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Cookie Monster answers the "Proust Questionnaire" in a video clip on the NPR website, which also has some thoughts on Cookie Monster as the unrestrained id (that's Freudian talk) of Frank Oz. You can find this and a few other Cookie tidbits at...

Pilot thoughts I watched the pilot more than a week ago, so I guess I've just been lazy posting my thoughts about it (was my whining about the unskippable ads really more important?). The pilot had lots of problems; I'm really glad they did a test to find out what didn't work so that the real...

I finally got a chance (i.e., I finally remembered while I was in a bookstore) to look at volume 2 in a store a few days ago. There was no way I was going to order it online without looking first (the mistake I made with the first volume). The drawings are still bad. Flipping through the...

Most of you probably already know everything that's in this article, but it's interesting anyway: figures.com has posted a brief overview of the Muppet figures by Palisades--looking back, as many of us do, with fondness...

As usual, I'm criticizing something Since everyone else--quite rightly!--is doing a good job singing the praises of this set and explaining why you should buy it (and you should), I feel more free to gnash my public teeth about one negative aspect of Volume 2. Disc one (I haven't gotten to...

These aren't the Muppet versions, but . . . Someone has posted a review of the Disney-characters-as-Star-Wars-characters on a site called Movie Maniacs, connected with figures.com. Here's the link...

No, no, no, you've all got it wrong about the babysitting--Gina just takes Marco to work with her. The chickens in the waiting room sit on him while Gina's working.

Well, I don't buy busts and statues (give me action figures instead), but I do like looking; and I've gotta say, that's one ugly Aughra. Well, yeah, she's supposed to be ugly, but not like this. The pose is goofy (I see the caption "Blow, winds, blow, I summon ye! Do my bidding, storms of the...

Posting a day late Episode 4157: Pretend Let me add to the praise for yesterday's Sesame Street Dinner Theatre: "Pear" was the most successful SSDT they've done so far. Usually the SSDTs seem to be holding back or play as if the writers weren't really interested in what they were doing. This...

I loved how they did the upside-down trick on a day when both letter and number (W and 9) made perfect sense upside-down. Someone was actually thinking, and it was really neat.

Well Wha'd'ya Know? I did just that--Muppet Wiki says the subway entrance was there in seasons 25-9. I'm glad to see its use in the Alphabet Race episode was a return to continuity and not just another made-it-up-cause-it-was-useful-today thing. Thanks, Count and somethingofafan. I feel...

Amazing Alphabet Race Overall, I liked this episode. The Nascount bit was especially welcome. But I was bothered a lot by the way they showed the chicken's progress towards the gong. At the start, the chicken is on the street with Elmo and Al, then the next time you see her she's right in...

Elmo's dinosaur heartbreak Did I miss something? Maybe I misunderstood what happened. It looked to me like Elmo really did think Snuffy was a dinosaur. I know Elmo shouldn't be that stupid, but from the way it was played I got the impression he was actually fooled by Snuffy's lame disguise...

I was browsing through figures.com, a website offering news and views about a broad range of action figures, and found a new article wishing that someone would make Dark Crystal action figures. I believe we here have asked the very same question. You can read the article at...

Boy, talk about fast service! On Thursday I lamented the lack of Big Bird, Ernie, and Bert, and the very next morning we got an episode with all three on prominent display. And the Count segment was a nice change from the pipe organ. I complained about the triangle/jealous-Telly episode that 3...

Count, the mail episode was indeed 4148, not 4158. In other news: now that we're this far into the season I've had some other thoughts about the show. THE GOOD 1. "Word on the Street" is good stuff. Yes, Drtooth, showing Muppets interacting with people in the real world, outside the...

I bought my copy at Best Buy this afternoon. I was glad to see that BB had it, since last year they didn't carry Season 2 when it was released (at least not in my area). It strikes me as a very good sign that they went back to carrying the Fraggle DVDs. Fraggle support must be healthy, right...

Until reading this thread, I didn't know there had even BEEN any Fraggle Rock LP/CD releases before. I've certainly never seen any to have an opportunity to buy one (and I go a lot of places that sell used music)--not that I would've gotten an LP version anyway. So for me this means I won't be...

Is it weird that the very first song I think of that I want on the CDs is Mokey and Red's "See the Beetle Sitting on a Stone" from season 1? Sure, "Let Me Be Your Song" comes to mind second, but still. . . .

Please, please, gentle readers, do not look at the poor drawings in the Return to Labyrinth book and think anime and manga look like that. That's the reaction I fear most from RtL. You're entitled to like or dislike anime and manga as you wish, but please don't believe that the stuff drawn for...