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Actually, my parents hate widescreen, so I can maybe help to articulate some of the arguments against it. First of all, while you're getting more of the picture, it has to be made SMALLER to get the whole image on the screen. Widescreen HDTVs are not the norm yet, so we have to deal with a...

Got a good question for you, Monopoly Guy (or Okay Okay): We're told everyone at the office started talking like Pepe for a few weeks. Just curious: did people know who he was already? Or did someone have to "introduce" him to everyone else? If so, how? Was there a tape-watching party of best...

While we're on the subject of rare Henson commercials: Does anyone else remember the commercial for Cheerios with the Muppet Newsman in 1984? The "newsflash" was that Cheerios was giving away Muppet Babies toys based on the (then) upcoming movie Muppets Take Manhattan. Naturally, some...

Waving the white flag Thanks for posting this, Wiggy. It's very helpful to assess things in the midst of the great Steve vs. Jerry as Statler debate. And, I must admit defeat. The clip was so brief, I honestly thought there was no difference at one time. But I realize now that Steve's Statler...

Oh, OK. Thanks. That's the scene they showed the picture of earlier in this thread. I was thinking that I remembered the centaurs being, um, not clothed. But I KNOW I never saw the blackface centaurs before. Glad we agree about their marketing, though I'm inclined to be less upset about the...

BooberGorg, you can e-mail me from my profile with the list. :)

BTW, I'm happy for people that they're going to be getting their DVDs, but I'm thoroughly disgusted with Disney for their reasoning: they want to soak people dry for money now and then make them buy the discs in 5 years all over again when a new format comes out.

Ol' Buddy Bert: (Gosh, that's fun to write. I feel like I'm Ernie now!): Thanks for telling me WHERE the cuts were. What were the cuts specifically OF? Wolfy: I thought I remembered seeing the film uncut in 1990. But I may just be hallucinating again. ;) But I don't think McCarthyism was the...

Matt and Danny, It sounds like he's going to make me a copy, and then I can trade directly with you guys. I'll be in touch when he sends it to me. Croonchy!

Ahh. Sorry. I jumped ahead to the Ultimate Disney thread, didn't read the Termite Terrace thread all the way through for the first time. That's irritating. I certainly don't wish to offend or degrade anyone, but since DVDs in particular are supposed to be preserved historical copies of the...

See, now THIS is what I'm talking about. :) If you want to please fans of both formats, release it in widescreen and then EDUCATE people on how to zoom in if they prefer that the whole screen be filled. We were talking about this in another thread (Roger Rabbit, perhaps?) and I could never...

Everyone keeps talking about Fantasia being edited on DVD. What's been edited?

OK. While Daffyfan takes a few minutes to catch his breath... ;) A friend of mine has a couple of these on tape, maybe more. (I remember the one Dr. Tooth described.) There's also one (maybe it's the same one) where the Chef does his usual juggling of the spoons while singing his song, and...

Yep, Scott, that's the guy I'm talking about. Didn't know that was an actual sketch on the show, though. Thanks, guys! Every other version of this character seems to make sense, except for that one creepy guy from Sesame Street. He's just way out of left field. In other words, three (or...

I don't think Piggy was originally intended as a metaphorical representation of a woman. The notion of a glamorous female pig was supposed to be funny in the same way that the completely ungraceful ostriches were when they did the ballet in Fantasia. Now she's more of a female icon, which is...

Thanks for starting this thread, Scott. I've wondered about this for some time. They often credit the first appearance of Mahna Mahna as being on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1968, with the wild orange hair and everything. But then why wouldn't they have just used the same puppet the following year...

No prob, Jamie. I think most of us can relate. I've been doing an ongoing temp job for the past month, which is the most steady check I've had since moving out to LA. I'm still struggling to make ends meet, but I had to turn down another part-time job offer anyway, because I'd have been working...

Sorry, Super Scooter, you already voted. :smirk: 1. Rowlf - 42 pts. (11 votes) 2. Beaker - 26 pts. (8 votes) 3. Pepe - 22 pts. (8 votes) 4. Sam - 22 pts. (7 votes) 5. Scooter - 21 pts. (6 votes) 6. Janice - 18 pts. (7 votes) 7. Beauregard - 9 pts. (4 votes) 8. Floyd - 8 pts. (3 votes)...

Hear, hear!