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Your Thoughts: Miss Piggy on The Tonight Show November 4

Muppetfan44

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I thought the appearance was great! Piggy looked great (although like others I really didn't like the long red skirt, but I guess it was there for practical puppeteering purposes). I loved that they showed a montage of her work and the audience reaction was awesome! I also loved the bit where she came out and Jay kissed her hand- Eric has been doing really detailed facial expressions for Piggy really well.

She did a good job during her main interview- it's not quite at the level of awesomeness that she used to be when Frank did interviews on the Today show, etc, but it's getting there! Loved the "enhancement" bit- perfect amount of risque for late-night. I really loved the audience reaction when Jay said that they are glad to have her back on the big screen!!!

and then...Mickey Rourke.....what a jerk!! I cannot believe that he called Piggy an "it" and then literally groped her!!! Eric handled it great given the situation since it was live TV, Piggy had a nice tongue-in-cheek comment and all the while Mickey just looked like an idiot and a jerk. I really wished that a different guest star would have been there so Piggy could have had more back-and-forth with them but with Mickey any reaction is kind of limited because of him being the nut-job that he is!!!

All-in-all, great appearance and I can't wait to see more!!!
 

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LOOOOOOOOOOVED IT! Eric is AMAZING! He's my favorite puppeteer. :mad: Loved the plastic surgery jokes -"her people donating collagen" was fantastic.
Miss Piggy is a class act.
 

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Piggy is really going to be a huge star in this I think i got teary eyed when she came in and said there is only one MISS PIGGY! and she is right there is!
 

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Cool! Thanks Phillip. I never saw the bit with Rourke, I kinda wanted to see what all that was about.
 

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Seriously...TERRIBLE guest star pairing! But Eric handled it well enough. Did anyone else have the impression that the voice/mouth movement for Piggy was just the slightest bit off? Wondering if that was just my crappy station's feed or if it really WAS a little off!

LOVED the "wearing REAL frog" comment. And the collagen joke. And the audience reaction.

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Seriously...TERRIBLE guest star pairing! But Eric handled it well enough. Did anyone else have the impression that the voice/mouth movement for Piggy was just the slightest bit off? Wondering if that was just my crappy station's feed or if it really WAS a little off!

LOVED the "wearing REAL frog" comment. And the collagen joke. And the audience reaction.

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Yea I noticed that a little too. For the most part it worked though so it didn't bug me too much. I think it goes back to what D'Snowht mentioned about Eric still getting use to live TV.
 

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Brad Paisley accidentally touched Miss Piggy's "enhancements" during her CMA awards appearance. He was apologetic about it though- guess Piggy's enhancements are really working for her, lol!
 
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