QotD: Celebrational Muppetational!
Who is your favorite Muppet? Why?
QotD submitted by knitwitology.vox.com.
I'm not really into muppetry. From an early age I thought there was something a little weird about adults speaking to children through puppets. I had no trouble disappearing into fantasy as a kid but for whatever reason muppets never earned my suspension of disbelief. I think I knew intuitively that they were really about training children and were proxies for the blandification conspiracy that clearly inhabited all the other hours of public television.
But as an adult (of sorts) I can kind of appreciate the whole Henson thing and I've had several friends with profound-to-pathological love for all things muppet. Some of the Muppet Show stuff works really well and I think Sesame Street is quite cool, even if I didn't dig them as much as a kid. But I find the Dark Crystal to be a cloying visual mess - like an oil on velvet painting that went a bit too crazy on the colors. The crafting of psychedelia is often better left to those who actually partake of psychedelics.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say my favorite muppet is Chewbacca. Because if Chewie aint a muppet than neither is Big Bird.
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you have opened my eyes to jim henson's dark conspiracy
This article has the standard apocryphal story about Henson and the Muppets, when they arrived in England to film The Muppet Show: on the night that they landed in the UK, when Henson’s people started unpacking the Muppets. As they celebrated their new project, and discussed ideas for the forthcoming shows, they are said to have carefully removed from the heads of their Muppets a generous supply of the best psychedelic drugs the West Coast had to offer. Dr Teeth and The Electric Mayhem were devoted to prime West Coast marijuana while Kermit, apparently, had the acid.