And then the camp organizers give the trophy to a small bird.

"It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown." Definitely a departure from the other specials, but Spike was a surprisingly effective protagonist.

I watched that one all the time as a kid, and even took to making my own "secret ballots" like the girls' raft team does. I saw it recently for the first time in years, and I was really struck by how far removed it felt from the basic premise of Peanuts. Their lives are constantly in danger while they float down a…

I just recently learned that there was a story where the school building gets depressed and collapses. That's pretty dark.

I think it's always been there, but it hasn't always been so… dangly.

The part where vampires circle the moon and suck the hot stud’s blood was pretty scary.

In the style of They Might Be Giants???

Also, "diggity dank" was especially good and "schwiggity schwag" was especially bad. Letterman kept bringing Manny back to review movies and stuff until, as I recall, Manny was arrested for drug possession and it became a minor news story.

Absolutely. If more people had seen Muppets From Space in 1999, they might have complained about "Piggy's new voice," because Frank Oz sounded different then than he did in 1978.

Honest question: Have you watched a new Muppet production in the last ten years or so? A lot of the re-cast performers have been doing their inherited characters for a while now.

There is actually a violent motorcycle gang in The Muppets' Wizard of Oz. That's how they portray the flying monkeys in the adaptation. They tear Scarecrow-Kermit and Gonzo-Tin Man apart at point.

He's gotten so good at getting different expressions out of Kermit. The frog is making faces he never did with Jim performing him.

Because there are very, very few Muppets with human hands. Most of them don't even have five fingers!

That's a fitting enough fate for Jessica Rabbit's phone number.

Here's what I remember about that game: At some point, you could find a phone number, and if you called it in real life you would actually get a recording of Kathleen Turner as Jessica Rabbit. I wonder who owns that number now.

Porky Pig says "That's all, folks!" at the very end of the movie, but then as it irises out, Tinkerbell flies in and waves her wand. So Disney still gets the last word.

One of my favorite little details is Roger's finger leaving a print in the dust on Teddy Valiant's' chair when he touches it.

I'm 112 and I think it's pretty good.

Every once in a while, when the situation arises that I need to hand someone a piece of paper, I'll say "HERE'S YOUR PAPER! HERE'S YOUR PAPER!" Nobody gets it.

Including the very special ALF Christmas episode! In which ALF talks him out of suicide.