Kieran Moore – When it was decided that I’d celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Muppet Show by writing a top ten chart for each year since its debut, one of my first thoughts was how to tackle 1990. For those of you that don’t know, 1990 was the sad and terrible year that Jim Henson…
This post originally appeared on Marni’s blog Just For The Halibut. Marni Hill – You’re on YouTube, watching a clip of one of your most favourite Muppet moments. For example, let’s say that you’re once again enjoying Alice Cooper and his Muppet monster band rocking to ‘Welcome to My Nightmare’ on The Muppet Show. The clip…
John Engle – If Jim Henson were alive in 2016 there is a decent chance I would have voted for him for President of the United States. It would not have mattered whether he was running for the office or not. And certainly I doubt he would have been running. Nonetheless, he would have gotten my…
Kieran Moore – 1987 was a year of great highs and very sad lows for Jim Henson fans. On the plus side Jim was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. In the minus column Fraggle Rock finally left the magic of TV by telling us we cannot leave the magic of pretty much…
Kieran Moore – It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go (or at the least on this very site) so I’m taking a break from my regularly scheduled charts to get festive and celebrate the season. To do this I’m going right back to basics and presenting a few seasonal charts based on…
Jarrod Fairclough – Today, September 24th, would have been Jim Henson’s 80th birthday. It’s a time to reflect on everything he achieved in his life, and to look back fondly on his genius. Three amazing Muppet fans and genius film makers, James Pollitt, Jamie Marks and Danny Ryan have made an incredibly sweet short stop-motion film…
To celebrate 40 years of The Muppet Show, we’ve asked 40 people for their favorite Muppet Show moment. Dave Goelz – Muppet Performer Dinner with Peter Sellers When Peter Sellers was our guest star during the second season of the Muppet Show, our head writer Jerry Juhl called him a few weeks before his episode…
Jarrod Fairclough – Hang the mistletoe, dye the eggs and light the menorah, because today is International Letter Writing Day! Our pals at the website Letters of Note have a group of amazing hilarious and deeply moving notes that notable people have written over the years. They include the note Jim Henson wrote his children before…
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 – If I said ‘Ernie and’, 100% of those surveyed would say ‘Bert’. Of course they would, Ernie and Bert are one of the most successful duos in the history of television. But over the years, Ernie has been paired with a number of characters on the series, playing both the straight man and…
The Muppet Mindset 