Friday, September 04, 2009

for the love of Muppet surrealism

From Alert Reader and Funny Guy Scott Grissom (of my past life) comes a link to this: a compilation of The Muppet Show's 10 Weirdest Moments. And that's saying a lot. Even better than the WTF Muppet clips are Jon Gutierrez's summaries. This is Muppet gold.
How the hell did The Muppet Show ever get on the air? Imagine it from a TV executive's point of view: a weekly variety show, in an old vaudeville theater, featuring puppets, and a mix of A, B and C-list celebrities that catered to both kids and adults. That's not a pitch... it's a just list of random words that don't go together.
Of course, I was always a fan of the one-liner dancing scenes and the musical numbers, from the originally surreal Sax and Violence,



to the more contemporary but entertaining Ode to Joy:

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