Michael Wermuth – Sing-Along is a Sesame Street video themed around songs. The linking footage involves the cast having a sing-along on the roof of 123 Sesame Street. Bob even goes so far as to bring a piano to play. While the sing-along is going on, Biff and Sully are also on the roof, fixing a TV…
Abigail Maughan – Today I’d like to review a delightful little TV special from 1981 called The Muppets Go to the Movies, which was created to promote The Great Muppet Caper. The special consists almost entirely of the Muppets spoofing various classic films and film genres with guest stars Lily Tomlin and Dudley Moore. Yes, it is…
Michael Wermuth – “The Muppet Revue” is one of ten compilation videos released by Playhouse Video in 1985 spotlighting The Muppet Show, and is one of only three in the collection to not be tied to a single theme, instead highlighting a variety of the best that The Muppet Show has to offer. Like the other…
Michael Wermuth – The Muppets’ Valentine Show is the first of two pilots for The Muppet Show. Guest starring Mia Farrow, this special features such all-time favorite characters as George the Janitor, Mildred, and Brewster, not to mention that one Muppet frog guy. The setting for this special is a home of some sort, and the…
Michael Wermuth – Elmo Saves Christmas is a Sesame Street special from 1996. The special begins with Telly, Zoe, and Baby Bear spending Christmas with Maya Angelou, for some reason. When they express a desire for every day to be Christmas, Maya tells them the story of “the time Elmo saved Christmas, and almost lost it…
Today our friend Joshua Gillespie presents a very special video Muppet Retro Review. Josh and his puppet friend discuss and review the classic Nintendo Entertainment System vide game Muppet Adventure Chaos at the Carnival. Check out the fantastic and fun review below! The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier, muppetmindset@gmail.com
Michael Wermuth – Jim Henson: A Sesame Street Celebration is a 1991 Sesame Street compilation album spotlighting performances from Jim Henson’s characters, especially Ernie and Kermit. I have this album on cassette, and side A is basically a “best of Ernie and friends” side while side B is basically “the best of Kermit and friends.” The track…
Michael Wermuth – Learning to Add and Subtract is a Sesame Street video from 1987. The linking footage finds Big Bird needing to learn how to add and subtract “just in time,” and features various inserts about adding or subtracting. The video begins with Big Bird needing to learn how to add, and Maria shows up…
Kyle Mahoney – The same year as Muppet Classic Theatre was released, Jim Henson Records released its last album entitled Kermit Unpigged, a pun on the commonly used phrase “unplugged,” meaning acoustic. This album had the Muppets singing duets with various 90s celebrities. The album has a storyline to it, similar to Bert and Ernie’s Sing Along (1975).…
Adam Bush – There’s nothing like watching old videos of Jim Henson puppeteering. If you’ve seen the behind the scenes footage from The Muppet Show DVDs, you’ve experienced what I’m talking about. To watch Jim in his natural habitat, in a time when he was inventing the world of puppetry as we know it now, is really…
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