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Gadzooks it had been an awful long time since I’ve posted anything from Sesame Street!  I need to get on the ball about that.

Well, it’s a new year and since this blog just turned a couple of milestones with being ten years old and hitting 5,000 posts, maybe it’s time to start some stuff fresh.  So here’s a great clip to get us back on track.  I think this is from the early Eighties, ‘cuz that’s the first I ever saw this.  Witness poor Kermit the Frog try to keep a newscast on track despite a very wacky weatherman (or two):


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The Muppets opened in cinemas domestically on the week of this past Thanksgiving. The ladyfriend and I saw it and loved it!! I keep hoping and praying that somebody will make an ’80s Robot toy so I can put it on my desk: ‘twould look so nice next to my chunk of the Berlin Wall, my Darth Sidious figure and other stuff.

Okay well anyway, it turns out that back when the movie first came out, Fox News claimed that The Muppets was a front for some devious liberal agenda! Because the film’s villain, Tex Richman (played and rapped by Chris Cooper) is an eeeee-vil oil baron out to acquire the Muppets Theater by any means necessary. Seems that Fox News thinks that little kids are going to be turned off from capitalism.

Ehhhhh… whatever. I saw that movie and the only thing “liberal” is a cameo appearance by ...

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Goodness gracious… it’s been ages since I’ve posted a clip from Sesame Street on this blog, or anything else having to do with the Muppets! I’ll try to do better from now on gang.

This is one that I remember seeing a few times in my childhood: Kermit the Frog doing a report for Sesame Street News on what makes people angry. I laughed when I watched it then but now that I’m older…

…Well, is there anyone else who sees Kermit honked-off and thinking that he’s a lot like Howard Beale from the movie Network?

The more I think about it I could totally see Muppets Network happening, with Kermit screaming “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” In his reporter gig he even looks a lot like Howard Beale, right down to the raincoat. Yup, “Kermit the Frog, the Mad Prophet of ...

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