Muppets I Have Known and Loved

[Corlyss_D]

Off topic a bit -- but you know the first thing I think of when someone mentions the muppets? When Rudolph Nureyev was a guest and they did "Swine Lake" with Miss Piggy in full regalia. Laughed myself sick.

Rather than divert the songbook thread, I moved Madame's comment over here to kick off another thread.

Only a couple come to mind at the moment, divorced from a general sense of hilarious abandon whenever I saw the Muppet Show:

1) The Barber of Die Fledermaus, with Joan Sutherland in Wagnerian costumes
2) A version of Don't Fence Me In by . . . I think Bob Hope . . . with a gumby-legged horse that reduced me to convulsions it was so funny
3) The Swedish Chef in any skit

I am patiently waiting for the dvd release of the second season. I haven't been that taken with the Muppet movies, but I loved the Muppet Show to distraction.

[living_stradivarius]

Quite off topic but coincidentally my friend and I were just talking about how Mark Hamill appeared on the Muppets show as himself and as Luke Skywalker.

Interesting how an actor gets locked into one identity and really can't play another role without being associated with his former screen role. I can say the same about Al Bundy.

[Haydnseek]

Off topic a bit -- but you know the first thing I think of when someone mentions the muppets? When Rudolph Nureyev was a guest and they did "Swine Lake" with Miss Piggy in full regalia. Laughed myself sick.

Rather than divert the songbook thread, I moved Madame's comment over here to kick off another thread.

Only a couple come to mind at the moment, divorced from a general sense of hilarious abandon whenever I saw the Muppet Show:

1) The Barber of Die Fledermaus, with Joan Sutherland in Wagnerian costumes....

Don't forget Beverly Sills in Pigoletto!

[miranda]

This is pretty much what happpens to me after three or four cups of coffee:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTC2Ihnsrf0

And here's Beaker singing "Feelings":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt8Q7Fsa_Vs

I always loved Animal, and Statler and Waldorf throwing each other off the balcony. And....PIGSS....INN...SPPAAAACE.

I adored this show as a kid, and I still adore it now. I really need to get some dvd's of it.

[Corlyss_D]

Miranda! You bad thing you, linking up to vids of the show! I just spent an hour going thru them. Found one of my all time favs, this chicken skit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okeTirjn ... ed&search=

[jbuck919]

Quite off topic but coincidentally my friend and I were just talking about how Mark Hamill appeared on the Muppets show as himself and as Luke Skywalker.

Interesting how an actor gets locked into one identity and really can't play another role without being associated with his former screen role. I can say the same about Al Bundy.

Not to mention Ted Bundy.

[Madame]

Quite off topic but coincidentally my friend and I were just talking about how Mark Hamill appeared on the Muppets show as himself and as Luke Skywalker.

Interesting how an actor gets locked into one identity and really can't play another role without being associated with his former screen role. I can say the same about Al Bundy.

Not to mention Ted Bundy.

<shiver> No kidding ...

[Wallingford]

Muppets I've LOVED?!? That's easy:

ANNABELLE.

You know, the cute little pubescent pig, all innocence, who idolized Miss Piggy (forever calling her "Ma'am") & inciting Piggy's total jealousy when Kermit smooched her. (Doubtless, a lot of us human males out there in the viewing audience would've done at least that much.....at least I DID when I was 19 and this episode was first shown.)

Watch for this episode, guys, when the magnificent third season's finally released on DVD.

[Richard]

I saw few Muppet programs. I did happen to catch, one evening, the Muppet program with Victor Borge. Very memorable and funny.

http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Victor_Borge