Rare Muppet Clips Book 2 Vol 1!

Our series of rare Muppet clips was very popular last year, so we're bringing it back for even more Muppet insanity!

Again, we do not own these clips, nor do we make any guarantees to how long they'll be available, so watch them while you can!

Little Muppet Monsters - Gunko Song:

Have you ever wanted to hear "Moving Right Along" in German? of course you have!:

Sesame Street: Kermit, Grover & Big V - Soft and Loud:

Muppet Babies Toyland Train PC Game - Intro and Tour (1999):

Muppet Meeting Film for IBM:

 

 Cher Show Ray Charles & The Muppets (1975):

If you find a rare Muppet clip and would like us to share it, please send us a link!

DoorDash's New Sesame Street Campaign and Super Bowl Ad!

DoorDash is teaming up with Sesame Street for a new marketing campaign. The food delivery service will have new commercials and content featuring the Sesame Street Muppets including on airing during the Super Bowl.

DoorDash will mark it's first Super Bowl with our Sesame Street friends in as part of a larger campaign to showcase its other services beside food delivery.

The first 60-second spot "The Neighborhood" will run during the first quarter of the game and stars actor/ rapper Daveed Diggs along side Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Grover.

"The Neighborhood" reimagines the clastic Sesame Street song "People in Your Neighborhood"  to highlight all the things that people can order from stores in their communities through DoorDash such as convenience stores, pharmacies and pet suppliers. The spot was directed by Academy Award winner Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind).

As part of their partnership, DoorDash will donate $1 to Sesame Workshop for every order it receives on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7, up to $1 million.

DoorDash released the teaser below for their Super Bowl ad titled "Reading" feat. Daveed Diggs, and Cookie Monster:

"Daveed Diggs and Cookie Monster spend some time reading while they wait for their DoorDash order to arrive. When Cookie Monster learns that Daveed is expecting their takeout any moment, the blue Muppet decides he needs to finish his book right away. His voracious appetite takes over and he shoves the book straight into his mouth. Although the book has a picture of his beloved baked treats on the cover, Cookie Monster determines that it's a "tough read" when it doesn't break into a million crumbs like the real food."

DoorDash's Sesame Street campaign premiere's during the Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7 on CBS.

RIP Cloris Leachman (1926 - 2021)

Comedy legend and Muppet Show guest star Cloris Leachman has died.

Leachman was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 2011, earned 22 Emmy nominations, 8 Primetime Emmy awards, and a Daytime Emmy Award.

Two of her statues were won for playing her most iconic role Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its own spin-off Phyllis. 

In 2006, Leachman won an Emmy for best guest actress in a comedy for playing Malcolm in the Middle's cranky grandmother Ida. 

Leachman also won an Academy Award for The Last Picture Show, and appeared in the Mel Brooks comediesYoung Frankenstein, High Anxiety and History of the World: Part I.

She will always be beloved my Muppet fans though, for guest starring in the second season of The Muppet Show (where the pigs took over show and replaced all the non-pig Muppets with pig versions) and as Miss Tracy, Lew Ord's secretary in The Muppet Movie. 

Cloris Leachman was 94.

Kermit Adidas Stan Smith Sneakers!

Kermit The Frog is getting the Adidas "Stan Smith" treatment. 

While the Muppets have partnered with Adidas for years, this is the first time the shoe company has used The Muppets on Stan Smith branded sneakers. 

For those that don't know (including myself until I looked it up) Stan Smith, was an American tennis player who was active from the end of the 1960s to the beginning of the 1980's. 

The first pair unveiled has small patches of green, Kermit's name, and small green outlined Kermit on one side:

While the second pair is unapologetic in its Muppetness and features various images of Kermit around the entire shoe. 

Both Kermit Stan Smith sneakers will be available later tis year from adidas.com for $90 USD each.

RIP Larry King (1933-2021)

Radio and cable talk show host Larry King has died.

While best known hosting Larry King Live on CNN from 1985 to 2010, King appeared with the Muppets on several occasions.

In December 1993 he interviewed Kermit, Miss Piggy, Cheryl Henson and Frank Oz, as they promoted for Jim Henson: The Works. During the appearance, King even offered Kermit a spot guest hosting the show on April Fools Day, which Kermit later did. 

King made a cameo in the Billy Crystal of Muppets Tonight where he tried to convince Bobo the Bear to let him in and later had Johnny Fiama and Sal Minella on his Christmas Eve 1996 show. 

Miss Piggy's 1996 cookbook, "In the Kitchen with Miss Piggy" has King's recipe for "Favorite Tuna Health Salad."


He also appeared on the Sesame Street specials The Street We Live On and All-Star Alphabet as well as interviewing the letter W in Episode 4079.

Larry King was 87.

Taste Testing Sesame Street Cereal!

Dave from Cinema Sickness joins me as we try the new General Mills Sesame Street cereals "C is for Cinnamon" and "123 Berry."

Be sure to check our YouTube channel for other videos. 

DVR alert: Frank Oz on Colbert Tonight!

 Frank Oz and Derek Delgaudio will be on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight.

They'll be there to promote Oz's new film In & Of Itself  a filmed adaptation of the play he directed written and starring Delgaudio. 

Colbert and his wife were executive producers on the film  which wlil make it's debut on Hulu Fri. 

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert  airs 11:35 on CBS and is available on CBS All Access. 



 

Live Q&A with CinemaSickness!

Monday night I joined Cinema Sickness for a live Q&A. 

Watch as we discuss movies, Muppets, Disney, murder, and more!

WARNING: This video is rated PG-13 for mild language.

More from CinemaSickness on youtube. 

The Muppet Show Coming to Disney+!

It’s time to play the music, it's time to light the light, it's time to meet the Muppets on Disney+ ... soon!

At long last Disney has made our wishes come true, The Muppet Show is coming to Disney+.
Last week The Muppets posted this very cryptic message on social media: 

Calling all Muppet fans! Get ready for a major and important Muppet announcement coming soon. What is it? We have no idea.

— The Muppets (@TheMuppets) January 14, 2021

Many fans hoped that this meant the classic series would finally arriving on the Disney's streaming service, and today they made it official!

*plays music*
*lights lights*
*announces that all five seasons of The Muppet Show are coming to #DisneyPlus*

Start streaming the classic series from @TheMuppets on February 19. pic.twitter.com/errlmsKJdI

— Disney+ (@disneyplus) January 19, 2021

As part of the announcement Leigh Slaughter, Leigh Slaughter, Vice President of The Muppets Studio and Characters Strategy, Disney Live Entertainment posted this article, which includes some interesting info like "the Muppets have been a part of Walt Disney Imagineering for the last couple of years." Imagineering sounds like a step up from consumer products, which is where our fuzzy friends resided for their first few years under the mouse.

Below is the teaser announcement: 

You'll notice that the announcement states that all 5 seasons of the show are coming - that means even season 4 and 5 which never made to DVD will be included as well.

What we don't know yet is whether these will be complete and uncut or if certain songs will be omitted for copyright reasons.

We'll all find out together when The Muppet Show starts streaming February 19 on Disney+.

Disney & Henson Rebooting ‘Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day’!

Disney is in early development on a reboot of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day for Disney+.

21 Laps and The Jim Henson Company, who produced the first film, are returning as producers and Matt Lopez writing the script.

While the original film starring Steve Carell was based on the Judith Viorst children’s book. It's unknown how the new version will be different, other than the family will be a multigenerational Latinx family.

Sesame Street Road Trip: DC 2019

Back in the summer of 2019 Sesame Street celebrated it 50th anniversary by taking a road trip around the country.

We went to the Washington D.C. stop, then checked out the Smithsonian Institute to see what Muppet items were on display.

Be sure to check our YouTube channel for other videos. 

Muppet Holiday Gifts 2020!

The holiday season has once again come and gone, but that doesn't mean we can't continue to look back at all the wonderful Henson related items gifted this year.

Tobe Foxhill:

Muppet shirts, books, records and more

Scott Joy:
Muppet socks

Sylvia Alexis Munoz:
Muppet Monopoly, Jim Henson figure, Storyteller book and more. 

Jamie Belcher:
Vintage Sesame Street Camper

Mike Cope:
Muppet Show Book

Debra Forth:
Labyrinth lunchbox, Sesame Street Big Bird Sing-a-Long Band, and more

Kevin Hansen:
Barkley Ornament

Maddox Potter:
Palisades figures, Muppet Show ornament, Sesame Street Lego set, Muppet classroom decorations, and Sesame Street library store display

Joe Fiore:
Sesame Street cup

Harry Rumble:
Muppet shirts and attire

Kayleigh Willem:
UK Muppet plush

Colin Epstein:
Sesame Street Lego set and socks

Kelly Kate:
Muppet attire and Fraggle Rock DVD set

David Shnoudeh (Australia):
Muppet Whatnot and Muppet Hot Wheels cars

James V Caroll:
Muppet socks and masks

Clare Madders:
Vintage Palitoy Muppet Show game

Susan Greiner Marshall:
Sesame Street socks

Lucas Ervin:
Sesame Street mug and Kermit snuggie

Syntha Martin Green:

Miss Piggy makeup set

Mike Lewis:
Vintage Muppet Show lunchbox and Electric Mayhem shirt

Christine Fortier:
Dark Crystal and Labyrinth books

Bri Starr:
1987 set of Labyrinth comics:

Alicia Beauchamp:
Labyrinth sweater

Lisa Soares:
Cookie Monster's Food Truck ornament and Electric Mayhem music box

Donna Nihill-Gentry:
Muppet and Sesame Street socks

Julia A Robles:
Muppet Babies plush and Electric Mayhem action figure set

Philip Jermey Moyer: 
Swedish Chef figure, Cookie Monster's Food Truck and Muppet Show ornaments

Christopher O'Connor:
Muppet socks, Dark Crystal POPS, and many other vintage Muppet items

Jennifer Thomas:
Emmet Otters Jug-Band book

Jackie Stone:
Kermit Loungfly backpack, Dark Crystal and Labyrinth games, Emmet Otters Jug-Band record and more

Jennifer Rydin:
Vintage Muppet mugs and glasses

Scott Cannady:
Fozzie action fugure

Shaun McMichael:
Dark Crystal: Bestiary

Rebecca Whitfield:
Miss Piggy Shirt, Sweetums figure and Muppet Show ornaments

Kinsley Ward:
Dark Crystal game

Jimmy Lewis:
UK Muppet puppets

Julie Morgan-Bilyou:
Electric Mayhem jacket

Lori Gilgenbach's daughter painted this chair:

Sarah Ruth Maureen:

Muppet throw blanket

Chris Harris:
Kermit shirt

Sally and Conner:
2003 Australian McDonald's plush, Palisades Vacation Fozzie, Disney Muppet Star Wars figures, Jim Henson Funko, and Sesame Street Lego set

It looks like you all had a very Muppety Holiday.