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After reading this, there's something I've been wondering. It may be slightly off-topic, but does involve the scripts, and I'm not sure if there's a better thread to ask, but here goes. I've seen a few examples of Sesame Street scripts, online and in the 40th anniversary book. And I've seen...

I'd say the only thing wrong with The Flintstones movie is casting Rosie O'Donnel as Betty. She gives a good performance, but is too overweight to be Betty. Another movie I like that seemingly everybody hates is Baby's Day Out (though I saw a clip from Siskel and Ebert's review and Gene...

I found this on the Toughpigs forum: http://www.toughpigs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Sesame-Street-New-Writer-Memo.pdf Norman Stiles had sent it to tough pigs. It's a guide for new Sesame Street writers (well, obviously it's from the early 1970s), instructing them on how to write for the...

Tell your dad that The Muppets isn't a "remake movie". I was surprised to learn that a lot of people dislike the first one. Maybe there's just as many people who like it as there are those who hate it? I also liked the second one. I like those Pebbles and Bamm Bamm songs.

Been thinking about the infamous "Desert Bus" mini-game from the unreleased Sega CD game Penn and Teller's Smoke and Mirrors. The mini-game involves driving a bus down a single road for 8 hours (and probably the only '90s game to not have a pause feature) without anything interesting happening...

Don't know, but I've heard of people insuring certain expensive items (though most cases I know of occur in movies or television). Somebody I used to work with actually had a Pokemon card insured (it was the Charizard card), and it ended up being stolen. So I guess if you can insure a rare...

Is it just me, or do the opening numbers rarely feel like opening numbers? Compared to The Muppet Show and even Muppet's Tonight, the opening numbers feel like they come in a little late to be opening numbers. Of course, on The Muppet Show, episodes rarely began backstage (after the...

I guess I worded what I asked wrong. I knew that those songs were on the soundtrack. What I was wondering out loud was if maybe the songs were recorded more to have some big names (besides the Muppets and Waylon Jennings) on the soundtrack than to be in the movie. As I said, they would have made...

Back when the 25th anniversary release was announced, I thought it would be cool to include bonus clips, though at the time Warner Home Video didn't have the video rights to Sesame Street, just Follow That Bird (and then they got the rights a year later). I can't remember what clips I thought...

Those clips say "full" and "extended", but I didn't notice any scenes that were cut from the theatrical version (which I've only seen once). That one "extended" clip has about four scenes (which I think were featured back-to-back-to-back in the film) and I've noticed some scenes that don't even...

And since Warner currently has the Sesame Street license, they could even include some bonus clips from Sesame Street.

Besides Harvey Korman, are there any guest stars who are known to have not really wanted to be on the show? I'm guessing that after the first or second season they didn't have many guests who didn't want to be on the show (they had a waiting list for guests, after all). Yeah, the Liberace...

There have been times when I recorded something off TV, taping over something that was already there (for a number of reasons), only to also tape over stuff that came later (or parts of things that came later) on the same tape. So when you record over things on tape, does it record faster than...

The "start" button on a video game controller is often called the "pause" button, even though it says "start". It does start the games, but people surely use the button to pause more than start. I'd ask "what's up with that", but is labeling it the start button an "artifact" or "artifact...

One of the recent reviews at Tough Pigs mentions that it seemed like a bad decision to have the first half hour to focus on the Muppets and be so energetic, only to then be followed by the more serious StoryTeller. I wonder if the show would have done better if The StoryTeller came first and...

I've noticed that on Muppets Tonight, there'll often be similar scenes or gags that occur in Clifford's introductions two episodes in a row, even if they weren't produced back-to-back. Like the first two episodes, they both begin with Clifford's introduction being interrupted by one or more...

Is Barkley still performed by Bruce Connelly (I guess I should watch the current credits to see if Connelly is still in the credits)? It seems like, with the exception of Brian Muehl, none of Barkley's performers had any other characters (well, Fred Garbo also performed the hands of Dexter...).

Let's see if I can think of enough people who could have been guest stars for seasons 6-10. 24 per season (I don't think I'll list any duo guests). Season 6 (1981-1982): Cher Andy Kauffman Mary Tyler Moore Danny Devito Davy Jones Imogene Coco Buddy Epsen Zsa Zsa Gabor Orson Wells Robert...

Recently I've been thinking about the initial critical failure of The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, and I'm starting to wonder if those movies would have done better critically and box office-wise (well, The Dark Crystal did do well at the box office) if the movies came out in reverse order, or if...

I was just looking at the page Popularity Polynomial, which is for things that were big at one point but then lost popularity for years and then suddenly regained its former popularity... It mentions Pokemon, but did Pokemon really lose popularity? I think I was older than the target audience...