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Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!)
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Date: 
Thu, 4 Nov 1999 22:47:17 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy Sproat writes:
> James Brown wrote:
> > Yup me too.... Ah, the good old days of Sesame Street, with skits they can't
> > show anymore...
> 
> Arg.  You can't be serious.  Really?!?  Arg.  Those old skits were the best.

Yup.  At least one skit I know of for sure, (the Amazing Mumphert & the
disappearing pineapple trick skit) was pulled quite a while ago because it
<paraphrase warning> 'encouraged a lack of responsibility and a disregard for
consequences'
It's too bad - "He's with the pineapples, he's happy" has become a running
joke in our household.

> Oh, well.  I figured the show (and anything Muppet) would go all to hell after
> Jim Henson died.  Frank Oz is a good director, and makes a nearly sexy piggie,
> but he really lacks the humor and human touch that Jim Henson put into the
> shows...  That, and the fact that Kermit and Ernie sound like they have a
> perpetual cold now...

Yeah, I've seen the new muppet show a few times, and it just didn't grab me.
A couple of the skits were funny, but most just missed me completely.  Or
maybe I'm just dated. :)

> On the flip side of that coin, the Jim Henson Creature Studio has done some
> really amazing work.

Yup!  I'll take a well-crafted puppet like Yoda any day before a CGI goofball
like Jar Jar.

James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/

(and no, I'm not cross-posting this to .starwars! ;)



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  Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!)
 
(...) Arg. You can't be serious. Really?!? Arg. Those old skits were the best. Oh, well. I figured the show (and anything Muppet) would go all to hell after Jim Henson died. Frank Oz is a good director, and makes a nearly sexy piggie, but he really (...) (27 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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