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Old 12-20-2010, 11:26 PM   #1
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Default Muppets Appreciation Thread (no, seriously).
It may be a bit odd, but Xmas for me has always meant the Muppets. One of the earliest presents I remember the whole family getting one Xmas was a VHS player. We didn't get one until sometime in the early/mid 90's. Perhaps Xmas 1993 or 94, but the movie that my folks bought with it for us all to watch was the Muppets Christmas Carol.

We watched that movie so many times since then and it's kinda become one of the longest christmas traditions. Back then, we'd rent out one video every so often, as a treat, and watch it all together as a family, but the Muppets Christmas Carol was one of the ones we actually owned and was rewatched so often. I know the songs in that movie as well as any of the Christmas carols I grew up listening to and singing in choirs.

So, in their honour, lets have a thread for all things MUPPETS. Because they're awesome. And whoever does their music is better than Disney, seriously. Some great songwriting in their movies.
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Old 12-20-2010, 11:32 PM   #2
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You know I'm a muppet head!

We own:
The Muppet Christmas Carol
A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Muppets From Space
Kermit's Swamp Years [eh, not as good as the classics, obvs]
Muppet Wizard of Oz
[and HAD Muppet Treasure Island on VHS but recently got rid of all VHS, so need to re-buy]

I want moar muppet movies!
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Old 12-20-2010, 11:53 PM   #3
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I've seen the Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, Muppets Take Manhattan, Muppet's Christmas Carol, Muppets From Space and the Muppet Family Christmas.

I've probably seen a few others too, but those are the ones that really stuck out in my head or that I've seen multiple times.

They're making a new movie which is coming out next year, btw. The Muppets

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Old 12-21-2010, 12:03 AM   #4
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Dang... it sounds an awful lot like Muppets Take Manhattan! I wonder why they'd do that....
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Old 12-21-2010, 04:28 AM   #5
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oh man, the muppets! i have the muppets take manhattan on DVD and i think i should watch that tonight.
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Old 12-21-2010, 04:57 AM   #6
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i just watched A Muppet Family Christmas (my personal favorite, though i love Muppets Take Manhattan, Great Muppet Caper and Muppet Christmas Carol too) on YouTube yesterday to get into the holiday spirit:
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Old 12-21-2010, 05:42 AM   #7
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My ex flatmate was obsessed with Tim Curry and watched Muppet Treasure Island once every few weeks. Just by walking through the room I picked up most of the words to most of the songs and when I finally sat down to watch it I was amazed how bloody funny that film is

Fav lyric: "Peo-ple die-by-fall-in O-ver-board!"
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Old 12-21-2010, 05:54 AM   #8
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While putting up the Christmas tree last week I watched Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas.
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Old 12-21-2010, 08:05 AM   #9
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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:
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Old 12-21-2010, 08:27 AM   #10
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You know I'm a muppet head!

We own:
The Muppet Christmas Carol
A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Muppets From Space
Kermit's Swamp Years [eh, not as good as the classics, obvs]
Muppet Wizard of Oz
[and HAD Muppet Treasure Island on VHS but recently got rid of all VHS, so need to re-buy]

I want moar muppet movies!
Ummmmm my muppet alarm is going off, how can a fan not own Muppet Treasure Island? THAT'S THE BEST OF THAT BUNCH!

There, I said it. Deal with it.

I'd watch the muppet show with my dad on our black and white TV in the kitchen, and it always made me feel very adult because sometimes I'd get the jokes aimed at grownups.

The first movie I sat through in the theaters at an age when I could be cognizant of it ("chariots of fire" doesn't count, I fell asleep) was Muppet Movie. I remember the theater we saw it in and everything! I guess they were rerunning it, as I thought the movie might be older than I am.
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Old 12-21-2010, 10:30 AM   #11
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No, I totally agree... Muppet Treasure Island is a MUST HAVE!

Here's my fave scene from a recent Muppet movie. *cackles*
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Old 12-21-2010, 11:06 AM   #12
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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?

LOL! Mama! Mama mama mama! Mama? Yoo-hoo?! I love the Muppet Bohemian Rhapsody, I laugh my arse off every time!! The whole thing is so kick ass! The "Manamanna" guy, the Swedish Chef, all of it. I grew up watching The Muppet Show, my dad really loved it. My small town's Trolley Museum actually had the Muppet Bus on display for a while, the one that debuted in The Muppet Movie. That was kind of neat. Everything Muppets and Jim Henson makes me smile, even the Fraggles!!
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Old 12-21-2010, 08:26 PM   #13
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Has everyone seen Pook A Looz? Disney makes them. They are freaking adorable







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Old 12-21-2010, 08:32 PM   #14
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I haven't seen those before, but I WANT them!!!
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Old 12-21-2010, 11:16 PM   #15
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Muppet love from me as well. I remember watching the Muppet Show with my parents on TV as a kid. They had such fun guest hosts! I remember Madeline Kahn, John Cleese and Gilda Radner being some of my favorites.

For a good friend's birthday over the summer, we watched "The Muppet Movie" out on a pier with hundreds of other people of all ages. It was fun and sweet and kind of moving.
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Old 12-21-2010, 11:46 PM   #16
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We have this CD, and my mother plays it every year, as she's a big John Denver fan. But this song always make me laugh:
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Old 12-22-2010, 01:38 AM   #17
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^ Badumdumdum!
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Old 12-22-2010, 02:27 AM   #18
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The John Denver album is a classic in our home. And I remember that the first ever dance recital I was in as a child, we did a jazz routine to "Let's Make a Movie" from The Great Muppet Caper, which is incidentally my favorite of all of them.
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Old 12-22-2010, 02:28 AM   #19
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I remember listening to the John Denver/Muppets RECORD. Yes, I am old.
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Old 12-22-2010, 02:33 AM   #20
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One of Boston's independent theatres had a triple Muppet feature a few months ago. Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, and Muppets Take Manhattan, all for $10 total (not each). It was SO AWESOME. We were in Muppet heaven for hours.
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