New MOVIN' RIGHT ALONG podcast! In these minutes from Muppets From Space, we catch up with the Muppets' morning routines with "Brick House." www.toughpigs.com/movin603/

I realized KPop Demon Hunters had achieved total cultural penetration when I found out my dad knows about it.

New Muppets From Space podcast! We’re talking Minutes 03-04: Gonzo is denied admittance to Noah’s ark and knocks Rizzo out the window. PLUS: Is this the Muppet mid-life crisis movie? What’s the best cut of Amadeus? Pee-wee Herman has a good dream! And a cool 1950s stop-motion Disney cartoon!

Here's something: The vast majority of Tough Pigs podcast episodes are now available on YouTube! Now's the time to catch up on the ones you missed -- or listen to your favorites all over again!

When my phone is not on wifi and I try to open Bluesky, I can't because Bluesky thinks I'm in Mississippi, where the app is currently unavailable. I am not in Mississippi. So that's annoying.

I'm the host of this!

It's hard to believe we've yet to see a soft drink commercial featuring the song "Soda Pop" by Saja.

Movin' Right Along: A Muppet Movie Podcast has returned! We’re talking Minutes 01-02 of Muppets From Space, in which the movie begins and Gonzo chases Noah’s ark. PLUS: The Muppet sci-fi movies that DIDN’T get made! Kermit and Piggy living in sin! Should we watch Buddy? And Y2K apocalypse-mania!

Since 2011, Muppet fans have been opining about Jason Segel while frequently misspelling his name. Now Muppet fans are opining about Seth Rogen while frequently misspelling his name. History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr:

Sesame Street: "We're putting hundreds of episodes on YouTube!" Social media user: "Here's my list of complaints about this announcement."

I've been reading a lot of old TMNT comics on Hoopla, inspired by the "Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About Comics" podcast. It's fascinating to see what's familiar and what's not. I had no idea April O'Neil and Casey Jones had a baby named Shadow!

Ted Cruz is putrid, pathetic pond scum.

This song, every day.

When I was a kid, my family subscribed to a monthly "magazine" that came in the mail on floppy disks. It was called Big Blue Disk (later "On Disk Monthly," a more boring name). Sometimes it featured these fun animations about a hapless character named Alfredo...

How does a person get to be like RFK Jr.? How does a guy with no actual medical knowledge become so certain that he knows more than the experts who have dedicated their lives to studying such things? Is it because he's from a high-profile family and nobody ever told him he was wrong?

Follow-up: When this happened to me, I did not say "Bless you." I don't really know this neighbor and it felt it would have intruded on some kind of social boundary. But I guess a lot of people would have!

Question: If you were on your back porch, and your neighbor on the other side of the fence was on his back porch, and he sneezed... would you say "Bless you?"

I must have missed something. Why are people speculating that he's dead or dying?

I just found an old game of "MASH" in a notebook. I'm guessing it's from a summer break when I was home from college, because I think the handwriting belongs to a high school buddy. It predicted that I would: -live in a shack

Sometimes people refer to the third Ninja Turtles live-action movie, where they go back to feudal Japan, as "Turtles in Time." But that's not what it's called. It's called "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III." "Turtles in Time" was

This week on Sesame Street, Niamh gets a haircut in what's clearly supposed to be a commentary on gender presentation. So did they pull it off?? www.toughpigs.com/sesame-niamh...

I like the phrase "whip-smart." I can only hope someday somebody describes me or something I wrote as whip-smart.

In this uncertain economy, I'm seriously considering keeping all my money in a big brown bag inside the zoo.

It's here! I have poured more time and effort into this show than anything else I have ever done. Please listen! Even if you aren't a Muppet superfan, I promise you'll find interesting and entertaining stuff in here. And I can't wait until y'all see the guests I have lined up for future eps!

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The baby born at the end of The Naked Gun 33 1/3 was named Frank Jr., right? So Liam Neeson's character in the new movie is 31 years old?

I know this guy who started asking ChatGPT to do his work for him. Then he started asking ChatGPT to plan his weekends. Then he started asking ChatGPT to make all his decisions for him -- what to have for dinner, what TV show to watch...

There's a commercial for TikTok where Neil deGrasse Tyson says "TikTok has STEM content! It's so educational!" It reminds me of when we used to tell our parents "Playing Nintendo is good for us! It develops hand-eye coordination!"

I would love to know how T-Mobile decided Billy Bob Thornton is the guy America trusts for advice on which phone provider to choose.

Explanation for everyone! On a recent thrifting trip, Staci found this painting, which is... unique. The woman is apparently supposed to be Oprah, which I can see, but I immediately thought it looks more like Elizabeth Taylor or LaToya Jackson than Oprah, so I wanted to hear from others.

Question for everyone: Who is this?

Why have claw machines become a hot, trendy thing?

I just wish I could thank that CEO and that people officer from the Coldplay concert personally. They've given us all so much merriment and fun at a time when we could really use it.

For quite a while, when somebody said to me "The last movie I saw in the theater was..." I could predict whether they were about to say "...Top Gun: Maverick." But then sometimes it was Barbie. And then sometimes it was

Barney Fife attempting to recite the preamble to the Constitution from memory is a very funny comedy scene.

I have seen Superman, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Everyone should see it! But I honestly don't get the "woke" discourse. I love entertainment that's "woke." All superhero movies should be "woke." But I didn't see anything in this one that was more "woke" than most incarnations of Superman. 1/2

I seem to have misplaced my DVD copy of Spider-Man 2. So just to let you all know, that movie is now lost media.

It may be a PR stunt for the Fantastic Four movie, but I think it's great that NYC has put up a street sign marking "Jack Kirby Way" and "Yancy Street."

Max, formerly HBO Max, is now HBO Max. What a weird world.

On the way into the big kitschy candy store, I said "I hope I can find some kind of big weird gummy thing." I think this Oscar Mayer strawberry-flavored gummy bologna fits the bill!

I really dug phase two of the DeMultiverse by @jmdematteis.bsky.social! Once again all the stories are great but this time around Godsend really grabbed me with its various twists and turns. I'm sure everyone is saying this, but I'm ready for phase three!

I recently tried to order my large Rebel energy drink at Dutch Bros with light ice. They told me the result wouldn't fill up the cup, because all Rebels are poured from a can. Which means the difference between a medium and a large is that you're paying more for a bigger cup and more ice! What?!

There are lots of Beach Boys songs with beautiful, poetic lyrics. Also, the second line of All Summer Long is "'member when you spilled Coke all over your blouse?" which is very silly and I love it.

#NoKings. Not even these guys.

Today on Tough Pigs, we have one of those cool articles that explains the ending of a movie! It's everything you need to know about the ending of The Muppet Movie!

I've seen online comments from folks who are skeptical of the upcoming Naked Gun movie because Liam Neeson isn't a comedy guy. Which is funny, because before Airplane, Leslie Nielsen was not a comedy guy!

Watch this! Sometimes Joe Hennes and I make silly puppet videos and then I forget to put them on YouTube for a long time. Here's one of those, in which Murray the Duck meets an elephant who's on his way to the expo... but WHAT KIND of expo?

I feel like I'm not as disappointed as I'm "supposed" to be about Muppet*Vision 3D closing. It would be better for it to stay, but 34 years is an amazing run for a theme park 3D show. It's twice as long as Captain EO ran across two stints!

Our Pride Month fundraiser is off to a great start! Donate to a good cause and win some Muppety prizes! Or help spread the word so we can help spread some good!