Eh… hate to be That Person, but Welsh Corgis are a result of selective breeding based on the (sometimes absurd) aesthetic and utilitarian needs of humans.  Ergo, they are technically not nature's.

Come to think of it, we have Actinopterygiian performers and Eutherian performers and Squamate performers… and any Paravians are basically window dressing, like the briefly-seen soaring harrier, blinking owl, and hunting Great Blue Heron.  "Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas" discriminates against birds!!!

I always thought the fish was Nightmare's in-band interpretive dancer.  Basically Ben Carr with (functioning) gills.

Man, I really wish the various entities that have the rights to all the different Henson characters, etc. would just make some kind of truce and let us have unedited DVDs of our childhood favorites.  And while I'm dreaming, give us the remaining seasons of "The Muppet Show" already!

And it would suck terribly to be one of those kids too.  "Emmet Otter" can't be much more than twenty minutes anyway.  In my day, the bratty kids would just have to sit it out until the end.

I think it all depends on the kid and the timing.

Yeah, ToughPigs wrote a review of it and said that overall it was incredibly well-done aside from one very strange new addition.  It can be read here but mind the weird formatting: http://www.toughpigs.com/gu…

^^ And the Adams' book was, as it happens, a story he recycled from a never-used Dr. Who script.  And once you know that, it makes an awful lot more sense.

Oh yeah, Nickelodeon reran their show almost constantly.  Thanks for the answers!

Geez, what the hell was going on in that period of the 80's?  Did the brief flare-up of long after-the-fact Monkees appreciation start with their show being rerun on Nickelodeon or with some kind of comeback album or something else entirely?  I just remember them being inescapable on Mtv networks for a year or two.

(Turns head to the side a little, confused.)

If you're serious, then I am now trying to decide if this or the sudden unshakable existential crisis one poster had during "Nightmare Before Christmas" of all things* is the best completely random reaction to a work of fiction I've read in the AV Club.

And of the two (I think) holiday-themed episodes of "Animaniacs", that one is the stranger, as a few minutes later, Wakko (as the Great Wakkaroti) dry-heaves to the tune of "Jingle Bells".

I have extremely vague memories of a toy line of Care Bears parodies that looked cute at first but could be converted into ferocious things with teeth and claws.

Heck, that collection of commercials isn't getting near enough love here in the comments.  Garfield encouraging us to read!  Crispy Critters cereal!  All three wonderfully un-totally-in-your-face Cinnamon Toast Crunch bakers!  Another McDonald's commercial with an obvious take off of "Oh Yeah"!  A fascinatingly…

You mean Garrison Keeler ruled the world unchallenged for well over 160 million years? Becoming the arguably most successful and diverse group of vertebrates ever known? And now his descendants rule the skies?

Those would be "A Claymation Comedy of Horrors" (which I briefly reviewed a year ago: http://babbletrish.blogspot… ) and "A Claymation Easter".  They both feature some of Will Vinton's most amazing animation.  They also both feature a memorably unpleasant pair of main characters, a wimpy snail and an abrasive boar.

Sleepover episode.  Mobile.  Fever Dream.  That is all.

Well, okay, it's more accurate to say that they suddenly have a weird look.  Whatever.

I love Cheap Toy Roundup too, but I was talking about this deeply fascinating and kind of adorably misguided thing right here: http://www.imdb.com/title/t…