ComedyAnd Tragedy

she/they/zer 20 I’ll post anything but my main thing rn is comedians

[them-faetale]

What looks like the whole of The Storyteller is just up on YouTube now, alongside most of Farscape! It looks like The Henson company are making sure their old shows don't become lost media, and I am so glad they're doing it!

FULL Episodes | Jim Henson's The Storyteller

[missholson]

Tim Steele: The Muppets On Puppets (1968)

The one-hour special was produced in June 1968 at public television station WITF-TV in Hershey, Pennsylvania, for National Educational Television (the precursor to PBS). It aired on New York’s WNET in January 1970 as part of the station’s Adventure in the Arts anthology series.

Jim Henson describes the various kinds of puppets and provides a brief history of puppet development and performance throughout the world. He explains the art of puppetry, from building to performance, and character development. The puppeteers Jerry Juhl and Frank Oz and the puppet maker Don Sahlin help Henson in demonstrations and skit numbers.

[tumbleofdorks]

Inside of you there is actually just one wolf.

It has two paws.

One is Frank Oz and the other is Jim Henson.

[cosmicretreat]

Behind the scenes of season 4 of The Muppet Show.

[cosmicretreat]

Filming the “Egyptian Mummies” sketch that first appeared on Episode 1621 of Sesame Street.

[yourfriendbird]

I havent seen this photo of Richard before!!!

[lovers-and-dreamers]

richard… richard, oh how i miss you richard

[malspinningyarns]

The Muppet Christmas Carol is now considered a holiday classic and probably one of the best of the Muppets’ filmography, but when you look at it, it is such a departure from all the previous Muppet media. It’s much darker- both in terms of tone and color palette. There’s no celebrity cameos. A human is the central character instead of one of the Muppets. There are many new Muppets instead of relying on regular Muppets for some of the roles and some the Muppets are in roles you wouldn’t expect.

A lot of this makes much more sense with the context that this is the first Muppet project after Jim Henson’s sudden death and Muppeteer Richard Hunt was incredibly sick due to complications from AIDS that he was unable to participate (he would die during production). It’s a film created by a lot of people actively in the grieving process. You can feel that grief in scenes like the ones in the Cratchit home. It also explains why certain Muppets appear and some don’t. They really only use Jim and Richard’s characters when they have to. You can’t have a Muppet movie without Kermit, so Kermit is in. Statler and Waldorf are both perfect for Jacob Marley, so they both had to be recast because they were performed by Richard and Jim (which makes the fact they are ghosts kind of sad). Beaker is one of Richard’s characters and because you can’t have Bunsen without Beaker, Beaker was recast. Of Jim’s other major characters, Dr. Teeth and Rowlf are present but silent and the Swedish Chef has a more active cameo. Of Richard’s regular characters, only Janice is present. Scooter and Sweetums are not in the film. Frank Oz was busy with other jobs, so he really only does his main four of Miss Piggy, Animal, Fozzie, and Sam the Eagle. Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, and Jerry Nelson did a lot of the main characters, except the Ghosts of Christmas Past and Future. Jerry Nelson did the face puppeteering and voice of the Ghost of Christmas Present. I think it speaks to Jerry Juhl’s skill as a writer that he was able to not only adapt to these casting considerations, but also write one of the most faithful adaptations of A Christmas Carol.

[naithegiraffe]

Request: Conan dancing with the Jockeys!

[bobbole]

Zhiyong Jing, Insomnia

[saifey]

(some of) the archives' videos of wes doing his own acting for the fmf and iod animatics

[saifey]

[naithegiraffe]

Request: Grape flavored bubbles!

[thethirdromana]

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

[vampfuneralpyre]

[gerardwayspostnutclarity]

my creepy

[ashstfu]

often i am scared for no reason or several reasons

[imtoolazytoo]

And now, the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society as things you should never say to someone who’s just come out

[longsightmyth]

I bring a real 'actually people who are pregnant do deserve some special consideration because they are effectively at least temporarily disabled if not permanently after some complications' vibe to the party that a lot of people don't seem to like