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- chocobomog, on 10/12/2007, -5/+37Mah nah, Mah nah
Please let this be true! - shadus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24I'd be thrilled to see the muppets back on tv, my favorite was Statler & Waldorf (the two old guys in the box seats). They were just flat out funny. Would be very cool, my son would just about be the age I was when I started watching it if they brought it back in fairly short order... I should pick up the original dvds regardless.
Edit: hehe thinking about the show made me remember bits and pieces, the Swedish chef and the "pigs in space" bit were damned funny too.
:( I miss the muppets. - LucerinRed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I still ocassionally throw out a Wakka Wakka. Sadly, most of the people around are too young to get it.
- embraboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Do doo do do do
- 4rch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I'll wait until I am guaranteed a Swedish Chef. Bork Bork
- commongiga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Bart: "Dad, what's a muppet?"
Homer: "Well, it's not quite a mop, and it's not quite a puppet...but man...I dont' know." - sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8There is no one digging this more than me. :)
- MuffinMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5BEAKER!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The Muppets were too Politically Incorrect for today's mainstream.
- trubbleshute, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Swedish chef gets his own cooking show on the food network :P I'd watch it.
The only problem is that the new writers of the show have a LOT to live up to, I don't know if I would want to try to fill Henson's shoes. - phuchead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The muppets always makes me think of my dad. As a little kid my bro and i would watch the muppets show and my Dad would always be sitting in the back "reading" the paper and be silently chuckling on and on. He died of cancer in 1998 and when the Season 1 DVD set came out i had to go buy it that day. I was going to get the "Best of.." Time Life one, but it was just sooo damn expensive i just could not justify it's expense. I also LOVED the Muppet's Tonight show, i think i watched every episode, it was not as good as The Muppet Show, but it was a good show. It also made me sad when i just disappeared. I hope that this one will live up to the original show with the ageless humors and the good quality production.
-phuc
p.s. my fav's are the Swedish Chief, Professor Honeydew & Beaker, Statler & Waldorf, Sweet'ums, and of course Kermit. - dpatrickb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is a great thing, as long as our childhood isn't raped like it was with Loonie Tunes Unleashed/
- chocobomog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4To those of you digging down embraboy, you need a little muppet history reminder:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eANSmaRO_Ag
Mah nah, mah nah! - snurfle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4PLEASE do better than "Muppets Tonight!"
- nogami, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I picked-up the "best of" DVDs as soon as they were released. Looks like they finally got a season-1 box set out too...
- MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yes! Bork! Bork! Bork!
- WavyLayz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3As long as they have Statler and Waldorf, I'm stoked.
UuuO ho ho ho ho! - armyvet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You're talking about the French, whose greatest achievement was to build a road for the Germans to march down in victory.
- cfdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3give it up for Gonzo...
- diggumjonez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I love Henson and agree that the Muppets have been a poor imitation since his passing.
But I'm also twisted and went as Jim Henson for Halloween a few years back. Dead Jim Henson. And in my will, I insisted Kermit be buried alive with me. He did not handle it well, but we won a costume contest in the "WTF" category.
None of which matters, except to segue into this sad story: I needed a Kermit puppet so I went to a few toy stores. The first had a significant number of muppet toys, but anything bigger than a sharpie was Elmo-only. I went to a few more: big chains and smaller independents. Not ONE store had a kermit puppet or doll in a size that wasn't meant for a keychain. I asked the 17 year old girl working the register at one place if I was just missing where the Kermit stuff was. She blinked silently a few times, so I explained I was referring to Kermit THE FROG... From SESAME STREET... She told me they didn't carry Sesame Street stuff. I pointed to the ENTIRE BACK WALL FLOOR TO CEILING DISPLAY OF GODDAMNED ELMO, but couldn't make words come out of my mouth for a few seconds. She perked up and mentioned that they DID carry the whole Elmo's World line if that's what I was looking for.
I spent $5 on green felt and made my own damn zombie Kermit. - chatwithaninja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"please let this be true"
Only if they are not overseen by disney.
Face it, the muppets lost all their muppet balls when disney bought them.
The original shows were full of innuendo and intelligent comedy so kids and parents alike could watch them. I dont see disney doing that. - shasbarg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@shadus
Did you ever notice the the Swedish Chef's hands were real? I Never noticed it when I was younger but when I bought the season 1 DVDs for my kids and was watching them with the kids and noticed it. - NickyBatts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2DAG! No one agrees?
- DeepDoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2awsome!
I loved the muppets as a kid. Now maybe my kids will have a chance to love them too. - Coffeedemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Alas with Henson long gone and Disney in I have little hope for this...
Just last week I watched the Dark Crystal and it saddened me to think of what Henson could have created today with the techniques and technology we have now. Its obvious looking back that he gave those pieces of felt and styrofoam a soul. Now they're just a throwback to an earlier day and a way to get Gen-Xers and Boomers to buy merchandise through nostalgia. Sort of like Disney since Walt died... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In this day and age can Hollywood do the show without sex and violence? If not they shouldn't do it at all.
- cyberwiz01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Muppets" in title = instadigg
- MysticSavage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Statler and Waldorf should do the American Idol auditions.
- chocobomog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Whoa, calm down, he has a great point. The Disney of two years ago and older was a bad company to own the Muppets. That Eisner-run Disney had all the wrong values and ideals. But the new Disney which is being headed up by Steve Jobs, John Lasseter, and Steve Catmull (the Pixar Trio) will do wonders for the Muppets. They've already completely changed the company around and I am looking forward to the return of 2-D animation and classic Disneyland attractions. They are sticklers to the old-school and they will treat the Muppets right.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2so will this mean the return of "Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem"????
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6m33p m33p!
- loof, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would love to see this show. The Muppets have a lot of potential if Disney can figure out how to use them and It seems like Disney doesn't know what it's doing with them. The Muppet Wizard of Oz proved that. The stars of the show are the Muppets, humans are just there to complement them.
- astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Forget it if Disney is involved, they would rather take the money to get that started and invest into a Part x of a classic animated feature or some lame remake they just did.... possibly a "Freaky Friday part 7: Lohan Does New York"
- nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2the human muppets always scared me.....
- bigern75, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I love the Muppets!!! Jim Henson and I share the same birthday. Just several years apart.
- zttrx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2They lost all their muppet balls when jim henson's son, rather than take the reigns of jim henson productions, decided to sell it to a german production company that choked it almost to death---until disney bought the rights to the muppets.
Thats when kermit started selling cars.
This will be a travesty, simply put. - NickyBatts, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Without Henson, there can be no Muppets... :(
- aleixa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why wouldn't an idea like The Muppet Show work again?
- astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes... that would be good to see then band back on prime time. They have some real good tunes for young and old!
- m3rkvry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If there is any God left in the Universe, Animal has become a centrist Congressman.
"VE-TO BILL! VE-TO BILL! GAaaaaaaah!!" - CapeKid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thank god "Trevor" has the information.
- Matri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Statler & Waldorf do regular movie reviews at Movies.com
- Matri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The two old fogies still make an appearance at Movies.com
They're buried in there somewhere...
EDIT: Bah. No new episodes for months now. - TOMHTML, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In France a they made a new version of "The Muppets" some months ago. It wasn't a success...
- fricken4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can buy the original series on DVD. don't take your kids to the disnified muppets
- FrankHowley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1BORK
- ibgarrett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My only fear is that they put them back on with all sorts of computer animation substituting for the real thing. Nothing makes a crappy Muppet show like bad CGI...
- thelastknowngod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this would be awesome but i think it will be the muppets "disneyfied"
- drbhoneydew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No prizes for guessing my favourite :)
- Mc_Carter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1pigggggs innnnn spaccceee!!!!!!
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