The A list
Spent some time watching old "Muppet Show" episodes on DVD last night with the little Pinatas. (We own season one on DVD and it is loads of fun.) When I watch these episodes, I marvel that a comedy variety show featuring puppets and a guest star was prime time fare in the 1970s. It is brilliantly funny stuff, but it is puppetry and therefore remarkable to have been in a prime time lineup by today's standards.
So, with that freshly in mind and with a far more severe approach to the list:
A listers:
Kermit
Fozzie
Miss Piggy (not an A lister early in season 1, I might add)
Gonzo
Animal
B listers:
Rolf
Scooter
Statler and Waldorf
The other members of Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem (Dr. Teeth, Floyd, Janice, Zoot), except for Animal, who is clearly an A lister
The Swedish Chef
Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
Beaker
C listers:
Dr. Julius Strangepork
Robin (the frog nephew of Kermit)
Lew Zealand
Hilda
Annie Sue
Beauregard the stagehand
Camilla the Chicken
The Muppet Newscaster
To get on the A list, you really have to have been riding in the first limo with Kermit. I can see Fozzie and Piggie in there with him, with Gonzo and Animal squeaking in on character recognition. (Animal is smashing the glasses of Cristal in the limo, though.) B listers are fine characters, of course, but they certainly wouldn't have been able to bring in the big money during contract negotiations. (They flew first class, but Kermit was on the corporate jet, baby.) The C listers flew coach. They were the left tackles of muppetdom. And I think I'm out of metaphors.
Two additional thoughts:
1. I am not sure if "freshly" is a word, but I'm going with it.
2. Once again, I hate the St. Louis Cardinals.
posted by Kevlar Pinata @ 10:59 PM
4 comments
4 Comments:
I love this post. I must go get these DVDs.
Similar but related: The Peewee shows on the Cartoon Network have been hard to find but when I find them I LOVE LOVE LOVE them.
Go Padres!
Pinata! Good work.
I once spent an evening on Acid watching the Muppet Movie. I wept tears of real joy at the triumphant ending, where Kerm, Pig & Foz were offered "THE CONTRACT" by the Moppet-like grith master Orsen Wells.
There is NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING to like about baseball playoffs this year. The MERICAN LEG features the Yankees, Twinks, Detroit & Oakland. This means the Yankess have two teams in this year, their A team, and their triple A's affiliate. Who the hell wants to spend time helping the Yanks do a scouting report on Barry Zito? Twins fans wave hankies. Felicity fans wave gottdam chicken legs. Detroit held my interest for 2 minutes, until I decided that I was insanely jealous of Jim Leyland's benson & hedges stained moustache of restraint.
And the National League? Feh. In the imortal words of O's skipper Earl Weaver, "Fuck those little skinny guys that run the bases, find me some cock sucker that can hit the fucking crap out of the baseball".
There is no restraint.
Godilovethisblog.
Why do you "hate" the Cardinals? Hate is such a strong word.
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