70 Years, 70 Muppets: More Muppets Please Podcast

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Just hopping in to say we start off March with not one, not two, but three additions as Entry #78. This time we get the trio of Bill, Gill, and Jill, known as the Madison Avenue Marketing Frogs. Check out their marketing savy in the ad for their chief clinet, Ocean Breeze Soap. It's just like taking a cruise, but there's no boat and you don't actually go anywhere! And now to head off for a spot of lunch at the Grill, thankfully nothing there makes me too ill.

 

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Hungry for another addition to the More Muppets Please campaign? This week, Entry #79 is Gladys the Cafeteria Lady. So pull up a chair and dig into this episode while it's hot and fresh. As for actual food, you're going to have to bring that yourself in a brown paper bag as the Muppet Theater's canteen has about as much good service as Charlie's Restaurant over on the neighboring streets.

 

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And we've now reached Entry #80, a real blast from the Henson past... We welcome King Goshposh and Featherstone to the More Muppets Please! ranks. Although I feel that the Elvises might object to the tagline this episode got at ToughPigs' main page. *Shrugs.

 

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Well, Entry #81 has just been revealed, and it's the roving reporter of the Wide World of Muppet Sports, Louis Kazagger. This one makes sense given the current ongoing 2026 NCAA Men's and Women's College Basketball Championship Tournaments commonly known as March Madness.
Go UConn Lady Huskies!

 

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Sorry for the late post, was out at family fun at my second younger brother's home. This week we have 80s Robot as the featured character, #82 for those keeping track. Now if only we can update his dial-up modim so it doesn't sound so screechy.

 

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So who's this week's entry? As ToughPigs themselves said it, it's your "second" favorite Muppet chef... Angelo as #83! Now if you don't mind, Ima gonna put on a pair of orange crogs and help that other Muppet chef whip up some nummer-nummer Easter bruncy-type dishes.

 

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Sorry for not posting earlier, had to first wait for the episode to be released and then to find and listen to the whole thing. Why do that? Because this week's entry, #84, are The Jim Henson Hour Muppets. Specifically, the trio of Vicki, Leon, and Lindbergh. Also, the episode gets hijacked midway through to spotlight Ubu and Zondra from the Gorilla TV segments, the funniest part of the episode.

So enjoy another addition to the More Muppets Please lineup.

 

[minor muppetz]

I kept being surprised as I watched The Jim Henson Hour episode.

At first I thought it would cover all the remaining characters, then they said it would mainly be Vicki, Leon, and Lindbergh, then they talked a little about the remaining Solid Foam, then it was taken over by talk about Zhondra and Ubu.

I guess the only notable one left is Waldo C. Graphic.

 

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This week is Wilkins and Wontkins. They said they would be including pre-Sesame Street characters, but I guess this is the first ones definitely owned by The Jim Henson Company.

 

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This week we present... A-E-I-O-U! Scared you didn't I? Yes, always! Entry #86 is none other than your friendly veterinarian and quadrilobal specialist, Dr. Phil van Neuter!

When Muppets Tonight first aired, I was in high school and found a new Muppet series to watch. Because I was and still am a fan of the source material, Tales From the Vet was one of my fave segments, which is why it's a shame there's only a handful of them throughout the show's run of twenty-something episodes. The funniest one of all has to be the 1983 Christmas party sketch, notoriously missing from Muppet Central's annual musical merrython. Dr. Phil van Neuter, like Bobo, found his true shining star moment in Muppets From Space (even if the movie left something to be desired overall). It's because of this role that he got included as one of the six movie-based bosses in the video game Muppets Racemania as well. Yes, Dr. Phil van Neuter truly stands heads and shoulders amongst his Muppety peer—some would say that literally due to his height comparison as the second tallest of all Palisades Toys Muppet figures.

We toast thee good mad doctor.