Great article, but I'm a bit baffled by the statement that the Muppets had been treated "indifferently." It's an odd word to choose for characters and their performers who had been championed by greats like Sullivan, Paar, and Carson and were well-known enough to have rated numerous prime time specials and a regular…

Fair enough. I don't expect anything resembling realism from the show, but your point is taken.

I would absolutely be more interested in a large ginger wrestler. Thanks for the image.

Well, yes, and "Officer, I swear she said she was 18" always works as justification when it's a man with a teenage girl, right?

I hate to break it to you, especially since so many years have passed, Cookie, but someone was lying to you. Bert and Ernie were on in the first season. The second episode, in fact.

Finally someone has come up with a legal way to find out whether Bieber's testicles have, in fact, descended.

A stunningly average singer who was a member of "Celtic Thunder." And no, I had never heard of them, either, before this.

I am not myself adopted and thus would not even ATTEMPT to argue against your personal experiences of being adopted, Todd. I DO think it's fair to point out that, nowadays, the thought of an adoptive parent involving the birth parents of her child in her child's life is not as uncommon as it used to be. Open adoption…

The Muppet Babies (which was made during Henson's time) may not have been "adult," but it was filled with pop culture references just like any other project, and in its defense, it and Pee-Wee's Playhouse are the only two Saturday morning shows of that era that had encouraging kids to use their imaginations (rather…

He was a catfish.

I think that was pretty effectively countered by the fact that Miss Piggy thought- no, KNEW- that she was beautiful, glamourous, and fabulous.

Archmage, I generally find you to be one of the best posters here, but I really wish you would have let those old, completely false rumors lie. Especially since they were the sort of rumors that never existed until people started saying "His sexuality was rumored…"

I think Clifford was created because Steve Whitmire was still neurotic about not being good enough to be the lead.

I would watch it, but only if the 80-pound leopard came in at the end.

No, not the only one- some of them were very well done. But they were a mixed bag- partly because they refused to let Henson and his crew have any real input into the scripts. In my opinion, the sketches started to get really good when they broke the fourth wall and became meta and existentialist- the long running…

You mean like Obi-Wan? And Yoda? I"m pretty sure my B-Wing Pilot action figure also died. Of cirrhosis.

The most fascinating thing…
is how willing the show is to show how capricious and petty the casting process of a show (and the people doing the casting) can beThe fact that they kept repeating, "It's not about who has the best voice or is the best dancer or actor" must have come as a big surprise to people who…

There's also the fact that the "twist" is not that they're having casual sex- it's that they have been all along and it is NOT the focal point of the season. How is that in any way comparable to a Monica/Chandler situation?

Saved By the Bell featured inferior writing compared to Boy Meets World. However, it had Zack AND Slater compared to Rider Strong, and Kelly AND Lisa in exchange for bosomy Topanga. So, there were exponentially more combinations of hot slash-fic that could be written about the show, if you were one of the many…

F*** labor. Who the hell do they think they are? I mean, what do they DO, even? Except, you know, work and s***.