Worse as the years go by! YES
Wow, I was in another room talking about the Up coming Muppets Wizard of OZ which I think will be another Stinker. And I was talking about how the Muppets have taken such a downward spin, and are using toilet jokes and sex humored, and they think I am nuts.
Then I come in here and it is like people actually understand....what a breath of fresh air. Here is my last post from the other room; I think I will stay in here.
Well gang what can I say, you make a very valid point. I have a background and 2 degrees in Advertising Graphic Design, and when something sells you run with it, for as long as you can until you have to change it.
My younger siblings have always wondered and often asked me what has happened to The Muppets. Because when they were very young and I was younger too we used to watch them together. They remember when things were more fun, and the gags were not as cheap like Fozzy picking his nose.
I do not agree with it, not at all, I do not feel it is right, nor do I wish to send a message to the Muppets/ Disney that it is ok in my book. I would rather have the Muppets be a happy memory than to stoop so low as to pull Jokes straight out of the trash. But that is not the way the world works, when Muppets Tonight first came on I sent a letter to the Henson CO. expressing my disgust and concern, and I was told then (1996) that this was a show for the 90's, and it was geared towards a 90's audience, but they would take my suggestions under advisement.
A real Heart Breaker to learn that my letter changed nothing, but then I never really expected it to change a darn thing.
The Muppets taught me that the world could be a better place, and that I can make a difference, that one person can change things.
But not really, not when you are up against big business, and the real world...... After all it was just a silly dream.
"Oh yeah, well I've got a dream too! It's about singing and dancing and making people happy, that’s the kind of dream that gets better the more people you share it with. I made a whole bunch of friends, and they all have the same dream, that makes us a little bit like a family. Who are your friends Dock? Those guys?
Listen I don't think you’re a bad man, and I think if you look in your heart you'll see that you really just want to let me and my friends go. If not, if what I am saying doesn't make and sense to you.. Well then go ahead and kill me!