Ostensibly, the news from ComicBook.com that arrived earlier this month seems bleak. The headline alone is enough to make a person of a certain age sadly nostalgic: "The Muppet Show’s Disney+ Future Gets Grim Update Despite Multiple Emmy Nominations".
I'm here to tell you, friends, that we didn't watch 120 episodes of The Muppet Show, eight Muppets feature films, four made-for-TV movies, and a shitload of Mylo the Cat Muppet rap videos to watch the Muppetverse fade into oblivion.
If we learned nothing else from The Great Muppet Caper, we know that when things seem at their darkest, when our luck seems to have run out, when the cement mixer we stole after we broke out of prison to steal back the diamond from the villainous models runs out of gas, as long as we believe and have really good writers who aren't afraid of a seeming coincidence, there's always hope.
Conservatively, we've written 1.7 million words in more than 5,600 posts over G:TB's 20+ years as a content factory. Exact figures are hard to come by, but it's safe to say we've mentioned and/or featured Muppets in 10% of that output - we know, love, and honor the source material. Whitney and Dave have written at least one screenplay. I was once cast as Christopher Robin in a touring production of Winnie the Pooh (true story, and a real what-might-have-been moment for your boy). The Teej stars in a recurring role as McFisty on the interwebs. We have writers, actors, and vaguely Muppet-looking dudes in abundance.
All of which is to say: we have the talent, the background, the mindset, and the opportunity to do something the world desperately needs. Our namesake is a movie star, and definitely friends with Muppets, for Chrissakes!
Put differently, in a way more theatrically fitting: Gheorghies, we've trained our entire lives for this moment.
The Muppets will not go out quietly. Not on our watch. Today, we announce a brand new feature film from the people that brought you Gheorgasbord, Whitneypedia, and zbouillabaisse: coming to theatres near you at some point in the near-to-distant future, Gheorghe: The Muppet Adventure (working title).
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Sounds like the anesthesia didn't wear off yet, or rob's on really good pain meds.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure nobody will be guarding the IP, even if they axe the muppets.
ReplyDeleteWait…. huh???! 38 years and I learn this now???
ReplyDeleteI assumed you were his Pooh.
DeleteDuring a work call, a vendor, who is a man, said to my co-worker, who is a woman, "What I've done here is give you ball control." He was talking about a piece of work product, thankfully. I have never heard that workspeak phrase before.
ReplyDelete1. my entire post-op experience has been completely pain-free using just tylenol and motrin. iron balls mcginty over here.
ReplyDelete2. we're gonna break in and steal the ip. it's a heist!
3. my ball control now is excellent.
wait, they cast you as christopher robin, not piglet? i need a picture of this production.
ReplyDeleteso we're writing a muppet movie?
yes. never appeared in the production. yes.
ReplyDeleteThe piglet joke really did tickle my funny bone
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