Last night, obviously we saw the Muppets go on America's Got Talent and let's just leave it at that.
An anyomous guest to this blog commented on that post and accused me of blaming Disney for the appearence being so "blah". That was not my intention. For the most part, what Disney has done with the Muppets has been fairly good. We got a TV-movie, three television specials, season sets of The Muppet Show and many more appearences in the media... all within the last four years. Compare that to Henson's use of the Muppets during the last four years before the Disney sale. All we got was one TV-movie, a reasonable amount of merchandise (including the now bankrupt Palisades Toys' excellent Muppet action figure line) and the infrequent Hollywood Squares appearences... and that's it. Was this appearence last night the worst thing Disney has done with the Muppets? In my opinion, yes. But did Disney screw it up? No. I will blame someone from The Muppets Studio for turning what could have been a good appearence into a Big-Lipped Aligator Moment (but, hey, at least last night's appearence still had more consistancy than We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story).
On the subject of Kermit's voice, just as we all assumed it was not Steve Whitmire. Rather, it was Artie Esposito who, ironcally, I almost got a puppet built by a year ago. I'm sure Artie is a good guy and I feel a little bad for him right now after what he's probably been going through today but please don't perfrom the frog again.
And, oh yeah, Sharon Osbourne and Kermit had lunch. But that doesn't excuse Sharon's much-too-strong British accent.
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