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gifs-of-puppets · 3 months

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Happy 50th Anniversary to The Muppets Valentine Show!

#the muppets valentine show #thog #mia farrow #hug #love #valentine's day #the muppets #muppet #muppets #jim henson #gif #muppet gif #muppets gif #gifs of puppets

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mice-rats-daily · 8 months

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Today's mouse is Big Mouse from The Muppets Valentine Show!

#mouse #big mouse #the muppets valentine show #muppets

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muppet-facts · 1 year

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Muppet Fact #592

Kermit was not originally meant to be the main character of The Muppet Show when it was still in development. In The Muppets Valentine Show, Kermit held a major supporting role, and in The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence, he held minor appearances. After the airing of the latter special, Jim Henson realized that the pilot host was not going to work, and instead Kermit gained the lead role.

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The Muppets Valentine Show. January 30, 1974.

The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence. March 19, 1975.

Jim Henson: The Works. Christopher Finch. Random House. Pages 82-84. 1993.

#jim henson #muppet facts oc #the muppets #muppets #muppet facts #fun facts #The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence #The Muppets Valentine Show #the Muppet Show #kermit #kermit the frog

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princess-unipeg · 1 month

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For White Day

Valentine’s Day watchlist 2024

#my post #my posts #valentine’s day #2024 #watchlist #cathy’s valentine #my muppet valentine #muppet babies #the muppets valentine show #for better or for worse #the family circus

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astronoglow · 2 months

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Jim Henson in 1975 with some of the Characters from The Muppets Valentine Show, which was essentially a pilot for The Muppet Show that would begin taping in England the following year.

#the muppets #jim henson #the muppets valentine show #hey Cinderella

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mysafespaceblog13 · 2 months

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have a fabulous Valentine’s Day whether your spending it with a partner a freind or solo 🐷💌💗

#Random detail but the gem on her ring is a rhodolite garnet which symbolise passion and romance!!!#valentines day #valentines aesthetic #valentines art #miss piggy #the muppets #art #young artist #fanart #I’ll be spending my valentines whatching the muppets valentines show

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muppetydyke · 2 months

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Muppet Mainstage, February 14th, 2024

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“Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” was written by Bob Gaudin and Bob Crewe in 1967, originally sung by Frankie Valli. In season 1, episode 4 of The Muppet Show, Ruth Buzzi sang a slapstick filled version of the song alongside Sweetums (Richard Hunt).

#mupposts #muppets #muppet mainstage #the muppet show #Sweetums #happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s one of my fave muppet love songs #Youtube

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popculturebuffet · 1 year

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Monthly Muppet Madness: The Muppet Valentine's Show and Muppets: Sex and Violence (Comission for Emma Fici)

Happy almost valentine's day all you happy muppets! Yes we've got a whole lotta love going into this week's reviews and it was weird not to include my faviorite troupe.. and once I found out the first pilot was valentine's theme, I asked to cover it this month and asked emma if she'd be intrested in using her patreon review to cover the other seemingly fitting pilot, Mupppets Sex and Violence So here we are: Jim had WANTED to do a muppet show since before even Seasame Street, but had hit roadblocks trying to get it out due to executives having the same low view of puppets as they presently do of animation, assumign i'ts only for kids and has no merits. And while my thoughts on that line of thinking are pretty clear

It didn't make it easier for Jim. It's why it took two pilots to even get to series and why I likely coudln't find a ton of background on either pilot. The most I got is the first was so succesful that they ordered a second special, and that lead to Lew Grade's series order and one of the greatest tv shows of all time.

I"m always curious about the early origins of something and just coming off covering the Wilkins Ads last week I went into this one with high expectations.. were they reached? Find out under the cut

The Muppet Valentine's Show:

I was shocked to find with these pilots that Jim Henson of all people had growing pains, especially at this stage in his career. It's reassuring, as it reminds me EVERY creator takes a while to get going, I know i did, but it's still weird to see something that's ALMOST the muppet show but feels just enough off to feel weird watching. The format is the show nailed down: a wraparound bit with a bunch of sketches and the majority of the sketches are fantastic: We get a great Kermit number with him singign froggy went a courtin to "miss mousY" and fighting her other suitor, a spectacular giant rat puppet, before both end up going to get beers since Miss Mousy runs off with some other dude. IT's a fun bit and one that would fit perfectly into the muppet show proper… and likely only didn't because while Miss Mousy showed up ocne she had to quitely retire aka run the fuck away from miss piggy if she valued her life.

We also get one starring my man thoggg! This.. this is Thogg

I forget his name often but always light up when I see him and it was wonderful seeing him get a bit focused on him, something i'm not sure Muppet Show proper ever did and Mia Farrow is wonderful as his partner. It's a shockingly romantic bit and nicely swee tfor the holiday.

Finally out of the bits I really liked we had a visit on Koozebane as kermit reports on two aliens doing the Galley-o-hoop-hoop, which involves coldiing into each other and exploding

Which is easily the highlight. I'ts not bad and worth a watch.. but what makes it often a slog is the wraparound which is a mess with the cast consiting of Wallay, George, Mildren and Brewster

Yeah none of these characters lasted.. George was the janitor for season 1 befor ebeing replaced, and Mildred and Brewster would have cameos but while Mildred has some personality, she sadly didn't stick around and the rest THANKFULLY didn't. Paticularlly wally who comes off very

Comared to the actually 70's and awesome electric mayhem. I think Jim quickly realized too cool for school just didn't remotely fit him , and those kinds of characters were better as punchilnes. it also has a script is being written as the episode happens gimmick which isn't terrrible but ultimately just dosen't fit the muppets zany stylings. The Muppets Valentine's show is.. fine and worth a watch if you like Muppets History, but not hugely recomendable as a whole. I would WHOLE HEARTDLY recommend the segements I mentioned though> All are worth a look.. their just not worth sitting through a bunch of characters who just didn't work at all to get there.

The Muppet Show Sex and Violence:

Are you ready for some SEX AND VIOLENCEEEEEEEE? Well too bad because the title's more a joke, as you likely expected. It's also still not qutie there yet and a bit of a harder watch than the valentine's day show. The core is better and the sketeches are good.. but it has one thing holding it back from feeling "like the muppet show but just a tad off": for some reason the sketches are all cut up and thus some like at the dance, a great wrestling bit and mor ehave their timing boggled by taking place throughout the show. It can be disoreninting to watch at times and Jim smartley went back to doing them one at a time and the better sketches don't do this at all.

That said while the presentation is boggled, there are a LOT of great ones: presidents trading banter as mount rushmore, at the dance, a hilariously tangly wrestling match, and the debtu sof the swedish chef, electric mayhem and statler and woldorf who are great as always.My tie for faviorites are return to beneath the planet of the pigs, which would later evolve into PIIIIGGGSSS INNNNNNN SPACCCCCEEEEEE, but here is a hilarious planet of the apes sendup, and theater of thigns where the pencils get a new ruler. It's a corny pun but I absoltuely love it. The sketches are all fantastic aside form birds and the bees which is just a bit of birds singing.. ti's just about half get cut up in a way that just wrecks the pacing. The muppet show sketches work so best because even the songs have a nice, fast pace for them, and thus unless a it is designed to be recurring, it dosen't work that way. Jim learned his lesson but it sadly mucks up some really great comedy.

The wraparound is better as it is cut up on purpose and is basically just host nigel, floyd and my boy sam the eagle meeting the seven deadly sins, all various great muppets. Ti's for a pagent that gets cut off by the credits, but ti's a bit that works for me.

What dosen't.. is Nigel himself who I frequently forget exists because he has no real personality. I mean.. Wally was hilariously tonedeaf, but he at least had a personality and cool dude shades> nigel is just there and thankfully this finally got jim to realize Kermit was the missing piece.

So Sex and Violence is both more and less like the muppet show.. but it was close enough. The pilots aren't great and I once again recommend the skits more than the whole.. but I will say they help illustrate why the muppet show is so special: it's all teh various parts coming together and when you see it with the core quartet mostly missing, no real center character wise.. you see WHY their so special. With just a few pieces their fine but it's as a whole they truly shine. Without Kermit's steady hand, Piggy's overdramatics, Fozzy's bad jokes or Gonzo's delightful weirdness, the show just isn't the same. You can have the muppets without these guys, as we'll hopefully see with Mayhem, they can do thier own things and sketches, but without them at the center of the madness it just dosen't feel the same. All the supporting cast was there but the heart of the muppets hadn't developed yet. And once it did we'd get something truly amazing. For now we just get some specials I honestly struggled to talk about for the last few days as ther'es not a ton to say other than "these just arne't great yet". But I appricate them for reminding me why me and emma do this and why the muppets matter. Their not just a bunch of sketches: their this weird family doing these sketches and you need that vibe for it to work. So how do I rank em? well let's see

Yeah it's.. sadly low. Valentine's mildly edges out Haunted Mansion, as it's three skits are enough to make it slightly better in my eyes, but sex and violence is so far the lowest ranked thing that's not a crime against nature as the choppy formatting just makes it hard to watch.

Next Month: FOLLOW THAT BIRD. FOR REAL THIS TIME. COME HELL OR HIGH FUCKING WATER PERSONAL ISSUES BE DAMMNED. We're actually doing this so I can finally get this giant childlike bird off my back. SEASAME STREET. NEXT MONTH.

#the muppets #the muppet show #valentine's day #mia farrow #kermit the frog #thog #the electric mayhem #sam the eagle

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faineant-girl · 1 year

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YAWNNN i should change my phone theme 2 muppets............

#.tlktxt #i should show u my current phone theme btw. its so obnoxiously cute #and my lockscreen is muppets valentines anyways so. waah waah

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ariel-seagull-wings · 1 year

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@softlytowardthesun @thealmightyemprex @themousefromfantasyland @princesssarisa

In the 1970s, The Muppet Show had a melancholic character named Droop, who was recicled from one of the frackles of 1970's The Real Santa Claus and first introduced in 1974's The Muppets Valentine Special as a boyfriend of Miss Mousey.

Meanwhile they had the muppet called Nigel, who was introduced in 1975's Sex and Violence as a possible host of The Muppet Show before receiving the role of Orchestra Conductor.

Then in Muppets Tonight, we were introduced to another character named Nigel, this time a director character who was a more ansious, lightened fur version of Droop.

#droop #nigel the conductor #the muppets #the muppet show #the muppets valentine special #the real santa claus #the muppets sex and violence #muppets tonight

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gifs-of-puppets · 1 year

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The Muppets Valentine Show (1974)

#the muppets valentine show #the muppet show #planet koozebane #koozebanians #aliens #muppet #muppets #the muppets #jim henson #gif #muppet gif #muppets gif #gifs of puppets

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milo-is-rambling · 8 months

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Internet archive I love you

#me and the ppl who upload the original muppet pilots are holding hands and watching muppets valentines show and muppets sex and violence

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muppet-facts · 2 years

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Muppet Fact #376

The first time a Muppet was ever seen riding a bicycle was during The Muppets Valentine Show, in which Kermit rode a bike and ultimately crashed it into a fence during the "Froggy Went A Courtin'" number.