Tag: The Muppets
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The Mupclip Show
A trio of newspaper clippings for you today, this time from 1976 just as The Muppet Show was about to hit British teatime television screens. The first is from the Coventry Evening Telegraph on Wednesday 18th August. The same paper told much the same story a few weeks earlier too, this time on the 4th […]
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There Is Somebody Underneath Me
Here’s the opening few minutes of the Muppets appearance at the 1980 World Puppetry Festival. I’ve never consciously realised this before, but the body language of each muppet is so well-defined. Kermit moves differently to Scooter, and Fozzie hold himself in a totally different way to Miss Piggy. The event was staged in June of […]
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The Muppets On The Orson Welles Show
Here’s a weird curio. Orson Welles made an attempt to start his own talk show, The Orson Welles Show, and filmed a pilot in 1978. And I do mean filmed. Much of it was shot on film, with other segments shot on tape, and the effect is rather jarring (like a pre-1990s British sitcom in […]
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A Person In His Throat
A lovely appearance by Jim Henson, Doctor Teeth, and Kermit on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, broadcast on the 18th March 1975.
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Frog Martin
Today I learned that Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
