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Why Don’t You Get Things Started?

Posted on February 5, 2023 by Nathan

We finished watching what’s available on Disney Plus of The Muppet Show, which means all of them except for the Brooke Shields and Chris Langham episodes, the former because of music rights issues (mostly for “Off to See the Wizard,” … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Celebrities, Humor, Monsters, Muppets, Music, Poetry, Prejudice, Sesame Street, Star Wars, Television | Tagged bobby benson, c-3po, chewbacca, cookie monster, count von count, debbie harry, fozzie bear, glenda jackson, jerry nelson, kermit the frog, koozebane, link hogthrob, lips, liza minelli, luke skywalker, mark hamill, marty feldman, miss piggy, pigs, pirates, r2-d2, racism, rats, rizzo the rat, robert frost, robots, roosevelt franklin, sam the eagle, shirley bassey, Statler and Waldorf, steve whitmire, the great gonzo, the muppet movie, the muppet show, the muppets, they shoot horses don't they | 2 Comments

Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2021 by Nathan

We watched a few Christmas-related things this month, and I wasn’t necessarily planning to post about them all at once, but that’s kind of how it worked out. There were some things for which I don’t necessarily have a full … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Celebrities, Christianity, Christmas, Comics, elvis presley, Fairy Tales, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Muppets, Music, Nursery Rhymes, Religion, Sonic the Hedgehog, Technology, Television, They Might Be Giants, Toys, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged adventures of sonic the hedgehog, babes in toyland, ballet, boogeyman, captain and tennille, clarence carter, clarence nash, dan castellaneta, dance, dogs, don knotts, donald duck, donkeys, donny osmond, dr. demento, dr. ivo robotnik, drew barrymore, duck the halls, dudley moore, el vez, elves, fat daddy, flaming lips, fozzie bear, free design, frosty the snowman, grounder, gus goose, j. otto seibold, jingle bell rocks, john denver, john linnell, john lithgow, john waters, johnny marks, laurel and hardy, lew zealand, liberace, little bo peep, long john baldry, ludwig von drake, macaulay culkin, march of the wooden soldiers, marie osmond, matt groening, michael stipe, mickey mouse, miss piggy, monkeys, nat king cole, nativity, north pole, nutcracker suite, olive the other reindeer, penguins, pigs, princess sally acorn, reindeer, robots, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, run dmc, santa claus, santa claus the movie, scratch, scrooge mcduck, sean marshall, sonic christmas blast, superman, susan cooper, the small one, the three little pigs, the twelve days of christmas, tom bosley, tom tom the piper's son, tom wilson, vivian walsh, wayne coyne, ziggy, ziggy's gift | Leave a comment

Drag Out the Dickens

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Nathan

I can’t quite recall what my introduction to A Christmas Carol actually was. I have a memory of my dad reading it to me as a kid, quite possibly an abridged version, even though it’s pretty short as is. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Christmas, Comics, Holidays, Humor, Muppets, Plays, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a christmas carol, bob cratchit, charles dickens, clarence nash, donald duck, ebenezer scrooge, fozzie bear, fun and fancy free, ghosts, giants, goofy, jacob marley, jim henson, kermit the frog, mickey and the beanstalk, mickey mouse, mickey's christmas carol, miss piggy, mr. mole, mr. toad, mr. water rat, peg-leg pete, rizzo the rat, robin the frog, scooter, scrooge mcduck, the adventures of ichabod and mr. toad, the muppet christmas carol, the wind in the willows, tiny tim, wayne allwine, willie the giant | 1 Comment

Let Us Contemplate the Sadness of a Banjo-Playing Frog

Posted on May 18, 2019 by Nathan

One thing I noticed in the book Yama Yama Land, by Grace Duffie Boylan, was a reference to a giant frog playing a tennis racquet like a banjo. Picture by Edgar Keller So what’s the connection between frogs and banjos? … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Cartoons, Comics, England, History, Humor, Muppets, Music, Neil Gaiman, Nursery Rhymes, Poetry, Relationships, Television, Terry Pratchett, They Might Be Giants | Tagged a frog he would a-wooing go, a moste strange weddinge of the frogge and the mowse, a very sad story about a frog and a banjo, anthony crowley, banjo frogs, banjos, chris ware, edgar keller, fiddles, frog and banjo, froggy went a-courtin', frogs, good omens, grace duffie boylan, kermit the frog, mcsweeney's, mike doughty, miss mousey, miss piggy, pobblebonks, soul coughing, the muppet show, the muppets valentines show, tom and jerry, yama yama land | 2 Comments

When the Muppets Are in the World

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Nathan

I’ve finished watching the first three seasons of the original Muppet Show, and while there were seasons after that (a total of five, I think), the others aren’t out on DVD. Season Four was originally supposed to be released in … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Muppets, Television | Tagged bobo the bear, fozzie bear, kermit the frog, miss piggy, muppets tonight, pepe the king prawn, rizzo the rat, rowlf, sam the eagle, scooter, the muppet show, the muppets (abc), uncle deadly | 3 Comments

Desperately Seeking Santa

Posted on December 26, 2015 by Nathan

Merry Christmas! Since the day is almost over, I might as well share my thoughts on a few Christmas movies and specials I watched this year. I Am Santa Claus (2014) – A documentary examining the lives of several people … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Christmas, Holidays, Humor, Muppets, Music, Sesame Street, Television, Uncategorized, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a muppet family christmas, andy williams, art carney, bert and ernie, big bad wolf, big bird, christmas in disneyland, disney, disneyland, fozzie bear, fraggle rock, glenn miller, hanna-barbera, i am santa claus, kermit the frog, mick foley, miss piggy, muppet babies, sandy duncan, santa claus, swedish chef, yogi bear, yogi's first christmas | Leave a comment

The World’s Most Dangerous Frog

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Nathan

Muppets Most Wanted – Beth and I have been watching The Muppet Show recently. She says she doesn’t like it, yet she’ll still watch every episode. She’s like Statler and Waldorf, I guess. No, she says she likes seeing the … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Humor, Muppets, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged animal, christoph waltz, constantine, danny trejo, ernest goes to jail, kermit the frog, matt vogel, miss piggy, muppets most wanted, ricky gervais, salma hayek, sam the eagle, Statler and Waldorf, the great muppet caper, the muppet show, the muppets, tina fey | 2 Comments

Anthropomorphic Antics

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Nathan

In this post, I’m going to look at the age-old question about how the talking Goofy and non-talking Pluto can both be dogs in the same universe. This kind of thing often seems to happen with anthropomorphic animals. Hey, in … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Cartoons, Muppets, Video Games | Tagged anthropomorphism, babs bunny, buster bunny, clarabelle cow, daisy duck, donald duck, gladstone gander, goofy, gus goose, horace horsecollar, kermit the frog, mickey mouse, minnie mouse, miss piggy, petunia pig, pluto, porky pig | 10 Comments

Tag Archives: miss piggy

Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas

Drag Out the Dickens

Let Us Contemplate the Sadness of a Banjo-Playing Frog

When the Muppets Are in the World

Desperately Seeking Santa

The World’s Most Dangerous Frog

Anthropomorphic Antics

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