Ah, thanks for clarifying. Yeah, I only know bits and pieces of their early history before the show took off, so maybe that's something I'll have to look into later on.

Now I'm afraid to type "Muppets fan fiction" just because of that…

If you or anyone else had answered this with that username, I would've died from laughing right about now.

Well, if NBA players think the world is flat and all… why not?

Maybe a bit earlier in the day? They were on SNL, after all. I came around a bit after they first emerged on the scene, so when I'd see things like Kermit's cameo with Justin Timberlake on SNL years later, it always seemed a bit 'out of character' to me.

I could understand the Disney statement saying their side, but it is interesting that they've now offered people for interviews. Even one of the producers they supposedly offered to the press turned down doing an interview ultimately, from what I read somewhere.

Like the Rob Ford thing, it seems more goofy than anything right now with the slow escalation and all. Then like that scenario, this'll just reach a point where it's more sad than funny and will just fizzle out naturally in the end. That and hopefully no one dies in this case either.

Right. Like the time he pushed that camera guy around after Robin was born.

Love Rizzo. Never really saw him as "overused" in anything. Yet.

Maybe that inspired the Steven Spielberg 'cameo' in the third Austin Powers film?

After or before 'the'?

Quick… Urban Dictionary that now before someone else gets to it!

I'm kind of enjoying it, to be honest with you. I almost want it to keep going for awhile.

I think Whitmore claimed as much in an interview too.

Someone find an appropriate thread on a Muppets message board… NOW.

All that money his family got probably made it easier to let Disney make those decisions…

"Mo-ji-toooooooo…" - Brian Griffin voice.

Coming to ABC next fall… Keeping Up With the Jim Henson Company.

Neat idea, but yeah, needs to encompass more than one scene and maybe some 'wow's should be dragged out a bit (for the lightsaber turning on, for example).

That sounds like an awesome movie. Or maybe a comic book. I mean, if they can turn Abraham Lincoln into a vampire hunter by this point…