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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, 2012


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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  • Anonymous

    IIRC, is was kept a secret who’d be taking over Kermit.  So when Steve Whitmire’s voice came out, it was a big surprise.

  • KMc Stu

     He will never be dead in my heart.  *sniff*sniff*

  • http://twitter.com/Riviare Kimberly

    I bawled like a baby and am not ashamed to admit it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eleri C. Eleri Hamilton

    Follow up with this, bring more hankies. 
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na-xvlYMGck

  • http://twitter.com/AlexisTalbot Alexis Talbot

    I would’ve drowned in my own tears if it weren’t for the ending.

  • http://www.facebook.com/BubbleMachine Will Shooter

    yep, tear ducts clean. ta.

  • lauren.laren.looren

    the performers sang this at jim’s funeral. there’s a video on youtube somewhere. it is so good. and just insanely sad. and big bird walking down the long church aisle. ugh. saddest.

  • http://www.facebook.com/heidiestrin Heidi Rabinowitz Estrin

    OMG, I totally cried watching this. You were absolutely right.

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