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Sesame Street writer Norman Stiles wrote for this show, and spoke about it in his recent interviews for Tough Pigs and The Muppet Mindset. So it was a success but didn't find an audience? How does that work? Wouldn't having big ratings be the result of finding an audience? I thought I read...

Today I've been thinking about some of the shows weaknesses that I and other fans have thought of - namely the fact that the show focused more on new characters and less on old characters, and the show's habit of not showing full musical numbers very often. But I wonder how much those affected...

I don't get it.

Muppets Tonight had so many great characters (and a few bad characters, though some fans may think differently regarding whether certain characters were great or annoying), but part of the problem was that they had so many new characters at once and so much focus on them over the classics that...

Today I thought of a concept that I've sort of thought up before: What if instead of one lasting series, Disney produced many Muppet series, with the intention of only having each around for one season or even half season (like the recent show Galavant)? Each show would have a somewhat different...

People tend to say that Muppets Tonight tried too hard to be like The Muppet Show, and there was an interview where Frank Oz said that it should have been all new ideas instead of a mix of new and old, but by saying that, do they mean that a new Muppet show should only have new characters? Do...

I wonder how difficult it would be to make a weekly half-hour Muppet show that does not involve putting on a show (at least not as the primary premise). I once asked about this in the Ask Jim Lewis thread, and I can't remember what Jim Lewis said but he said that he didn't think it would be...

Been thinking about the 2000 Muppets Game Boy Color game. At the beginning, there's a voice credits screen listing Steve Whitmire, Frank Oz, and Richard Hunt with voices. With Richard Hunt, they obviously re-used audio of him voicing Beaker. But I wonder why they did that, when Beaker had been...

I also assumed that he wasn't talking about new releases of old content (though that would be just as welcome). It's said in part one that the interview happened a few months ago and just got posted a few weeks ago. I wonder if the upcoming Disney Junior interstitial series was announced at...

According to part 3 of The Muppet Mindset's interview with Kirk Thatcher, Disney does plan to do a lot more Muppet stuff regardless of how Muppets Most Wanted did, but he's not allowed to reveal any of it until they're announced.

Just recently I thought up another game idea: One that involves the Muppet Whatnot workshop. Obviously, this game would take place at the Whatnot Workshop, and would have the Whatnots be alive. This game would allow the players to design the Whatnots before playing the actual game. And that's...

In Trading Places, at one point Winthrope goes to his home but his butler denies knowing him or that he's Coleman (because there's another person with Winthrope), and he threatens to call the police if Winthrope doesn't leave. Of course Winthrope does. Not sure whether Coleman was going to...

So I've always assumed that the title Malcom in the Middle meant that Malcom was a middle child, except that he wasn't. When the show began, there were four children, and he was the third, so he was never the middle child at that point. It may seem like he's the middle child because Francis no...

I often think about how in The Muppet Movie, It's a Very Muppet Christmas Movie, and Muppets Most Wanted, Miss Piggy briefly leaves the Muppets and then returns shortly, and yet those scenes aren't too consequential to the plot. In The Muppet Movie, it's the least neccessary. Miss Piggy gets...

Was the titular mother from How I Met Your Mother officially called "The Mother", or was that more of a fan nickname for her? After all, in her first appearance, the end credits referred to her as "Woman with Yellow Umbrella" instead of "The Mother" (and according to TV Tropes, the script had a...

Galavant has been a lot better than I had expected. I had mainly watched it for Weird Al Yankovic, not sure whether he'd be a regular/recurring character or a guest star. When I watched the premiere, I didn't pay much attention, but then when the first two episodes were rerun later in the first...

At this point, I'll be surprised if anything else comes out for the anniversary, or if Sesame Workshop suddenly starts a big anniversary celebration (though we still have several months before it's technically over), but the other day I thought of a good April Fools joke regarding an idea, but...

Tonight I remembered something that I noticed long ago that I hadn't really thought about in years: Almost everybody from WKRP in Cincinnati is similar to characters from other shows, in looks and personalities. Not counting other characters played by the same actors... Les Nessman is very...

Regarding "Late Installment Weirdness", I feel like it's odd to list shows that are still on the air. For example, it mentions how The Nostalgia Critic no longer has a cut-off date regarding what he can review, just as long as it's no longer in theaters. But episodes are still actively being...

Well, regarding my question about WKRP in Cincinatti, I asked about it on Shout's facebook page (can't believe I didn't think to do that first), and was told that the clearances only apply to video (wow, not often music is cleared for video without also being cleared for television).