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I guess they decided against Jacko as there's already a lot of latex in the film! Also, there's a nice piece where they ask famous film stars what their favourite Muppet is. Nick Park (Wallace and Gromit creator) says his is Sweetums and says that Sweetums' expressive eyebrows influenced Gromit...

most interesting fact was that they also considered Michael Jackson for the David Bowie role in Labyrinth. Could have been a very different film!

Just to say the latest (Feb 2012) edition of film mag Empire has a great 20 page Muppets feature, including a tribute to Jim Henson, and a bit on Labyrinth also. Well worth a read. http://www.empireonline.com/magazine/

yes, I recall watching it on Saturday afternoons/early evenings. Mind you the BBC repeated The Muppet Show on Saturday early evenings so maybe I'm confused! Remember it being shown before Number 73 also!

I really think it's criminal it's not been repeated on network tv in the uk since 1987 - kids don't know what they've missed!

TMS reruns on BBC1 - actually started on Saturdays after Grandstand but was moved to Wednesdays after a few months between Wogan and Dallas (not that I was obsessed or anything!!)

BBC1 showed the Muppet Show at around 5.15pm on Saturdays, immediately after Grandstand (I know because I was obsessed with TMS as a kid and hated Grandstand which I had to sit through with my dad before it came on!!)

yeh, used to love that.

Earliest memories...my mum had a cassette tape of the Muppet Show album so remember Fozzie on rollerskates, that annoying spanish song Miss Piggy sang. Also remember getting a bendy rubber Animal toy and it falling apart almost as soon as I got it! Also remember when Fraggle Rock debuted in UK...

MB was ok as a kids show but absolutely nowhere near as good as TMS.

Fox News are idiots.

Fair point, I must admit I thought it was pretty mediocre but have seen worse (remember Kermit being interviewed by Anthea Turner on GMTV around 93/94. Just awful!!!

yeh, I love that episode too, very funny.

For the benefit of Muppet fans outside the UK, here is the Muppets appearance on the X Factor in the UK on 27th November, performing with singer Olly Murs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmyJMO7PrP8 Kind of fun, though for me it was a sad reminder that while Saturday night tv used to be...

Obviously the saddest moment for me was hearing about Jim Henson's death on the TV news back in 1990 - I was 11 years old at the time and had followed his every TV appearance, he was my childhood hero. I also went to the big Henson exhibition they had at the Museum of Moving Image in London that...

yeh, it's all a matter of opinion I guess. I do actually quite like Pepe: "I'll spank you like a bad bad donkey" one of the best quotes in any Muppet movie, ****, any film full stop I'd say!

yes, remember that too. Glad to see Scooter features prominently in the new Muppets movie trailer.

Hi Monty Python and Fawlty Towers legend John Cleese gave a great interview with BBC Radio 1 yesterday and he talked about how he enjoyed his appearance on The Muppet Show and how much he admired Jim Henson and Frank Oz. It's on the BBC iplayer here (might not be able to listen outside the UK)...

I loved Scooter, and Sweetums - Richard Hunt had the best characters.

I can't stand Rizzo personally, and the fact he featured so prominently in the later muppet movies ruined them for me. Yet characters that used to be main players - Rowlf, Scooter etc barely featured at all.