Well, what else do you need to know? Sent us by Ben Wolfson, whom we count (despite everything) as a friend of the blog.
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8 comments
June 18, 2009 at 11:56 pm
ben
I said I’m sorry.
June 19, 2009 at 5:33 am
Adam Roberts
Playing the banjo does something odd to Kermit’s voice. Otherwise … how can he sell bacon and pretend to be in love with Ms Piggy Lee? What kind of Jew is he, anyway?
June 19, 2009 at 5:59 am
JPool
I love, love, love Pete Seeger-Kermit. I would like an audio recording of that and six more like it please. Meat-hawking beatnik-Kermit, not so much, but you’ve got to pay for puppets somehow.
It’s interesting in these early shorts how much of Henson and Co.’s sense of humor and subtly subversive sensibilities were there from the beginning, but the technical skills with puppetry and the puppets themselves were rudimentary at best.
June 19, 2009 at 6:51 am
Jason B.
You say the puppetry skills are rudimentary, but that lingering look of reproach Kermit gives the piano player after saying “It’s always green” seems pretty skillful.
Of course, one moment does not unrudimentary a skill-set make.
Thank you, Yoda.
June 19, 2009 at 8:16 am
bryan
Another half hour down the Muppet YouTube rabbit hole …
This one led to the sketch “Visual Thinking” in three different versions. Can’t imagine what else I should have been doing that would have been more rewarding than this.
Harry the Hipster seems to have morphed into both Rowlf the Dog and Zoot.
June 19, 2009 at 8:22 am
bryan
Rowlf and Zoot in a sentimental mood.
June 19, 2009 at 9:26 am
ben
My position on the three “Visual Thinking” versions is that the second is the best.
June 19, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Mike
Kermit is LEFT-HANDED! There is no greater testament to his genius.