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The Jim Henson Company

Ask a Muppet

Let The Jim Henson Creature Shop Teach You How To Make Puppets [VIDEO]

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:45 pm, February 12th, 2013

The talented Holly Conrad and Jessica Merizan have their own show on The Nerdist channel where they usually teach cosplay tips or other DIY projects. This time around they had the opportunity to learn how to make puppets from Julie Zobel of the Jim Henson Creature Shop. No fair!! But really, it’s pretty awesome and I’m super jealous and they’re hilarious.

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Oh No They Didn’t: Chick-Fil-A Begins PR Meltdown With Attempts to Label the Muppets as Endangering Children

by Susana Polo | 12:43 pm, July 26th, 2012

If you were on the internet at all yesterday, you’re probably already aware that, according to reports, signs like this have been cropping up in Chick-Fil-A locations around the country, explaining to customers that the reason why their kids meals are coming without toys is because the Jim Henson Co. manufactured puppet parts that are dangerous to children.

That is, it’s not a petty reaction to Jim Henson Company announcing that they would no longer be partnering with Chick-Fil-A in the future and would be donating the proceeds of their latest business transaction to GLAAD, following the admission by Chick-Fil-A’s president Dan Cathy that his company was unashamed of and unafraid to continue their monetary support for anti-marriage equality organizations considered hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Google Salutes Amelia Earhart

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:02 pm, July 24th, 2012

Google celebrates what would have been Amelia Earhart’s 115th birthday with their beautiful Google doodle.  

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Consider the Following

Jim Henson Co. Severs Ties With Chick-Fil-A

by Susana Polo | 2:01 pm, July 23rd, 2012

The Jim Henson Company, currently headed by Lisa Henson, daughter of the late Jim, has formally announced that they will be severing all financial relationships they have with Chick-Fil-A, which is presumably a relief to the hundreds of chickens under the employ of the Henson Co.

Ok, jokes aside, this is actually a firm and explicit stance against Chick-Fil-A’s anti-marriage equality stance, with Henson likely brought to the tipping point by the confident admission of Chick-Fil-A president Dan Cathy, that as far as funding organizations that have lobbied not just against marriage rights for gay and bisexual people but also against legislation that would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity goes, his company is guilty as charged.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: The X-Men As Jaded Teens

by Jamie Frevele | 5:31 pm, June 10th, 2012

Dresden Codak (drawn by Aaron Diaz) has started working on a reboot of the X-Men as teenagers and how our favorite persecuted mutants deal with the perils of getting along (or not) with their peers. I predict a great deal of angst and some mass destruction. (via Neatorama)

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Bloody Good Fun

Henson Studios Releases Concept Art From Its Puppet-Noir Movie, The Happytime Murders

by Jamie Frevele | 11:44 am, March 14th, 2012

While the Muppets now belong to Disney, The Jim Henson Company is still working on its own projects, and to prove it, they’ve released concept art from a new project called The Happytime Murders. From the looks of it, it looks like a cross between Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Peter Jackson‘s Meet the Feebles, but probably with slightly less, um, we’ll call it “adult content.” The R-rated film, said to be a comedy, is still in the early stages of production, but one name floating around to play one of the non-puppet roles is Katherine Heigl. Hmm. So, someone finally stopped her from making stupid, stupid romantic comedies! That’s good to hear.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Hermione Schooling Marvel & DC

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:02 pm, January 6th, 2012

Comics Should Be Good’s The Line It Is Drawn has struck again! This time it was combining comic book and Harry Potter characters. Here’s Hermione showing up Scarlet Witch and Zatanna thanks to artist Steve Howard. Do yourself a favor and check out the rest but before that, check out what else we saw online today.

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This Makes Sense

Scissor Sisters Tapped to Do the Music for Fraggle Rock

by Susana Polo | 4:13 pm, June 14th, 2011

Wait, they were tapped to do what?

A Fraggle Rock movie? This… this makes sense.

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