Tough Pigs Muppetational May Challenge

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Today Twitter is down whenever I click on the hashtag Muppetational May. I want to see other people's picks but for now I'll have to settle for seeing them in my news feed or clicking on Twitter pages for those participating. Actually, I clicked on a few other hashtags and got the same error. So hashtag searches are down.

My picks from the last week:

• Day 4: Muppet thing I have changed my mind about: I originally thought Muppets from Space was better than the previous post-Jim movies and originally thought The Muppets' Wizard of Oz was better than the other literature films but now I feel The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best of both categories.
• Day 5: Muppet product I am most proud of: My Palisades figures.
• Day 6: Four favorite monsters: Gorgon Heap, Behemoth, Doglion, Thog.
• Day 7: Favorite Muppet website: Muppet Wiki.
• Day 8: Favorite Muppet talk show appearance: Jim Henson on The Dick Calvett Show, 1971.
• Day 9: Favorite Muppet reference on a non-Muppet show: The Muppets Go Medevil on The Simpsons.
• Day 10: four favorite Kermit songs: Once in a Lifetime, Happy Feet, Right Where I Belong, A Song from Kermit.
• Day 11: Four favorite Bert and Ernie songs: Rubber Duckie, The National Association of W Lovers, But I Like You, La La La.
• Day 12: Four favorite Big Bird songs: The Sound of the Letter A, The Happiest Street in the World, I'm So Blue, The Christmas Song.

 

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I didn't realize until the favorite Grover song and/or sketch day that they put "and/or" for bot Grover and Cookie Monster, meaning we could list a song and sketch.

My picks for the past week:

• Day 13: Best Statler and Waldorf joke: "We'd love to see your act!"/"in fact we'd hate to miss your act!"/"in fact we'd love to hate your act!"
• Day 14: Best Grover song and/or sketch: Song -Monster in the Mirror, sketch - Monsterpiece Theater: Chariots of Fur.
• Day 15: Best Cookie Monster song and/or sketch: song - C is for Cookie, sketch - Beat the Time.
• Day 16: Best Jim Henson Character: Dr. Teeth.
• Day 17: Best Frank Oz Character: Grover.
• Day 18: Best Richard Hunt character: Beaker.
• Day 19: Best Dave Goelz character: Boober Fraggle.

 

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Mine from the past week:

• Day 20: Best puppetry trick: Gonzo on the balloons (The Muppet Movie).
• Day 21: Favorite character from The Dark Crystal or Labyrinth: Hoggle.
• Day 22: Favorite parody starring the classic Muppets: Tales from the Vet (a lot of people picked things that I wouldn't really consider parodies).
• Day 23: Favorite parody starring the Sesame Street Muppets: Online, the 1980s mash-up, on the show, Monsterpiece Theater and Miami Mice.
• Day 24: Least favorite Muppet: Mr. Poodlepants.

 

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It's the start of the last day of Muppetational May, here's my remaining choices:
Day 25: Best song from a classic Muppet movie: "You Can't Take No for an Answer"
Day 26: Best song from a later Muppet movie: "We're Doing a Sequel"
Day 27: Favorite Fraggle character from Fraggle Rock: Boober.
Day 28: Favorite non-Fraggle character from Fraggle Rock: Junior
Day 29: Favorite Muppet book: For fiction Muppet book I chose Two for the Show, for fiction Sesame Street I chose Ernie's Big Mess, for fiction Fraggle Rock I chose Boober's Giant Wish, and for non-fiction books I picked Jim Henson: The Biography.
Day 30: Last Muppet production watched: The Great Muppet Caper (quite a few people tweeted this one)
Day 31: What do the Muppets mean to you (okay, me): Everything!

 

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When it came to favorite songs from classic and later Muppet films, I wondered if anyone would list both Rainbow Connection and/or Together Again for both.

 

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June is almost over, and Tough Pigs has not done an article tallying up the results from this year. And last year, that article came on the first of June. I wonder what's going on.

Of course Toughpigs does have a lot of different things going on this month (they also still haven't posted results or at least named winners for the Sesame Street "somebody come and poll" poll from April).