Drake Mallard as his secret identity, yet Launchpad, Gosalyn, and Honker are...
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    On Her Doorstep Last Night

    It had been a logn time since I last saw this sketch, but I heard it on a recent episode of The MuppetCast, and then watched it on youtube, and man, this scene sure is underrated. It's funny how Fozzie and Scooter start acting scarred when the aliens appear, who mostly just join in on the song...
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    Behind the Music: Solid Foam

    Enjoy this fan fic, involving Solid Foam, the band from The Jim Henson Hour. I had considered titling this "Behind the Music: Solid Foam - A True Hollywood Story". Announcer: In 1989, the Muppets main band, The Electric Mayhem, was temporarily replaced with a band called Solid Foam...
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    Jim Henson's season 2 films

    A few episodes of The MuppetCast ago, Steve Swanson covered a recent Henson event in Florida, where they screened Henson's number films. He mentioned that Henson made two series of number films, one for season one, and another for season two. However, I wouldn't call his second season number...
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    Muppet/Cartoon Sketches with Eyes in the Dark

    In those scenes where it's so dark that you can only see the eyes of teh characters in the scene, does anybody know how it's done? Are there just black puppets matching the black background who are given eyes that match the characters? Is black cloth put over the character (excluding the eyes)?
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    Flash and Boomhauer

    Has anybody noticed similarities between Flash and King of the Hill's Boomhauer? Both characters talk in ways that are hard for the viewer to understand, yet the other on-screen characters cna understand them (though in the case of Flash, it seem slike only Clifford can understand him). Both...
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    Minor Muppetz' TMS Outline: Conrad Twitty

    Enjoy this fifth season episode outline. Cold Open Conrad Twitty arrives, and Pops informs him that he has to be tarred and feathered. Introduction Kermit introduces the show. Kermit is about to introduce Conrad Twitty, but gets called backstage, since Conrad Twitty has ben tarred and...
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