Muppets
Big Bird and Elmo Are Moving to HBO
Oscar the Grouch may finally be able to afford to trade in his trash can for one of those fancy plastic guys.
David Roth's Weak In Review: My Week Without Sports
After a week that was mostly without any significant sports-related thing, we learned that we kind of really actually need sports things to talk about. A lot.
Baseball Players And Their Muppet Twins: An Exploration
It is a question that has perplexed baseball fans since...well, the 1970's, mostly. Which MLB player looks like which Muppet? The internet has answers. Of course.
Everything You Need to Know About the Life of Charles Kennedy
Let's make his qualities and achievements his epitaph, rather than his tragic side.
This Disturbing Video of a Bullying Computer Makes Us Scared of the Internet
“Inside my mind there is a digital mind.”
I Got Drunk at the Sesame Street Gala and Met Cookie Monster
Rich white people congratulated themselves for spending money on an extravagant night in the name of bringing Sesame Street to Afghanistan, because where the troops couldn't succeed, the muppets sure as hell could.
Sesame Street's Newest Muppet Is Obsessed with Pooping
Hanging around latrines and squatting over ditches puts kids at risk for some horrifying diseases, and Raya is here to educate kids about keeping all those worms and bacteria out of their digestive systems. I'm betting she'll save thousands of lives...
Before The Muppets, Jim Henson Made an Adorably Surreal Video For AT&T
To describe a robot future, the makers of The Bell System, at the time the leading telephone service in the US and Canada, hired Jim Henson. Then known as the eccentric behind the variety puppet show Sam and Friends, and before he became a household...
The Muppets Have a History of Making People Cry
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of briefly meeting Kevin Clash at The Independent Film Festival of Boston. Clash is the incredibly talented puppeteer behind arguably the most popular character on Sesame Street ever: Elmo. He also happened to be...
Counterpoint - Fuck That Guy, the Muppets Rule
You know what really gets my goat? When some asshole badmouths the most beloved children's franchise of all time.
Point - Fuck the Muppets
I wouldn't say I "hate" the Muppets, since "hate" would imply a level of giving-a-shit about them that really isn't in me.