Your Thoughts: The Muppets' Wizard of Oz

[ryhoyarbie]

Did you just say 'the good 90's cartoons'??? I feel sorry for kids raised in the 90's...freakin power rangers, barney, pokemon. In my day it was sesame street, old school transformers, fraggle rock, muppet show, muppet babies, etc.

Animaniacs, Darkwing Duck, Batman the animated series, and a handful of other cartoon shows were what I was talking about when I said early 90's cartoons.

 

[BigTeacherMan]

Hmmmmmm...

Pepe's "Girls Gone Wild" comment Friday night was no different than Janice's "Look, Mother, it's my own life, okay, so if I want to live on a beach and walk around naked...." from The Great Muppet Caper back in the day.

I have to agree. And I love Janice's crack in that one, and in Manhattan "Look buddy, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is artistic!" Did I quote it as a kid? Sure! Does that make the Muppets horrible? Not by any means. Sure there are 4 year olds out there who know what Girls Gone Wild is, have seen it, have stolen it from their brother's or father's closet, or looked on the Net at pictures, or stolen glances at an adult magazine. I heard Pepe mention GGW and was slightly shocked. But the quote above (I forgot who said it--sorry!) really reminded me that Muppets ARE cutting edge, ARE a sign of the times, ARE a commentary of what is all around us. They make us laugh at what we find so serious in life.

I actually liked the throwback to Gonzo being a "Thing" and not an Alien a la "Muppets From Space." I hope that made ol' Jim smile.

Totally off subject for a moment, but on the "Muppets Magic from Ed Sullivan" DVD, there is an awesome sketch called "Business Business" that is such a radical, shocking commentary--again, the Muppets know how to take something we take so seriously and throw it right at us, to THINK.

Emerald--having taught for a bit, myself, I had an 8th grade girl, lovely young lady, a lot of potential--getting drunk, doing drugs, and going to college orgies on the weekends. AT THIRTEEN. Very true, parents need to know what their kids are doing, as some of their activities are so secret and so scary and so degrading and dangerous....sure they may take their cuers from GGW or internet porn, but, sadly, it is part of our culture now, and, if I may say so, the Muppets made me chuckle at it...made it a bit more lighthearted. And that's probably why I love them so much.

Did that make ANY sense? Man, am I rambling something fierce! Sorry y'all!

 

[BigTeacherMan]

And Freakazoid...as long as we're talking about 90s cartoons. Anyone want a sno-cone? =)

 

[MWoO]

I totally forgot about Janice's line in GMS and MTM/ Another perfect example of how this has always been part of the muppets. Asl ong as the right character is used it's fine.

 

[count123]

expected more...maybe the DVD will have some extras.
it constantly seemed like they were avoiding copyright infringement like "Ruby" Slippers and "follow the yellow brick road" with silver shows and that road made of yellow bricks.

the poppy club was kinda cool. expected something further in that part, like a mupept parody of hunter s thompson or something. good place to put clifford though.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

In the book, the shoes WERE silver, but in 1939 they felt Ruby Slippers would translate better than silver in TECHNICOLOR! YAAAYYY!! They never say "Follow the yellow brick road" in the book like they do in the 1939 movie.

 

[That Announcer]

Did you ever think the 90's destroyed you were older?

If you really look back at theo lder stuff they get away with a lot of stuff you could not get away with today. The difference is today you have parents groups pointing out every last adult themed thing in cartoons so you get the watered down Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh. The world would be better off if mwe had more parents and less parents groups. As the parents in the group watch out for everyone else their own kids grow up wondering why mommy and daddy were crazy. The kids learn that nudity is dirty and unnatural and that a word holds so much power it can drive some people insane. How about everyone just relax. If you have kids, smack 'em when they drink underage and check in on them before they shoot up the school. Is that too much to ask for?

This is precisely right on. We should enforce strong discipline instead of eliminating anything that might cause the need for strong discipline in the first place. Kids can not be totally clean of everything until they reach legal drinking age- I know I wasn't and I turned out great.

 

[Beauregard]

In the book, the shoes WERE silver, but in 1939 they felt Ruby Slippers would translate better than silver in TECHNICOLOR! YAAAYYY!! They never say "Follow the yellow brick road" in the book like they do in the 1939 movie.

This is what I keep thinking. People are complaining that it does not follow the film, when they followed the book.

It's like...in some-odd years, will they make a new Treasure Island and people say. "But Ben Gunn is female, not male...."

 

[TogetherAgain]

It's like...in some-odd years, will they make a new Treasure Island and people say. "But Ben Gunn is female, not male...."

You know it's funny. I had MTI memorized for years, and then we read Treasure Island in school, and I was totally thrown off. I was thinking backwards- getting mad at the book because it wasn't the movie. And then I realized what I was doing, and I just started laughing at myself.
But I was kind of upset when we watched a different movie version in class that was soooooo boring and I just sat there like, why aren't we watching the muppets?

Oh and by the way BigTeacherMan, don't worry about not making sense. As I've said before, it's much more profitable to make dollars. And I ramble all the time. See, just look at this post... its solid rambling!

 

[Movies205]

Adult humor does not equal dirty humor, the new special sucked. It didn't realize any of the characters potential and it was full of cliches, it just a crappy crappy special.