Why’d they make that one muppet out of leather?

No one is ever gonna get the Muppets “right” again, because they’re no longer a living, breathing thing. They’ve become an excercise in pointless nostalgia, and no version is ever going to restore whatever vague quality they used to have, because that quality isn’t based on a collective memory, it’s based on millions…

Well, it’s not quite a mop, and it’s not quite a puppet, but maaaaannnnn....so to answer your question, I don’t know.

Dad, what’s a muppet?

I am of the opinion that Catcher in the Rye is not true because Holden is a pure artistic soul in a world of phonies—that’s totally the wrong way to read it. It’s true because it’s about a boy who doesn’t want to grow up. He’s not rebelling against war or consumerism or any of that—in fact, he’s not rebelling against…

In defense of Catcher in the Rye, it is completely aware how hollow Holden’s campaign against phoniness is.

“Son, it’s me, your father, Pa Salinger. What is wrong?”