I do not want a Muppet Knives Out movie. I DO want Rian Johnson to direct a Muppet movie.

My favorite Christmas TV specials, in something resembling alphabetical order: A Charlie Brown Christmas Christmas Eve on Sesame Street Claymation Christmas Celebration A Muppet Family Christmas Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

Join us TONIGHT on the ToughPigs Discord for a special live tribute to the Muppet Wiki!

Even Worse by "Weird Al" Yankovic is a very good album. I recently listened to it for the first time in a while and I was so impressed to rediscover how happy each track made me. I would probably trade "Good Old Days" for a polka medley if I could, though!

Adults explaining Mr. Hooper's death to Big Bird gets all the due credit for one of the best things ever put on television. We don't talk enough about how powerful it is that they followed up that scene with two shorts about the renewal of life and ended on Big Bird meeting a newborn baby. cont'd...

Today is the 33rd anniversary of The Muppet Christmas Carol! We hope you're celebrating by attending a party at your local rubber chicken factory.

Disappointed to observe that people now regard the Ron Howard/Jim Carrey Grinch movie as if it's "a holiday classic" or "a movie that's not terrible."

The Muppet Christmas Carol is great because Michael Caine treats the Muppets like sour cream & onion Pringles. Muppet Treasure Island is great because Tim Curry acts like he's a ceiling fan.

Get excited: we've got a review of the most important pencil in the history of the Muppets. Yes, it's the Faber-Castell Col-Erase 1276! Woooooo! www.toughpigs.com/faber-castell/

Numbskull Talk Show Host: "And do you use ChatGPT to tell you how to raise a fork to your mouth and take a bite of food and chew it and swallow it?" Stupid Jerkwad Tech Guy: "I cannot imagine feeding myself without ChatGPT."

Well, I did it. I caught up with all the podcast episodes I had downloaded on my phone. Now I can't download any more because then I'll be behind again.

It's very dumb that the Netflix people are talking about shortening theatrical release windows for Warner Bros. movies right when Wicked: For Good, Zootopia 2, and Five Nights at Freddy's 2 are making lots and lots of money at the box office. I'll never understand why executives don't like money.

The Newsman's has had a nice run as Muppet of the week, but we've noticed that a handful of folks think he's the same Muppet as Guy Smiley, a completely different television personality performed by Jim Henson. Here's a helpful comparison to show your confused friends. The differences:

Remember when Wendy's restaurants had neon signs in their windows that said "CHILI AND FROSTY?" That was neat.

This is one of my favorite games, and this time I got to play it with fellow Muppet nerd @tallgirlpetunia.bsky.social!

I don't have a Spotify Wrapped. Because I mostly listen to music on my iPod Touch.

There's no better way to celebrate the holidays than with LIVE Muppet events! Screenings, cabarets, puppet shows, and more may be coming to your town this December. Here's a handy list with as many as we could find: www.toughpigs.com/xmas-events-...

I'm very happy and grateful that I got to see Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery in a theater with an audience last night.

I'm the host of this podcast episode! It's about the Muppet Newsman, and I had a silly idea: Talk about the character with a REAL news anchor. How did she respond to this wacky practitioner of her profession? Listen at the link or on your podcatcher of choice!

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

I went to Sonic and got a cherry and sweet cream Coke. That was a GOOD IDEA.

Football is boring

ChatGPT is spending trillions of dollars and destroying the environment so people can figure out that you should make pasta on a date

"For months now, the tech world has been drunk on the language of inevitability. AI will transform everything. AI demand for electricity will double America’s power consumption. AI data centers will be the new steel mills, the new auto plants, the new engines of prosperity."

Last night Miss Piggy got arrested at Sabrina Carpenter's show!

If I think highly of you, and then I find out that you use generative AI, or if you disseminate generative AI junk online, I will think less of you. On the other hand, I'm grateful that I know so many people who hate it as much as I do.

A Predator, a prisoner, a weird bird, two witches. #LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched

So... should we be worried about Mamdani?

There's a commercial for Domino's that features music that's obviously supposed to sound like Chappell Roan's song "Femininomenon." But they never say "It's a Dominonomenon." What were they thinking?!

Muppet*Vision 3D was not a ride. If you call it a ride, you are a silly person.

An acquaintance said "They've run out of ideas for movies." She said this just before a screening of Wicked: For Good, a movie she was extremely excited about. That movie is based on a musical, which is based on a book, which was inspired by a movie based on a book.

It's boring to hear about other people's dreams. So you don't have to read about this dream I had last night. There used to be a small theme park in Texas called Aquarena Springs. It closed in the '90s, and its former location is now a nonprofit educational center. I dreamed that they started

I wrote this!

In the '80s, there was a television program about a fussy British man who served as a butler for a suburban American family. For some reason, children loved this program.

My fellow Americans: Don't be fooled by Marjorie Taylor Greene saying sensible things for once in her life. She's not "good" now. She hasn't had a change of heart or seen the light.

Despite the news that Rob Lake and the Muppets' Broadway show is closing, we've got a review and some praise for some very talented puppeteers. www.toughpigs.com/lake-review/

Has anyone reached out to Batman villain the Penny Plunderer for comment?

Do you have questions about The Jim Henson Company's big auction? Good news: We have answers! www.toughpigs.com/auction-faq/

Gavin Newsom posts funny stuff sometimes, but don't forget he's anti-trans rights, and he's hostile to unhoused people, and he should not be in the Democratic presidential primary next year.

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I watched a movie and a guy in it was wearing a tie that didn't look good on him. Why would he choose that tie? What a plot hole!

Today is Sesame Steeet's 56th birthday! If you're interested in learning about the show's stotied history through a feminist lens, check out my podcast A PRAIRIE DAWN COMPANION. You can find it here or on the Muppet Fan Podcasts With ToughPigs podcast feed. www.toughpigs.com/tag/a-prairi...

Happy 56th anniversary to Sesame Street! Can you believe it's been 56 years since Ernie first took a bath on national television?

Will this Simpsons gag from 1994 just keep getting more and more accurate as time goes by?

What do you think the audience is like at a 10:35pm screening of Gabby's Dollhouse?

Muppet News Flash!: a certain Muppet-themed Facebook page posted something about the Miss Piggy movie and misgendered Cole Escola. I pointed this out in the comments, and rather than fix their mistake, the page owner deleted my comment and blocked me from their page. Whoopsies!

1. Alien vs. Predator 2. The Predator 3. Prey 4. Predator 5. Predator: Badlands This is not my ranking. It's the order in which I've seen them!

I really dug the first two episodes of Pluribus on Apple TV. We've seen similar stories about large-scale mind control many times before, but this one feels fresh so far.

It's good to watch different kinds of movies. #LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched

Rarely has a photo captured a leader more accurately.