Jennings is likeable but doesn’t have the screen presence of a game show host. It is a bit surprising that they confirmed Richards after the past week’s backlash, but I guess they decided it wouldn’t have a long-term effect.

There are a lot of people complaining about this on social media and saying “WHY DIDN’T YOU PICK LEVAR BURTON?” but I really don’t think those people are loyal viewers. They’re people in their 30s and 40s who might occasionally watch the show but mostly just love Burton because they grew up watching him. The truly loya…

Unlike the way the real Muppets generally work, the people doing the voices in this sketch were not the same as the people doing the puppetry. So it must have been hard to get the timing just right. The puppetry was decent, though.

Muppet Wiki has a great rundown of official appearances by the “real” Muppets, and spoofs by the show over the years:

This is an exceptionally fascinating Wiki Wormhole!

This is a good, strong position to make. In mid-2015.

Yeah, I’m baffled by the fact that anyone thinks a Muppet Gatsby would be a good idea. But if they did make such a movie, it seems to me Gatsby would have to be the human star.

I Googled “eat your own dung drink your own urine” (with SafeSearch on) and it turns out it’s from the Bible. 2 Kings 18:27 says “But Rabshakeh said to them, ‘Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their…

I’m grateful for this article. I’m now more familiar with these movies but I haven’t had to watch them. I like a lot of horror films, but somehow these have never appealed to me. Also, I’ve been to the restaurant in the house from the original, which has since been relocated to a different Texas town.

Oh yeah, I heard it there too! It almost made me want to see the movie, until I saw the rest of the trailer.

That “Telescope” piece is so mesmerizing. I was startled to recognize it in Amazon Prime’s Homecoming.

This is a good analysis! I’ll confess I veered into the “The boat sank, get over it” zone of cynical snarkiness after the film became so huge, but it didn’t take me long to rediscover that the movie really is very good.

They aired reruns on MTV for a while, but The Ren & Stimpy Show was developed and produced for Nickelodeon. Along with Rugrats and Doug, it was one of the original “Nicktoons” when the network started doing more original programming. You may be conflating it a bit with Beavis & Butthead... The original B&B short “Frog…

It started out on Sunday mornings, and later moved to Saturday nights as part of the SNICK lineup.

I saw this a few years ago at the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC, and I was pleasantly surprised at how not-bad it was. The first half is pretty solid all the way through, although after they actually get to Ishtar it gets shakier. But that “Dangerous Business” song still cracks me up.

Not nearly enough people know about Tinted Windows. “Kind of a Girl” should have been a hit.

Game & Wario for the Wii U was one of the few games that really took advantage of the system’s gamepad and dual screens. The lack of a WarioWare game on the Switch is a travesty.

I recently revisited Now You See Him, Now You Don’t, a 70s Disney movie with Kurt Russell reprising his role from The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, and this time he accidentally invents an invisibility formula. It’s fine.

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Regarding the line about Bob McGrath being the only original cast member left: Loretta Long, who played Susan beginning with the first episode, is still alive (and just appeared alongside McGrath and Spinney and others in the 50th anniversary special). And as this article mentions, Frank Oz, who is still with us, was…