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This Has Nothing To Do With Halloween, But Who Cares?

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Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly

Are kids even allowed to know of a song like this these days?  Like would they sing this now in school?  Curious.

The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance

Age of Resistance will be set many years before The Dark Crystal, which chronicled the journey of Jen, a Gelfling, who's tasked with repairing the Dark Crystal to prevent the evil Skeksis from ruling the planet Thra forever. In the new series, "three Gelfling discover the horrifying secret behind the Skeksis' power [and] set out on an epic journey to ignite the fires of rebellion and save their world."

Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge

A Face Off-like series on SyFy with a Henson spin to it.  Premieres on March 25th.
Been loving Face Off this season, so I hope this is more of the same.  And it has a Halloween prop feel to it.

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The Soldier And Death

From Jim Henson's The Storyteller.

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Welcome To My Nightmare

Muppets are cool.

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The Skeksis

Originally the Skeksis spoke an alien language based on ancient Greek and Egyptian, specially created for them by linguist Alan Garner. Jim Henson stated, "My whole approach to this film is visual. I wanted as little dialogue as possible because I believe the story is stronger that way. Dialogue becomes a crutch. If you have all these alien-looking creatures, why should they be talking in English? An early concept was to have the Skeksis just making noises, but in a way you knew what they were saying." Gary Kurtz responded to the non-English version stating, "The audience thought that they were missing something. Actually, they didn't need to understand the Skeksis' dialogue at those points. The translation of what was being said is really quite banal. The strength of those scenes was instinctively knowing what's going on...But the Skeksis scenes were quite long. You had to concentrate. The audience wasn't prepared to do that." The response of the test audiences led to the replacement of the Skeksis language with English dialogue.

From MuppetWiki

Fear

I have worshiped Zero Mostel since the first moment I saw him in The Producers. Here he is with the Muppets. I read that he passed away before this episode aired.

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Muppet Disasters

Hilarious article on the hazards of being a muppet for Halloween.


An excerpt regarding Cookie Monster:
"Pupils are too big, you've got Special-Ed Cookie. Pupils are too small, you've got Cookie of the Living Dead. This problem is easily avoided with adequate eyeball preparation. If possible, focus group your costume before use. If your user testing shows that children are hesitant to approach, then you need to readjust the eyes."



The Muppet Fan Halloween Parade.