What I spend time thinking about:
Every few years there's talk of someone wanting to do a Jim Henson Biopic, but I genuinely have no idea how that would even work.
You would have to show him, and the rest of his performers puppeteering. There's no way of getting around that. In fact, some of the funniest stuff tended to happen when the cameras weren't rolling, and they were just riffing off each other. So how would you get around that? Would you just have their current performers do them and cut to the puppet on the hand of the actor that plays them? Would you have the current performers train the actors?
And have people that not only kind of look and sound like Jim, Frank, Dave, Jerry, etc, but can do the voices for their characters as well.
and you would need to have replica vintage puppets built as well, since the ones that haven't completely become toast, are probably not usable. (I'm pretty sure the fabric they used for Fozzie's fur, isn't even available anymore.)
And you would need to find people to play all the celebrities they worked with.
Edited by megaeliz on Jul 24th 2022 at 8:27:58 AM
Salesman Grover!
I’m kind of surprised Grover never made a Muppet Show appearance, now that I think about it. The pitch nearly writes itself. Since Scooter is out sick, Assistant Grover wants to “help” Froggy Baby with his show, and causes silliness, using borrowing their dynamic from the Salesman Grover sketches.
Edited by megaeliz on Aug 3rd 2022 at 8:48:29 AM
Something that has been bugging me;
So according to Adam Goldberg
, anything associated with the muppets has to be “the” Muppets, which is why his show is called “The Muppets Mayhem”, but that doesn’t make sense, because Muppets Haunted Mansion, which came out just last halloween, does not use “The” in the title.
It’s a stupid question, but it’s been eating at me.
Edited by megaeliz on Jul 28th 2022 at 2:50:54 PM
Curious thought I just had. Are there any sketches or particular moments where it's just Fozzie and Gonzo interacting with each other? It just occurred to me that I can't offhand think of any moments where the two are paired in scenes together.
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According to an interview with Noel Mac Neal (Bear’s performer), he came up with the idea for doing a meet and greet while planning a family trip to Florida, and had the workshop send him down the bear puppet and a wrangler to Disney World.
During the meet and greet, he was actually talking and interacting with the guests through Bear, and a Disney cast member, unaware that Mac Neal was in the puppet, walked over and attempted to tell him that he was not allowed to talk. Bear simply put his hand on the cast member's shoulder and matter-of-factly replied, "Yes I can!"
Sadly no word on how the cast member reacts to that.
Edited by megaeliz on Jul 31st 2022 at 3:23:26 PM
I was thinking that I would take you back a bit even before Sesame Street, to Rowlf on the Jimmy Dean Show!
I really wish more of these were available, but this one is particularly great, because Jimmy’s botched quick change even manages to get Jim to loose it.
Edited by megaeliz on Aug 4th 2022 at 5:39:23 AM
I love when the Muppets get a tad dark.
Also, the Special Effect Failure at the end was great.
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The vagularities of live television, I guess. I love how you can hear Jim Corpsing a bit!
Edited by megaeliz on Aug 5th 2022 at 7:58:20 AM
I’m super excited about this! There’s still a lot to do in post production obviously, but it’s one step closer to becoming a reality!
And we even got a new photo from it on the Electric Mayhem’s twitter!
Edited by megaeliz on Aug 6th 2022 at 3:10:29 PM
It’s been kinda overlooked when compared with some of the other musical numbers from the show, but I actually think that really sums up the mission statement of the Muppets as a whole.
Sad? I know sad.
But you do what you can with the things that you see to make life a jamboree!
And I see cows playing cellos with bananas where their horns should be, and i see flags being waved by ducks in buckets, and pigs drinking lemon tea!
It’s also one of the few original songs from the run of the Muppet Show itself.
Edited by megaeliz on Aug 9th 2022 at 4:41:43 AM
Found another Fozzie/Gonzo bit:
I'm guessing part of the reason these two aren't paired up much is because they're both goofy characters, and in order for any real humor to work, one of them has to be the straight man. This seems to land on Fozzie, except being "the straight man" really isn't his personality.
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Gonzo can definitely play the straight-man, but I think you kind of need a very specific character dynamic for that to work, like Gonzo and Rizzo or Gonzo and Pepe.
Gonzo and Fozzie though? I genuinely don’t know who would be the straight-man in that situation.
Edited by megaeliz on Aug 10th 2022 at 1:08:17 PM
Also, since we’re on the topic of Gonzo, can I just take some time out to appreciate Dave Goelz?
His story is wild. He went to school to be an industrial designer, and worked at HP, and the only reason he’s not comfortably retired by now, is because one day he pulled out his tiny little black and white television set, to watch a friend’s new TV program, and accidentally caught Sesame Street (more specifically, Bert and Ernie) instead.
Like it’s completely fair to say that a Bert and Ernie skit changed the entire direction of his life. Think about that for a second.
He was immediately drawn to the visual distinctions between the two puppets: Ernie's horizontal striped sweater reflected his easygoing, playful attitude while Bert's vertical striped shirt reflected his uptight, no-nonsense personality, and just became fascinated. Eventually he decided he needed his own Ernie, and started building his own puppets, which set of a series of events which ended up with him at a puppetry convention asking Frank Oz about Bert’s Eyebrow.
Now he’s been performing for nearly 50 years now, and has grown so much as a puppeteer and performer since the early days of the Muppet show. He’s the last of the Muppet Show performers to actively be working with the Muppets, and shows no signs of wanting to put down his puppets any time soon.
In a lot of ways, I see Gonzo as his Kermit. The way Gonzo’s evolved as a character really reflects Dave’s own growth as a performer and even as a person, and at this point, has become such a reflection of what Dave is, that it can sometimes be hard to tell where he ends, and Gonzo begins.
Edited by megaeliz on Aug 11th 2022 at 6:47:26 AM

Look at that majestic creature.
Edited by megaeliz on Jul 19th 2022 at 4:03:14 AM