Just because this is a much better example of a singer performing with the Muppets.
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30 comments
July 20, 2008 at 10:20 am
ari
Muppet blogging oneupsmanship is a dangerous game, my friend.
July 20, 2008 at 10:21 am
Neddy Merrill
Indeed it is, Ari. You know where this leads: the video of Kermit watching 2 girls 1 cup. I wish I were kidding.
July 20, 2008 at 10:22 am
eric
Can’t you just enjoy the Belafonte/Fozzie repartee?
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July 20, 2008 at 10:40 am
ari
Does anyone remember a Muppets episode in which the special guest remained incredulous (or, more likely, feigned incredulity) throughout the show about talking to the Muppets?
July 20, 2008 at 2:29 pm
bitchphd
Aw, that really is awesome. I can’t enjoy the B/F repartee, I’m afraid. Fozzie always just irritated the crap out of me.
I love the old guys in the box seats, though.
July 20, 2008 at 2:51 pm
ari
I love the old guys in the box seats, though.
You don’t say?
July 20, 2008 at 2:54 pm
eric
DeLong’s kid is mocking us.
July 20, 2008 at 2:56 pm
ari
DeLong’s kid is mocking us.
?
July 20, 2008 at 3:28 pm
andrew
The best way to respond is to mock the there/their distinction.
July 20, 2008 at 3:41 pm
eric
Jeez, Ari, have you never heard of the internets?
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/07/with-great-powe.html
July 20, 2008 at 4:28 pm
ari
No, it wasn’t that. I just meant that it didn’t seem like mockery. That it seemed obvious to me that the kid thinks this is one of the “good ways for professors at public universities to spend there time.”
July 20, 2008 at 4:37 pm
ari
Oh, I get it now. I meant to cut and paste only “mocking us.” I need lessons on how to comment from this phone.
July 20, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Neddy Merrill
If only you had the right phone, Ari.
July 20, 2008 at 5:12 pm
ari
That ship has sailed. Alas.
July 20, 2008 at 5:26 pm
ben wolfson
You guys are amateurs.
Cab Calloway.
Peter Sellers: three, two, one.
Even REM.
July 20, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Brad
When are you going to start with today in Muppet History?
(On this day, Muppet Labs tortured Beaker by….)
July 20, 2008 at 5:42 pm
ari
You’re volunteering? Because the assignment is all yours.
July 20, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Brad
It does seem outside of my remit as a commenter. I thought my main purpose was to provide straight lines, not actual content.
July 20, 2008 at 8:05 pm
bitchphd
You don’t say?
Huh?
July 20, 2008 at 8:06 pm
bitchphd
Stupid, stupid html.
July 20, 2008 at 8:08 pm
ari
I was referring to your reputation for dyspeptic blogging, and the way that reputation might suggest that you would like the grumpy old Muppets. Even though you’re the softest of softies.
July 20, 2008 at 8:18 pm
bitchphd
Shut up, I am not.
I always loved those guys, even when I was a kid.
July 20, 2008 at 8:28 pm
ari
Me, too. They were and are my favorites. Well, I had a brief dalliance with Animal — when I still thought I might be cool. But then it was back to the codgers. And Beaker, who I still quite like.
July 20, 2008 at 8:30 pm
bitchphd
Those are my favs too, I think. Though I have a soft spot for Sam the constipated Eagle, too.
July 20, 2008 at 8:33 pm
ari
I do an incredible Sam impression*. Not of his voice, mind you, but of how he looks. It makes the older boy scream with laughter. I also used to be able to muster a serviceable Kermit the Frog — voice, in that case — but I seem to have lost my mojo in middle age. Sam is still with me, though, thank heavens.
* If I do say so myself.
July 21, 2008 at 1:36 pm
kid bitzer
man, belafonte was born in ‘27.
so he’s what, 70 in that clip?
incredible shape. great voice.
you gotta envy that longevity.
July 21, 2008 at 2:49 pm
neocynic
My favorite Muppets:
1. Animal
2. Waldorf and Statler
Okay, there I’m like everyone else. But here’s where I’m different:
3. Sammy Davis Jr.
Not a Muppet, you say? Check out the day he died. Then check out the day Jim Henson died. Coincedence? I think not.
Mr. Bojangles was a Muppet all along.
July 21, 2008 at 3:45 pm
SomeCallMeTim
o he’s what, 70 in that clip?
Wiki says that he did the show in 1978, so he was only 51.
July 21, 2008 at 5:13 pm
kid bitzer
51–okay, that’s different.
i didn’t look that good myself back when i was 51, but it is less astounding.