![]() Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. ![]() THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP.ĭON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. The immense popularity of The Muppets they created for Sesame Street gave Jim Henson, Jerry Juhl and Frank Oz the impetus to create a variety show for family viewing, but with social and political satire. ABC aired a pair of Pilot specials, The Muppets Valentine Show (1974) and The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence (1975), but when all the U.S. networks rejected their ( frankly awesome) pitch for a weekly series, they instead finagled a distribution deal with Britain's ITC, under the auspices of Lord Lew Grade. The Muppet Show was produced for worldwide weekly syndication from 1976 to 1981. It was videotaped at the London studios of ITC's parent company ATV. The choreography for the human guests was created by Gillian Lynne, who later went on to design all of the ballet sequences in Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage version of The Phantom of the Opera. The show became so popular that in at least one U.S. #MUPPET SHOW FONT MOVIE#Market, two stations broadcast different episodes of The Muppet Show in back-to-back time slots! The show was never actually cancelled instead, Henson and company decided to end it so that they could work on films, The Muppet Movie in particular.Ī different human entertainer was featured as the show's guest performer in each episode, and the show's cachet quickly became such that they were frequently A-list-often uniquely so (ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev, anyone?). Each week, technical flubs, talent crises, rampaging egos and financial issues (when the pigs weren't rebelling, or angry clones weren't on the loose, or the Star Wars cast wasn't rampaging through in search of Chewbacca) would bring the show teetering to the brink of disaster each week, the show somehow managed to go on. ![]() Recurring sketches included Veterinarian's Hospital, starring Rowlf ("the continuing stoooooooory of a quack who's gone to the dogs") Pigs in Space ( yep, pretty much) Muppet Labs, with Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his perpetually terrified assistant Beaker ("Now your family can be protected from the heartbreak of gorilla invasion!") cooking segments with the game-but-goofy Swedish Chef and the disaster-prone 'Muppet News Flash'. And sitting high above it all in the balcony, in prime position to volley insults, were codger hecklers Statler and Waldorf: Piano-playing Doctor Teeth and his Electric Mayhem - laid-back bassist and singer Floyd Pepper, groovy guitarist Janice, silent saxophonist Zoot and drummer Animal - were the house band. Ostensibly a family show, The Muppet Show in practice played freely with the dark side of Henson's vision, more familiar from his later work. Notable guest stars included Alice Cooper, Vincent Price, Jonathan Winters, Peter Sellers, Christopher Reeve and Steve Martin. This is just less than impressive.Songs from adult shows like Chicago and Cabaret were worked into the mix (to say nothing of Elton John singing "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", or Cooper's "Welcome to My Nightmare".) Casual violence abounded, seemingly gentle skits often took a weirdly surreal turn. It's just a great looking showy font, it's been around forever, and it just gives a bold impression. just a little side thing that says "Created by" similar to "Nickelodeon's Spongebob Squarepants (created by Steven Hillenberg)" That does NOT imply ownership, but rather gives credit to bother the true owners and the one that came up with it.Īnd frankly, the classic Muppet Show font works WONDERS. not saying "Jim Henson's Muppets" or any relation to the Jim Henson company. Now, if I had a say, I'd love to see something like Disney presents the Muppets (created by Jim Henson) and at least bridge that together. I'd hate to see the Disney logo over the word Marvel. They have been doing a great job integrating the brand, but keeping it a separate entity all its own. ![]() Third, I don't know what I hate more, the word THE or the Disney over the logo. Unless the other letters were other characters, then it would be cute at least. Secondly, I dislike the Kermit M completely. And in a overly simple black font color as well. The type face, save for the Kermit M is very VERY bland. There are multiple things I dislike about it. ![]()
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