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…
A modified version of this post originally appeared on Just For The Halibut Marni Hill – Do you know what’s missing from the world? Unification. We constantly find ourselves separated by gender, sexuality, race, religion (or lack of), nationality….pretty much anything and everything. Instead of celebrating our differences, we use them as a means to justify…
The following article was originally posted on Mary Arlene’s new blog, Frog Quixote. Mary is an old friend of The Muppet Mindset, and we’re excited to see where she takes this new website. With her appealing writing style, we’re sure she’s going to be a success in this fandom. Mary Arlene – When I was a…
Kieran Moore – Are you feeling brave? I am. You see I’ve been taking courage lessons from one of history’s greatest explorers. No, not James Cook or Marco Polo – Gobo Fraggle of course! Gobo is the unofficial leader of the “Fraggle Five” and I don’t think it’s overstepping the mark to describe him as the…
Jarrod Fairclough – It seems Dave Goelz and Karen Prell have been busy lately promoting the new Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited. They’ve appeared at two seperate talks, both as interesting and entertaining as the other. Watch below as Dave talks Link Hogthrob’s merkin and why it’s hard to adlib as Bunsen, while Karen chats about…
Marni Hill – Have you ever just stopped dead in the middle of what you were doing and thought, ‘I CAN’T HANDLE THIS ANYMORE’? And by ‘handle this’, I don’t just mean what you were doing at the time. I’m talking about life in general. Every bit of motivation you had simply dissipates into nothingness and…
Kieran Moore – After last week’s epic countdown for my 100 chart milestone, I thought it might be fun to keep the celebration going a little longer with a special themed chart; so today I’m presenting the top 10 songs from episode 101 of Muppet/Henson productions. Although several of the eligible shows did reach the milestone…
It’s World Puppetry Day! To celebrate we’ve browsed Muppet Wiki’s behind the scenes photos, and chosen just a few of our favorites!
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…
This post originally appeared on Marni’s blog Just For The Halibut Marni Hill – Just about everyone has a TV show they remember fondly from their childhood. I myself have great memories of watching a programme that was very popular in Australia at the time called The Saddle Club. It was innocent enough, about three teenagers…
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