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    You Ever Notice...and What's the Deal...

    In the past few (maybe a lot more than I think) years, there's been quite a few Mario toy collections. And I've noticed that a number of them have included Lakitu. And yet it seems like there haven't been any toys of Spinies. What gives? The Spinies should be as popular as Lakitu (considering...
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    The Muppets Episode 1 - Pig Girls Don't Cry (Pilot)

    When I think of the fact that the break-up flashback appears as paparazzi footage, I keep thinking that this shows format would be a great opportunity to bring back Fleet Scribbler. He could be the one responsible for paparazzi footage that appears in ways that would otherwise be hard for the...
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    The Muppets Episode 1 - Pig Girls Don't Cry (Pilot)

    I didn't feel that way. I wasn't expecting them all to get a lot of screen time. I don't expect every episode to have a "main" guest star, either. Maybe if the show showed more of the talk show than backstage/personal lives stuff. That was a gag in the pilot as well, she couldn't remember...
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    The Muppets Episode 1 - Pig Girls Don't Cry (Pilot)

    And there was an interview where he said that he didn't want to make a PG-rated Muppet film. I wonder if he would feel the same way if he were alive when the last two movies were made.
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    Henson Rarities on Youtube

    You've said a few times that your uploads that when you restored things with existing clips that you often replaced clips with better copies of the same clips from other sources. Does this also apply to when there are transitions to clips? Do you leave in those seconds or are you actually able...
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    The Muppets Episode 1 - Pig Girls Don't Cry (Pilot)

    The movie didn't have any scenes inside a Doc Hopper restaurant. There was the scene where one was under construction, and we saw a commercial, but that's all we saw of his actual restaurants. The restaurants were the El Sleazo Cafe (where Fozzie made a "drinks on the house" gag) The Terrace...
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    The Muppets Episode 1 - Pig Girls Don't Cry (Pilot)

    I'm confused. So you think there weren't enough familiar things, yet would have preferred they have new characters and only a few old characters? The Jim Henson Hour and Muppets Tonight both had a lot more new characters than old characters, and around here that seems to be one of the biggest...
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    The Muppets Episode 1 - Pig Girls Don't Cry (Pilot)

    I didn't get to see the first episode until it came to ABC.Com and Hulu (watched it on both sites), and it was great. There's a few things I don't know what to make of, though: The fact that the crew is a mix of Muppets and humans. This is the first time that a Muppet show had humans working...
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    Henson Rarities on Youtube

    For years, I figured any edits Nickelodeon made to Secrets of the Muppets carried over into broadcasts on other channels (with Odyssey being the only other one), it didn't occur to me that the Nick version wouldn't be the master version used (though Henson has made new master tapes from edited...
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    Questions about anything

    There's an SNL sketch in a home video compilation spotlighting game show sketches that is cut off before it ends. Don't know why, but before the sketch is over, it suddenly cuts to another sketch. The sketch is titled "Dork, Geek, or Spaz", and has contestants guessing whether panelists...
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    What song can you not get out of your head?

    "Eye in the Sky" by The Alan Parsons Project. Listening to it, I feel like it sounds similar to a number of other great songs, like the theme from Greatest American Hero and "Somebody's Baby".
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    TV Alert: "In Their Own Words" Jim Henson Special on PBS Tuesday September 15, 2015

    Disney owns the Muppets (and The Muppet Show), Henson owns Henson's Place. Anyway, I feel like this documentary was sort of like a hybrid between the great Word of Jim Henson and the rushed CNN People Profiles special (to be fair, the CNN one is the only Jim Henson documentary that did not...
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    ABC Orders Muppet Pilot To Series!

    After watching some of the sneek peeks, I feel like it'd be great if every cold open took place during a meeting (or, if there's no cold open, then start with the Muppets having a meeting).
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    TV Alert: "In Their Own Words" Jim Henson Special on PBS Tuesday September 15, 2015

    In the end credits, it lists pretty much every production owned by Disney that gets a clip included, but it incorrectly lists Henson's Place among them. For years, I thought that credits for clips were to acknowledge the copyright owners/distributors, then I wondered if they were just...
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    ABC Orders Muppet Pilot To Series!

    The show did have multiple celebrities. Usually only one was announced as a guest star (the only exception was the Coolio and Don Rickles one, and I've often questioned that), but very few episodes only had one celebrity (I was shocked when I first saw another human in an episode). Some episodes...
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    Old Nickelodeon

    Been thinking a little bit about Doug. It seems like most of the Nicktoons had plenty of adult appeal. Some shows, like Ren and Stimpy and Rocko, were a bit more extreme when it comes to adult humor, while others had fairly subtle jokes or plotlines that would be a little more interesting to...
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    TV Alert: "In Their Own Words" Jim Henson Special on PBS Tuesday September 15, 2015

    Actually, that was from the "Count on Elmo" DVD. Big Bird didn't appear at all in it, and Oscar was only in the "Count Tribute" street story.
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    TV Alert: "In Their Own Words" Jim Henson Special on PBS Tuesday September 15, 2015

    It's available online at the PBS site now: http://video.pbs.org/video/2365557703/ Interestingly, it says that it expires on September 15, 2022. I wonder if that's an error, or if most programs available for streaming expire after so long. Seems like a long amount of time for it to be available...
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    TV Alert: "In Their Own Words" Jim Henson Special on PBS Tuesday September 15, 2015

    I missed the special. Anybody know if this will go online soon?
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    Old Nickelodeon

    Recently I've been thinking about the Doug episode "Doug's Bum Rap", and isn't it weird how at the beginning, Doug is sent to the principal's office because his test had the exact same answers as Chalky's, and Doug was told that they'd both have to re-take the test if neither of them confessed...
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