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    Muppets Tonight what went wrong?

    How about TOO MUCH not enough Frank Oz? Purists love to complain about how his characters got recast, but let's face it... Eric was a BOON to fan kind. Frank's almost passionless phoned in performance in MFS for example (to be fair, the only ones having fun in that film were Dave, Bill, and...
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    Muppet school items at Target's Dollar Spot

    The Spam stuff is camp. Pure and simple Americana camp. But if it wasn't for my keen eye, sharpened by years of Where's Waldo, I would have missed them. Also I was kinda annoyed that the Target I went to ran out of copies of their exclusive Men in Black : The Series season 1 DVD, and I had...
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    Shooting at showing of 'Dark Knight Rises'

    All I'm saying criminally insane, disturbed person with access to fire arms. No want for gun control laws that protect honest gun owners and punish those who get them illegally here. :sigh: Still, the fact he was able to smuggle a gun into a movie theater shows that something is totally...
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    "Jump the Shark" Thread

    The worst was when they traveled through time. And yet, the entire movie was based off of that concept. The movie was based on the concept of the worst part of the Smurfs cartoon when everyone outgrew them and stopped caring... at least in the US.
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    Rumor: Finding Nemo 2?

    Nemo 2 won't come out until 2015 at the earliest. Which probably means we'll see it in 2016, unless, like Cars 2, it was finished ahead of scheduled because one of their films was dropped in production (Newt), then we'll see it 2015. There's still 2014's Good Dinosaur, which is still in...
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    Muppets Tonight what went wrong?

    Let's not forget how Kermit has had a diminished role in the Muppets until VMX. For whatever reason, while it worked for Kermit to play Bob Cratchit, I still find MTI a weird choice, and the captain that doesn't pop up until a third of the way in to the film a weirder choice. My problem...
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    Muppet school items at Target's Dollar Spot

    These things seem to be going fast, so hurry. There was such a mess in the bins that the Muppet Stuff was mixed with the Spam stuff (yeah... they have Spam magnets and school supplies... and I refer to the Hormel luncheon meats), so I had to do a little digging. Got the small set of magnets.
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    Rumor: Finding Nemo 2?

    Cars 2 was about merchandise. I still marginally like it over the second. At least it was much more visually stunning... and I'm sure if I wasn't the ONLY one on the planet that didn't get around to seeing Big Lebowski yet, I'd appreciate it more. But then again, while I did like Cars, I just...
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    Most Misguided Parent Ever?

    Might I say, I misread "cured" as "Cursed" and it made the father look quite a bit more confusingly nasty?
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    The "What Seems to Be in Store for Season 43" Thread

    This is going to offend someone, I just know it. I know what the song is about, what it's significance is, what it's supposed to be for. But it STILL Stinks. Don't worry, I always hated "My Name is You" too.
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    Muppets Tonight what went wrong?

    I really like the idea of a Muppet Sitcom style show. That would have been a far more organic than the talk show/sketch comedy/musical act mish mosh they had for the first season. MT's BIGGEST problem was trying too hard to be the same and different from The Muppet Show. Not to mention, as...
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    What went wrong with Muppets from Space?

    Cute, but a useless aside that took time from something better.
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    "Didney Worl" Elmo questions

    Someone completely unfamiliar with "Chibi plush" I see. As a collector of Japanese toys, I feel the need to correct that statement. Large heads on tiny bodies are cute, and the gold standard of merchandising things that aren't Gundam Models or very expensive collectors figures or... uh...
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    "Jump the Shark" Thread

    I liked Janice and Statler and Waldorf... I just feel they were used wrong. I like Statler and Waldorf as "Uncles" and all, but they clearly took the burden left by the network head's daughter's wishes to get rid of Bunsen and Beaker for educational content. I think Janice should have been...
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    Weekly Box Office and Film Discussion Thread

    Same thing can be said about Iron Man, it has a sort of Ayn Rand context to it about big bad government screwing with people. Wasn't the Iron Man movie essentially about the US Government trying to get Tony's suit and use it for an instrument of war. Of course, that could be taken in an...
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    Rumor: Finding Nemo 2?

    Brad's one of the best theatrical animation directors out there. The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and the depressingly underrated Iron Giant are all masterpiece films. Rat was definitely for older audiences... not so much for inappropriate content, but rather highly sophisticated content that would...
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    2013 Muppets Wall Calendar

    I love how that Electric Mayhem design that was on that bag I posted is one of the months. Big and bold, and somewhere people will actually look. Seemed like such a waste to be in a collage of designs on a totebag of all things. Kinda wish the Paris thing was in black and white like the bag...
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    "Jump the Shark" Thread

    I find the new animation studio from those seasons clumsy and ill suited for Muppet babies. I loved Toei's stilted, yet detailed animation (even though the first season looked a little dark). Plus they ramped up the educational content, almost turning it into another show entirely (New...
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    What year did it all change for the worst?

    Just wondering... was the Veggie Monster debacle supposed to cause a panic that would have had people frantically tuning in to see if it was true? Cuz I don't think it worked. That was the ONLY thing that they had going for them when that came out.
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    "Didney Worl" Elmo questions

    UGH! Internet Memes are getting quite awful now. I still refuse to move from Dr. Robotnik saying things that sound suspiciously like parts of the male anatomy. You know... I tried to make some memes once that no one... HOLY CRAP! I found it! It's a Chara-Hiroba prize toy Just as I...
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