Muppet story on cnn.com

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There's cool Muppet story on cnn.com about the origins of some of the characters.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/02/10/mf.muppet.favorites.stories/index.html

 

[JimmyDeanDog]

CNN.COM - Muppets Article

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/02/10/mf.muppet.favorites.stories/index.html

..'Arggggh'! - not one mention about this forum on there...

Under the ROWLF section, there's a LINK to a 1987 TV commercial
with the Swedish Chef - promoting the cereal "Croonchy Stars":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_ysIdYciZE

 

[Super Scooter]

An interesting article, but it is flawed. The Swedish Chef was not based on an actual Swedish chef.

Jerry Juhl's own words:

"I wrote, rehearsed, rewrote, brainstormed, and giggled uncontrollably a thousand times with Jim Henson as we dealt with the Swedish Chef, and I never ONCE heard him mention an actual Swedish chef, especially one that claims to be Charleton Heston's golf buddy! I mean, that's a story Jim would have told! I can't remember where the genesis of Swedish Chef was. I think it was an idea with Jon Stone around the "Sex and Violence" show, which I didn't work on. But I do remember that Jim spent a couple of weeks listening to Berlitz tapes while commuting to get his babble perfected. Then, much later, I actually WROTE the babble! Heck, I come from good Danish stock, which Jim and I decided made me an expert in Scandenavian linguistics."

http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/2001/070301.shtml

And from Brian Henson:

"Jim Henson had this tape that he used to play which was "How to Speak Mock Swedish". And he used to drive to work and I used to ride with him a lot. And he would drive to work trying to make a chicken sandwich in Mock Swedish or make a turkey casserole in Mock Swedish. It was the most ridiculous thing you had ever seen. And people at traffic lights used to stop and sort of look at him a little crazy. But that was the roots of the character that would eventually become the Swedish Chef."

 

[Vic Romano]

Some neat things there, but I'm shocked at how poorly it's written for CNN.

 

[JimmyDeanDog]

Oh - forgot to mention they just put this up TODAY (Feb 10th)

It's not an older article

 

[CodySmurf]

This was so fun to read. I have a few Muppet and Jim Henson books, and a few things in the article I did'nt know. Was really cool, glad you shared the link! Thanks alot!

 

[Super Scooter]

Oh, another slight error. Herry Monster didn't debut as the Big Bad Wolf. It was the same (or similar) puppet, but Big Bad was first used the year after Herry's introduction.

 

[Beauregard]

This story is now linked from the front page of IMDB!

Which means that they've had two Muppet related stories...two days in a row. First the Kermit/Bale thing, and now this.