It was on Netflix for a while in about 2011-2012 or so, so hopefully that gave it a little bit of a wider audience.

Huh. I never noticed before.

Other 1990-filmed productions that Richard worked on:

Richard Hunt was an amazing talent. Here's one of my favorite songs of his, from Fraggle Rock:

I loved that first hardcover with all of the short stories. But I can't get in to the longer miniseries. They seem to have a lot less of the Storyteller and his dog, so they end up feeling less like "The Storyteller" and more "some fantasy comics that needed a hook."

And Baby Boomers grew up with "The Great Santa Claus Switch," so they call him Snarl the Cigar Box Frackle.

And Erik compares him to Doc Brown in this very article.

My wife also finds Digit to be terrifying. So, you're certainly not the only one!

Awwwwwwwww.

Plus several of the non-Muppet segments came out on rad Japanese laserdiscs that I want so badly!

It's one of those voices that's very easy to do a bad imitation of. Everyone can pitch their voice up and say "Hi-Ho, Kermit the Frog here" but most people don't actually sound like Jim Henson.

I always thought it was a missed opportunity that Vicki - who, as Kermit's assistant, essentially serves the same function Scooter did on the original show - wasn't an adult Skeeter.

Great article about one of my most specific pop culture obsessions. It's far from perfect - a lot of the segments fall flat, and the tone is all over the place - but there's just something about this show that captures my imagination like few others ever have. I always pull it out every few years, so I've seen all of…

The latter. The biggest problem is this: when Disney bought the Muppets in 2004, they got the rights to the "MuppeTelevision" segments. The Jim Henson Company retains the rights to everything else - "The Storyteller" and all of the one-off segments.

I still covet your Jim Henson Hour lunchbox! I'd love to get one of those.

"Welcome to family programming, folks!"

Yeah, that special is full of dark, weird jokes that would be unsettling in a regular movie, but are only funny because Muppet dogs are saying them. It's such an impressive balancing act, I think.

Don't forget the soundtrack's secret weapon, Alessi!

They were!

Right, I knew "Iterations of I" was Waterhouse. I was asking Shipwreck if the "Old Adric" story mentioned was the non-Waterhouse one.