YMMV / Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas

• Adaptation Displacement: TV movie over book.
• Awesome Music: All of the music. That's what you get when Paul Williams is writing the songs.
• Creepy Awesome: The Riverbottom Nightmare Band.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: This wouldn't be the last time Kermit would be seen riding a bicycle.
• Memetic Mutation: Kermit Dies In A Tragic Bicycle Accident...
• Rooting for the Empire: Invoked with Riverbottom Nightmare Band. Obviously, the viewer is supposed to want Emmet and Alice to win the talent competition, but they're no match for an awesome rock 'n roll act like the Nightmare Band. Our heroes know that they're getting schooled, and expressions on their faces during the band's number make it clear: The River Bottom gang may be a bunch of jerks, but they're talented jerks, and absolutely deserve to win.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: Well, OK, it could be a coincidence that the Riverbottom Nightmare Band's titular song sounds a LOT like "Foxy Lady" by Jimi Hendrix...
  • The song they play in the music shop strongly resembles Free's "All Right Now."
• Visual Effects of Awesome: Jim Henson always tried to have some new kind of puppet effect in his work that would make everyone say "How did they do that?" In this case, it was the shot of Emmet in the rowboat, achieved with a mechanical, remote-controlled puppet.

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