Some happiness and some sadness today. Just the kind of melange of melancholy and joy that makes The Muppets such a unique form of entertainment.
First, new Muppet YouTube goodness:
I’m a sucker for skateboarding bulldogs, Statler & Waldorf.
[Via The Muppet News Flash]
Next, Big Bird singing “It’s Not Easy Being Green” at Jim Henson’s funeral. You can really hear Carol Spinney struggling to fight back tears a couple of times during the performance:
[Via BoingBoing]
Have a Muppet-y Thursday
Seth,
You have the same video posted twice, instead of the Big Bird vid.
– Joe.
D’oh!
Fixed. Thanks for the catch, Joe.
How did I not know you have a muppet blog? I am the biggest muppet dork there is. Working with “Del” in Vegas last year was the fulfillment of a childhood dream.
“Thank you Kermit”…
Did you heart that? It was the sound of my heart breaking.
n00b. go back to embedding school.
QQ
Hey, Holly!
It’s not so much a Muppet blog as a blog that occasionally mentions them and has “Muppet” in the name.
It was actually a bet that landed me this domain name. A drunken college bet.
I need to buy SlightlyFraggle.com as well, if that’s any indicator of how inebriated I was at the time.
I’m a Muppet Liar…
I said I wouldn’t post about Muppets that much, but I have. Recently.
I said “Mostly Muppet” is actually more like “Slightly Fraggle” (though I don’t own the domain.
I said a lot of things I didn’t mean because…