{"id":6723,"date":"2007-06-20T15:11:32","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T19:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2010-07-15T09:37:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T13:37:50","slug":"muppet-faves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6723","title":{"rendered":"Muppet Faves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Progressive Boink<\/a> (one of my all-time favorite sites) has started a list of Favorite Muppets. 50 Favorites.<\/p>\n

Do yourself a favor and read the commentary – don’t just scan for pictures, you’ll miss out.<\/p>\n

50 Greatest Muppets – Part 1. <\/a><\/p>\n

I mean, the first one on the list goes like this:<\/p>\n

Though there are a few mute Muppets in the Jim Henson Universe, Slimey is by far the best. He doesn’t have anything special to communicate like the Honkers or Dingers, but with a few wiggles and nods there has been a lot the little worm from the bottom of Oscar’s trash can has accomplished. He’s the first worm on the moon and is treated to mud baths whenever he is feeling too clean. Slimey is part of the reason why I’m not scared of bugs. I would go digging under the rocks in my backyard to pull up pillbugs, worms, beetles and all sorts of other little creatures. Any one I liked I would keep temporarily in a little bug house my grandmother had bought me. I’d watch them crawl around and try to talk to them to see if any would look up at me and nod like Slimey did, but it never happened. It was probably because they had no necks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I could read commentary like that all day.<\/p>\n

Or this, on the Muppet Babies:<\/p>\n

WHY are the Muppet Babies all in foster care? Nanny is clearly not the interspecies erotic mother of a dog and a frog and a stuffed chicken. So why do they end up in a nursery with more imagination than toys and more time together than with a guardian? In that book, indeterminately-origined Scooter, the Muppet Show gofer and 1980s child show character type “computery one,” says that his mother was a parrot and that he doesn’t know his father. So is that the true origin of the Muppet Babies? That they were the offspring of human raped animals that somehow became pregnant? Like, some guy was fucking a pig and when he left, the pig gave birth to a man-pig? I can imagine those creepy mistakes being shuffled off into some government lab and experimented on. Come to think of it, that would explain why they were always hallucinating and confusing fantasy with reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or this, on Prairie Dawn:<\/p>\n

She was a little pink girl who wore picnic table dresses and liked to put on plays. She was mature and wanted to be a journalist and a writer. She had something to her rather than just being a tan colored Elmo puppet with eyeshadow and jewelry and a tutu on. Remember that someday, when you’re flipping through the channels and stop on PBS to find Elmo and Zoe and a retarded bear floating on a CGI background, one of those floaties should be Prairie Dawn, sitting at a piano, trying to get Cookie Monster to say his lines and get over his stage fright and dramatically announce that he is a rain cloud.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And #33 made me laugh out loud.<\/p>\n

So much more though – go read, and enjoy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Progressive Boink (one of my all-time favorite sites) has started a list of Favorite Muppets. 50 Favorites. Do yourself a favor and read the commentary – don’t just scan for pictures, you’ll miss out. 50 Greatest Muppets – Part 1. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[1526],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20693,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions\/20693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}