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    Steve Whitmire has left the Muppets, Matt Vogel to continue as Kermit

    I heard something about that, but I wasn't entirely sure if that really was the case. And if that is the case, I guess it makes sense to a degree: Frank has openly admitted that's why we don't see him on SST anymore (not even for a day a year) because they can't afford him.
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    Steve Whitmire has left the Muppets, Matt Vogel to continue as Kermit

    So now I wonder if perhaps this has something to do with him no longer being with SST? Were they having problems with him too?
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    Will Season 50 of Sesame Street premiere in 2020 instead of 2019?

    Oh yeah, axing PBS has always been at the top of their agenda since, well, the inception of PBS . . . but Romney was, perhaps, the nastiest about it, lol.
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    Will Season 50 of Sesame Street premiere in 2020 instead of 2019?

    At least SST has a safe and secure home with HBO now that, once again, the lifeblood of PBS has been threatened.
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    Steve Whitmire has left the Muppets, Matt Vogel to continue as Kermit

    Okay, here's my current interpretation of the situation: I'm going to guess that once Steve became Kermit that perhaps that was a little too much of a boost for his ego and probably made him feel like he could call more shots than he should - but at the same time, I still believe that Steve had...
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    New Feature: Change Username

    Does anyone besides me get this feeling this feature is being abused a tad?
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    The... -wait fer it-... "What made you laugh today?" Thread

    Lol, you don't happen to have before and after comparison pics do you Ellie? Sounds hilarious! XD I had a similar situation years ago with a wool cap: after going through the wash, it came out a fuzzy thimble. ><
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    Will Season 50 of Sesame Street premiere in 2020 instead of 2019?

    Well, Season 20 began in 1988 and Season 30 began in 1998. They went against schedule for Season 40 by premiering on a Tuesday instead of a Monday, because Tuesday happened to be November 10, 2009; I can guess they would try to do the same for 2019. Maybe.
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    Steve Whitmire has left the Muppets, Matt Vogel to continue as Kermit

    It's like for every answer we get to this situation, it creates two more questions.
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    Steve Whitmire has left the Muppets, Matt Vogel to continue as Kermit

    Well, if this is how everything has gone down, then it really doesn't surprise me that Disney or the Muppets Studio would fire Steve on those terms. Why? Because this is something that happens all too often in the entertainment industry: somebody "gets out of line," (so to speak), gets too...
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    Steve Whitmire has left the Muppets, Matt Vogel to continue as Kermit

    I think it was the weirdness factor that made it seem enjoyable at the time . . . it's a lot like how Krofft shows in the 70s were reeling in college kids and stoners on Saturday Mornings when the shows were intended for little kids.
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    Steve Whitmire has left the Muppets, Matt Vogel to continue as Kermit

    You know what this is actually starting to remind me of? Way back when Teletubbies were taking over the world, the first guy who played Twinky Winky was fired because of that whole gay controversy . . . and the guy was actually pretty upset about that, because he apparently enjoyed the job.
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    Ehhhh. . . . I'll Bite

    Cho Man Chin - the Korean peddler who would often try to swindle the gang at the 4077th. FRANK: Hey, you! That wristwatch you sold me runs backwards! CHO: Try other wrist. Zale also added an interesting dynamic to Klinger the way they would fight so often. And how could you not feel sorry for...
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    The Worst CGI Kid Films In Recent Memory

    So it's MONSTER HOUSE, GNOMEO AND JULIET, CORALINE, and HOME ALONE somehow blended all into one movie?
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    Steve Whitmire has left the Muppets, Matt Vogel to continue as Kermit

    Off topic, but does anyone besides me think as Steve gets older, he looks a little more and more like a mix of Jim and Caroll?
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    Steve Whitmire has left the Muppets, Matt Vogel to continue as Kermit

    That's honestly the best way anybody has put it so far.
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    Steve Whitmire has left the Muppets, Matt Vogel to continue as Kermit

    It always takes a while for us to get used to the recasts, but the thing of it is, after quite a bit of time passes, you do get used to it. Took me a few years to get used to Eric's Grover, Bert, and Fozzie, and David's Cookie, but now I'm so used to them that it seems unusual to hear Frank's...
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    Steve Whitmire has left the Muppets, Matt Vogel to continue as Kermit

    Honestly, I thought the same thing about Johnny T.'s Ernie from PWMS. Truth be told, I don't notice too much of a difference in Ernie's voice from that video, but Bert almost doesn't sound like Eric. But, I have to say, this is perhaps the closest to Jerry that Matt has sounded as Count yet.
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    Steve Whitmire has left the Muppets, Matt Vogel to continue as Kermit

    To rephrase what I said a couple of years back, Disney is the one who won't bring in Muppet writers to work on any of these projects, and I honestly believe that's what's hurting the Muppets more than anything. As for the Muppet Thought of the Week, didn't Oscarfan say it would be delayed till...
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