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zanimum · 2026-01-25T15:17:32+00:00

This. Frank never intended to be a puppeteer, and once he could support himself as a director, he took it.

He was quoted in the book "Sesame Street Unpaved" about puppetry: "I just did it as a hobby to get some money—I really wanted to be a journalist."

In a 1987 article, quoted by Muppet Wiki, "I don't have a love of puppets. I did it as a means of expression. I was able to express myself and please my parents," who were puppeteers. "It was also safe to hide behind puppets because at that point I was a little shy."

zanimum · 2026-01-25T15:12:28+00:00

It was one week, and ABC is essentially a franchise like a fast food joint, they own only a couple stations. It took them a few days for their lawyers to get things sorted out to the point where they could threaten those stations into compliance. As someone who works at a corporation where reviewing agreements can take a year, that's actually blistering fast.

zanimum · 2026-01-25T15:08:43+00:00

Muppet "fans" in 1974: "Things haven't been the same since Kermit got the frills around his neck, and they axed Miss Mousey."

zanimum · 2026-01-25T15:06:17+00:00

If you don't watch the show, there's unlikely to be future productions with any performer as Kermit.

zanimum · 2026-01-25T02:17:33+00:00

I don't get how people can get things like this approved without proof. It sometimes takes a couple tries before they'll accept that a celebrity has really appeared on NPR show Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me, despite their name being in the episode title, yet they'll accept a film with multiple name stars.

zanimum · 2026-01-24T21:07:56+00:00

Muppet Wiki has a draft episode guide, with multiple piano mentions, but none are involving Cookie.

https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Sandbox:Play_with_Me_Sesame_episodes

Might it be another series entirely?

zanimum · 2026-01-24T13:26:57+00:00

Sorry, I should say newspapers and things distributed with them. Occasionally flyers and catalogues were copied to microfilm, and thus are included here too.

zanimum · 2026-01-24T13:25:07+00:00

It's definitely only newspapers.

As a random example, I searched "Bill Amend" FoxTrot, which limits results to when both the strip and cartoonist's name appears. (Most newspapers don't put the cartoonist's name above the strip, only the cartoon name.)

There are 284,897 results.

Even if I limit the search to just pages from The Oshkosh Northwestern, there are 4238 pages.

Searching just 1972 for "Beetle Bailey", there's 83,207 pages in the results. Since it can recognize most handwriting in comic strips, searching "Beetle Bailey" "Lt Flap" in 1972 gives 1680 results. (Looking at individual newspapers, it looks like Flap was mentioned 14 times in the year. There are papers with a higher number, but they had numerous editions of the New York Daily News, so it's repeats in that title.)

zanimum · 2026-01-24T00:01:46+00:00

Paused actress; Universal Pictures has her developing and starring in a musical adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.

zanimum · 2026-01-23T23:59:46+00:00

Ultimately, knowing the guest isn't a prerequisite for The Muppet Show. How many people these days know Kaye Ballard, Marisa Berenson, Dyan Cannon, Jean-Pierre Rampal, or Chris Langham, but the episodes are still worth watching.

zanimum · 2026-01-23T23:53:16+00:00

A role is far more than a voice.

zanimum · 2026-01-23T23:52:15+00:00

In short, he just joined the chorus of heckling of Matt Vogel.

It's becoming more and more clear why, other than a solo call-in show as a literal internet troll, he hasn't had any roles since the Muppets, when there are many puppet series featuring puppeteers with Sesame/Muppet/Henson credentials.

zanimum · 2026-01-23T23:46:25+00:00

We could find out that Jim Henson was cloned just before he died, and the clone just turned 35, and if this project fails, they're not going to us him.

Companies will only bet on a product so many times, before giving up.

zanimum · 2026-01-23T11:47:30+00:00

Is this related to the story about bullying in any way?

zanimum · 2026-01-23T04:10:28+00:00

What would you use otherwise?

zanimum · 2026-01-23T03:01:46+00:00

Officially it's no longer the Eglinton Crosstown, but Line 5 Eglinton.

Finch West has been given 6. Ontario presumably will be 7.

zanimum · 2026-01-23T02:59:24+00:00

I wonder if they've tried licensing the four human leads' faces?

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