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I'm not saying doing a comic strip isn't hard. It is **** hard. It's a lonely existence where you're chained to the **** drawing board. You don't get the instant feedback - good or bad - of a live audience. You see your work shrunk down to practically postage-stamp size. And there's no tenure...

A friend of mine is a newspaper editor. It was he who told me the strip failed. In his view, any strip that doesn't last a cartoonist's lifetime is a failure - unless it's purposely ended ("Bloom County", "The Far Side", "Calvin and Hobbes"). He told me the Muppets strip suffered a long slow...

Well. Just expressing an opinion here. No-one here is required to agree. I hated the Muppets strip. I'm not surprised it failed, and I'm not surprised the people behind it are now doing "Nancy". That's that.

FWIW I totally agree with you about how Disney is treating Pixar - like SH*T! But then I thought Disney was on its way down the tubes when Eisner, in all his arrogance, let Katzenberg go. I know Jeffy boy can play rough, but his grasp of what makes a good Disney animated film is what really...

You make valid points, I must admit, but I still insist that MOST people prefer watching a CGI-generated Sully over a Muppet just like most folks prefer to drive a Jaguar over a Model T. And it's not just technical prowess that makes Sully superior; it's the fact that the character was...

Sorry, guys, but I think some of you really need a bracing dose of reality here. The Muppets are a faded commodity. Period. They may have a certain nostalgia value, but that's about it. This situation came about partly because the Muppets were primarily a novelty act, and the novelty's worn off...

Enough about "Farscape". "It's dead, Jim." ;)

Well, one would assume that Henson was "VERY pleased" about the Swamp Years debacle as well. As for "the whole spirit of Jim's work has been recaptured"...what the frick does THAT mean? IMO, the spirit of Jim's work was encapsulated in the original "Muppet Movie". Particularly in the...

Well, I just read the article, and you know something? Suddenly I've lost interest in the Muppets again. It re-ignited briefly I guess because of the Denny's commercials, if only because of a "What the ****?" reaction - but this "interview" has pretty much shot down any hopes I've had for any...

Re: Sorry, but.... Well, speaking for myself, I think I "got it". It just wasn't very involving or entertaining IMO.

I wonder if "Futurama" wouldn't have been more interesting had Fry and Co., say, been at war with an evil alien menace or whatnot. Every episode could then show the progress of that war, in a comic way, of course. Then at least the show could have been *about* something. As it is, I feel I could...

IMO, Mr. Groening needs to work on making people give a **** about his characters. Every time I've attempted to watch "Futurama", I've gotten this "so what" feeling no matter what dire peril Fry and Leela and whoever are in. That's because all the characters ever do is dispense one-liners, and...

And in those commercials, Kermit says "We may have to get a bigger booth." Fat joke. Proof again that they're easy to write. ;) BUT it was a subtle one, and referred to her appetite, as you say, rather than to her size at the moment. Personally, I have no prob with jokes about Piggy's appetite...

Yes, but they generally don't have long blond hair and human legs, true?

Well, my memory might be faulty, but I think her weight was certainly used for humor on "The Muppet Show" - because fat jokes are rather easy to write, perhaps. But again, those jokes were not why she became so popular. I think that in that day, people were fascinated by the fact that Piggy went...

Just to be asking...what if they brought back Scooter, but the voice was different? I mean, the Kermit voice isn't quite Jim's, and Rowlf, forget it, and Statler and Waldorf in the "Denny's" commercial don't sound right at all (at least to me)...would it faze you if Scooter came back with a...

Hmmm...not a bad idea. I'd rather the plot be about the Muppets themselves than about the Muppets playing other characters. And a Muppet Xmas movie might do well. A Muppet series, however....no. Those days are over. And so it goes...

While I enjoyed reading the opinions here, I must say that some of you need to look beyond your own Muppet myopia and consider how the *general public* views the Muppets. And in that regard, slimming down Miss Piggy is perhaps the best idea Henson has come up with in years. Maybe some of you...