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Tradition: Celebrating Jim Henson’s Life With a Notoriously Tear-Jerking Tribute by the Muppets [Video]

by Jamie Frevele | 1:14 pm, May 16th

Today marks 22 years since Jim Henson passed away, and despite his exit from this earthly stage, the Muppets have endured. We posted the video above last year to mark the occasion and we’re posting it again, because 1. we love it and it’s unbelievably sweet, and 2. we like to clean out our tear ducts once in a while. It’s healthy. And after watching this video, clean tear ducts are a promise from us to you.

And any day we can talk about the Muppets is a good one, even if the circumstances are less cheerful, but still hopeful.

(via YouTube)

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This Was How Jim Henson Pitched The Muppet Show to CBS [Video]

by Jamie Frevele | 3:29 pm, April 6th

Not a fresh and shiny and new video, but making the rounds today is what’s being called the original pitch to CBS for The Muppet Show. If anything, it’s a wonderful example of Muppet humor, not to mention a look into how Jim Henson wanted to sell his show. And wouldn’t you know it, just in time for the holidays, it get downright biblical!

(via Neatorama)

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The Muppets “Sing” Danny Boy

by Jill Pantozzi | 6:00 pm, March 17th

Technically I already did the obligatory St. Patrick’s Day post earlier, and I didn’t want to go overboard, but I couldn’t pass this one up once I watched it. Danny Boy is actually a ballad written by Frederic Weatherly which has been set to the Irish tune of Londonderry Air for years. Watch the Swedish Chef, Animal, and Beaker attempt to sing it. Yes, I said attempt. You’ll see why.

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Miss Piggy Will Never Forgive the Academy. Never. Ever. [Video]

by Jamie Frevele | 5:43 pm, February 24th

Miss Piggy is upset. Why? Because once again, she has been snubbed — snubbed — for an Oscar nomination, and she is not just going to sit around and be quiet about it. As you’ll see in the video above, this has been going on since she was passed over in 1980 for her work in The Muppet Movie, and now she’s upset about having been passed over again for her work in The Muppets. But she’s also sad for Michael Fassbender‘s snub, even though Kermit doesn’t know what the big deal is.

Oh, the plight of the Muppet.

(via Tough Pigs)

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Kermit The Frog Sings (& Rhymes) With Bret McKenzie

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:55 pm, December 15th

Jason Segel, Amy Adams and Walter sing “Life’s A Happy Song” in The Muppets but Kermit the Frog recently got together with its composer and singer (on the soundtrack), Flight of the Concord’s Bret McKenzie, to do an impromptu duet. I think it’s delightful but Susana, our resident Muppet expert was highly critical of the performance. ”I was luke warm on it because there’s some bad kermit lip synching,” she said, adding that things got better when he started rhyming. This is why we love her. Enjoy!

p.s. Susana really loves it.

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Animal’s Guide to Beating Holiday Stress

by Susana Polo | 11:32 am, December 10th

Holiday stress getting you down? Relax. We’ve still got… wait. Christmas is two weekends from now? Hanukkah is in ten days?

Incontrolincontrolincontrol.

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Ms. Piggy Doing Impressions of Other Muppets

by Susana Polo | 9:32 am, November 30th

There are lots of other (SFW but perhaps slightly naughty for the Muppets) gems in this MovieFone Unscripted segment between Amy Adams, Jason Segel, Kermit and Piggy, but we’ll leave you to discover them.

(via ToughPigs.)

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Jim Henson Co. Puppet Sitcom Coming To NBC

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:02 am, November 22nd

It’s been Muppet-mania around town these last few weeks. Jim Henson’s wonderfully hilarious fabric creations are once again heading to the big screen along with Jason Segel, Amy Adams and a slew of other humans so it’s no wonder the Jim Henson Co. is bringing puppets back to primetime television. This is awesome news but yes, I said puppets, not Muppets. Half-sad face.

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A Kermit Double-Header, With Singing and an Interview [Video]

by Jamie Frevele | 11:30 am, November 20th

Kermit the Frog and the rest of his crew are busy making the rounds in the media to promote The Muppets. And while we will warn you that some plot points are revealed during the interview in the video above (conducted by Jian Ghomeshi of Canada’s QTV), there are no spoilers. But there is nudity. But nothing you haven’t seen before. (Because Kermit has been fully nude for his entire career.)

After the jump, however, is a slightly more spoilery video — that is, if you don’t want to hear any of the new original songs by Flight of the Conchords‘ Bret McKenzie, who sings one of them with Kermit.

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An Entire Pic Post of Muppet Mashups, Just For You!

by Jamie Frevele | 3:33 pm, November 18th

Some of us here at The Mary Sue saw The Muppets at the Museum of the Moving Image last night. And while we wouldn’t dare spoil any of it for you (not even in our upcoming review), we’re not going to just sit here and not bask in the glory of Muppetry. Two sites have compiled a bunch of great Muppet mashups — one with our very own alphabet, one with Lord of the Rings. Oh, yes. This is definitely as fun as it sounds.

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