I'm not even phobic of puppets but Muppets always had a bit of creep to them. Especially the baby version of Animal.
― Leopard on the Cheetos Bag (MintIce), Friday, 20 May 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Has he had a falling out with Henson or is he just too old now?
I...hope you mean the Henson organization specifically.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 May 2011 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
no. let this die. please.
― President Keyes, Friday, 20 May 2011 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
apparently Frank Oz retired from doing Fozzie and Miss Piggy in 2002, and now some guy named Eric Jacobson has taken over
― rap's proud hateful history (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 May 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Ned yes obviously I meant the Henson company.
I'm sure this will be great, the last few Muppet things have not been great (Muppet Letters to Santa was ok; the christmas special a few years before sucked though), Segal has spoken at length about how much he wanted to make an old fashioned muppet movie.
― akm, Friday, 20 May 2011 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, its those interviews with Segal that have me actually excited about this project. There wasn't any talk about "bringing them up to date" or "modernizing" or anything.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 20 May 2011 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Having Disney produce a Muppets movie just makes me very, very afraid.
― Aimless, Friday, 20 May 2011 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
What was the original title?
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 20 May 2011 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
End Times Are Near: The Musical
― Aimless, Friday, 20 May 2011 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Disney has been involved with the Muppets for years, at least ten years, maybe more.
― akm, Friday, 20 May 2011 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Jim Henson, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
― Aimless, Friday, 20 May 2011 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
ok I guess since 2004. that includes Muppet Wizard of Oz (apparently awful) and a bunch of tv specials, the last of which was pretty good (Muppets Letters to Santa)
― akm, Friday, 20 May 2011 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
This actually sounds pretty alright. The Muppet Movie was the first movie I saw in the theater.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 20 May 2011 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
The Moopets
― akm, Friday, 20 May 2011 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I have faith in Segel...he talks about the Muppets with total reverence, so I at least trust he wouldnt set out to drag the name thru the mud. Then again the best laid plans of mice & men etc
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 May 2011 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I never found the Muppets creepy, not even in the least. But yeah, the "Muppet Babies" was just sort of disturbing imo
― dell (del), Friday, 20 May 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
The only disturbing thing about Muppet Babies was "Nanny"
― Number None, Friday, 20 May 2011 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
and "Skeeter"
no girl should be named "Skeeter"
― I HAVE ISSUES (DJP), Friday, 20 May 2011 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
glad they got some of the OG muppets guys in too.
The original-original Muppets were seriously OG:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ky7g1lgTwc
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 20 May 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
that's so awesome. jim henson, fuck
― dell (del), Friday, 20 May 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
the second spot outta control
― dell (del), Friday, 20 May 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, US, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets' former stomping grounds.
I confess that it was a good long while after reading this and wondering why the role of "Walter" was not credited before I realized ... Walter is the muppet that Jason Segel created.
― rap's proud hateful history (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 May 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Fn9Q8q6yNmk/TSkX9dABqdI/AAAAAAAAABM/3-2p4ffOfgg/s400/The-Muppets-Jason-Segel-and-Walter.jpg
The Greatest Muppet Movie Ever Made!!!
― the man who forsook his wife for fap fap fap (sic), Saturday, 21 May 2011 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I totally want to get stoned with this guy and Walter and talk about the muppets.
― unmetalled world (wk), Saturday, 21 May 2011 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Have you all seen that rad muppets plumbing at the Letterman studio?
― unmetalled world (wk), Saturday, 21 May 2011 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
What happened to Skeeter from Muppet Babies? :((
― unmetalled world (wk), Saturday, 21 May 2011 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
are Rooney and Alan Arkin playing Statler & Waldorf?
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 May 2011 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd never heard of her, but she was in a four-issue non-Langridge drawn storyline in the Roger Langridge Muppets comic last year.
― the man who forsook his wife for fap fap fap (sic), Saturday, 21 May 2011 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CloKbXtD28&
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 23 May 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
The Muppets look awesome in high-def.
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 23 May 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
wow this looks great
― remy bean, Monday, 23 May 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I will go see all these Muppets.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 May 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
For those of a certain (OK, my) age, getting used to the subs for Henson's voices is as difficult as getting used to the Looney Tunes subs. It's remarkable how attuned our ears are to the subtleties of Muppet speech. Just as imagine there are some who cannot hear Ms. Piggy without hearing Yoda.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 May 2011 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Please not the fucking New Radicals
― Radio XL1 (S-), Monday, 23 May 2011 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
not to be a total cornster but i must have seen Muppets Take Manhattan a million times on VHS as a kid over and over and over again until I knew every line by heart - it came out the year i was born. so i'm kinda secretly hoping baby's favorite movie as a kid is gonna be this assuming it's excellent.
― Mordy, Monday, 23 May 2011 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I am always wary when the muppets are re-mastered. Saying this, muppets from space was awsome. I will hold judgement until I have seen it, I think the muppets are insanely good. Love them to bits.
― “I'm a hero with coward's legs.” (captain rosie), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 08:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I will be VERY surprised if this is decent. Yeh, the subs for the voices annoy me - it doesn't sound like Kermit, it sounds like someone doing a Kermit impression! - and with teh odd exception and the new muppets suck ass, and not in a good way.
And that poster freaks me out too. Whenever they give muppets legs they look waaaaay creepy.
― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 08:47 (thirteen years ago) link
If the film manages to capture that goofy, chaotic sense of humour the Muppets have then it shouldn't be too bad.If Disney have taken this franchise and squeezed out the last drop of goodness by making a dreadful cheesy cacophony of shite then as Fozzie Bear would say "shame on youuuuu"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jbya4kxC6E
Just to show that sub voices aren't always bad.
― “I'm a hero with coward's legs.” (captain rosie), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 09:16 (thirteen years ago) link
So stoked for this. btw has anyone mentioned Muppet Treasure Island? That one is AWESOME.
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 09:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Not my favourite, but still good. Best muppet movie ever?
For me it would have to the original The Muppet Movhe ie. I am all over Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgc-_pzzz00&feature=related
― “I'm a hero with coward's legs.” (captain rosie), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Movhe ie? = Movie
― “I'm a hero with coward's legs.” (captain rosie), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I will be VERY surprised if this is decent.
Segel is great, his previous movie was great, he loves the Muppets, he pitched hard for this and won the Hensons over, he has proven enthusiasm for puppetry, director is a great match for the material with his experience on slightly off-kilter musical comedy in realistic settings. Why don't you think it will work?
― the man who forsook his wife for fap fap fap (sic), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 11:35 (thirteen years ago) link
The Conchords connection gives me hope, but I'm not sure if the ironic distance that works on that TV show will translate to Muppety fun. I think we'll have to agree to disagree on Segal, I've just had a look at his filmography and I find it supremely underwhelming, but ymmv I guess.
― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe I'm being coloured by that terrible Muppets Tonight show tho, I was so disappointed by that.
― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
That shot in the trailer of Segal walking down the street doing that silly shoulder-shrug Muppet walk was all I needed to convince me he's paid attention to details and this thing is going to be loads of fun.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:32 (thirteen years ago) link
For those of a certain (OK, my) age, getting used to the subs for Henson's voices is as difficult as getting used to the Looney Tunes subs. It's remarkable how attuned our ears are to the subtleties of Muppet speech. Just as imagine there are some who cannot hear Ms. Piggy without hearing Yoda.― Josh in Chicago, Monday, May 23, 2011 6:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, May 23, 2011 6:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
Ditto. So far, I haven't heard anything monumentally off-putting in the new Muppet voices, but so much of it is about timing. The post-Mel Blanc Looney Tunes voices are fucking abominable. In Space Jam, you'd hear a voice off-screen and you couldn't tell if it was supposed to be Daffy, Bugs, or Elmer Fudd. They were practically interchangeable.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link
if you haven't seen "forgetting sarah marshall" and the dracula puppet show, you can't judge segal's abilities around puppets.
― akm, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
The enthusiasm just about leaks off the screen, he loves puppets so damn much.
― mh, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
...Why don't you think it will work?― the man who forsook his wife for fap fap fap (sic), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 11:35 (3 hours ago)
― the man who forsook his wife for fap fap fap (sic), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 11:35 (3 hours ago)
Disney?
― Radio XL1 (S-), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought the songs in Muppets Most Wanted were pretty awful compared to ones used in the Muppets. Kind of a Flight on the Conchords season one vs season two rush problem.
― DavidLeeRoth, Friday, 11 September 2015 14:11 (eight years ago) link
Not even sure I agree with that, but it's been awhile since I heard the first movie's songs.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Friday, 11 September 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
the idea of kermit having a lookalike with a comedy accent was ridiculous and muppety enough that I can forgive much
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 11 September 2015 14:13 (eight years ago) link
"i love you, pig!"
"i am kyirmit"
i remember when gosford park came out telling my friends it was so good that ryan phillipe was good in it. well muppets most wanted is so good that ricky gervais is good in it.
― balls, Friday, 11 September 2015 14:19 (eight years ago) link
kinda disappointed they're not gonna keep doing movies if that's the case. the stuff w/ the new show has not intrigued me. really think they should've just done a variety show again, maybe even just make it occasional like once a month or twice a month, rotate it w/ a movie or something on saturday nights, boom there's yr new wonderful world of disney, disney could even go hardcore w/ their 'we own all the franchises now' by putting marvel movies and star wars in the rotation (hell they could so the unspecial edition star wars again and hype the hell out of it). then if they wanted to they could do their 'what if the office had starred the muppets? it might go a little something like this...' stuff as shorts and get viral whatever that way.
― balls, Friday, 11 September 2015 14:24 (eight years ago) link
songs in Muppets most wanted are just. fuckin. *great*.
songs in fotc season two are also j.f.*g*.
― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Friday, 11 September 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link
And some of the best jokes are in fact the bawdiest, like Fozzie lamenting about declaring yourself a bear in the online dating world and the kind of attention that can attract — complete with a “not that there’s anything wrong with that” panicked punchline — or Animal wistfully lamenting why he doesn’t tour anymore: “So many women, so many towns.”
fuck this
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
uh that was supposed to be in italics but you get the idea
so Paul Williams has gone from writing songs to dialogue?
it's a whole new tv show, you can probly make a new thread
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 18:42 (eight years ago) link
what do you have against Paul Williams idgi
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
i just saw that in the doc he said he wasnt proud of boasting of groupie-screwing
i like most of what i know of him actually
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 18:48 (eight years ago) link
http://static.spin.com/files/130510-daft-punk_0.jpg
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 18:56 (eight years ago) link
lol that pic
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 19:06 (eight years ago) link
that doc is a fucking crime btw
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 19:23 (eight years ago) link
hated the first ep of the new show, won't be watching.
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
watch Phantom of the Paradise instead
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
Watched "Muppets Most Wanted" two nights ago. So much better than the previous film - ROFLs galore. Kyrmit didn't get old.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 24 September 2015 02:18 (eight years ago) link
new tv show kinda sucked
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 24 September 2015 02:22 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/natepatrin/status/646893269616562177
― balls, Thursday, 24 September 2015 03:54 (eight years ago) link
i thought it was fine. nice to see them back on tv.
― akm, Thursday, 24 September 2015 06:41 (eight years ago) link
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/e/eb/TheMuppets-S01E04-PepeWithStatler
"Look at me! I'm Bradley Coopers!"
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 2 November 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/e/eb/TheMuppets-S01E04-PepeWithStatler'sTeeth.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/267?cb=20151013211323