#muppet christmas carol

[fabcreature]

forever sick and tired of people bringing up the muppet christmas carol when talking about interspecies muppet reproduction

the kids kermit and piggy "have" in that movie are not hypothetical children they could have. they're actors. in all the muppet adaptations of classic literature the point is that the muppets are acting. kermit is acting as bob crachit, piggy is acting as emily crachit, and so on and so forth. it's literally in the opening credits. tiny tim isn't kermit and piggy's child in an alternate universe. it's robin, kermit's nephew, playing the part of tiny tim.

please use actual canon muppet material and muppet interviews in your reseach

[delphinidin4]

[sephiramy]

the reason Michael Caine and Tim Curry are so good in their respective Muppet movies is that Michael Caine treats the Muppets as fellow actors, and Tim Curry treats himself as a fellow Muppet

discuss

[beggars-opera]

Hey should we be worried about the kids in the audience? Nah, it's all right, this is culture

[adobe-outdesign]

The notes on that last Muppet poll I made made me realize that most people seem to mistakenly believe that Muppet adaptations of classic literature are parodies, which isn't true. you have to everything dead straight. in fact, the key to making a Muppet adaptation is to be so faithful to the source material that it's more accurate than 90% of other non-Muppet adaptions

[pastelwell]

Watched Muppet Christmas Carol last night and remembered this tweet

[heyitspizzaking]

Charles Dickens and Rizzo

I drew this last year for a Muppet Christmas zine that never happened.

[saintebarnes]

The Muppet Christmas Carol goes even harder when you realize this guy wrote all the songs

[shadowpuppetteer]

So we've all heard of the "I Want Song" genre in musicals.

But what about the "Let's talk about the bitch behind their back like they're not in the room" song, or "singing s*** behing a bitche's back". There's a surprising amount of them.

"Belle" from Beauty and the Beast

"Scrooge" from Muppet Christmas Carol

"Maria" from The Sound of Music

"Look at Me I'm Sandra Dee" from Grease

"You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" from How The Grinch Stole Christmas

"Jackass In a Can" from Galavant

"Phony King of England" from Robin Hood

"Stepsister's Lament" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella

"Non-Stop" from Hamilton

And, of course, the man, the myth, the legend...

"We Don't Talk About Bruno" from Encanto

You can learn a lot about a character and story from what they sing versus what other people sing about them.

[ng5132]

Mr Dickens and Rizzo the rat

[gifs-of-puppets]

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

[owchie-wowchie]

Starkid choosing to cast Bob and Emily Cratchit as real life couple Joey Richter and Lauren Lopez is a spiritual successor to Muppets Christmas Carol choosing to cast Bob and Emily Cratchit as real life couple Kermit the frog and Miss Piggy

[marzipanandminutiae]

director of The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992): okay we need to costume both our puppets and humans in something festive and Victorian. but you know. no need to go crazy. it’s a kids’ movie, after all

costume designer, snorting a line of coke off an 1843 issue of Le Bon Ton fashion magazine: right, right

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #938

According to Brian Henson, "Inside the Muppet Company, [they] love to hate Bean Bunny." This is why he is often the subject of so much Muppet violence.

Source:

Muppet Christmas Carol. DVD commentary by Brian Henson.

[beggars-opera]

You absolute FOOLS, THIS is Jacob Marley:

And THIS is Bob Marley

GET IT STRAIGHT

[todayontumblr]

Friday, December 15.

'Tis the season.

'Tis the season indeed. The season to snuggle up and submerge oneself in the world within a world of endlessly charismatic anthropomorphic puppets. These are puppets with a taste for the absurd, an immaculate sense of style, bouncing mouths, and wide eyes. They are otherwise known as The Muppets, and there are no two ways about it: everyone loves The Muppets. Don't they?

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)? Muppet Treasure Island (1996)? The Muppet Movie (1979)? Get comfortable. Anything goes.