#Jerry Juhl

[jimhenson-themuppetmaster]

" It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up."

Frank Oz, Jim Henson (Inside Big V) and Jerry Juhl, C. 1966.

#jim henson #the muppets #1966 #big v #quote #jerry juhl #frank oz

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #1000

Jerry Juhl has said that Gonzo was his favorite character that he wrote for, saying that he is his most developed character. Juhl said that Muppets from Space was develop specifically to focus on the emotional development of the character.

Sources:

Jerry Juhl interview on Muppet Master by Jimmy Aquino. 2003. (Archived).

"Juhl resigns from new Muppet movie." Phillip Chapman. Muppet Central. August 27, 1998.

#muppet facts oc #jim henson #the muppets #muppets #muppet facts #fun facts #Jerry Juhl #gonzo #gonzo the great #the great gonzo #muppets from space

[ariel-seagull-wings]

It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights, it’s time to meet the muppets on the muppet show on google drive tonight!!!! This is the show from 1976 - 1981 that is being aired on UK

Season 1: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder... Season 2: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder... Season 3: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder... Season 4: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder... Season 5: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder... Website used: https://rarbgtor.org/torrents.php

@themousefromfantasyland @amalthea9 @the-blue-fairie @thealmightyemprex @princesssarisa

#the muppets #the muppet show #google drive #jim henson #frank oz #richard hunt #jerry nelson #louise gold #jerry juhl #Youtube

[roskirambles]

(Archive) Christmas Movie of the day: The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

Humbug. If there's a peculiar word that has been heard by the thousands on a Christmas story, it's this one. It's not the only one but it stands out as that one trademark of a single story adapted so many times it's futile to even try to list them all. After a bit of deliberation, I chose this one version among all the available ones mostly to honor the memory of Jim Henson and Richard Hunt. The first Muppets movie after both of their passing, it's as wholesome, haunting and just all around effective as any version of this tale could hope to be. Can other versions of this tale claim to have Kermit the Frog? I say humbug!

Seriously, there's something charming in the simplest of additions. The self aware humor (with Gonzo as Charles Dickens accompained by Rizzo…who plays himself and is the butt of many a joke), the genuinely solid musical numbers, Michael Caine clearly having fun as Scrooge and the ever impressive puppet work are already something of note, but here's the kicker: this movie can effectively do the frightening part of the tale as well.

It's easy to forget how well rounded the Muppet Show actually was, Jim Henson being no stranger to darker content(if the Dark Crystal is anything to go by). So to see the team keep with that aspect of his work(it's stagerring how uncanny the Ghost of the Christmas Yet to Come looks in a movie where so many characters are puppets), while balancing it out with such humor and heartfelt joy honestly do the tale justice in a way many other interpretations don't always reach. A delightful play that allows itself to bring the seriousness down when the time comes, it's overall a magical send off for two of the greats.

#roskirambles #christmas movies #jim henson #brian henson #jerry juhl #richard hunt #michael caine #dave goelz #steve whitmire #jerry nelson #frank oz #a muppet christmas carol #kermit the frog #miss piggy #gonzo the great #rizzo the rat #statler and waldorf

[theoscarsproject]

The Great Muppet Caper (1981). Kermit the Frog, The Great Gonzo, and Fozzie Bear are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy.

Is there anything more comforting than a Muppet movie? This just gets me in all the right ways, from the homages to old school Hollywood musicals to the investigative journalism/mistaken identity bent to Fuzzy and Kermit being identical twins. Poetic cinema! 8/10.

#the great muppet caper #1981 #Oscars 54 #Nom: Song #jim henson #tom patchett #Jay Tarses #jack rose #Jerry Juhl #frank oz #Dave Goelz #jerry nelson #Richard Hunt #john cleese #musical #heist #family #muppets

[theuniversalscat]

My internal dialogue/struggle most of the time. Thus, my incredible headache…. 🙈🤷‍♀️🤣

#life blogging #me #love #feel the love #love is all around #peace #no #hugga wugga #seems appropriate #muppet show #jim henson #frank oz #jerry nelson #Jerry juhl #the muppet show #the muppets #internal family systems #Youtube #you are my sunshine #oh madone

[nerds-yearbook]

On the November 12, 1977, the first Pigs in Space sketch appeared. ("Milton Berle" Muppet Show, TV, event)

#nerds yearbook #november #1977 #real life event #first appearance #sci fi tv #the muppets #muppet #jerry juhl #joseph a bailey #jim hensen #don hinkley #philip casson #milton berle #gonzo #swinetrek #captain link hogthrob #first mate piggy #dr julius stangepork #spaceship #jerry nelson #frank oz

[movie-titlecards]

The Muppet Movie (1979)

My rating: 8/10

I am a simple man: I hear Rainbow Connection, and I cry.

#The Muppet Movie #James Frawley #Jerry Juhl #Jack Burns #Jim Henson #Frank Oz #Jerry Nelson #Youtube

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

#tales from muppetland: the frog prince #trudy young #gordon thomson #carl banas #jerry nelson #frank oz #jerry juhl #jim henson #1971

[obstinaterixatrix]

they sure don’t make 60s experimental teleplays like they used to. because it is not the 60s

#orlbs #misclb #ooohh there’s a german stage adaptation #anywho I think it’s interesting because it’s very easy to analyze it from the lens of a postmodernist deconstruction of reality & narrative #I also think it can be read as a commentary about operating within absurd (oppressive) systems #but a small part if me does think jim henson & jerry juhl were like ‘lol wouldn’t it be fucked up if—‘ #just having fun putting some guy through existential torment

[nine-frames]

"The message, if we hear it, is make it last all year."

The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992.

Dir. Brian Henson | Writ. Jerry Juhl | DOP John Fenner

#the muppet christmas carol #muppet christmas carol #christmas carol #charles dickens #muppets #brian henson #us film #christmas films #1990s #musical film #muppet film #christmas musical

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #372

Jerry Juhl originally wrote Gonzo as a character with low self-esteem, and originally in the 70s, Dave Goelz leaned into that. At that time, he used Gonzo to highlight his personality and fears. However, when he asked Henson to change the puppet to have more expressive eyes, the wacky phase of Gonzo's life started. Gonzo's third, soulful phase came after Goelz went to therapy and began "unlocking [his] emotions."

Sources:

Jim Henson: The Biography. Brian Jay Jones. Random House Publishing Group. 2016. (Pg. 247).

"How we made: The Muppet Christmas Carol." Interviews by Ben Beaumont-Thomas. The Guardian. December 21, 2015.

#jim henson #the muppets #muppets #muppet facts #muppet facts oc #fun facts #the great gonzo #gonzo the great #gonzo #Jerry Juhl #brian jay jones #dave goelz #Ben Beaumont-Thomas #random house #the guardian

[smoothjazzdigit]

PLEASE expand on your thoughts for muppets abc i would love to hear them /nf /gen /pos

Okay for some reason I didn’t get notified for this ask so sorry it’s a bit late!

But YES thx for the opportunity to rant ab this show

Pros

I actually am a big fan of muppets abc. I’ll get into the cons later but I like the style of humor the show has (for the most part), I like when the muppets have more of an adult spin where it’s not like family guy humor but it’s a little more mature than most muppet projects. The modern muppets have been so heavily targeted toward children in many projects that it’s nice to see them recognize that a lot of modern muppets fans are adults (not that adults can’t like children’s humor, I for sure do, but y’know).

Also I really like a lot of the people they chose as guests for the show, and I honestly like the sitcom style following the muppets backstage of a show. I think it’s a good modernization of the original muppet show premise that allows it to focus less on skits and more on characters. Also normally I despise social media plot lines but I actually like the way this show handles pulling the muppets into the digital age, which is crucial for such a timeless property.

Also, as many problems as there are for muppets fans, it’s a really good show to watch with people who casually enjoy the muppets. This show’s style is more to the taste of some of my family members so I like watching it with them. And separate from the muppet’s characterizations the comedy is really good (but that’s subjective so I can see how it rubs some people the wrong way).

Cons

For one the cliffhanger ending kills me. Even if this show was weirdly received it had a really short run, they could’ve used a few more episodes or another season so we didn’t get left on such an annoying cliffhanger (that left Kermit and piggy still officially broken up since the show didn’t continue long enough for them to get back together).

Ok let me get into characters now, because that’s a criticism that I think is 100% valid (though I also think few people other than jerry juhl have properly understood the muppets and not flanderized their characters in some way)(but yeah it’s really bad here).

Scooter!!

How they’ve massacred my boy!

We’ll get to piggy but scooter is the one I’m most upset about. Why? Why change him from nepo baby humor to haha nerd comedy?? It was 2015 man we love making fun of nepo babies and rich people nowadays why would they change the character whose gimmick gets funnier with age?

His characterization feels pulled from the Big Bang theory. All his comedy is just “virgin nerd” comedy. I love that the show tried giving him more screen time than other projects but they fumbled the bag. He was a spoiled teenager who was wild and fun and could get away with anything because his uncle was rich. I get he’s older now but I refuse to think aging did this to him.

Because I’m a nerd I’m gonna pull some quotes about scooter from the new Richard hunt biography bc that man understood his characters.

“Like Hunt, Scooter is a born performer. Scooter also resembles Hunt in his amiable disposition and his almost nonchalant acceptance of the other characters and their quirks.”

“This acceptance stems from his own quiet confidence in himself… happily amusing himself and the people around him.”

“‘Scooter is a perpetual kid and very comfortable with who he is,’ said Hunt.”

HMMMM? CONFIDENCE? A PERFORMER? COMFORTABLE WITH WHO HE IS?

abc scooter just gives off such anxious vibes it really makes him feel like he’s lost the part of himself that made him so much like Richard Hunt.

Piggy

Ughhh she’s just not fun to watch for the most part in this show. I like the idea of her being the star of the show this time around, reminds me of her unexpected rise to fan-favorite muppet soon after Oz took over her character.

I also really like her friendship with deadly. I think miss piggy so often is boiled down to her love for Kermit that I really love the idea of having her explore platonic bonds. Her looking so hard for happiness in romantic relationships but eventually realizing that deadly is the one who’s been by her side, that he’s her friend and that she really loves him for sticking by her is a really sweet arc (for both of them. Love platonic piggy relationships and I like the modern fashion designer vibe they’ve been doing with deadly, I think it’s a fun reimagining of his original character).

But her diva meter really is pushed up to eleven.

Not to pull more from the Richard hunt bio, but Oz describes piggy as “The tough woman underneath the coyness. And the fact that she had to be coy to get things the way she wanted them, like most women at that time.”

Piggy is from humble beginnings and understands how she needs to act to get people to feel a certain way about her. She also won’t take shit from anybody, though. She knows her worth and knows she’s worked hard to get here, but it also was such an uphill battle to stardom for her I just refuse to believe she would become so selfish and act so privileged the way she does in the show.

ABC piggy doesn’t feel like a girl who tries to be coy but knows to be tough when she needs to be. ABC piggy is mean. She has a thin temper and everyone is scared of her and she’s so removed from the non-famous life that she has trouble bonding with people. She only does community service for publicity and can barely manage to do any manual labor. She’s not tough. She’s angry. She’s short-tempered and violent. And she has no trace of her humble roots, that gratefulness for the position of fame she’s in that she holds in so many other roles.

Others

Sam is pretty creepy. I love his gag of being the censorship for the show, him popping up saying “can’t say that” is a nice little nod to him trying to control the chaos of the original show and his little conservative speech sketches. His crush on Janice is kinda odd tho. I like him getting more modern spotlight, I really like his character in most wanted (though a rewatch of that is needed haven’t seen it in a while). But yeah he’s kinda weird here.

Also why were gonzo and Camilla broken up. Disagree. Idc about your relationship drama they’re the muppets otp.

Uhh trying to think off the top of my head, it’s been a few months since my rewatch of the show. I don’t like the mayhem fight. I think teeth and Floyd fighting over Janice is weird and off for them in modern day. Respect Janice rejecting labels, go off Queen.

Conclusion/TLDR

I had more to say than I realized but I don’t want to make too long of a post. Tldr, I really like the show and it’s humor but it does feel divorced from “the muppets” as a pre-established franchise and characters. The characterization is bad, even though I appreciate them trying to give more screen time to some lesser used characters, it didn’t really work. I just think it had a lot of potential, and I like the idea of a more adult but still family oriented muppet show, but the execution was really hit or miss.

Refer to my previous post about it for more condensed thoughts, weird show all around lol

Also stan abc Big Mean Carl. Stole the show, 10/10

#wow thanks for the ask sorry about the length of this post yikes #but lmk if there’s any other muppets projects you’d like to hear me rant about! #muppets abc discourse has been said before I know none of these are really new takes but these are my thoughts #the muppets #muppets #muppets abc #the muppets abc #muppets 2015 #scooter muppets #miss piggy #Sam the eagle #aghg this took me like half an hour to respond to lol. good use of time tho #ask #asks

[popculturebuffet]

Pirate Week/Monthly Muppet Madness: The Muppet Show: Glenda Jackson (Comission for WeirdKev27)

In Loving Memory of Captain Glenda Jackson

1963-2023

Avast ye happy swabs and welcome to pirate week! Well half a week at this rate but it dosen't sound as good does it. Arrr.

Pirate Week continues a tradition going all the way back to .. last year with pirate month, simply compressed into a week because my schedule has been in freefall since my movie in june and i'm just now getting it back in order.

So to kick this one off we're bringing back some old friends. It's been a bit since the muppets themselves have featured on MMM, it's grown into being about muppet style puppetry in general, but their back in style with one of the best muppet show episodes i've seen.

For those like me not familliar with today's guest, Glenda Jackson was a classically trained actress, winning the triple crown of acting, having won two oscars, three emmy's and a tony and thus being a big deal i'm shocked I hadn't heard of sooner. She also went into politics and all in all seems throughly amazing and i'll certainly be looking into her more after this.

Despite this though when it came to the muppets... she was ENTIRELY chill. Jerry Juhl explained in the book of muppets and men which I just now know exists and now badly want..

“A problem with some guest stars is that they have strong ideas about the show -- about what they'd like to do on it -- and those ideas are not exactly original. Almost everyone wants to work with Piggy, and sometimes that's fine, but often we'd feel much happier if we could match that guest up with another puppet. I think we generally do our best work when we're given a completely free hand, as happened with Glenda Jackson, for example. We asked her if there was anything she would like to do and she said, 'You people know what you're up to. I'll do anything you write for me.'”

And what I love about this is it's clear from the episode.. Glenda didn't say this out of "Oh well I don't give a shit do whatever" syndrome. She's giving her all to the material this episode and having a fucking blast. She simply trusted one of the best creative teams on earth to do what they do and they in turn didn't let her down.

The result is both one of the best muppet show episodes, as I said, but also one of the fucking weirdest. And given this is the muppets that only adds to it. So join me under the cut to see classically trained award winning actress turn out to be a pirate and hyjack the muppet show under the cut!

We open with a standard mupet show opening: our host checking in with Pops the doorman. I see these more in later episodes, with most of the first few seasons instead doing the more memorable "5 minutes to curtain (Insert guest star name here)" with Scooter. She has a penguin sidekick for this one and I love how some guest stars will just casually have their own muppet entourage.

So after our into and standard gonzo gag (this time with a bunch of penguins and given I love me some pengys I loved this), we get our first musical number: Gonzo singing Jim Croche's working at the car wash. What I like is listening to the original while Croche did great Gonzo adds some nice pathos to it, his slower more glum tone giving it a bit of a more melancholy tone while the fact he's surrounded by his chickens and in fantasy takes the day off to go do some stuff i'd rather not competmplate iwth camilla makes it work. Solid sketch.

So Kermit goes to get Glenda.. and it's here the episode goes off the rails only a few minutes in and is all the better for it. So given free reign to do whatever they want with the guest, the writers decided.. to have Glenda be the decendant of the pirate, and with her crew (including my boy sweetums as long john silver, that'll teach kermit to keep leaving him places), mutiny's and takes over the show and shanghais it, leaving the muppet theater stuck on a boat. I paticuarlly love the bit with her pengy parrot, with Kermit snarking the guy up and down about being in a pengy desiguse, not being able to change and then having to go offscreen to do it. Sassy kermit is almost as good as depressed overworked kermit, aka relatable kermit.

The pirates then sing tie the man down.. I forgot this one happened.

Glenda has decided to take the theater ship to go search for treasure, and after one fozzie joke, they set sail to find One Piece!

Oh boo yourself I didn't have time for a once piece film this year. Let me have this.

We then get a great pirate shanty, A Captial Ship. It's a number that both shows off Jacksons pipes and just how game she is. She was handed this pretty nonsensical, if deeply hilariously weird idea and just runs with it. She has pitch perfect comedic timing (When one of her crew worries they've tied kermit too tight she quips "Don't worry his eyes always look like that) and a ton of energy. It's clear like most muppet show hosts she's having a fucking ball doing this.

We then get her parrot singing carolina in the morning... in the croakiest, most nausating voice possible. We don't even get the cahtarsis we should as Sweedish chef prepares to cook the bastard.. only for him to shoot him.

We then get some more antics on deck as Scooter gets seasick, complete with a brand new puppet. And I have to agree wtih muppets fansite tough pigs.. this puppet is all time great muppet stuff.

Especially since they had to make an ENTIRE MUPPET just to do this one gag. Which isn't unsuual for them and probably easier because they know how to make a scooter, but it's still bonkers they put in all that extra work for one sight gag and I salute it.

We get a segment of At the Dance, my faviorite recurring muppet show segment. For those who haven't seen this one, the muppets do a ballroom dance. Usually their pretty good but the jokes here just aren't the strongest and most of it is the boat is moving and knocking everything about. A real disapointment especially since it's a rare gimmicky one that has a certain theme.

We then get Muppet Sports and this one is fun as Lou interviews a crewman whose yard arming, i.e. hainging onto the yard arm of the ship (the thing that comes out of the crows nest that you climbed in donkey kong). He naturally falls thanks to looking down just 5 minutes shy of a world record and even more naturally takes Lou with him. A fun skit, mostly for the ending but I love that they were able to adapt every sketch after the first for this new gimmick. It's still the usual runners but fit sthe perfomers being stuck on a ship.

We then get.. the weakest part of the episode. Shakey Sanchez, the nights intended performer is donig a bomb juggling act. That on a rocky ship.. would work and be geninely funny either because he dosen't drop them and then casually whoopsies or because of all of the explosions. What we get.. is piggy threatning to tip them because she tips the ship wherever she walks. BECAUSE GET IT SHE'S OVERWEIGHT. HA HA. And look I do think you can make an overweight joke work in two circumstances: If it's clearly in good faith by someone who has some weight , like moi, or it's so cartoony and over the top it's less fat shaming and more just plain slapstick, like 80% of the jokes from the critic or this joke from family guy.

In this case it's just "THIS WOMAN IS HEFTY AIN'T THAT FUNNY" which no. It isn't. Your just an asshole. I'm not the biggest Piggy fan but of all the things nto make fun of her for, you choose a non issue? Really?

This also causes a VERY rare event: Kermit ... tries to stop the show

Keep in mind just HOW much shit Kermit goes through on a nightly basis. He didn't stop the show when Alice Cooper kept making deals for satan or when they had to do it at a train station. It just boggles the mind to think just how much this guy can normally take.. and after this too. He dosen't do this after and genuinely dosen't quit unless really pushed. After being kidnapped by a guest who sailed the theater away into the open sea what besides personal issues COULD POSSIBLY BREAK YOU.

We get our finale a battle at sea and my faviorite part. Not only is the song top notch but we get a lot of fun as Gonzo storms the ship to take it back, his chickens as his crew and some human canonballs as his ammo. It's truly awesome and wonderfuly caathartic to see the muppets take their show back. Sadly Glenda fakes just getting to into the bit and ends up winning, but frankly this episode is so insanely redieculous it works. Roll credits. This episode.. has quickly become one of my faviorite muppet show episodes. Not EVERY segment lands, like I said there's a few duds.. but the theme, Jackson's performance and the music is so damn fun you don't dwell on the weaker segments for long and instead just have a lot of fun with the insanity that's unfoldlding. Glenda Jackson trusted they knew what they were doing.. and unsuprisingly the muppet show crew absolutely did. Thanks for reading.

#pirate month #glenda jackson #the muppet show #the muppets #kermit the frog #sweetums #miss piggy #gonzo the great #jim henson #Youtube

[stumbling-buzz]

“Fears of Zero” written by Jerry Juhl and performed by Zero Mostel. The Muppet Show episode 202, 1977. One of the last performances of Mostel’s life.

#the muppets

[bfilm]

there's too many cancelled muppet projects

muppet wiki pages for reference:

Unfinished TV Projects

Unfinished Movies

Minor Unfinished Projects

#the muppets #muppets #did this cause i randomly thought about muppets live another day #even before i was fully into muppet fandom i was devastated when that got cancelled #would it have been good? i have no idea!