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

    I've noticed that the packaging for every video release of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show avoids images from the live-action segments. Why is that? Okay, it makes sense when they're not pictured on releases that only include the animated portions (and I recently read that there's a "complete...
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    What song can you not get out of your head?

    I got a couple of Donna Summer songs (that I just recently heard for the first time) in my head: "On the Radio" and "Enough is Enough".
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    Where's the love for Rocky and Bullwinkle?

    I know. It's just that she's been alive seemingly forever, and she continues to be the voice of Granny in new Looney Tunes productions (it's a shame she didn't do a voice in the Mr. Peabody and Sherman movie... I feel she should have been Ms. Gunion).
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    Where's the love for Rocky and Bullwinkle?

    So is that June Foray doing Rocky's voice in this? It sounds so wrong. And it would be sad if they had somebody else voice Rocky.
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    Any Ernst Fans?

    I just thought of something (actually I thought about this a long time ago, but just remembered). Vern is short for Vernon, I think, and in Ernest Goes to Camp, Sherman Krater is played by John Vernon. Could he have been cast because of his last name?
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    Guide for new SST writers online

    After reading this, there's something I've been wondering. It may be slightly off-topic, but does involve the scripts, and I'm not sure if there's a better thread to ask, but here goes. I've seen a few examples of Sesame Street scripts, online and in the 40th anniversary book. And I've seen...
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    Movies You Like But Everyone Else Hates.

    I'd say the only thing wrong with The Flintstones movie is casting Rosie O'Donnel as Betty. She gives a good performance, but is too overweight to be Betty. Another movie I like that seemingly everybody hates is Baby's Day Out (though I saw a clip from Siskel and Ebert's review and Gene...
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    Guide for new SST writers online

    I found this on the Toughpigs forum: http://www.toughpigs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Sesame-Street-New-Writer-Memo.pdf Norman Stiles had sent it to tough pigs. It's a guide for new Sesame Street writers (well, obviously it's from the early 1970s), instructing them on how to write for the...
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    Movies You Like But Everyone Else Hates.

    Tell your dad that The Muppets isn't a "remake movie". I was surprised to learn that a lot of people dislike the first one. Maybe there's just as many people who like it as there are those who hate it? I also liked the second one. I like those Pebbles and Bamm Bamm songs.
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    Questions about anything

    Been thinking about the infamous "Desert Bus" mini-game from the unreleased Sega CD game Penn and Teller's Smoke and Mirrors. The mini-game involves driving a bus down a single road for 8 hours (and probably the only '90s game to not have a pause feature) without anything interesting happening...
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    Action figure insurance

    Don't know, but I've heard of people insuring certain expensive items (though most cases I know of occur in movies or television). Somebody I used to work with actually had a Pokemon card insured (it was the Charizard card), and it ended up being stolen. So I guess if you can insure a rare...
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    The Jim Henson Hour Appreciation Thread

    Is it just me, or do the opening numbers rarely feel like opening numbers? Compared to The Muppet Show and even Muppet's Tonight, the opening numbers feel like they come in a little late to be opening numbers. Of course, on The Muppet Show, episodes rarely began backstage (after the...
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    Warner Home Video now distributing Sesame Workshop DVDs

    I guess I worded what I asked wrong. I knew that those songs were on the soundtrack. What I was wondering out loud was if maybe the songs were recorded more to have some big names (besides the Muppets and Waylon Jennings) on the soundtrack than to be in the movie. As I said, they would have made...
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    Warner Home Video now distributing Sesame Workshop DVDs

    Back when the 25th anniversary release was announced, I thought it would be cool to include bonus clips, though at the time Warner Home Video didn't have the video rights to Sesame Street, just Follow That Bird (and then they got the rights a year later). I can't remember what clips I thought...
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    Pre-Order "Muppets Most Wanted" Blu-ray available August 12

    Those clips say "full" and "extended", but I didn't notice any scenes that were cut from the theatrical version (which I've only seen once). That one "extended" clip has about four scenes (which I think were featured back-to-back-to-back in the film) and I've noticed some scenes that don't even...
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    Warner Home Video now distributing Sesame Workshop DVDs

    And since Warner currently has the Sesame Street license, they could even include some bonus clips from Sesame Street.
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    TMS: Would Its Quality Decline If Continued?

    Besides Harvey Korman, are there any guest stars who are known to have not really wanted to be on the show? I'm guessing that after the first or second season they didn't have many guests who didn't want to be on the show (they had a waiting list for guests, after all). Yeah, the Liberace...
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    Questions about anything

    There have been times when I recorded something off TV, taping over something that was already there (for a number of reasons), only to also tape over stuff that came later (or parts of things that came later) on the same tape. So when you record over things on tape, does it record faster than...
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    You Ever Notice...and What's the Deal...

    The "start" button on a video game controller is often called the "pause" button, even though it says "start". It does start the games, but people surely use the button to pause more than start. I'd ask "what's up with that", but is labeling it the start button an "artifact" or "artifact...
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    The Jim Henson Hour Appreciation Thread

    One of the recent reviews at Tough Pigs mentions that it seemed like a bad decision to have the first half hour to focus on the Muppets and be so energetic, only to then be followed by the more serious StoryTeller. I wonder if the show would have done better if The StoryTeller came first and...
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