Yes, by the third album the show was on the ropes. Kermit in rehab, Miss Piggy doing time in the Pork Bend Correctional Facility ... the years on the road had taken their toll. "It wasn't even us on the third album," Kermit says today. "It was a contractual obligation thing, put together without our knowledge. I didn't get a cent from it. None of us did."
Eventually, the band got their act together. Made movies, more TV shows. Garnered an entire new audience as well as welcoming back what was left of their old one. "We're older but wiser," Kermit laughs from his Winnebago on the set of Muppet Yo' Mama. "Sure, we each have our own management, fitness trainers, and once the cameras stop rolling we head for our homes and families. But occasionally I spin that first album, and yeah, I miss those days. We were punk before punk was a thing! I'm proud of that."
My thanks to Kermit The Frog for making time for me!
Today's deliverable is the iconic first album, the "difficult" second album, and the controversial third album. All you have to do is tell us about your favoritest TV show as a kid!
ReplyDeleteThe Muppets were great fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uItJuJeuDg
ReplyDeleteMy favourite tv show as a kid.., lemme think, Thunderbirds!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hahdKYRdY5k
Thunderbirds still holds up. Supemarionation!!
DeleteGerry Anderson created so much of the tv of my youth, really liked Joe 90, but UFO was the one I really loved, and I thought that was how the real future would look.
DeleteI could never take UFO seriously because of that bald bloke. I knew that in the future, baldness would be a thing of the past.
DeleteI don't think there was a bald bloke in UFO, if you're refering to Straker, he had short blond hair. And he had a car with doors that opened upwards - hinged from the roof, a future yet to be realised.
DeleteMa and Pa Kettle and Gilligans Island
ReplyDeleteDoctor Who and The Avengers. For a period they were on TV in our country, and they scared the hell out of me and my older brother. We also tried to watch Koot & Bie which was the best ever.
ReplyDeleteAs a ten years old I did not understand much of K&B but I grew up with them, and have loved them more and more, and their views on a lot of subjects are still (after 30 40 years) on topic.
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2020/05/play-whos-in-my-box-with-tvs-emma-peel.html
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Johnny Quest. That opening theme song still gets me.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhEpjnaNlo
DeleteThere's a guy on various social media accounts who goes by the name of Race Bannon, and adopts the persona of a butch/gay Race. Its hilarious.
DeleteTHIS is how you do opening titles:
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Muppets? Personally I prefer Muffin the Mule.
ReplyDeleteYou got four years at Wormwood Scrubs for that.
DeleteHowdy Doody
ReplyDelete... and howdy doody to yoody toody!
DeleteCaptain Kangaroo!
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