Let's celebrate the man's vision and how hard he worked to accomplish it with his friends.
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Today marks what would have been Jim Henson's 81st birthday
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Sebastian Turner
Also pretty good: dailymotion.com
Alexander Rivera
>implying anybody cares about faggoty puppets from the 70s
>implying this thread won't devolve into discussion over the Kermit firing
Adam Ward
It won't load on my phone will check on my pc in a few, thanks for sharing though!
Christopher Allen
>youtube.com
MFW Jim knew all this cool technology was coming but he died before he got to experiment with it.
Easton Watson
I'm glad to know that Herry Monster isn't forgotten youtube.com
Luis Adams
Can we turn this into a Muppets/Sesame Street thread?
Dominic Gonzalez
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It's the first video linked under Recommended viewing.
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Dave Goelz on bringing back characters after Jim's passing and working on The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
"It's really hard because each character comes from the performer and they're an aspect of the performers personality, so most of us are reluctant to do someone else's character I would avoid it at all costs because I know my rythm isn't the same. Even if it's just to fill in for someone, I'd prefer somebody else get stuck with that.
Kermit came back pretty quickly because they wanted to do a tribute to Jim about six months later.
So they asked Steve to take that on, he kept Kermit at his house for about a month and didn't get him out of the box because he was just too emotional about it. He didn't even want to think about taking that on and then the show started approaching and he had to try. He got out Kermit and tried to work with Kermit, as he did it he really felt that he just didn't have it. He wasn't sure he could do it, as he went along he started thinking about the way Jim looked when he did Kermit, because we would be smashed together face to face.
He would start mimicking Jim's gestures, if you asked Jim a question he would always go "Hmm I don't know" all these things Jim would do Steve would start doing, he kind of became Jim for about five years. It was kind of annoying [audience laughs] but by doing that that he nailed Kermit and he got so close that I couldn't imagine anyone doing a better Kermit than Steve does."
Carter Cox
>That deleted scene in Sesame Street with an actual canon Donald Trump Muppet
Adrian Watson
It's not a deleted scene, it was made when The Apprentice was still a thing.
Ian Richardson
Sesame Street's been making fun of Trump for years
Camden Roberts
Wow.
Anthony Rivera
Remember this scene anyone?
Matthew Allen
Remember this scene?
Asher Butler
Hey where did Jim's name go?
Andrew Perry
And now Matt Vogel has Kermit. I'm positive he's spent a lot of time with Whitmire, so he could probably nail him
Alexander Sullivan
Why is Disney minimizing Jim's presence? Are they doing it in hopes people forgetting about him?
>Muppets Courtyard and part of the old Streets of America is also being re-imagined and will become part of the new Grand Avenue. Disney shared that Grand Avenue was inspired by the “revitalization and the vibrant culture of present-day downtown Los Angeles” where vintage-style office buildings and warehouses will be converted to facades for “merchants” appearing in the form of a music shop, loft apartments, a tailor, and more, with each window that faces the street boasting a charming display.
>Disney Parks Blog states that “the current Muppets Courtyard will become Grand Park, an urban square off Grand Avenue surrounded by shops and restaurants.” We’ve already seen some changes in the area; the Muppets theater was renamed “Grand Arts Theatre” and flaunts a new marquee.
>Disney has assured us not to worry as Kermit, Miss Piggy, and the gang will continue to star in their witty “Muppet*Vision 3D” show.
He still sounds like Constantine trying to do a Kermit impression and whenever he scrunches Kermit's face he accidentally does that scowl too. It must fucking suck for Matt having Kermit thrust on him like that.
Xavier Harris
the 8Tst birfday
David Collins
Disney's been treating their film attractions as expendable for the last couple of years now and treating the theaters as places to put ads for new movies.
It's been mostly a Disneyland problem, but it's been creeping into WDW lately as well. Even if MuppetVision is remaining now, it just seems like they're setting the stage for it to become more generic space.
Charles Bennett
Remember these 2?
Jonathan Morgan
Lifes like a movie, write your own ending.
Keep believing,
Keep pretending,
We've done just what we set out to do.
Jordan Edwards
Who or what is that gigantic blue fucker behind Big Bird?
I remember seeing him in the opening to the Muppet Show but I never knew what he was from.
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Lucas Wood
Here's what the floor looked like without all the Muppets. Also fun fact: Tim Burton and John Landis were puppeteers for the final shot of The Muppet Movie. Landis was Grover, but nobody knows who Tim Burton was in the shot.
Jonathan Hernandez
Thog
Caleb Carter
122 people just for that shot god damn
Jackson Baker
You know Brad (a.k.a. Bort if you are a Redditfag), Bert's cousin? He was in the crowd at that scene
Michael Adams
Didn't they speak gibberish?
Brayden Morales
>shit you wouldn't see on a VHS
Jim was really counting on people having high definition TV by the end of the 80s huh
Jose Perry
It's almost as if he made a movie that took advantage of the fact that movie theaters have larger screens.
Isaac Ward
Nu-Disney is being run by a bunch of cooperate rats. I feel bad for Jim that all his hard work is getting shit on by Nu-Disney. I forgot if it was Jim kids or grandkids that sold his company but this is all the same when Fords kids and grandkids neglected the car company and ruined themselves because they didn't understand the importance of what made that company successful in the first place.
Evan Richardson
disney just wants to acquire a broad range of properties and coast
core-disney is now all princess stuff for little girls
marvel for boys and teens
muppets was supposed to be a family property, but they fucked up the TV show by trying to soullessly copypaste the office. even though the movies succeeded, disney has lost faith in the property
and they have pirates of the caribbean for adult women
Jayden Allen
>It must fucking suck for Matt having Kermit thrust on him like that.
And yet he just took on the role with no protest about Steve's firing.
Justin Peterson
"The Land of Gorch" Muppets also appear in the final scene.
Carter Bell
I didn't know the show was "Office" themed since I haven't seen it. Still I want a studio to rival Disney.
Matthew Harris
Mostly, but when they needed to teach something. They knew how to say those words.
Hudson Lopez
>Speak up like Steve and risk getting sacked
>Or be somewhat set-for-life as long as you don't buck against what the hack writers come up with no matter how much it goes against the characters Jim created
Brody Sanchez
>those tits
...I'll be in my bunk.
Jayden Hernandez
OP here I have scans of early ideas for Muppet sketches, they all feature Jim's handwriting too these date back to when Jim was still pitching The Muppet Show to American networks and none of them would pick it up because they thought "puppets are for kids" and didn't want to listen to the "Sesame" guy.
Not sure if I can post them all because of size limit and what not but here goes.
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Wyatt Cooper
My father met Jim Henson once. Dad was dating one of the puppet-making girls and met him after a show.
Said he was just as kind and friendly in person.
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Anthony Carter
>yfw the muppets get locked in the vault
Jayden Gomez
Richard Hunt And pic related features the early Gonzo puppet that was later used on Season 1 of the Muppet Show.
"While creating "The Muppet Show," our head writer Jerry Juhl suggested a character who did these dreadful stunts but thought they were high art. Jim pulled out a puppet he had made several years before for a special called "The Santa Clause Switch." He asked me to try the character.
Gonzo’s voice was originally pinched and babyish to reflect both his insecurity and mine as a young straight-off-the-couch performer. The puppet had fixed eyelids that looked sad. When I started to loosen up, I asked Jim if I could design a new Gonzo with an eye mechanism that would let him look excited. Which is why the character looks different after season one of "The Muppet Show."
Gavin Martin
>Why is Disney minimizing Jim's presence? Are they doing it in hopes people forgetting about him?
yes, this. In theme park case, you can thank now ceo head of Disney theme park, Bob Chapek for that. He was formerly a head of consumer and merchandise department, and is now seemly seeping that into the theme park in blatant ways.
For example, the upcoming toy story land is a HUGE massive land yet only two attractions and the rest are shops and etc. What they're turning Muppet area into is obvious another ploy of his as well.
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Ryan Sanchez
Disney has no clue whatsoever what to do with the characters because they don't understand them, don't believe me? Go watch the "Muppet Thought of the Week" on their youtube channel, some of the most dullest Muppet content created.
They even thought about throwing the Muppets into a Sesame setting for their Disney Junior channel.
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he got em back though
Luke Russell
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Last one.
Jonathan Smith
Grover's an asshole
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Jim singing the entire Time in a Bottle song.
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And Rowlf singing Wonderful World
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Forgot my favourite.
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Jose Bennett
Why didn't Bill Beretta get Kermit? His Dr. Teeth and Rowlf are spot on
Logan Sanders
>Can you play hatless?
>I don't know. Who wrote it?
I ... I can't tell if that was improvised or scripted.
I mean Muppet Show was never live so nothing was ever required to be "just go with it" but ... That just seemed too purely "oh this is happening joke around it".
Colton Martin
Muppets productions have a small history of attracting drama and I don't think the last film + that TV show did well.