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.
DeleteI read bald bloke as blind blake.
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.
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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.
DeleteHmmm....I have some memory of Shorty Rogers doing a cover of that Jonny Quest, and he also worked with the Monkees. It's like...it's all intertwined, man.....connections....
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!
ReplyDeleteThe Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. One of my regrets in life was spotting a "Bullwinkel Ford" license plate frame in the Reed & Sons wrecking yard out in Tracy, CA ("Watch for rattlesnakes") and NOT taking the time to remove it an argue out a price at the counter. I was already loaded with with a Studebaker truck tailgate and hood ornament.
ReplyDeleteThe whole of Jay Ward's animated universe were my favorites. R&B&Friends, but also Fractured Fairy Tales. Later there were George of the Jungle and Super Chicken!
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I have taught my 4 year-old grandson the George in the Jungle theme song and he has spread it to his room at school..."watch out for that...."
Delete"I Spy". Yeah, I know...the Cos...but then, no one knew..I was 13. But it mostly holds up! GREAT theme / score, (Earl Hagen), fab locations, chemistry between Kelly and Scotty...
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Jackanory. And Noggin the Nog (see Muffin the Mule).
ReplyDeleteI'm so old I remember when there were only two TV channels in Boston-- but we were close enough to New Hampshire that we could also receive a station from up there, and they had a local guy who did a daytime kids' show that featured Popeye cartoons, which was my favorite show at the time (late 1950s).
ReplyDeleteBy the time I was old enough to go to school they'd added two more channels, including one public broadcasting outlet-- which in those days ran French lessons during school hours, so the teacher could roll in a TV, turn it on, adjust the antenna for best picture, and go take a cigarette break while we had verbs conjugated at us. By then I'd gotten into Rocky and Bullwinkle. And I'd started buying records too, the first one being Leslie Gore's "It's My Party." (Took me 60 years to figure out what about it appealed to me: the second chord in the verse, after the opening G major, is a B flat, and that's the only place it appears; the rest is pretty standard doo-wop harmonies.)
The Beatles were still a year in the future. That was when the world really changed.
Rocky and Bullwinkle, Tom and Jerry, and to the utter dismay of my poor mother--an refugee from Nazi Germany--Hogan's Hero's. Tangentially related, since some nutcase thought, hey, I know, let's take this brillig, dark WWII POW camp movie and make it into a 20 minute sitcom, at the end of Stalag 17, when Holden says: , "If I ever run into any of you bums on a street corner, just let's pretend we've never met before"...there needs to be a chef's kiss emoji, no?
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