The Jim Henson Retrospectacle: Celebrating Jim Henson
During New Zealand’s Jim Henson Retrospectacle, a bunch of people got together to celebrate Jim Henson, as well as the craziness around The Muppets.
Life’s A Happy Song in New Zealand: The Jim Henson Retrospectacle Live in Concert Recap
Last weekend characters from The Muppets, Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock took to the stage in Wellington, New Zealand for a hilarious and astounding concert!
Fraggle Frights: Monsters of Fraggle Rock
Abigail Maughan – Halloween is fast approaching, Muppet fans! This year we celebrate with our copies of The Muppets Meet the Classics: The Phantom of the Opera and applaud the grand return of Winky Pinkerton. Between that and our double feature of the Vincent Price and Alice Cooper episodes of The Muppet Show, we should remember…
Revisiting Song of the Cloud Forest: The Golden Toads
Abigail Maughan – The Song of the Cloud Forest is a melancholy, musical story about environmentalism produced for The Jim Henson Hour in 1989. Frequent Fraggle Rock writer David Young brings us the story of an anxious little golden toad named Milton, who lives with his friends in the rainforest and appears to be the last…
Everybody And Their Dog
Abigail Maughan – Jimmy Dean and Rowlf. Doc and Sprocket. Cinderella and Rufus. The Storyteller and the, uh, dog of the Storyteller. Since the dawn of Muppets in the public consciousness, the dynamic of the human host and their Muppet dog partner has been a beloved and recurring motif in Muppet productions. It has been repeatedly…
The MoPop Mindset: Visiting the Imagination Unlimited Exhibition
Abigail Maughan – I recently got to take a trip to Seattle, and we all know what the must-see attraction in Seattle is right now: the Conibear Shellhouse at the University of Washington, featuring the Husky Clipper boat that won the gold for rowing in the 1936 Olympics! Oh, right! Also the Museum of Pop Culture,…
Muppet Video Games: Proud Past and Hopeful Future
Abigail Maughan – Recently, a real rabbit hole of a Muppet Wiki browsing session led to me watching a walkthrough of the 1996 CD-ROM game of Muppet Treasure Island, which I hadn’t really known existed. The game is largely a point-and-click retelling of the movie, but all of the live-action Muppet footage was shot new especially…
Show Me Things That I Long to Explore: Appreciating Mokey Fraggle
Abigail Maughan – Fraggle fans know all too well that poor Mokey gets the short end of the Doozer stick more often than not when it comes to supplementary products, from plush toys to DVD covers to comics. Despite what the designers of the DVD covers seem to think, however, Mokey Fraggle is one of the…
It’s Great To Be A Muppet Fan
Abigail Maughan – Has it occurred to you that it is really, really amazing to be a Muppet fan? Perhaps it was the first time you noticed how much a classic Sesame Street bit stuck with you, or saw a Doozer wheeling around on its cart or even turned on the Muppet Morsels trivia feature on…
Pickles, Bells, and Trophies: A Look at Fraggle Festivities
Abigail Maughan – As we Silly Creatures recover from our New Year’s celebrations, we realize how important parties and games and loud noises are to us throughout the year when it’s time to commemorate something. Your average Fraggle is also very enthusiastic about celebrations involving all of those components as well, except probably Boober. Fraggles have…
The Muppet Mindset 