Steve Whitmire had a "constructive criticism" attitude and look what happened to him. Now we've got even wronger sounding Muppets.
Steve Whitmire had a "constructive criticism" attitude and look what happened to him...
Jace Nelson
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Carter Flores
Poor dude got screwed.
He was busting his ass.
Cameron Bennett
It was just The Mouse saying "any of you fuckers can be replaced, we know what the fuck we're doing with *our* franchise!"
Steve thought he had protection against them since he was one of the last old guard and the most iconic Muppet of them all, but he gets shitcanned for saying what he thinks Kermit should do in certain situations and publicly disowned by the Henson kids. Fuck Disney.
Gabriel Cox
The newest guy sounds more like Jim IMHO
William Bailey
He seems more like someone pretending to be Kermit than the actual Kermit to me.
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Juan Gutierrez
>cut to Kermit being a vomiting gargling drunken mess
Nathan Hernandez
Fuck the Henson kids
Jordan Price
The funny part was he was right considering the show failed, proving the mouse should have listened.
Nolan Allen
Do you think the mouse checks were worth it?
Oliver Jenkins
What happened to Disney? They used to at least have the illusion of quality control and competence, but lately they've just given up.
Jackson Lewis
Did something happen recently?
William Ortiz
They are so up their own ass about how great they are they can't handle any criticisms and will pay out the ass just to prove that they can do know wrong, I mean look at the response to TLJ criticisms it's wasn't "maybe we made a mistake" it was "you just watched the movie wrong".
Jack Ortiz
I think they feel they're basically in the clear in terms of business. Who cares if you get pissed at them for blueballing actual critics or adding political agendas, they'll still make money
Elijah Campbell
TLDR The voice of Kermit the frog since Jim Hensons death had some issues with that new muppets show, Disney assfucked him out of relevance.
Colton King
They probably just took the check to keep The Henson Company out of debt if/until The Happytime Murders comes out.
Dominic Taylor
It actually happened 6 months ago, but the current puppeteer for Kermit the Frog, Steve Whitmire, was fired from the Muppets in October of 2016 after working with the Muppets for 38 years. According to Steve, he was given two reasons for being fired: 1.) an issue with the Screen Actors Guild and Disney that he was caught in-between which prevented him from doing a commercial, and 2.) giving notes to the writers of the 2016 Muppet TV series (something Steve says the Muppet performers always do when working on a project), specifically an instance were Steve told the writers that Kermit is too nice of a person to lie to his nephew.
Meanwhile, Jim Henson's children gave a different story claiming that Steve was always difficult to work with and has been told several times to stop his "unacceptable behavior." Brain said he never liked how Steve claimed to be the person who knew what Jim would want for the Muppets the most (Though with how everyone else has been treating them, can you blame him?) and Cheryl said that Kermit's recent "bitterness" is the fault of Steve and the writers of the new show.
The most accepted theory as to why Steve was fired is that executives at Disney had Steve fired so that they could throw him under the bus and blame him for the people's recent distaste of the Muppets, so now they can say "Well, now that that old guy is gone you can be please to know that the Muppets are going to start being good again!" Steve has said that there has been no previous animosity between the people at Muppet Studios that fired him or the Henson family that he was aware of, and not long before he was fired there were actually plans to promote him to be more involved in Muppet productions creatively. Disney could easily threaten the Muppet Studios people to fire Steve no matter how much they liked him, and the Henson family was most likely "paid-off" (Steve said he was offered "consolation prizes" to keep quite, so this isn't too difficult to fathom).
Jonathan Taylor
>"Well, now that that old guy is gone you can be please to know that the Muppets are going to start being good again!"
So what will they do if that doesn't start to happen seeing as they are not looking to actually listen to anyone that has any knowledge of the property?
Anthony Stewart
the mouse doesn't care.
Brandon Wilson
Luke Long
>Disney admitting that they made a mistake
Landon Green
>So what will they do if that doesn't start to happen
This tells me you are blessed with the innocence of not knowing the long long history or murdered and bury IPs Disney has. They have no reason to make it work, it's part of their empire and they can do with it as they please. Tomorrow they could destroy everything Muppet they have, take the studios apart destroy all the puppets and props, put every last part of the creative teams on the curb and you want to know how much it would effect their day to day profits? .01%, if that.
That is the power they have, that's why they can shamelessly replace directors, replace actors, change up their teams because it would take approximately 160 years of bad management and screw ups to actually go under and that's assuming the blind comic and Star War fans up and leave magically, otherwise add at least another 100 years to that estimate because they are rolling in so much royalties from merc and classic sales that they are literally "to big to fail"