New Muppet Movie Trailer

I can't wait!

I needed a Muppet fix!

The Muppets Sing 'Bohemian Rhapsody'

A great video of The Muppets singing a modified version of a great song.

Muppet Diplomacy

CNN has up a good story on how Muppets are being used to teach children around the world about peace and understanding. The article focuses on Seasame Street that is produced for Palastineans. The Muppets don't teach politics, but do teach basic moral principles.

Make Your Own Muppet

Miss the Muppets? Now you can put on your own Muppet Show by making your own Muppet style puppet.

Henson to release "Happytime Murders"

Well, I had been hoping a new Muppet movie was in the works, but an adult-oriented puppet movie in the film noir genre was not exactly what I was looking for.

The film, based on a story by Todd Berger and Dee Robertson, will feature the renowned Henson style of irreverence and parody. The film will take place in a world where puppets are a minority race amongst humans, and follows a puppet detective who is forced to solve a string of murders around the Happytime Gang, the cast of a beloved children’s show, that is being picked off by a mysterious villain. Todd Berger is writing the screenplay, while Brian Henson is attached to direct.

I can't help wondering if this film will go the same way as Greg the Bunny, a puppet sit-com from Fox which was clearly NOT for kids. The kids didn't get the jokes, and most adults were ashamed to watch it because of the puppets. Therefore: cancellation.

Did I mention how much I miss the Muppets?

Return of the Muppets?

Muppet Danny Boy

A number of my Irish-American friends have told me that despite the Catholic Church deciding Saint Patrick's Day was Saturday, they intend to celebrate today anyway. So in honor of the day, here is a traditional Irish ditty.

Early Sesame Street episodes are "UNSAFE"?

Here we have another case of unbelievable political correctness. DVDs of early Sesame Street episodes are being released with a warning that they are for adults only. Why?

I asked Carol-Lynn Parente, the executive producer of “Sesame Street,” how exactly the first episodes were unsuitable for toddlers in 2007. She told me about Alistair Cookie and the parody “Monsterpiece Theater.” Alistair Cookie, played by Cookie Monster, used to appear with a pipe, which he later gobbled. According to Parente, “That modeled the wrong behavior” — smoking, eating pipes — “so we reshot those scenes without the pipe, and then we dropped the parody altogether.”

Are parents really unable to explain to kids that smoking is NOT okay? I must say that as a toddler I watched Sesame Street religiously, and I never once interpreted these spots as promoting tobacco. I was not once tempted to try to eat a pipe myself.

Can we PLEASE get a grip?