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    Jim Henson's Red Book

    I don't think that would be a problem. After all, Warner Brothers owns The Witches and the Red Book has had a number of articles relating to that. And besides, this website has info on a lot of Henson projects and guest appearances that are owned by various companies. I think the Red Book...
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    Scary Fraggle Moments

    No, never the Gorgs. Though I didn't watch much Fraggle Rock until I was 8, at that point I saw less stuff that scared me to the point of being unable to watch without fastforwarding or turning the volume down all the way (though I did continue to do so with a lot of stuff that scared me like...
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    The Muppets and Lady Gaga in new Christmas special November 28 on ABC

    I'll just say, I don't know who RuPaul is. Somehow I thought he was a political figure.
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    Scary Fraggle Moments

    I don't think I was ever scared of any Fraggle Rock moments. As a kid both the Muppets and Sesame Street had things that scared me, or at least I didn't like (to the point that I wouldn't watch them with the sound on... I'd have to mute the TV or fast forward though them), but not Fraggle Rock.
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    Jim Henson's Red Book

    Is it just me, or has the Red Book been repeating articles/things that have been noted on the site? Lately it seems like it brings back one-line dates that had been noted in the past, sometimes with an article when it didn't have one the first time, sometimes with more information. In fact a few...
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    The Muppets and Lady Gaga in new Christmas special November 28 on ABC

    I wonder if this special will have some Lady Gaga-only numbers, in addition to Muppet-only numbers/sketches. The John Denver specials had John Denver-only numbers... Well, even in the era of YouTube I still haven't seen the A Christmas Together special but the album has as many Denver-only...
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    A Breakdown of the Series' Timeline

    And yet even in the early years it wasn't often they had multiple major characters interacting. Maybe they already realized by then that the performance was as important as the voice, and didn't want other performers performing their characters wrong. In fact, it seems like in the first ten...
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    Why have KISS and the Muppets never Worked Together?

    I wonder if they could have gotten the whole band for The Jim Henson Hour or Muppets Tonight. Both shows frequently featured appearances by multiple humans in addition to the guest stars, and the episode Power even featured an entire band (The Nylons). Muppets Tonight had a lot more...
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    A Breakdown of the Series' Timeline

    Another thing not mentioned in this thread is the fact that during the 1970s, it was common for the human cast to do voices, most notably in the Roosevelt Franklin segments, but also in many early Anything Muppet numbers. I wonder what it would have been like if the human cast provided as many...
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    The Muppets and Lady Gaga in new Christmas special November 28 on ABC

    So the fact that the Muppets are in the title means that they are heavily featured, beyond just a few segments. I wonder if Lady Gaga will be in all those sketches. Considering all the extra celebrities who will appear. It might be odd for all segments with the celebrity guests to include...
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    Why have KISS and the Muppets never Worked Together?

    The whole band wouldn't have been on The Muppet Show. No band ever was.... The lead singers of bands were (Debbie Harry, for example), I think they wanted to have the Beatles on the show but only if they could get all four members, and it would have been expensive. KISS could have done something...
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    No Sesame classic clips at all before 2008

    I sort of feel like it's a little disrespectful that they stopped showing material that Jim Henson performed in a few years ago. More than anyone else from the show who has passed away. Of course it would have probably been more disrespectful if they stopped showing Jim Henson material right...
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    The Muppets and Lady Gaga in new Christmas special November 28 on ABC

    I don't think it has specifically been said whether this is a Lady Gaga special with other celebrity guests including the Muppets in one or two segments (and maybe a finale with the whole cast of the special) or if the Muppets will be among the stars, like in the John Denver and the Muppets or...
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    Your Thoughts: "Jim Henson: The Biography" by Brian Jay Jones

    Well, the author did interview a lot of people who knew Henson, and it's possible some of the people interviewed misremembered things that we already know. The books Jim Henson: The Works, Sesame Street Unpaved, Street Gang, and Sesame Street: A Celebration - 40 Years of Life on the Street...
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    Remember that 2002 Fox Network Pitch?

    One thing I've wondered about... The Muppet Wiki page for this show refers to it as "The Muppets Present". The only time I saw that title announced anywhere was in a 2001 press release of upcoming Muppet projects. Then it was announced that FOX was going to do a new Muppet show in spring 2002...
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    You Ever Notice...and What's the Deal...

    Does Bambi even have a plot? I had been wondering that for awhile, and when I watched the movie last night to see, I couldn't tell if it had a plot or not. As far as I'm concerned the plot can be summarized in just one sentence: A deer grows up. It feels more like a collection of several...
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    A Breakdown of the Series' Timeline

    I kind of like the way the puppets looked in the first season. Maybe not better than they would look next season and later, but I still enjoy watching those early, cruder versions of the puppets.
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    A Breakdown of the Series' Timeline

    This thread was so much fun, I wonder if we should start a separate one in the General Discussions regarding other long-time franchises. Or a separate thread for The Jim Henson Company.
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    D'Snowth's Scale Model of Sesame Street

    That's unfortunate. I wonder if there's something preventing Ryan from getting your e-mails. I know that the first few things I sent in for the Mindset have never been posted, and after my first article was posted I have occasionally sent in articles that weren't posted. I can see why a few...
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    No Sesame classic clips at all before 2008

    I was wondering if the show was still showing full-frame segments this year. I haven't seen too many episodes from this season. It's interesting, segments from the first 20 years were very common up until about season 32, though it seems segments from the first season were scarce in the...
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