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[Krathoon]

Amazon had Fraggle Rock for $25. I snagged it. I didn't have cable when I was growing up, so I never watched it.


I am tempted to get the Muppet Show, but they edited it for copyright reasons.

I also really liked the Jim Henson Hour and I wish they would put it on DVD. They put all the Storyteller segments on DVD.

I have always been a fan of this stuff and liked how they sometimes get dark with it. The Labyrinth and Dark Crystal are classics.

What are your muppet memories?

 

[Quasicat]

I’m a huge Muppet fan…to where my personal bathroom is Muppet themed.

I remember every Sunday evening in grade school the Muppet Show was on our local CBS affiliate at 7pm and I would bust my butt getting everything done so that I could watch it.
I have every Muppet show on my Plex server including the Jim Henson Hour and Muppets Tonight. I wish we would get the stuff never released on DVD especially the 80s Muppet Babies. I know there are a ton of licensing that gets in the way…but I would love to have access to it.

 

[Sybrix]

Muppets Tonight, loved this show as a kid.

So funny still.

 

[Krathoon]

I didn't even know about Muppets Tonight. I will have to check into it.

 

[Krathoon]

The Muppet Movie disturbed me as a child because they wanted Kermit's frog legs.

Oh, they rebooted Fraggle Rock. Totally did not know that.

Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Hookshot]

Rowlf is my favorite

 

[Krathoon]

We all probably watched Sesame Street growing up. I guess it is still on PBS.

That and the Electric Company and 3,2,1 Contact.

 

[Krathoon]

The DVD case for Fraggle Rock is cheap as hell. It is not in a normal case. All the DVDs are stacked on a spindle made out of flimsy black plastic.

It is in a paper box.

The Adventure Time DVD set is ten times better. It is like a book.

 

[mitch1971]

PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGS IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!

 

[CGNoire]

Amazon had Fraggle Rock for $25. I snagged it. I didn't have cable when I was growing up, so I never watched it.


I am tempted to get the Muppet Show, but they edited it for copyright reasons.

I also really liked the Jim Henson Hour and I wish they would put it on DVD. They put all the Storyteller segments on DVD.

I have always been a fan of this stuff and liked how they sometimes get dark with it. The Labyrinth and Dark Crystal are classics.

What are your muppet memories?

People need to watch The Dark Crystal Netflix series....shit was Fantastic and Darker than the orginal. Clearly aimed at the older fans.

 

[Krathoon]

It sounds like it is better to watch the Muppet Show on Disney+. It is less edited compared to the DVD release. There are two episodes missing.
Here is an article about it.

The Muppet Show Edits Revealed - ToughPigs

The Muppet Show episodes will be unedited, but a few episodes will be missing at the Disney+ launch.

toughpigs.com

Some episodes are also missing bits. You can probably dig around on the internet and find them.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

The storyteller is so awesome. The credits are properly creepy and it used to scare me when I was a young kid.

 

[Krathoon]

For some reason, they will not put the entire Jim Henson Hour on DVD, just the Storyteller stuff. You have to find bootlegs.
Jim Henson would always introduce each episode.

 

[Krathoon]

No wonder I barely remember the Muppet Show. It came out a year after I was born. That is why I barely remember the Muppet Movie.

 

[AJUMP23]

He designed the ninja turtle costumes for the movies. That is amazing.

 

[Krathoon]

Watching the Muppet Show will be a whole 70s nostalgia thing. They even had Debbie Harry.

I totally remember how different the 70s were.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Love Jim Henson's skills, art, and puppet. Dark Crystal and Especially Labyrinth with Labyrinth being one of my top fantasy movies of all times even as someone that first saw it back in 2022 so don't even have any nostalgic bias for it.

 

[Krathoon]

Labyrinth actually had a CGI intro with the owl flying around.

The movie still holds up and is a good coming of age tale.

 

[dave_d]

Just saw this

 

[Quasicat]

I didn't even know about Muppets Tonight. I will have to check into it.

The big problem with Muppets Tonight is that there is an episode with Prince and his estate is extremely hard to work with. I would be ok with them cutting that episode to get the rest of them up in a good quality.

 

[TheAtomicPile]

Jim and his team are responsible for some of the best family / all ages shows and movies that you're going to find. There's Sesame Street, Muppets, Ninja Turtles, Fraggle Rock, Labyrinth, Dark Crystal and nobody has even mentioned Dinosaurs yet.

Jim's definitely somebody we lost way too soon.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Jim and his team are responsible for some of the best family / all ages shows and movies that you're going to find. There's Sesame Street, Muppets, Ninja Turtles, Fraggle Rock, Labyrinth, Dark Crystal and nobody has even mentioned Dinosaurs yet.

Definitely somebody we lost way too soon.

I wish Labyrinth was a massive hit during that time and that David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly could do a sequel a couple of years after the first movie. Or that Jim Henson was able to to make another big unique fantasy movie like Labyrinth/Dark Crystal during the 80s.

 

[TheAtomicPile]

I wish Labyrinth was a massive hit during that time and that David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly could do a sequel a couple of years after the first movie. Or that Jim Henson was able to to make another big unique fantasy movie like Labyrinth/Dark Crystal during the 80s.

He still had plenty of creativity left in him, that's for sure. Some of his best work like Dinosaurs didn't even premiere until after his death.

 

[Chuck Berry]

 

[Chuck Berry]

That original Turtles movie is still the fucking best almost 35 years later.

There was drama and darkness to it that just hasnt been replicated since.

 

[Calico345]

The lack of Emmet Otter in here disturbs me.

 

[Krathoon]

Dinosaurs had the most darkest damn ending, but that was what happened to them.

 

[Krathoon]

Jim Henson apparently had a kick ass funeral. I think they show some of it in the documentary.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Amazed with a lot of his stuff especially the giant maze in the 4th video and funny seeing the Goblin King smoking on set lol.

 

[Digital-Aftertaste]

Kinda doesn't count but, Little House of Horrors would not have been a thing if it wasn't for Jim Henson's influence was directed by Frank Oz after he directed a few muppet movies before

 

[Burning Blade]

I’d love a Muppet Babies DVD set, but do to copyright shit it’ll never happen. Hard to discount the impact Jim Henson had on so many 80s kids!

 

[jason10mm]

FARSCAPE¡!!!!!!!

 

[Krathoon]

 

[MrCunningham]

Technically Secret of the Oozes animatronics had more articulation than the first films' animatronics. But the 1990 TMNT movie really has the more iconic designs. Some of Jim Henson's best work for 1990. For a movie that had a lot stacked against it; the producers of the movie were really lucky to get Jim Henson's creature shop onboard... the film could have been a disaster, otherwise.

I remember losing my mind when I was nine years old; seeing this trailer on TV for the first time.

 

[jason10mm]

The best part of TMNT was how nimble and dynamic they were in that costume. Yet Batman remains stiff as a board for DECADES

And of course the casting...ON POINT!!

 

[Krathoon]

You can watch the Jim Henson Hour on YouTube.

 

[GloveSlap]

Jim Henson was definitely a real one. I would have loved to see what else he accomplished if he had more time.

Jim Henson, Bob Ross, and Mr. Rogers. The wholesome trifecta.