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I love the Muppets so much. There was a marked decline with the sudden and untimely passing of Jim Henson, but the quality has started to pick up a lot in recent years. Not just the quality, but the consistency. Muppets Tonight was pretty cool but canceled too quickly. Sesame Street seems to have stayed pretty consistent.

I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but the Muppets' association with Disney makes merchandise a lot easier to come by. I would hate to see them be totally overdone like Pixar and Princesses and Mickey Mouse, but it is nice to see Muppet stuff in stores again. Like my bag I take to the library has the Muppets on it and I wouldn't have been able to buy it a few years ago.

I have been obsessed with them most of my life. One of my earliest memories is going back to a place we'd moved out of to get my Pigs In Space poster.

My brother and sister were both pretty obsessed with Muppet Babies, but I wasn't as into them as much. I watched them too, but Babies were their thing while I like the real ones.

People have lots of good reasons for disliking the Star Wars prequels, but one of the things that I think was missing was the warmth of Muppet Yoda. Sure, the CGI of him kicking Dooku's ass was freaking awesome, but he could have been a Muppet when he was just shooting the shit with Samuel L Jackson at HQ.

Sometimes when I watch various Muppet things and I'm not paying much attention, I will be like "Why is Grover hitting on Kermit?"

I never much liked the Fraggles.

I'm looking forward to the new movie. I think Jason Segal has the proper respect for Muppets based on what I've read and his vampire opera thing in Forgetting Sara Marshall gives me hope too.


The recent web shorts also give me hope for a GREAT movie. I would assume that everyone has seen this a gazillion times?



And another one in the spirit of the season: