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...knew that puppets could have issues? Sure, Kermit and Miss Piggy had their tiffs; but when I was growing up, the Muppets mostly just searched for buried treasure or traveled to outer space. Now, however, a group of Muppet-esque puppets (spawned by Crank Yanker’s creators, Jackhole) are gaining center stage in a new Kayne West-produced TV show, tentatively titled “Alligator Boots,” in which they tackle such pressing contemporary issues as teen pregnancy and—more importantly—what the heck to do with your precious little...
...became a YouTube sensation, viewed many millions of times by people charmed by his easy manner, engaged by his lively insights into work, science, exploration, in awe of his complete lack of self-pity. He was the picture of health, with his thick dark hair and Muppet eyebrows, dropping to do push-ups on the stage, a defiant portrait of life with its edges all sharpened. Every sentence was soaked in gratitude, and listening to it could make you flinch at every time you'd whined or cheated or quit...
...We’ve known each other for almost ten years. He wrote my ‘Undeclared’ episodes and we’re just really like-minded, especially when it came to this script.”The pair is also working together on the next Muppets movie. Judging by the hilarious puppet show his character puts on in “Sarah Marshall”—a sort of depressed Neil Diamond-esque vampire musical—Segel seems a perfect fit for the Muppet franchise. He cites “Muppets in Manhattan?...
...Street was banned in Mississippi because of its interracial cast. Today, the show continues to support the message of “we are different but we are the same,” Knell said. Knell showed a clip from the South African version of Sesame Street featuring a muppet named Kami, who is a five-year-old AIDS orphan. In the United States, the next season will focus on environmental messages, he said. One of the main goals of Sesame Street is to promote basic learning at a time when most fourth-graders can’t read...
...started terrorizing innocent Koreans, it was a tadpole. Then a careless American doctor at a local military base ordered hundreds of gallons of formaldehyde dumped into the Han River. The creature swallowed the toxin; now the thing is 30 ft. long, has 10 legs, looks like an angry Muppet and is itching for mischief. U.S. scientists have yet more dire news: the beast is the host for a deadly virus that could wipe out everyone in Seoul or-- dare we say it--the world...