For Pretty A lot Pop’s annual holiday episode, your hosts Mark Linsenmighter, Lawrence Ware, Sarahlyn Bruck, and Al Baker discuss all issues Muppets, however in particular the 1992 movie The Muppet Christmas Automotiveol, the placein Michael Caine offers us simply as robust and serious a Scrooge as you would possibly discover. What’s the enchantment of this puppet act? Is the humor actually supposed to be good, or post-funny ironic? How do Muppets change the way in which we experience music?
Though Jim Henson had died by the point of Christmas Automotiveol, close toly all the remainder of the creative workforce from The Muppet Film (1979) was nonetheless in place, including scriptwriter Jerry Juhl and musicauthor by Paul Williams. Ought to the property nonetheless exist now {that a} new generation has massively taken over, and might it ever recapture that outdated magazineic? We consider latest iterations including the curhire Muppet Mighthem, the classic motion pictures and various revivals, previous Christmas specials (John Denver! Emmet Otter!), pre-Muppet-Present iterations of Henson’s act, the Darkish Crystal and Labyrinth movies, the function of people in Muppet media, the ideology of Dickens’ story, and far more. Which Muppet personality kind are you?
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