Muppet Halloween Costumes on ABC!

The Muppets may have a new ABC show, but that's not the only place they popped up on the alphabet network this week.

Immediately following the latest episode of the show Tuesday, Fresh Off The Boat aired a Halloween episode that featured two Muppet costumes. 

While the show takes place in the early nineties, neither of of these costumes is period accurate. 

Check out the scene below:

Fresh Off The Boat  wasn't the only ABC show this week to feature a Muppet costume either. Wednesday night on The Goldberg's, a neighborhood kid dressed up as Kermit.

"Kermit" was seen a few times throughout the episode!

While also not period accurate, we'll cut the kid some slack- maybe his mom made it. 

Anyway it's always great to see random Muppet love! 

Happy Halloween!

Tillman, the skateboarding English bulldog, has died!

Tillman, the skateboarding English bulldog, has died at the age of 10. 

He was fixture at Venice Beach and in 2008 appeared with the Muppets in series of viral videos.

You can read more about Tillman's life at CNN.

"The Muppets" Gets Full Season Order!

"The Muppets" has been picked up for full season by ABC!

According to Deadline:

ABC has picked up three more episodes from new comedy series The Muppets, bringing its first-season order to 16 episodes. After big expectations and a strong ratings start, The Muppets has slipped but has done an OK job opening Tuesday night for ABC at 8 PM, with its ratings running on par with lead-out Fresh Off the Boat, which just received a Back 9 order, bringing its Season 2 pickup to a full-season 22.

The Muppets had been earmarked for a limited run. Laying out ABC’s midseason plans at the upfronts, network topper Paul Lee said the idea is that after The Muppetsends its limited run, Fresh Off the Boat would move to 8 PM and used to launch new family comedy The Real O’Neals. Of course, if The Muppets had blown up in the ratings, those plans probably could’ve been adjusted to accomodate more Muppets episodes. 

Season to date, The Muppets still ranks as Tuesday’s highest-rated new TV show among Adults 18-49 (2.6). On average, the freshman show is improving its half-hour for ABC by 69% in Total Viewers (7.6 million) and by 86% in Adults 18-49 (2.6), standing as the net’s strongest performing Tuesday comedy in 4 years. In its most recent airing this week, The Muppets returned against the World Series with an uptick in Adults 18-49 (+8%). 

The Hollywood Reporter, also confirmed that:

The additional three-episode pickup is six shy of the standard back-nine order, with insiders stressing the shortfall is to accommodate the network's midseason fare.

The Muppets, ranks as Tuesday's highest-rated new series among adults 18-49 and has improved the network's Tuesday slot by 69 percent among total viewers versus last season's short-lived Selfie (7.6 million vs. 4.5 million) and 86 percent among adults under 50 (2.6 vs. 1.4).

The Muppets was as ABC's final fall freshman series to get a back-order.

Throwback Thursday: Muppet Hallmark Puzzle Card!

It's Halloween week, The Muppets had a crime caper movie last year, and Hallmark has been releasing new Muppet merchandise. What year is it?

If in you guessed 1982, you would have seen this Hallmark Puzzle Card at your local greeting card store. 

As the name implies it was puzzle, but also a card! There was even a place to sign your name so the person you gave it to would always know who it was from. 

The tag says "Hope your Halloween's a real thriller." Little did Hallmark know Micheal Jackson's mega hit "Thriller" would be released almost a month after that years' Halloween. Spooky!

Muppet Show Clock Unboxing!

Like many of you, I've gotten a few notices from The Bradford Exchange stating that the Muppets cuckoo clock had been delayed. I even received one after a large white box arrived...

Let's see what's inside!

As you can see the final product looks just like the prototype we showed back in March:

While we didn't show the Kermit pendulum in the video, rest assured it was there, and looks just like the one pictured above.

I hope you don't have to wait too long to add it to your collection!

New Muppets with Reese Witherspoon Tonight!

Reese Witherherspoon (but probably with out it - Wocka Wocka) will be tonight's guest on The Muppets!

Check out these two trailers for the show:

And don't forget The Muppets airs tonight at 8/7c on ABC!

The Great Conjunction: The Legacy of The Dark Crystal Documentary - Now Crowd Sourcing!

The Great Conjunction, a fan made documentary about The Dark Crystal and it's impact, have launched their crowd sourcing campaign! 

The film is being made by JM Prater and Philip Mitchell, two mega fans of the film. 

Here's what they have to say about the project:

"We've been asked "why make a documentary about The Dark Crystal, when there was one created in the early 1980s?"

Our goal with this film is multifaceted. What interests us as filmmakers and artists is the impact that The Dark Crystal had on the filmmaking community at that time (Star Wars), showcasing many of the artists and craftspeople who worked on the film that aren't as well known as Jim Henson, Frank Oz, or Brian & Wendy Froud.

What's also important is chronicling how The Dark Crystal inspired and changed the lives of a generation of children who are now adults. This portion of the film will lead us all over the globe."

Check out their pitch video:

You can find more info about the film, the perks for contributing, and pledging your support to making this film at Indiegogo.