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    Does Animal seem to be more tame now a days?

    That's from The Muppet Revue. And you can see that clip again now:
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    Fads and Obsessions

    I wonder what's up with the recent surge in popularity for Betty White. I've never hated her, but was never a fan, either, and it's interesting that she seems to be popular again (I'm surprised she hasn't starred in a recent movie). She's not a bad actress, but not really somebody I was...
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    "I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story" documentary in development

    The company has just recently uploaded some great stuff on youtube, including some awesome behind-the-scenes footage from Follow That Bird:
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    Biff without a hat

    Well, I've found that they are the same song. A few images from that song have been uploaded to Muppet Wiki, including one from when Biff and Sully are presidents (which is on the wiki page "President of the United States of America", but not in the "We Coulda" page). I asked the user who...
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    Question about Mahna Mahna/Bip Bippadotta

    Mahna Mahna talked in "The String Quartet" sketch on The Ed Sullivan Show. I wish he would have been given more non-Mahna Mahna dialogue over the years. They named the Sesame Street version to avoid confusion between the two, but I think they did a poor job of it. I don't think either...
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    Vote Muppets for ABC's "Best in TV" Barbara Walters Special

    Most of these categories needed write-in options (then why include choices at all...).
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    Vote Muppets for ABC's "Best in TV" Barbara Walters Special

    One thing that I don't like is that most of the nominees for "best TV moment" are reality-based moments. Obama's inauguation, the Berlin wall coming down, the 9/11 attacks... Mostly news stuff. I don't even associate the 9/11 attacks as a TV moment (though I think it's weird that somebody just...
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    Vote Muppets for ABC's "Best in TV" Barbara Walters Special

    I wish we could skip some of the questions. I hate that I had to vote for a best reality show, a best drama, and a best soap opera (I ended up blindly voting for American Idol, The Twillight Zone, and One Life to Live). I wish there was a "none of the above" option. I can't believe that the...
  9. M

    Fads and Obsessions

    Oh yeah I forgot about the fads of female celebrities having "handbag dogs" like chichuahuas. I wonder if that's why the main character in the Legally Blonde movies had one. Of course my family has three chihuahuas, the first of which we got sometime after the Taco Bell dogs commercials...
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    Did other puppet heads have "Gorg vision"?

    In "Down at Fraggle Rock" it's said that there were video monitors inside the heads of the Gorgs, which Henson called "Gorg vision". But I wonder, were there ever any other full-body Henson creations that had monitors inside the heads? I know that some characters (Big Bird, Bear, Thog) had...
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    "I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story" documentary in development

    One thing I hope I learn because of this movie, or before it comes out, is if Caroll Spinney ever actually performed Sam thr Robot. When I first got the internet I saw Sam listed as a Caroll Spinney character in a Muppet performer guide online, then I saw all sorts of sources that list Jerry...
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    Salute Your Shorts

    I wonder how old each character on the show was when the show was made. I assume they are meant to be the age that the actors are, but some characters (donkeylips, all of the girls ) it's hard to tell if they are elementary-school-aged, middle-school-aged or high school-aged (well Michael Bowers...
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    Fads and Obsessions

    I've never noticed that bacon obsession before. It seems an obsession with chihuahuas keeps coming and going. There was the popularity of the Taco Bell Dog, then he stopped appearing in commercials and people cared less about them, and then that Beverly Hills Chihuahua movie came out and...
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    Muppets Tonight what went wrong?

    Me too, but I'd like to point out that it's been widely sourced that the Muppet performers normally work freelance, whether it be for Henson, Sesame Workshop, or even Disney. I'm sure there'd be no problem if Brian wanted to perform for Disney. But I'm sure he's more interested in working for...
  15. M

    Salute Your Shorts

    I had recently read that Blake Soper later became a musician and changed his stage name.
  16. M

    Muppets Tonight what went wrong?

    I was thinking about how it was a poor decision to make Clifford the main character, since the general public wouldn't have known him too well (yeah, he was on The Jim Henson Hour and had appeared in the occasional Muppet production since), but then I remembered an interview where Kevin Clash...
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    "I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story" documentary in development

    I was looking at the donation page, and was (pleaseantly) surprised to see that somebody actually donated 10,000 dollars. And at first I misread the 10,000 prize as a 100,000 dollar prize (if somebody did pledge the entire goal I wonder if they'd get a really great, unlisted prize). Speaking...
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    "Jump the Shark" Thread

    I first heard of the term "Jump the Shark" because of the website (I haven't checked that site out in years). Knowing it was named after what Fonzie did on the show, I sort of wondered, "why not just call it 'jump the trashcans'?" Besides, I like the episode where Fonzie jumped the shark, but...
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    "Jump the Shark" Thread

    I wonder what the big deal of Fonzie "jumping the shark" was. I thought that was a great sequence, I like the three-part "Hollywood" episodes which featured it, and in a way the later Richie episodes (seasons 5-7) are better than the earlier ones (though in another way the earlier ones are...
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    Salute Your Shorts

    One thing I noticed about the second season opening is that it seems to be shot better than the first opening. The individual verses with each character seems to be more decorated. But at times the second season opening seems like a step back a little. In the first opening, at one point...
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