So I was watching "A Capitol Fourth," on PBS, which was great because it included the Muppets, but they closed out the show with a...not so much a medley of marches, but a collection of marches played in close succession. And I realized that, if you play a bunch of marches all in a row, pretty soon they all start sounding alike ( Read more... )

On Hulu, Fraggle Rock is sponsored by the US Army.

Think about that for a second: Fraggle Rock, the show created with the express purpose of bringing about world peace, the show that produced anti-war anthems such as this, the show that turned the World's Oldest Fraggle into an unflattering caricature of Donald Rumsfeld[*](possibly unintentionally) ( Read more... )

This is something that I think everyone should watch at least once:

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You know, I really like Sherlock. The only thing I don't like about it is that there's not enough of it. With three episodes at a time, just when you really start getting into it, it stops and disappears for another two years or whatever ( Read more... )

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I got to see Muppets Most Wanted last night, which surprised me because my understanding was that it wasn't opening until today. So I don't know what happened there but I'm glad it did, because it was a wonderful movie. There was a line in the opening number about "You know the sequel's never quite as good." Don't you believe it; this movie was ( Read more... )

Oh also, tonight I saw an Olympic-themed TV spot for Muppets Most Wanted. I love it when the things I love come together.

Speaking of which, Ty Burrell has two movies opening in March. He's voicing Peabody in Mr. Peabody and Sherman (which looks completely terrible,[*]and I'm saying that as a fan of the original show, but his Peabody voice is ( Read more... )

Did you know Jim Henson and his team pioneered the use of nascent Internet technology in order to create Fraggle Rock? It's true! Read all about it here. It's fascinating.

Incidentally, I think Fraggle Rock itself has withstood the test of time reasonably well, but there is one episode in particular that is laughably anachronistic, in which Doc ( Read more... )

As if getting to see Ty Burrell in Muppets Most Wanted wasn't awesome enough, we also get to see him give interviews ABOUT Muppets Most Wanted. The following is the first such interview I've encountered, in which he also talks about some other stuff, including Modern Family (although the interview occurred before the current season started, so he ( Read more... )

Today (which is actually the night before the night before Christmas), I wanted to highlight the Sesame Street pageant portion of "A Muppet Family Christmas," but couldn't find it as a standalone video. So I narrowed it down to the shortest portion I could find:

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(The actual pageant part starts at 2:30.)

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So, I was going to get back to Bert & Ernie today, but at the moment I'm so much more excited about JR Martinez making a Sesame Street appearanceI saw a while ago that he was going to be on, and I thought it was an inspired decision because lately they've been focusing on resilience, and I can't think of a better example of resilience, both of body ( Read more... )