Well, not really, but an embedded customized video will have to do.

No word yet if a Disney attorney will C&D me on the blog name, but I’m hopeful that won’t happen.

Anyhow, the video is in support of the Disney Parks “Give A Day. Get A Day.” volunteerism program. You might have seen the Muppets in TV ads featuring celebrities and folks from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Anyhow, it’s a good cause (and you can win a ticket to a Disney Park for a day by volunteering for a day). Check it out.

Get your own video here.

[Via Theme Park Mom]

First, a firm grasp of the obvious:

I have a blog with “Muppet” in the title.
I do the whole “Separated at Birth” schtick. A lot.
I have great friends & commenters.

Second, a perfect storm (using MATH):

This comment:

Christopher Meloni looks abit like Bert from Sesame(not sure how u spell that) Street, in a kind of cute way.

Plus this email:

I’m sure you’ve already seen it, but I’m assuming this is up your alley on multiple fronts…

Multiplied by my Tumblr entry:

Telly as Zack Braff is my favorite.

Which leads us, logically, to point #3: TMZ’s Celebrity Puppets — Sesame Street Edition

There are a ton of dupes here and a few more misses than hits than I could manage with similar source material, but it’s still worth a look if, you know, Muppets OR “Separated at Birth” shit is your thing. [HINT: they're both mine].

YMMV, but still, enjoy.

Also, I don’t know that I’ve got this whole “blogging” thing down pat yet or if I’ll ever figure it out but for now I’m putting some things on the wackiness that is Tumblr, some dreck here and even more superfluous linkage and ephemera on Twitter, Flickr and the like. Follow or don’t.

(How’s THAT for an upsell?)

Humpday!

Previous incarnations of Separated at Birth:

Jeri Ryan & Cynthia Watros
Peter Lorre & Evan Handler
Lauren Ambrose & Hillary Tuck
Chuck Liddell & Sloth Fratelli (John Matuszak)
Dave Foley and Vicent Kartheiser
Javier Bardem & Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Maria Bello and Mary McCormack
Gerard Butler and Clive Owen
Christopher Meloni and Elias Koteas
Lisa Rinna and Nicholson’s Joker
Janine & Mariska

I’m a few weeks late to the whole “30 Rock is a ripoff of The Muppet Show” meme, but I think I agree. [Via Kottke].

Here are the highlights, but please read the original source:

The premises (both the studio locales and the backstory of a weekly show) are the same.
Liz Lemon == Kermit the Frog
Jenna == Miss Piggy

Seriously. Read the rest of it.

I’m only a recent convert to 30 Rock (another reason you shouldn’t judge a new show solely on the basis of the pilot) and I think the similarities are stunning.

Given the blog’s name and my affinity for both shows, I’m just sorry I didn’t mention this earlier.

It’s also a good time to point out that 30 Rock even had Muppets on an episode last season as a part of Kenneth’s daydream sequence.

And then there’s this, which defies all logic that it should exist at all, but I’m very happy that it does:

[Via Testspiel]

I don’t know what it has to do with 30 Rock, but it’s an excellent appropriation of the theme song to The Muppet Show.

On another tangent, I’m trying to pull all the Muppet posts from my ALL-MUPPET Tumblr account, which is ironically called Mostly Muppets onto this NON-MUPPET blog (apart from this post) you’re reading right now.

Confused?

Me too.

Go watch 30 Rock.
Or The Muppet Show.
Or go to a Gay Bar.

Good Day!

This year’s Cinco de Mayo festivities provided the perfect cover for me to shave my beard and join the ranks of the mustachioed for the coming Summer months:

I think I looked like a cross between Anil Kappoor and Sam Elliot, but I’ll let you click through and be the judge.

Sadly, Jenn made me remove the upper lip caterpillar and now I’m left looking facially bald. I even had a co-worker remark that I looked 20 years younger.

Which would make me twelve.

Which is not flattering.

But I smiled anyway (to her face).

Anyhow, here are some fun tumblogs for reading at work. One is serious, another inspiring and another is hilarious.

The last one is my Muppets tumblog.

1. Hospital Food
2. Moleskine Art
3. Awkward Family Photos
4. Mostly Muppets

Happy Friday!

These are the kind of videos that seem tailor-made for this exact blog.  They’re so thematically-targeted and ridiculous, I couldn’t have done a better job if I’d done them myself.

See for yourself:

LOST Babies – Let The Fear In:

LOST Babies – He’s Yellow, Man:

The videos are the work of David Goodberg.

[Via Blog@Newsarama who got them from EW's Popwatch]