#muppet facts

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #1275

Miss Piggy has gotten jealous of Lady Gaga because Kristen Bell wanted Gaga's autograph more than her's.

Source:

Lady Gaga & the Muppets' Holiday Spectacular. November 28, 2013.

[elliebellyboo]

”Romeo and Juliet is the most romantic thing in history”

is kermit and miss piggys wedding in “muppets take manhattan” a joke to you?

[orange-sodazz]

muppets themed manifestations that came to me in a dream <3

[pokeypoqi]

clothes are too expensive. dress up your favs in the clothes you want instead <3

[amnhnyc]

What screams, cries, laughs, and looks like a muppet? That’s right, it’s the Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides). Its vocalizations range from deep grunts to loud hisses and have been likened to a crying baby! Found in Australia, this nocturnal bird is a sit-and-wait predator—meaning that it waits for dinner to deliver itself. As a result, it can spend hours at a time remaining perfectly still. When motionless, its mottled plumage resembles the bark of a tree. But as prey approaches, this bird strikes, descending on nearly silent wings.

Photo: Bill Collison, CC BY-NC 2.0, flickr

[witchofthemidlands]

cannot believe the doctor got kissed tenderly by a futuristic man for the first time since series 1 only for said man to end up getting almost immediately sent to superhell.

[styxbugg]

My incurable urge to give people i just met fun facts about things they know nothing about

[Text: They don’t even know that the episode “the trash heap doesn’t live here anymore” was used to fix the technical problem of having to film an entire long scene of the fraggles crossing the gorgs garden any time they wanted to use marjory. She gets moved closer to the fraggle hole, thus eliminating that extra scene for the rest of the series and making it easier for her to be in episodes.]

[adobe-outdesign]

today I found out that there was a 1983 memo sent out during Fraggle Rock's pre-production about Muppet performances and it included this helpful illustration

[crispycreambacon]

NPD!Traveling Matt posting. Aough.

[silverfoxstole]

[not-miles]

Let the record state that a German Muppet was canonically murdered for licensing write offs.

RIP - Uli Von Boëfeld (??? - 1988)

Muppet Fact #1270

In 1988, a fire destroyed the puppets and Street set of Sesamstrasse- the German co-production of Sesame Street. While many puppets were rebuilt, Uli von Bödefeld was not, as the producers did not want to pay licencing fees for him.

Source:

Wikipedia. Sesamstraße. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesamstra%C3%9Fe

[drawthethingdoppelganger]

If I got to have a physical feature as weird as this I'd use it as the only conversation starter with everyone. everywhere. ALL. DAY.

[catherine-sketches]

X-men AU where all the Muppets made by Jim Henson are actually mutants

Jim is actually Kermit’s dad. His X gene was dormant as was in most of his kids, until Kermit of course who was… well muppet shape. Later Jim met others that looked a lot like his kid and kinda adopted them into the Muppet family and gave them a place to stay on his workshop as the world was not kind for those that looked a little green. He loved them all with all his heart and they all miss him.

Kermit “The Frog” Henson impact for the mutant acceptance in the world is indescribable and there are many thesis, studies and other research based on his accomplishments (especially at the Xavier’s institute from where he, and most of the Henson’s Muppets as they got know as a group, are alumni)

Sesame Street had Charles Xavier as a guest to introduce the letter X and talk about acceptance and community. He loved every second of it (he was also really proud. They were his students and now they are out there, causing a huge positive impact on the world. He may have cried when the first episode was aired)

Erik respects them a lot. Has many friends among them even. Especially because the Muppets use their influence to help as much as they can. Anti Mutant protests? Suddenly the Electric Mayhem is doing a show a block away loud enough to drown a bomb going off.

Labs doing shady stuff? Beaker and Bunsen are suddenly in you walls and all your equipment are made of rubber now

Miss Piggy will rescue anyone needing help in her general direction with only her karate chops, her purse and a dream and she WILL win.

(They are all invited to their wedding. They may be the only reason Erik and Charles even started talking to each other again. “You are best friends! Friends should talk and be honest with each other. Would you guys try for Elmo?” How could they say no to such a heartfelt suggestion?)

Mutant prejudice is slowly being eroded by them because “how can you hate the muppets? They are just little guys!”

Also extremists have to be really fucking stupid to want to have “the killer of Big Bird” attached to their name and face. Charles Xavier would close his eyes and pretend to not see as Magneto rips you a new asshole

He wouldn’t even be arrested for it. There would be no witnesses for them to make a case of arrest. The first and only time Erik would murder a man in broad daylight and everyone would go “if you see Magneto… no you didn’t”

[oscars-severed-arm]

Just trying out some things

[amnhnyc]

No, it’s not a muppet. This unforgettable primate, found in the mangrove forests of Borneo, is the proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus)! Also known as the long-nosed monkey, males of this species sport a distinctive drooping proboscis, which acts like a resonating chamber to amplify their vocalizations. Scientists think it’s a sexually selected trait—meaning that females prefer louder (and bigger-nosed) mates.

Photo: David Dennis, CC BY-SA 2.0, flickr

[coffee-at-annies]

Every time an opposing team decides to overwhelmingly hate on Jake I remember the I think it’s from yohe tweet where he’s like “pound for pound no one talks more shit on the ice than Jake Guentzel”