No, wait, that’s the worst best thing.
This is still the next best thing. And the best bests thing.
A good tip is to abandon the cross-dressing subplot. Bosom Buddies figured that out by season two. Should have taken heed.
Well, If We Can’t Have a New ‘Bosom Buddies,’ Then This is the Next Best Thing, Right?
Filed under Bad Humor, Buffy & Hildegarde, The Worst
On the Fifth Night of Hanukkah Jumped the Snark Gave to You…
…The Muppets & Jimmy Fallon & Christmas! Because it’s Christmas Eve AND Hanukkah and that calls for something special.
That’s two years in a row. Hopefully that means this is a holiday tradition.
Filed under Lady Holiday, Muppets
Happy (Belated) T.Hanksgiving
Hope your turkey was delicious! (and its production did destroy your kitchen, nor was it launched through a window)
(and, yes, we know we posted this clip just a couple weeks back, but it’s more appropriate than ever. And if you’re complaining about too much Hanks, well, then, you’re just not the kind of reader we want on this blog).
Filed under Good Humor, Hanx, Lady Holiday
STOP THE PRESSES!
The Muppets is here and the Muppets are finally back. Sigh. We did it.
Filed under Freak Out Control, Lady Holiday, Muppets, The Big Screen
Muppet Monday: Our Long-Awaited Thoughts on the Impending Arrival of ‘The Muppets:’ Or Why We’re Dreading the Thing We Wanted More Than Anything Else
In two days The Muppets will return to theaters after more than a decade away from the big screen. It seems like just yesterday that we were salivating over the whispers of a Muppet resurrection orchestrated by Jason Segel (yes, that Jason Segel). After spending years on the brink of obsolescence – thanks to bad business deals, changing tastes, the boom of CGI, and general Hollywood bureaucracy – it began to seem like the Muppets would never be given the opportunity to recapture the glory they once possessed, that they would forever be relegated to an aging, evermore antiquated attraction at Disneyland, and truly exist only on DVD and in the hearts and memories of people over 25. We yearned for their return, and while we never imagined their savior would be a geek in shining armor like Segel, we were thrilled when the rumors began to circulate that someone who grew up on the Muppets, someone who loved and cherished them as much as we did, was going to resuscitate them. Not some out of touch, graying puppeteers, or even the Henson family, but someone with a fresh, relevant perspective whose primary hope was to honor the spirit and style of Jim Henson. We could not have been more excited.
And now, with The Muppets about to unspool at theaters across the country, what we feel is not excitement, but trepidation. Why? Because of this:
Parting Shot: Goodbye Reege
Thanks for the memories, most of which were caused by your terrible, terrible memory.
Filed under Good with Coffee, In Memoriam, Parting Shot, Reeeeeege
