Michael Wermuth Jnr – Episode 8 of The Jim Henson Hour features the MuppeTelevision episode “Videotape” with guest star Buster Poindexter, and The StoryTeller episode “The True Bride”. In “Videotape”, Gonzo is supposed to work on the music video but instead leaves town to host a poultry contest, but still has a presence at the station…
Jarrod Fairclough – May 16th 2016 marks 26 years since Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets and creative visionary, passed away from a short, but aggressive illness. A lot has happened to the characters he helped envision since that Wednesday morning in 1990, some of it great, some of lacking in that spark that made the…
Jarrod Fairclough – Monday marked 61 years since the first Muppet graced television, as Jim Henson and soon-to-be-wife Jane aired the first episode of Sam and Friends. This date is widely regarded as the birthday of Kermit the Frog, who was one of the stars of the small show, and several people online were surprised that Kermit…
Michael Wermuth Jnr – Animal is one of the most popular Muppets. He’s the drummer for Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, the only member of the band who appeared regularly on Muppet Babies, was a popular character for guest stars to request screen time with, and has been one of the most marketable characters. But…
Jarrod Fairclough – Are you a patriotic American Muppet fan? Are you a patriotic Australian Muppet fan? English Muppet Fan? Irish Muppet fan? Finnish Muppet Fan? German? Indonesian? Ukrainian? Okay, how about this – Are you a patriotic EARTHLING Muppet fan? Then we want YOU to become a contributor to The Muppet Mindset. Despite what Ryan…
Jarrod Fairclough – The Muppet performers sure are talented folks, aren’t they? Besides making amazing things like Sesame Street, The Muppet Show and Fraggle Rock, they also take on their own endeavors. Stephanie D’Abruzzo makes the hilarious Chimpy and Pansy, Matt Vogel has his band The Mighty Weaklings and David Rudman co-created the kids series Jack’s Big Music Show. Then there’s Noel MacNeal, who is…
Michael Wermuth Jnr – Elmo’s Sing-Along Guessing Game is a Sesame Street video from 1991. The linking footage involves the titular game show, hosted by (guess who?) Elmo. His contestants are Mary and her little lamb, as well as Grover’s usual customer Mr. Johnson, who oddly enough is not there to be on the game show,…
Jarrod Fairclough – Can you believe The Muppets finished its first season over a month ago? It seems like just yesterday we were alerted to the making of a Muppet pilot, and here we are twiddling our thumbs as we wait to hear whether or not the show will be renewed for a second season. ABC are taking…
Marni Hill – The Muppets are the physical definition of individuality. There are few franchises that can lay claim to having the spectacular diversity that The Muppets do. But then again, there aren’t many franchises out there that have 6-foot tall wise-cracking Talking Carrots or man-eating furniture either. We all know that Kermit and the troupe…
Michael Wermuth – Well, the first season of The Muppets. is over. So far, it’s a great show. Hopefully we’ll get another season. And if we don’t, at least ABC aired every produced episode (in contrast to how NBC only aired 9 out of 12 episodes of The Jim Henson Hour and ABC only aired 10…
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