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Who is your favorite Muppet? Why?
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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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