Early 70’s behind the scenes of Sesame Street with the Muppets.
I hate to be one of those oversensitive tumblr people, but you need to tag your snuff(leupagus) pics of dead muppets.
That Ernie just dangling there is going to give me night terrors.
Jesus. I’d forgotten this. If that one with The Count was in black and white I’d think it was a war documentary.
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Jim Henson’s Newly Discovered Journal Reveals The Muppets’ Fascinating Backstory
If you’re a fan of the Muppets (and let’s face it, who isn’t?), then you’ve got to take a look at this! Jim Henson’s estate just released the Muppet creator’s unpublished early journals in which he recorded the backstories of his beloved characters. They’re absolutely incredible.
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one day if you are in traffic next to a girl who is blasting this song from her car stereo and screaming “BUUUUUCK BUCK BUCK BUUUUCK!!!!” out the open window
i think it’s pretty safe to assume that it will be me
Well, I know what the song I’m going to be listening to on repeat for the next three days is going to be now. :Db
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I have not seen much of either of them because they always bored the friggin’ shit out of me and I only have so much time left on this planet.
Doc reaches the top of the clock tower and looks down to Marty, who has finally found the end of the wire. And given how difficult this task was for poor Marty, I kinda imagine his waving to be less “hey look I found it” and more the kind of hands up in the air waving that Kermit The Frog might do if he just won the lottery:
Looking down, he saw Marty, five stories below, waving the paddle plug which he had just located.
Doc throws down the rope, Marty ties the cable to it, and Doc pulls it up. So far, so good. Marty still wants to warn Doc about The Terrorists (and yes he is still referring to them them as The Terrorists; it’s amazing) so he tries again:
Marty cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted as loudly as he could. ”I gotta tell you about the future, Doc! Please listen to me!”
The words were lost amid a new rush of wind which nearly tore the rope from Doc’s grasp.
“The future!” Marty yelled. ”On the night I travel back in time, the terrorists show up and get you -“
“Terror-what?”
“Terrorists! They—”
Bong! Bong!!
That’s the clock tower! It’s tolling ten o’clock, and Marty is so pissed that Doc can’t hear him anymore that he expresses his anger at reality exactly how Miss Piggy would:
Kicking angrily at the ground, Marty waited, knowing he hadn’t a prayer of being heard.
Hahah Book Marty, the more you act like Muppet Marty the more I like you!! Keep kicking that ground!
Anyway in the movie Doc yells “Go! Look at the time, you’ve got less than four minutes!” and Marty takes off in the car. In the book, Doc just “gestures wildly towards the DeLorean, then at his watch” and then finally yells “Run, boy, run!!” Then Marty drives off and instead of Doc cheering “Yaaaay!” and kissing his hands like he does in the movie (which always struck me as an adorable and sincere response) Doc stands around and talks to himself because everyone in this story talks to themselves because whoever wrote the screenplay thought that’s the only way to show what a character was thinking:
“Good,” he whispered. ”Now all I have to do is make sure he’s not barreling down the street for nothing.”
Doc creeps along the clock tower edge and has some time to talk some more to himself:
“I’ll be alive in 1985,” he said, realizing even as he said it that he was whistling past the graveyard. ”I’ll be alive in ‘85 - so I’m safe now.”
The words came out but he knew they were fallacious. His being alive in 1985 was predicated on his not climbing clock towers in 1955.
“Well,” he gasped. ”Let’s just get it done.”
And I can see why they didn’t include that in the movie: it’s a line that raises a lot of questions about time travel that you don’t really want to be distracted by right now. Plus, it phrases them in a “I’m gonna survive” way, when a more dramatic way to present them is in a “if I fall and die it’ll be a paradox and the timeline gets destroyed” way instead, so it’s not even an optimally-phrased distraction!
IDIOM KORNER: “whistling past the graveyard” is an expression that means “trying to stay cheerful in difficult circumstances”. I have heard this expression used by my parents and grandparents and not once by a radical teen, but that may just be the kind of teen company I keep, so I am HOLDING BACK on the old man itis tag… THIS TIME.
Muppets Are People, My Friend.
Anyone that looks at the minuscule government subsidy that PBS gets and doesn’t see the value (or doesn’t even understand how much it is) probably didn’t watch enough PBS.
Single tear.
This is why Joel Watson visits me naked in all my dreams.
I’m lost. I even had to google the guy. What up, who’s talking shit about Jimmy?
On a podcast where people dissect bad movies, called How Did This Get Made?, a live episode about Jack Frost aired…
So what you’re saying to me is that DAN HARMON IS FUCKING DEAD TO ME AND CAN EAT A BASKET OF SEVERED DICKS
Whatevs. Dan Harmon hating on Dark Crystal is really the easiest way for him to get in my pants.
There, I’ve said it.
dustybins asked:
well when a dude’s like eight or whatever and he hears oh hey there’s an entire fucking movie by jim henson check this shit out like immediately and he does and IT IS THE MOST INTERMINABLY BORING SCHLOCK HE’S EVER SEEN OH MY GOD just launch that fucker into the goddamn sun where it can’t hurt nobody
slightly more watchable than electroma.
This movie is my new obsession. It comes out next week and it is the wildest thing I have seen in forever.
It is a Sony Animation movie about Actual Bible Christmas. It is from Sony and Columbia Pictures and the fucking Jim Henson Company. It is not a theatrical Veggie Tales. It seems, in a very real way, to be a film in which Sony Shreks the Synoptic Gospels.
This is wild enough. Then you see the goddamn cast list.
Glenn from Walkingdead is the main character, a talking donkey. Chuck from Chuck is Joseph, Jane the Virgin is Mary which I guess is a pretty good meta joke. But then it just gets wilder from there.
Tracy Morgan, Tyler Perry, and Oprah Winfrey play talking camels, at least one of which seems to have tattoos??? Mariah Carey is a talking chicken. Kristin Chenowith plays a talking pygmy jerboa, which is one of these if you are unfamiliar:
But the one that blows my goddamn mind is that Delilah is playing Elizabeth. Delilah, that nationally syndicated breathy radio DJ who plays fuckin Pat Benatar dedications for late night weirdos, is playing a real for real Bible character. The mother of John the Baptist!
This is a fucking Madagascar movie where John the Baptist might show up!
And, like, the trailer makes it look as if the plot is not about the actual Nativity, but the Flight into Egypt, which is a story in which a king kills dozens of babies in an attempt to murder God! Can the talking camels stop the Massacre of the Innocents in this version?
Who made this. Who is this for. Who greenlit this.
I am a miserable pile of questions right now. And I am DEFFFFFFF going to see this.
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Starchibald and Sunny Jim sit down for their first review away from the convention scene; the tale of a gourmet chef who happens to be a rat. No, not that one. The OTHER one.
Can two Rangoons sit through this Brazilian Pixar knockoff and live to tell the tale?
Of course they can. Don’t be silly.
Rats, food-sensing goggles and the world’s worst CGI cat await you in… Ratatoing!
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So one of the things I did when I was in Indiana was go see David Willis! Like actually in person! And then I got a book. It was great.
(actually not all that) Funny story: the entire two-and-a-half-hour car ride to Bloomington I was all hyped up, thinking “Muppet, if he’s doing drawings you have to ask him for a Hot Shot. Ask him for a Hot Shot. Ask if he’ll draw you a Hot Shot it’ll be fun.”
And then I’m actually standing there being asked what I want drawn in the front cover and I’m like WHAT ARE WORDS I DON’T REMEMBER
And then I eventually managed to stammer out that Ethan was my favorite Shortpacked character and so the second picture happened.
(I did remember Hot Shot eventually, though. And as a consequence I got to show my brother, who knows nothing about Transformers except what I tell him, the origin of JaAm. I love watching people discover old memes.)
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Who is your dad, now?
I WILL reblog this video every damn time I see it because this kids is A GENIUS
