Full Transcript for Muppet Magazine #17 Winter 1987 (w/ Mike and Tim)

all I was thinking of was, and it's a terrible, like I didn't think I didn't I thought of it innocently, and then afterwards I was like, oh no, that's bad, uh, was pork the halls. 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:48.399 Nope. 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:50.879 Nope, can't use it. 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:54.240 Definitely not. 00:04:57.600 --> 00:04:58.319 Well then. 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:03.759 I was thinking of something like the swamp and swan a swamp and swine Christmas. 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:05.199 But I works. 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:05.920 I don't know. 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:06.560 Yeah, I don't know. 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:08.240 It's it's clunky. 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:10.480 It's too clunky for a Hallmark title. 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:11.439 Yeah. 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:12.639 I gotcha. 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:15.759 They sand down those edges to a smooth sheen. 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:18.480 They sure do. 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:22.160 If it was any more formula, we'd feed it to a newborn. 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:25.519 Okay, wrong under the mistletoe. 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:26.399 That's right. 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:31.839 All right, and finally, besides Waldorf, what other Muppet could play Santa? 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:35.360 Swedems could be Santa. 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:36.160 I was just gonna say. 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:42.879 Oh, that would be great. 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:44.480 Oh, but since you said Swedem. 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:48.639 Swedish chef would be a hilarious Santa. 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:51.360 I'd watch the pick out of that. 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:54.160 I mean, I don't know how they would make him come down the chimney. 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:59.279 Like, I don't know how the visual effects team would make that happen just because he's such a complex Muppet. 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:07.839 But I'm dancing and be shabblitzing and over yum go. 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:12.800 I don't know, but uh again, I'm into it. 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:14.240 I'm all in on this. 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:18.319 Well, that's just a way for our listeners to get to know you guys a little bit better. 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:19.360 So thank you for that. 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:27.199 So tonight we're here to talk about Muppet magazine, specifically number 17, the winter 1987 issue. 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:33.360 What do you guys remember about like remind us again about your history with the Muppets in general, and then what do you remember about Muppet magazine? 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:35.040 And why don't we start with you, Mike? 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:39.839 I somehow totally missed Muppet Magazine in its heyday. 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:47.920 I had Sesame Street magazine, I subscribed to that, or my mom subscribed to that, for I want to say the entire first half of the 80s. 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:57.439 Like I'm looking at Muppet Wiki at Back Issues of Sesame Street Magazine, and I see covers I absolutely recognize that apparently came out before I knew how

to read. 00:06:57.839 --> 00:07:09.199 So I guess maybe some older cousins handed their back issues down to me or something, or maybe they were at the library, but I don't think I even knew about Muppet Magazine until I was an adult. 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:11.360 I'm very glad it's well preserved, though. 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:12.240 Yeah. 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:18.639 I mean, obviously I was a big Muppet guy, but I'd never heard I'd never even heard of Muppet Magazine until this. 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:22.480 I was a subscriber to Lucasfilm magazine around this time, I think. 00:07:22.879 --> 00:07:26.240 Um and Mad magazine and Cracked Magazine. 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:27.040 Yep. 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:30.160 Cracked and mad, yeah, for sure. 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:31.680 Alfred E Newman. 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:34.160 No, I'm actually kind of right there with with both of you. 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:36.560 I missed this completely in the 80s. 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:43.439 This is something I didn't I heard rumors that there was a Muppet magazine like back in college, and I was like, whatever, man. 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:43.839 Come on. 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:45.519 Muppets, come on. 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:47.600 Well, egg on my face. 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:49.279 There is a Muppet magazine. 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:50.800 In fact, it's right here. 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:54.079 Oh, you have a copy! Snippety Snap. 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:54.959 Wow. 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:57.360 That's in good condition. 00:07:57.839 --> 00:07:58.800 It is, yeah. 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:01.040 And uh it wasn't too bad, actually. 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:05.360 I found it on eBay and I was like, well, I gotta get it so we can like actually look through it. 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:12.639 Some of the the words, you know, because uh Muppet Wiki has this whole thing preserved, but some of the words were hard to read, so I was like, oh, okay. 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:13.519 Yeah, the skin is a little bit of a. 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:15.519 Oh, I thought I was just old. 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.079 We are, but I don't know what Jonathan is saying. 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:23.360 I don't know. 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:26.879 There's there's some dog puns in there, and that's about it. 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:28.879 Yeah, yep. 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:35.200 So Muppet magazine is a quarterly magazine, it ran from 82 to 89. 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:40.799 I kind of went through the history already when I covered this back in like season three, I think. 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:43.519 But I really only talked about one particular segment here. 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:45.039 I want to talk the whole magazine. 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:50.320 In particular, we'll focus on Twist the Night Before Christmas, of course, but but we'll get into the whole thing. 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:56.159 So, yeah, this this issue is it's weird, but I love it. 00:08:56.399 --> 00:09:01.840 It's wild, it makes no sense,

but it's pretty great, I gotta say. 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:06.399 So the cover is probably one of the most 80s things I've ever seen. 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:14.720 It's Pee Wee Herman with Kermit and and like that felt stocking that like everybody had or everybody had, yeah. 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:17.039 I mean, they still sell them. 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:18.799 Oh, yeah, tiny little thing. 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:22.000 I cannot believe I didn't know about this magazine. 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:27.120 Just this cover combines three of my favorite things Kermit the Frog in a Santa suit next to Pee-Wee Herman. 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:32.720 Oh yeah, I was big into the Pee-wee Herman Playhouse back there. 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:33.120 Right. 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:37.360 I I had a tin foil ball and a rubber band ball in real life. 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:43.200 So despite working on them for years, it never got anywhere as big as the ones in the show. 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:43.759 Oh no. 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:44.879 No, no, no, no. 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:54.399 I mean, you know, but like every time we had to do like one of those um one of those connect the dots, like at school, we always summed this up. 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:54.799 Oh, yeah. 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:57.200 You know, I mean, yeah, it's like like you have to. 00:09:57.840 --> 00:09:58.159 Oh yeah. 00:09:58.240 --> 00:09:59.360 No, yeah, same. 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:05.600 I and I I had no idea that Pee-wee was even with the Muppets on, you know, something like this. 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:16.960 But so it starts us off, it says Pee-wee and Kermit, Playhouse Pals, Brighton Beach Star, Jonathan Silverman, which I I mean, even as an adult, I don't know what Brighton Beach is, but okay. 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:17.840 No idea. 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:30.720 And then and then the teen stars of Kate and Alley, and in the corner, you can see right here this the bottom left, uh the bottom right corner, it says a Muppet Baby's Christmas. 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:32.559 So that's the big draw. 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:35.679 That's like the the most Christmasy thing of the whole thing. 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:36.559 Yeah, you're right. 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:39.039 Especially at this time, Muppet Babies were awesome, right? 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:40.879 I mean, I I watched it all the time. 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:41.679 Oh, yeah. 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:45.039 This was this was probably the height of Muppet Babies popularity. 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:46.639 Yep, yeah. 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:51.759 I mean, because like there was what, Indiana Jones and Star Wars and like all sorts of stuff mixed in. 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:53.519 Sure, super cool. 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:54.720 Yeah. 00:10:55.120 --> 00:11:00.720 So we open it up and we get a two-page spread of this ad for pound puppies. 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:08.879 And it's this little boy just uh laying around with two cages behind him and just a bunch of pound puppies all over. 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:11.120 Yeah, that was that was my brother. 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:15.840 Uh my brother like had a lot of pound puppies, and he would pile them on his bed. 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:29.120 And I remember one night while a babysitter was watching us while my parents were out, and I wake up and she's calling his name frantically, and I look down on her bed, and he's I know he's under that pile of stuff. 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:30.799 I'm just like, he's asleep. 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:33.600 She runs him and she's like, You mean he's under all of that pile of stuff? 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:34.480 Like, yeah, he always sleeps. 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:36.240 Oh my goodness, thank you, Mike. 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:39.919 I just that's a that's a core memory I have. 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:41.600 Disaster averted. 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:42.960 Yeah, yes. 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:45.600 Oh man. 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:51.360 I mean, yeah, that's almost like a like a Halloween episode right there, but yeah. 00:11:53.120 --> 00:12:00.320 So you turn the page and it's a full page ad for An American Tale, which was one of my favorites back in '87. 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:01.600 I loved that movie. 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:05.840 And it's got little Fival, you know, there on the bridge, you know, coming down the ramp. 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:07.600 Oh, yeah, like the poster. 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:08.639 Right, exactly. 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:12.879 It says Meet Fivel in his search to find his family, he discovered America. 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:13.919 There you go. 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:17.840 Sounds like he should have just talked with Sam Eagle, he would have been fine. 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:19.039 Sure. 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:20.240 Yeah. 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:25.360 So uh next page, of course, is just the um table of contents, a list of major stories. 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:28.240 And as we turn the page, now this is the one I really want to get into. 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:29.679 It's the editorial here. 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:41.440 So this is another really punny kind of uh dad jokey kind of editorial, and I'm here for it. 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:45.519 You know, I gotta say, just hit all the right notes for me. 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:48.399 Um so tis a season to be hopping. 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:50.480 Herman just introduces everything. 00:12:50.559 --> 00:13:03.120 He kind of just runs down the list of what's going to happen in the magazine, talks about Pee-wee Herman, and then we get like these song lyrics that he just changes to make frog puns. 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:04.000 Yeah. 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:15.759 It's just this whole thing is frog puns he has inserted into your favorite Christmas carols, such as May your days be merry and keen, and May all your holidays be green. 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:22.399 Like Yule Tide Carols being sung through the swamp and frogs dressed up like you get it. 00:13:22.480 -->

00:13:23.600 It goes on like that. 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:26.480 I mean, that's how I learned them, right? 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:28.080 Yeah, yeah. 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:34.559 I want to point out here, so the the actual editor of Muppin' Magazine, Kermit is the frog in chief. 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:34.799 Right. 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:36.240 He gets his own credit and everything. 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:39.519 The actual editor of Muppin' Magazine at the time was Jim Lewis. 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:44.080 He is a longtime ghost writer for Kermit the Frog and other Muppets. 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:57.279 Also wrote the original story for what would become the Christmas special Frosty Returns, which I did an episode about back in July, and I'll probably never watch it again. 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:02.960 But reading that editorial, I'm like, okay, I see how you get from there to Frosty Returns. 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:09.120 I mean, I'm like past you know on Frosty Returns. 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:10.960 I saw once, I'm good, it's not can't be. 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:13.360 Yeah, no, yeah, you're you're you're solid. 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:17.200 As as much as they try to make it canon, it's they're just it's they can't. 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:17.919 Sorry. 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:19.759 Um they don't try that hard. 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:20.879 That's the problem. 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:24.720 Well, uh, they package it that way. 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:26.399 Like, yeah, that's it. 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:29.279 That's that's the only place where they're trying to. 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:31.279 Oh, yeah, this is related. 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:36.399 Oh, and dashing through the swamp in a one-toed open sleigh. 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:38.320 Oh, man, that's great. 00:14:38.639 --> 00:15:03.919 So we get the tang here, and then we get the Muppet Mailbag, which is just you know, kids writing into well, I don't know how how many actually were from kids and how many were just made up, but kids writing into Kermit, who then um beaker or Muppet or whichever uh whichever Muppet they want at the time, and then they get responses there, but uh yeah, pretty good. 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:06.799 So we get to the first big section here. 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:11.200 It's the Muppet Roundups, and this is uh done by Electric Mayhem. 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:17.600 We get Floyd's record rap, and I actually kind of like this one because they do talk about like Christmas music in it. 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:20.000 So I don't know if you guys got to to read it. 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:24.240 Yeah, yeah, this was an interesting way to talk about what's new in pop culture. 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:27.120 They write a music column as Floyd Pepper. 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:30.879 Yep, with the hottest winter warmth. 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:32.559 Go ahead, sorry. 00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:33.679 That's it. 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:38.639 Oh, I it made me wonder like who's getting their music

news from Muppet magazine? 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:39.759 Somebody. 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:43.200 Wait, wait, Cindy Lauper's got a new album out? 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:44.000 Hold everything. 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:44.799 Yeah, yeah. 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:47.759 He's talking about Bobby Brown's first solo album. 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:53.840 Daryl Hall has a solo album, but Floyd reports she has not split from Oats. 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.159 Thank goodness Floyd's on the beat. 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:00.639 I think in '87 he had officially split from Oats. 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:02.639 He has now. 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:06.799 This is winter '87. 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:09.039 It's like December 1986. 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:11.120 And then the winter of 87. 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:12.159 That's what's going on here. 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:14.799 And you know how magazines would always come out a little early. 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:17.759 So this is probably coming out November 86. 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:18.559 I got you. 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:20.720 So it's the opposite of comic books. 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:24.720 Because comic books, it would be labeled December, but it wouldn't come out till like March. 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:25.840 Oh wow. 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:26.399 Yeah. 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:26.879 Okay. 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:27.759 No, yeah. 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:34.240 Magazines in my experience are always like they come out a little earlier than what the date says. 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:35.440 Well, I love it. 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:40.080 He says, From aha to ho ho ho, there's a ton of Merry Christmas tunes turning in my head. 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:47.840 Catch a ride with a sleigh full of hip holiday hits on the rockin' little Christmas LP, which now I gotta go track that down. 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:49.120 That's uh sounds like an episode. 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:49.759 Oh yeah. 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:50.320 Yep. 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:57.759 Uh, and get lots of laugh-filled fun as Christmas comedy classics brings you the silliest novelty tunes. 00:16:58.080 --> 00:17:00.559 So curious to see which ones are on there. 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:08.720 And then there's uh George Strait's album, Merry Christmas Straight to You, Christmas Again from the Oak Ridge Boys, and then they they go through some other things. 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:10.880 Till Tuesday, Timbuk 3. 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:12.240 Like oh wow. 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:18.240 That's it, right? 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:18.720 What else? 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:19.200 What else? 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:21.759 I wasn't even aware, that's who sang it. 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:22.559 Right. 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:23.759 Exactly. 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:32.880 Yeah, it's like a duet uh from Texas, and then I think they ended up splitting uh but that's all I know about them. 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:35.839 Like, like that's literally the all I know about them. 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:38.079 They're still getting those checks, though. 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:39.519 That's right. 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:42.000 So uh that whole thing was by Floyd. 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:47.359 As you turn the page, we get a coming to traction, so it's all about movies, and this is done by Janice. 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:49.599 Yeah, they have Janice on the movie beat. 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:53.759 She's apparently writing from Hawaii to beat those below zero blues. 00:17:57.279 --> 00:17:58.319 So let's get started. 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:06.160 So I said, look, buddy, I don't take my clothes off for anyone. 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:09.200 My good friend Janice. 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:11.200 I was gonna say, you met her, didn't you? 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:12.960 I met Janice and Floyd. 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:14.559 And Floyd, wow. 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:15.599 Yeah, oh. 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:17.359 That's cool. 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:18.559 It was the best. 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:21.119 That's amazing. 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:26.400 But she talks about Star Trek 4, The Voyage Home, which is one of the better Star Trek movies. 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:33.599 You know, yeah, well, that one's notable because 1987 is the year Kirk Thatcher started working with the Muppets. 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:37.279 He was an associate producer on this, he was the punk rocker on the bus. 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:44.000 A year after this, he'd start working as an associate producer for the Jim Henson hour. 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:48.079 So that this is the first thing Janice mentions. 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:50.079 So I gotcha. 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:51.519 It's not just a coincidence. 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:51.839 Yeah. 00:18:53.359 --> 00:18:55.599 Maybe he enjoyed the shout-out him up in magazine. 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:57.279 He's like, I'm gonna track them down. 00:18:57.519 --> 00:18:59.119 He's like, maybe that's it. 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:00.640 Mom, I made it, Mom. 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:07.119 But it is funny because then we get the Michael J. 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:13.200 Fox movie Um Light of Day, which I've never seen, but I know like Joan Jett comes out in it. 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:14.559 That's like all I know. 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:16.640 I remember it because I was a huge Michael J. 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:18.880 Fox fan at the time, but I didn't actually see it. 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:21.039 I was like, this seems too adult for me. 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:23.440 Doesn't seem like there's werewolves or of time travel. 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:24.240 I'm out. 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:26.720 Those are the two things, right? 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:27.599 That's the other one. 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:35.759 Uh they do talk about Jonathan uh Silverman's Brighton Beach memoirs, which is great because later on we're actually gonna interview him. 00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:37.359 So good thing they mentioned it. 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:39.599 And Matthew Broderick has

Project X. 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:41.119 Do you guys remember Project X? 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:42.079 I do not. 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:45.759 Like I swear I remember ads for it, but I don't remember it. 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:47.359 Like, I don't know what happened. 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:48.240 I don't know how to do it. 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:53.039 I know I've seen it, but like all I remember is something about monkeys, right? 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:54.160 Like chimpanzees. 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:55.039 That's all I remember. 00:19:55.599 --> 00:19:56.720 Oh yeah. 00:19:57.039 --> 00:20:02.720 So it's uh I think they like do experiments on them and he has to like save them. 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:04.400 Save the monkeys? 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:05.200 Yeah. 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:05.839 Alright. 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:06.720 I cannot remember. 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:09.920 It's like like reverse planet of the apes or something. 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:16.319 I don't know, but uh we get to Hooser's Lady and the Tramp, The Mouse and the Motorcycle. 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:17.759 So I remember that. 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:26.079 They that was like a like a Saturday morning or or Sunday afternoon like special on whatever channel it was on. 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:28.480 Yeah, it was an ABC weekend special. 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:29.279 That's it. 00:20:29.519 --> 00:20:32.720 And it's a Beverly Cleary book um, right? 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:33.279 Yes. 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:34.960 I never read the book. 00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:38.559 I had forgotten Hoosiers came out this late in the 80s. 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:42.240 Like I I assume I uh in my head, Hoosier's like a 70s thing. 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:44.240 Yeah, it has a 70s feel, doesn't it? 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:44.880 Oh yeah. 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:48.160 Yeah, you gotta pass the ball four times or whatever it is. 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:52.960 Um, and then they mentioned some other movies that I've like never heard of, and I thought, okay, that's fine. 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:58.240 So but like have a wiki wacky waikiki winter. 00:20:58.480 --> 00:21:08.480 Yeah, uh she doesn't mention it by name, but Janice talks about our totally green frog and chief Kermit hosting an awesome new holiday story on ABC in December. 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:13.680 Again, magazines were published early, so they are talking about the Christmas toy. 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:16.240 Wow, that's awesome. 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:17.039 Yeah. 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:31.039 Well, we also get the next page a Kool-Aid ad, and the dude, I don't know if it's him, but it sure looks like the the son, the older son from um The Great Outdoors. 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:32.319 I don't know if you can see. 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:34.400 Oh my goodness, you're right. 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:38.319 And I only realized that because I just watched it the other day. 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:38.880 Okay. 00:21:39.519 --> 00:21:40.720 With my daughter.

00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:44.000 So I was like, wait a minute, I just saw this dude. 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:45.119 I know this guy. 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:51.599 But but he is wearing some 80s tastic Oh man, it's like pink and purple sweater. 00:21:52.559 --> 00:21:53.119 Untouched. 00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:55.039 Yeah, with a little bit of teal in there. 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:56.240 Yeah, the yeah. 00:21:56.559 --> 00:21:58.799 It has a bit of a Cosby sweater vibe to it. 00:21:59.440 --> 00:21:59.839 A little bit. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:00.559 Yeah. 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:01.440 Yeah, for sure. 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:03.119 Would you like some Kool-Aid? 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:04.240 No, no, sir. 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:04.799 No. 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:05.359 No. 00:22:05.599 --> 00:22:05.920 No. 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:08.160 Get back. 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:13.599 Um, so we have but he's wearing like two different collared shirts underneath that sweater. 00:22:13.759 --> 00:22:17.440 Like this dude must have been so hot in taking these pictures here. 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:18.640 Chris Young? 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:20.079 Is that is that him? 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:21.200 Is that who this is? 00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:22.640 I'm looking at the great outdoors cast. 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:23.519 I think it's Chris Young. 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:24.319 It looks like him. 00:22:24.559 --> 00:22:25.519 It could be. 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:30.880 Uh it don't know if it actually says here, but it sure looks like him. 00:22:31.039 --> 00:22:31.680 Yeah. 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:34.960 Well, it's he says his name is Michael. 00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:37.039 Well, I mean, it's an at. 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:38.480 Right, right. 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:39.920 But anyway. 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:44.960 I tell you what, though, I'd totally rock that outfit nowadays. 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:46.559 Oh, a hundred percent. 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:49.200 If I had that available, I'd totally buy that. 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:54.480 If you wear that to a Halloween party, how many people are gonna guess what you're dressed as? 00:22:56.799 --> 00:22:57.680 The 80s. 00:22:57.759 --> 00:22:58.799 That's what I'm dressed as. 00:22:59.279 --> 00:23:00.480 Just bring the magazine with you. 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:01.279 Have it under your arm. 00:23:01.759 --> 00:23:02.400 What's your costume? 00:23:02.480 --> 00:23:03.359 Here you go, page six. 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:08.160 An ad you've never seen. 00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:09.839 That's right. 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:11.440 What do you mean you don't recognize it? 00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:12.079 Come on. 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:13.920 I'm Michael! 00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:17.599 Who are you supposed to be? 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:19.519 Well, Michael, obviously. 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:25.279 So the next page we get Ralph on books. 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:31.680 He's uh and it starts off, I'm dreaming of a warm Christmas, just like the ones I'd like to know. 00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:37.039 And he says he's just trying to keep warm by singing because it's 35 degrees below zero. 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:38.400 Oh my goodness. 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:45.119 And the cool thing about this page is they have some Christmas books as well that were just being released. 00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:53.359 So there's one called We Wish You a Merry Christmas, um, which pictures by Tracy Campbell, Tracy Campbell Pearson, excuse me. 00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:55.599 It's a funny heartwarming, love that word. 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:57.599 And I I can actually see Rolf saying that. 00:23:57.839 --> 00:23:58.720 Oh, I love that word. 00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:00.480 Oh, yeah, yeah, nice. 00:24:01.119 --> 00:24:02.319 What a great word. 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:06.000 Uh funny heartwarming book. 00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:12.559 Uh and um then he talks about uh the story of the nutcracker ballet, which is by Deborah Hutzig. 00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:16.079 Uh Noelle of the Nutcracker by Pamela Jane. 00:24:16.319 --> 00:24:20.240 Like, I don't know any of these, but he does talk about the brave little toaster. 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:22.079 Yeah, he's talking about the book. 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:25.680 Uh the movie comes out this coming year in '87. 00:24:25.759 --> 00:24:30.880 So the book came out in 1980, so that must be why they're hyping it here. 00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:32.079 Synergy. 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:34.640 Read the book before you see the movie. 00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:38.240 I mean, they always say do it the other way around, right? 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:39.920 Because otherwise you'll be disappointed. 00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:42.960 But you'll be lost if you don't read the book first. 00:24:43.039 --> 00:24:47.119 You'd be like, wait, what who is this vacuum cleaner character? 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:53.359 Uh, The Franken Bagel Monster, which I totally want to read. 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:56.240 Um, and then there's a bunch of other books. 00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:00.160 I gotta say, I don't really remember any of these books. 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:10.720 But I kind of want to read a few of them, and I think my son or my my youngest would really like my seven-year-old would probably like the one um Scoop After Scoop. 00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:12.319 It's all about ice cream. 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:14.079 So I could say you're wondering to read that. 00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:18.240 Uh and then we get a Lisa Frank ad. 00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:19.359 Oh yeah. 00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:21.359 Talk about 80s. 00:25:21.440 --> 00:25:24.960 Like this, the 80s threw up all over this page right here. 00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:30.880 And it's just Lisa Frank sweaters and sweatshirts. 00:25:31.039 --> 00:25:32.480 Oversized sweatshirts, sorry. 00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:33.039 Of course. 00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:33.599 Yeah. 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:35.039 You gotta be oversized. 00:25:35.200 --> 00:25:36.799 Yeah, gotta pop that shoulder. 00:25:38.480

--> 00:25:39.359 That's right. 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:42.960 I mean, these ladies are airborne. 00:25:43.039 --> 00:25:45.119 That's that's how oversized these are. 00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:49.279 Could use it as parachutes. 00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:55.599 Um, so the child was 1995 and a junior was 24.95. 00:25:56.079 --> 00:25:58.880 Then you fill it out, or you can even order by phone. 00:25:59.279 --> 00:26:01.119 Didn't have that internet yet. 00:26:01.759 --> 00:26:02.000 No. 00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:04.960 You can't imagine shopping by phone. 00:26:05.119 --> 00:26:05.920 Ugh. 00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:07.839 Sounds horrible. 00:26:09.039 --> 00:26:10.000 I must have. 00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:12.559 Oh, yeah, comic relief every year. 00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:20.960 Oh, I just said I feel like like we all probably did at some point, but Well, I know for comic relief, every time, you know, the Billy Crystal Rogue. 00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:22.000 Yeah, telephone. 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:24.240 I bought those shirts every year. 00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:24.799 Okay. 00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:26.240 Yeah, that counts. 00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:27.200 Yeah, I agree. 00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:28.480 I agree that counts. 00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:33.359 Uh, but the next is our cover, our cover story here. 00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:33.839 Yeah. 00:26:34.079 --> 00:26:39.920 And it's uh at the playhouse with Pee-Wee Herman by Kermit, as told to Fred Newman. 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:42.400 Yeah, that Fred Newman. 00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:45.279 As in the former host of the Middle Mouse. 00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:46.960 Yes. 00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:48.079 Yeah. 00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:52.559 So but he was apparently a regular contributor to Muppet magazine. 00:26:55.039 --> 00:27:05.119 Yeah, well, and 1987 would be the year Fred starred in this unsold pilot for Jim Henson's Mu uh Puppet Man. 00:27:05.519 --> 00:27:07.359 Are you familiar with Puppet Man? 00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:08.480 I am not. 00:27:09.599 --> 00:27:17.119 He tried to sell this sitcom about a puppeteer and a kid's show, but it was behind the scenes, and the joke was the puppets had minds of their own. 00:27:17.279 --> 00:27:20.799 Uh Richard Flood actually played a character on the show. 00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:21.519 Wow. 00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:23.839 So there are pictures of them. 00:27:24.160 --> 00:27:26.400 Yeah, yeah, it would have been, but nobody picked it up. 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:30.720 I feel like that's something they could sell today, probably not with Fred Newman anymore. 00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:32.640 Probably not with Fred Newman, yeah. 00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:34.799 I mean, maybe he could be like an exec or something. 00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:37.279 Put him into as a sl as a nod, put him in the show. 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:41.039 Like Ryan Gosley, let's get this made. 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:44.640 Oh my goodness, that would be good, actually. 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:47.279 It's like a prestige drama on Disney Plus.

00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:53.039 Let's get this done. 00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:55.440 You're just printing money at that point. 00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:59.200 Um, but it's at the playhouse with Pee Bee uh Pee-Wee, excuse me. 00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:08.880 And Kermit literally just interviews Pee-wee in his playhouse, but they they get interrupted a couple of times, so uh Bunsen calls them. 00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:10.480 Yeah, that was weird. 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:13.920 And so they have a they have a Christmas party. 00:28:14.319 --> 00:28:19.279 Like he's calling them from a Christmas party, which also makes me wonder why wasn't Kermit at the Christmas party? 00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:22.720 But he's got this interview to do, he's got a magazine to put out. 00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:25.119 He's working. 00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:26.799 Yeah, he sure is. 00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:29.839 We wouldn't do this over the phone. 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:32.880 Like, why why did Kermit have to come all the way down here? 00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:34.559 I mean, I I imagine Kermit probably. 00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:36.079 You get a chance to go to the playhouse. 00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:38.240 Sure, yeah, to tour the playhouse. 00:28:38.319 --> 00:28:39.359 He's touring the playhouse. 00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:39.920 That's the code. 00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:42.240 He wants to see that room made of fruitcake. 00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:43.839 Yeah, that's right. 00:28:44.240 --> 00:28:45.759 Well, that's not there yet. 00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:46.559 That's true. 00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:47.119 That's the one. 00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:48.640 This is before that. 00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:52.079 Uh he just has a blueprint. 00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:52.720 That's all. 00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:54.160 Yeah, just blueprints. 00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:55.839 I have a plan. 00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:02.640 You ever see uh you ever see Pee-Wee on Sesame Street reciting the alphabet? 00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:03.599 No. 00:29:04.319 --> 00:29:08.160 I mean, we have that's the whole that's the whole thing. 00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:18.559 It's just Pee-wee Herman standing in his living room at the playhouse going, hey, big C and a little CGI letters appear and bounce off the screen, and that's it. 00:29:20.400 --> 00:29:22.319 I mean, if you got Pee-Wee Herman, you gotta use it. 00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:22.960 Yeah, sure. 00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:28.799 I mean, they would get celebrities reciting the ABCs on Session Street all the time, like James Roll Jones, episode one. 00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:33.119 No, the Pee-wee off the bat. 00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:34.799 Why is it called the Pee-We Off? 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:41.119 The great thing about Sesame Street, you don't have to break your back writing for every sketch. 00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:43.839 Like sometimes you can just be like, hey, how about the alphabet? 00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:44.400 Boom. 00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:52.799 Yeah, and get a celebrity to do it, like the one I remember besides Pee-Wee is the I remember Fonzi and Richie from Happy Days doing it. 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:53.519 Oh wow. 00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:53.920 Yeah. 00:30:54.319 --> 00:30:55.119 Oh yeah. 00:30:55.440 --> 00:31:00.160 I just remember Kermit as a little girl singing it, and she kept saying Cookie Monster instead of the letter Lower. 00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:01.119 So that's that's the question. 00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:02.400 That's like my favorite. 00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:03.119 Yeah. 00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:04.880 Yeah, that's like my favorite. 00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:06.559 James Earl Jones, though. 00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:07.920 Like, that's awesome. 00:31:08.240 --> 00:31:12.880 Well, that was episode one, so that was like 1969, so we still got the shaved head. 00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:19.359 That reminds me of uh did you ever see that David Letterman top 10 words that sound great when James Earl Jones says them? 00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:24.480 My favorite one of that was when he just says guppy. 00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:25.680 Guppy. 00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:30.960 His deep booming voice, just guppy. 00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:35.279 It's like, that does sound great when James Earl Jones says. 00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:36.000 Oh, yeah. 00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:38.480 He was up for everything. 00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:39.279 Yeah. 00:31:39.519 --> 00:31:41.359 Yeah, he's a good dude, man. 00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:43.359 Uh, or he was, excuse me. 00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:52.000 Um, but you know, Kerman and Pee-Wee they talk about um how Pee Wee thinks kids are just more fun than adults and you know, stuff like that. 00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:55.839 And uh he can't wear his footy pajamas anymore, he's too big. 00:31:57.759 --> 00:32:01.920 Oh man, but yeah, it's just it's a fun little interview, I gotta say. 00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:05.440 I I don't know how they came up with these. 00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:08.079 So, like, did Fred actually write it? 00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:09.200 Fred Newman? 00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:20.720 Or I mean, yeah, I don't know if he only wrote Kermit's parts or if he also like if he actually called up Pee-Wee and had the interview and they worked it together. 00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:26.799 I'm not sure where how much Pee-wee was involved with this. 00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:28.240 I I'm not really sure. 00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:31.039 But yeah, Fred wrote the Kermit parts. 00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:32.079 Oh, so go ahead. 00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:32.400 Sorry. 00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:35.279 Yeah, Fred definitely wrote the Kermit parts here, I think. 00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:36.559 Yeah, I think you're right. 00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:42.880 Well, the pull quote from the whole thing is you know, in a way, the whole thing I'm trying to do is encourage weirdness. 00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:47.359 Yeah. 00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:49.440 Like, it's okay. 00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:51.599 It's okay to just do you. 00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:55.759 You know, you do you, and like I

wish I had read this when I was a kid. 00:32:55.839 --> 00:32:57.759 I feel like it would have helped me out a bit. 00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:00.640 In fairness, I didn't need anybody to encourage my weirdness. 00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:02.640 My weirdness blossomed. 00:33:03.039 --> 00:33:07.759 Oh, yeah, I mean, my weirdness blossomed, but I could have used the self-esteem about it. 00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:10.559 Uh yeah. 00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:12.160 Yeah, that hits over. 00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:24.480 I I focused in on this photo they have of Pee-Wee and the Playhouse Gang because I recognized I knew three of the four people in the Playhouse Gang in this photo. 00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:34.640 Oh, I don't know the girl with the pigtails facing away from the camera, because I can't see her face, but the old man, speaking of Letterman, uh, is uh Dusty, right? 00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:35.440 Yeah, yeah. 00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:40.079 He's uh Calvary DeForest, who is on Letterman all the time as Larry Bud Melman. 00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:40.880 Oh yes. 00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:45.039 And then the boy next to him is Sean Weiss. 00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:47.119 He was Goldberg on the Mighty Ducks. 00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:48.079 What? 00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:49.920 Yeah, okay, but wait. 00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:55.519 This redhead with the striped shirt is tiny baby Natasha Leone. 00:33:56.079 --> 00:33:56.640 What? 00:33:57.119 --> 00:33:57.759 Yes. 00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:03.119 Natasha Leone was in Pee-Wee play in Pee-Wee's Playhouse gang. 00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:04.160 Wow. 00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:08.000 Wow, she was Opal, maybe? 00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:12.880 Yeah, I think I I'm I'm not sure whether she was Opal or the other one. 00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:19.119 So it says uh yeah, there's Rusty, Cher, Elvis, Opal, and then of course Conki's over there. 00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:21.440 Yeah, she she might have been opal. 00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:24.400 I mean uh Elvis is is Goldberg. 00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:26.400 Yeah, yeah. 00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:28.639 And I think I think the other one was Cher. 00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:30.800 I think she's I think she's probably Opal. 00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:32.800 Yeah, I didn't I didn't see that. 00:34:33.199 --> 00:34:34.239 So wild, man. 00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:36.480 Like that explains, yeah, I get it. 00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:37.599 Oh yeah. 00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:45.119 Uh the next segment is On the Run with Kate and Alley's Allison Smith and Ari Myers. 00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:49.280 And this is an interview by Miss Piggy as told to Betsy Laredo. 00:34:50.639 --> 00:34:55.360 This is just an interesting way that they write this. 00:34:55.440 --> 00:35:02.000 They write it as if Miss Piggy runs into these two while jogging in Central Park. 00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:02.639 Yep. 00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:04.960 It's like a just a chance meeting. 00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:08.719 And I did not watch a second of Kate and Allie. 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:10.880 I

just remember seeing commercials for it all the time. 00:35:11.039 --> 00:35:12.320 I don't know these kids. 00:35:13.199 --> 00:35:17.119 I my mom watched Kate and Allie, and so I watched some of it. 00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:18.800 I still don't know these kids. 00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:22.000 And apparently they're central to the premise of the show. 00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:22.960 Right, right. 00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:25.119 It's like two single parents, two single moms, right? 00:35:25.199 --> 00:35:25.840 Like move in together. 00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:29.920 And so, yeah, it's like a um or the brother. 00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:32.639 But I do the same thing. 00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:34.800 I remember my mom watching it, so I watched it. 00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:37.840 I know there's like a couple of Christmas episodes. 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:39.280 One of them was on YouTube. 00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:40.639 I don't know if it's still there. 00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:43.519 Um so I might get to it this year. 00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:44.079 We'll see. 00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:44.559 I don't know. 00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:50.639 But um I love how Miss Piggy the whole time is doing her usual just inserting French words in there. 00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:51.679 Oh, yeah. 00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:53.119 All of the MOS. 00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:55.920 All the mois, yeah, lots of mois. 00:35:56.239 --> 00:35:57.679 Uh quail's small world. 00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:03.119 It is, it does come across as harder to read than hear. 00:36:03.679 --> 00:36:06.800 Like, oh, it's gonna get worse later. 00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:11.199 Because I'm like, wait, am I having a stroke or is that not a word? 00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:12.159 Oh no, it's French. 00:36:12.239 --> 00:36:13.440 Okay, it's randomly French. 00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:15.840 No, this is this is transcribed. 00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:20.880 Yeah, wait, wait till the very last segment we talk about. 00:36:21.199 --> 00:36:22.320 That's gonna be great. 00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:30.400 Um, but they just talk about their love for New York, and one of them lives in uh New Jersey, and you know, just the kind of typical, typical interview things. 00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:35.280 You gotta love like the very bold, bright colors that they're wearing. 00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:35.920 Like that. 00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:40.639 Oh yeah, they're wearing like they're wearing the 80s windbreakers. 00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:42.960 Yeah, it's great. 00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:45.840 And you know they didn't do it specially for the Muppets, that was just the eight. 00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:48.320 That was just Oh no, that's what they came. 00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:52.079 Yeah, they're like just come camera ready, and they both came like that. 00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:52.719 Yep. 00:36:53.280 --> 00:37:01.599 I also love that like Piggy supposedly runs into them while jogging, but then it turned out she only jogged from the limousine to that bench that they were all that they're

all sitting at. 00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:04.079 I'm like, that's right, is how I jog as well. 00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:06.559 Yeah, how she won that marathon. 00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:12.480 I do love I love 80s uh Piggy's hair, like the really curly Oh the perm? 00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.760 Oh yeah, yeah, like the super perm, the frizz. 00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:23.920 It's just and she's got like this uh I don't even know what to call it, lavender uh tracksuit. 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:24.320 I don't know. 00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:26.000 It looks valour, yeah. 00:37:26.320 --> 00:37:27.119 Oh yeah. 00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:32.400 But this next one I totally want to like pull out and hang. 00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:39.760 It's uh Oh yeah, the centerfold is like this very 80s Christmas tree that they're decorating. 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:42.400 Yeah, it's holy cow, I didn't even catch that. 00:37:42.559 --> 00:37:44.000 It was supposed to be a Christmas tree. 00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:48.320 That's how non-traditional it is for the rest of the thing. 00:37:48.559 --> 00:37:50.480 Yeah, it's like a like a plastic. 00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:52.320 And it's pink. 00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:53.760 It's bright pink and yellow. 00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:54.480 Yeah. 00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:55.440 And orange. 00:37:55.519 --> 00:37:56.159 There's orange in there. 00:37:56.480 --> 00:37:57.280 Or maybe they could be. 00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:03.599 Uh the background is all leopard print. 00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:05.199 Oh, the le the background, yeah. 00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:05.920 Yeah, yeah. 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:09.599 It's not the the actual trees is like it's like that plastic. 00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:12.880 Uh gosh, what are they what is that called? 00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:14.320 Uh, like magnetiles. 00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:16.320 I don't know if you guys, if your kids played with magnetiles. 00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:16.719 Oh, yeah. 00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:17.280 Oh, yeah. 00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:18.079 Uh-huh. 00:38:18.239 --> 00:38:22.800 Yeah, that kind of like plastic you and uh the star on top. 00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:26.159 I I mean I don't even know what that is, but it's cool. 00:38:26.239 --> 00:38:26.800 I like it. 00:38:27.119 --> 00:38:31.840 It just looks like a like someone made a photo collage of madness for this for the star on top. 00:38:32.159 --> 00:38:33.360 Basically, yeah. 00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:47.199 Yeah, the the ornaments are all like paper ornaments, and so they're like holding them, but it just there's this weird juxtaposition of like their outfits, which also have like crazy like Kermits, Kermits, tux. 00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:48.639 I want this tux. 00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:50.719 Oh my goodness, yeah. 00:38:50.960 --> 00:39:00.400 It's like one lapel is like like le yellow with leopard print, the other lapel is like a baby blue with I don't know what kind of designs on it. 00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:01.440 It's just it's weird. 00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:04.400 I kind of want it, it's just great. 00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:11.599 If I saw this in a movie where someone was trying to recreate the 80s now and they did this, I'd be like, You're trying too hard. 00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:13.119 It wasn't really like that. 00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:16.320 Yeah, it's a lot. 00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:20.559 Oh man. 00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:33.920 So you turn the page, it's uh FHE video cassettes, and oh yeah, just come in these like little boxes, um, the twin packs that you can get for Christmas, and they have some great ones Thundercats, Transformers, Care Bears, G.I. 00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:39.679 Joe, uh, Pound Puppies, uh, mixed with something called Star Fairies, which I don't remember. 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:40.960 No idea. 00:39:41.199 --> 00:39:43.440 Yeah, but there's some pretty good ones in there. 00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:48.400 Now, the next page is our big the big climax to this issue here. 00:39:48.480 --> 00:39:51.119 It is 'twas the night before Christmas. 00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:52.960 Muppet babies presenting. 00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:58.079 So and I love how they gotta just Muppa Babyfy it all. 00:39:58.239 --> 00:39:58.559 Oh, yeah. 00:39:58.719 --> 00:40:02.239 And you can I also like how you can tell who's stocking is who, I think. 00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:05.280 Yes. 00:40:06.159 --> 00:40:08.079 Like that one's clearly animal. 00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:14.480 Yeah, so animals is like fuzzy, like his fur, and it's orange and pink striped. 00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:15.280 Right. 00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:16.559 Oh, it's perfect. 00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:21.199 Uh, you can obviously tell piggies because there's a bajillion of them, and they're all embroidered with a pea. 00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:22.559 They all have peas on them. 00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:25.920 Yeah, they're all like her little stockings, her little white stockings. 00:40:26.239 --> 00:40:26.639 Right. 00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:29.119 This was written by Louise Gickow. 00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:30.880 Gicko, I don't know how you say that. 00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:33.840 Geico, uh, illustrated by Bruce McNally. 00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:40.559 But 'twas the night before Christmas and all through the fig, not a creature was stirring, not even a pig. 00:40:41.039 --> 00:40:50.000 And I love how the Muppet Babies, so it has it in like the scroll, and instead of text boxes, it's like scrolls, and then it's got the actual printing on it. 00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:55.440 And then there's the Muppet Baby drawings, and they have like their word bubbles, and they all have commentary. 00:40:55.679 --> 00:40:55.920 Right. 00:40:56.079 --> 00:41:00.800 And Kermit says, I know, I know, but I couldn't think of another word to rhyme with pig. 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:02.639 So just use your imagination, okay? 00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:03.280 It's fine. 00:41:03.440 --> 00:41:04.239 He's a baby. 00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:04.960 It's okay. 00:41:05.199 --> 00:41:06.639 That's true, that's right.

00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:13.199 The stockings were hung with a great deal of fuss, seven for piggy and one each for us. 00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:18.880 Our nanny had tucked us all snug in our beds, and visions of sugar plums danced in our heads. 00:41:18.960 --> 00:41:20.079 Okay, so that's pretty much. 00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:25.760 And then you have the panel showing Fozzie dreaming of visions of sugar plums dancing in his head. 00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:30.079 And they're giant anthropomorphic plums in ballet tutus. 00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:37.440 But what makes it weirder is like they actually have like a real ballerina's legs, right? 00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:40.000 It's not like cartoon legs that are just like sticks. 00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:41.599 It's got like shape to it. 00:41:41.679 --> 00:41:43.039 It just looks weird. 00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:45.920 And the look on their face, like they are taking it seriously. 00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:50.079 Like this, like this, they are dance, like they are dancing like nobody's watching. 00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:56.239 And Piggy says, What's a sugar plum anyway? 00:41:56.400 --> 00:42:01.840 And Fozzie says, I know it's a giant plum with a really sweet personality that loves to dance. 00:42:03.440 --> 00:42:06.400 Fozzie! Sorry. 00:42:09.760 --> 00:42:12.960 So you turn the page, says, uh, so we're on page 24 now. 00:42:13.119 --> 00:42:27.440 Went out on the lawn, there arose such a clatter, I hopped from my bed to see what was the matter, and there on the lawn, being chased by some cats with a miniature sleigh and eight tiny rats, with a little old driver so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be Saint Nick. 00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:30.239 And in this comic, the part of St. 00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:37.119 Nicholas driving a tiny reindeer will be played by Waldorf in a Santa suit and beard. 00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:39.760 Pulled by eight tiny rats. 00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:42.480 While they're being chased by cats through the snow. 00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:44.000 Oh, yeah, no, it's hanging off them. 00:42:44.239 --> 00:42:47.039 The beard's totally hanging down below his chin. 00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:47.440 Yeah. 00:42:48.320 --> 00:42:49.599 He's not even trying here. 00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:52.079 He's not even like trying to go down the chimney. 00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:53.920 He comes in through the window. 00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:56.480 Well, look at his boots. 00:42:56.800 --> 00:42:59.119 Christina White doesn't want to get soot all over them. 00:42:59.280 --> 00:43:00.159 Oh, that's it, yeah. 00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:00.960 That's true. 00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:01.599 That's true. 00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:02.719 He's like the nurse. 00:43:03.519 --> 00:43:06.000 You're supposed to be eight tiny reindeer. 00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:11.679 Is this the first time he has interacted with the Muppet babies? 00:43:11.760 --> 00:43:12.480 I don't remember. 00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:13.119 I don't remember. 00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:15.519 Staller and Waldorf show up. 00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:20.480 Um, I don't remember when in the show's canon. 00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:23.760 But yeah, Staller and Waldorf show up at least once. 00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:26.079 But they're not as babies, they're full-grown adults. 00:43:26.480 --> 00:43:27.679 No, they are full-grown adults. 00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:30.320 Like they they watch them at some point and then they're gonna be able to never baby. 00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:31.280 Well, they're they're old, you know. 00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:32.159 No, no, no, no, no. 00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:33.760 Yeah, they're still old here. 00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:35.760 That's right, that's right. 00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:40.960 But uh, I love how you know he's bemoaning that they're that they're not reindeer, they're rats. 00:43:41.039 --> 00:43:47.519 And one of the rats who I imagine just with the a Rizzo type voice is just like, hey, they're all out auditioning for the movie. 00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:50.960 Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer meets the abominable snowman, you know. 00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:54.400 That's just the special. 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:01.519 That's what happens. 00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:09.039 Describe a pla describe a movie badly. 00:44:09.199 --> 00:44:10.000 Perfect. 00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:14.400 That's great. 00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:22.719 Uh then up on the roof I heard 32 paws, and the babies all burst into heavy applause as I drew in my head and was turning around down the chimney. 00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:23.360 Nope. 00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:23.760 St. 00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:25.280 Nicholas came with the bound. 00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:26.800 He's coming in through the window, but okay. 00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:31.679 Brian says the nursery doesn't have a chimney, and baby Kerman asked, Can't you use your imagination? 00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:32.800 Can't you? 00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:34.719 Oh. 00:44:36.079 --> 00:44:40.639 So so they imagine a chimney, but they imagine the fireplace still lit. 00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:41.920 And blazing. 00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:44.559 Not even like a little fire, but blazing! 00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:45.360 Oh yeah. 00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:46.559 It must be really cold. 00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:50.559 And then Waldorf screams, Somebody imagine a fire extinguisher! 00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:52.480 Hey, Stranger Danger. 00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:55.039 Sure, yeah, well, that too. 00:44:56.079 --> 00:44:57.039 Oh man. 00:44:57.360 --> 00:45:05.360 Um, so a bundle of toys he had flung on his back, and he looked like a peddler just opening his pack, some joke books for Fozzie, for Hardy Har Hars. 00:45:05.599 --> 00:45:06.320 Oh, that's terrible. 00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:14.320 For Gonzo a rocket to take him to Mars, for Rolf a new keyboard to play for us all, for Skeeter some jacks, and a new basketball. 00:45:14.559 --> 00:45:16.480 And then it shows him playing with their toys. 00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:17.440 Yeah.

00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:20.480 I love this terrible joke from Fozzie here. 00:45:20.559 --> 00:45:21.840 He's like, listen to this, guys. 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:23.760 What goes up but never comes down. 00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:24.639 Your age. 00:45:24.800 --> 00:45:25.199 Get it? 00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:26.320 Waka waka. 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:28.320 See? 00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:31.599 Waldorf only has himself to blame. 00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:33.199 He started it. 00:45:33.599 --> 00:45:35.679 He said all those years later. 00:45:36.239 --> 00:45:37.840 Sitting in that theater complaining. 00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:38.639 It was you! 00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:44.159 Holy smoke! Oh man. 00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:49.599 Uh, lots of computer games Scooter could play, and for me a new tricycle, hip hip hooray. 00:45:49.760 --> 00:45:54.719 Crayons for animal in red, green, and blue for Piggy some mittens, then Saint Nick was through. 00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:59.760 And I love he just has this like done look on his face on the next page. 00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:03.039 And Piggy's kind of indignant here. 00:46:03.199 --> 00:46:03.679 Mittens? 00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:04.559 That's all you brought me? 00:46:04.719 --> 00:46:05.199 Mittens? 00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:09.920 And he says Michael Scott got in the oven mitt. 00:46:11.119 --> 00:46:11.599 Exactly. 00:46:11.760 --> 00:46:14.719 But he says, like, I'm carrying toys for 50 million children. 00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:16.800 There just wasn't enough room for everything else. 00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:17.519 Right. 00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:19.519 So two shake. 00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:25.679 Uh giving a nod, then uh and then a small yelp, he rose up the chimney again with some help. 00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:28.239 And it's because Piggy hi-as him. 00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:30.320 Karate kicks him up the roof. 00:46:32.159 --> 00:46:41.199 He sprang to his sleigh to his team and gave a whistle, and away they all flew like the down of a thistle, but I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight, Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night. 00:46:41.360 --> 00:46:44.400 And I love the rats are just like, uh, what's the down of a thistle? 00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:45.039 I don't know. 00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:53.280 We read this story every year, and I don't think enough people, children, adults, doesn't matter, ask that question. 00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:53.920 Yes. 00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:54.800 Yep. 00:46:55.360 --> 00:47:00.159 This is a 200-year-old poem, and this is the first time I'm thinking, what is the down of a thistle? 00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:09.039 And here it's like, you know, a thistle plant, a little purple flower on top, and the down is the white stuff, like on a dandelion that wind blows off and carries the seeds. 00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:11.280 Yep, and it just floats away, and that's kind of a few. 00:47:11.440 --> 00:47:13.280 That's how rainbow fly and rats. 00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:17.199 He has no time. 00:47:18.239 --> 00:47:18.800 I love it. 00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:24.960 I'm sure there's like some sort of physics joke to make there, but it's been a long day. 00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:26.159 I had a training all day. 00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:29.440 Well, speaking of physics. 00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:31.840 Sorry, we get ask Dr. 00:47:31.920 --> 00:47:32.960 Honeydew. 00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:35.679 Yeah, it's great. 00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:37.280 They just this is my favorite one. 00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:37.920 Dear Dr. 00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:39.599 Honeydew, I hate fruitcake. 00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:41.599 Why do adults think it's such a big deal? 00:47:41.920 --> 00:47:47.360 Yeah, I want to thank Jennifer Michaels of Lincoln, Nebraska for asking the real questions. 00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:49.360 This is the hard-hitting question. 00:47:49.760 --> 00:47:51.039 And I love his answer too. 00:47:51.199 --> 00:47:52.239 Oh yeah. 00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:59.280 Uh at last count, there were only 14 people in America who actually enjoyed fruitcake. 00:47:59.679 --> 00:48:03.519 In fact, there are only about 200 fruitcakes left in existence. 00:48:04.480 --> 00:48:06.239 That's such a Muppet joke. 00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:09.679 They just uh these fruitcakes are given away as gifts. 00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:11.280 I love that. 00:48:11.360 --> 00:48:13.280 I accept that as official canon. 00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:14.480 I think it's true. 00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:16.960 I think it's exactly true. 00:48:17.119 --> 00:48:17.360 Yeah. 00:48:18.079 --> 00:48:21.199 They just keep it all year until they can give it away to the next person. 00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:25.840 Well, and he says, if you are so lucky as to receive a fruitcake as a gift, hold on to it. 00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:28.079 In about 50 years, it'll be a collection. 00:48:28.159 --> 00:48:29.679 It'll be a collector's item. 00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:33.440 Well, we're up to 40 years now since this came out. 00:48:33.679 --> 00:48:35.599 Only one more decade to go. 00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:36.480 Oh man. 00:48:36.639 --> 00:48:38.880 I gotta say, instructions. 00:48:39.039 --> 00:48:42.079 They've got a moldy fruitcake and they're ready to cash in. 00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:45.679 I'll get Grokbot to scour eBay for one. 00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:46.000 Oh, yeah. 00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:47.199 See if I can find one. 00:48:47.519 --> 00:48:50.320 Um let's see here it is. 00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:50.880 Dear Dr. 00:48:50.960 --> 00:48:52.960 Honeydew, how can I make a volcano? 00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:59.119 And you kind of go to your backyard, find a spot not used, dig a hole to the center of the earth. 00:48:59.440 --> 00:48:59.840 Yeah. 00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:00.639 Psycho. 00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:06.400 When you see when you see lava and hear rumbling, uh like that's scream and run. 00:49:06.559 --> 00:49:07.199 It's great. 00:49:09.039 --> 00:49:12.079 Uh we also get the 12 seconds of Christmas. 00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:14.000 And this is a whole

song you can sing. 00:49:14.079 --> 00:49:18.000 I won't, but it's of course sung in a matter of the 12 days of Christmas. 00:49:18.239 --> 00:49:20.000 It's uh let's see, I'll start. 00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:26.400 The 12 seconds of Christmas, Beaker said to me uh to you know, me, me, me, me, me, me. 00:49:26.719 --> 00:49:28.880 Um let's light some Christmas candles. 00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:29.920 11. 00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:30.880 I'll grab the red ones. 00:49:30.960 --> 00:49:32.000 Wow, watch it sparkle. 00:49:32.159 --> 00:49:32.960 Gee, it smells funny. 00:49:33.039 --> 00:49:34.320 Uh-oh, it's a fuse. 00:49:34.719 --> 00:49:36.159 Look, it says explosives. 00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:37.519 Yikes were in trouble. 00:49:37.679 --> 00:49:39.679 It's dynamite, it's dynamite. 00:49:41.760 --> 00:49:43.760 Throw it out the window, no scream and run. 00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:44.880 Duck hit the floor. 00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:45.920 Kaboom. 00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:47.599 Perfect. 00:49:48.559 --> 00:49:49.679 It's perfect. 00:49:51.119 --> 00:49:52.960 I just I wouldn't change anything. 00:49:53.119 --> 00:49:57.599 And now I want Bunsen and Beaker to record this, release it. 00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:00.960 Like, I swear, there's so many like good ideas in here. 00:50:01.840 --> 00:50:02.000 Yeah. 00:50:02.159 --> 00:50:08.480 So then we get Jonathan Silverman in Barking Beach Memoirs, and Ralph as uh as told to Jim Lewis, Ralph interviews him. 00:50:09.039 --> 00:50:10.719 Barking Beach about Smacky. 00:50:12.159 --> 00:50:16.320 I mean, again, Brighton Beach memoirs, I don't know what it is. 00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:31.920 Apparently, it's like a whole thing, because he played the same character in like movie or a play, a movie, and then he's going back to Broadway to do it again as a uh when he's older, so he's still kinda young here. 00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:34.239 This is a couple years before we can have burning. 00:50:35.039 --> 00:50:37.199 Right, right, because I was 89, I think. 00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:38.000 Yeah. 00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:40.880 So he looks great. 00:50:41.360 --> 00:50:43.440 Uh, you get a Muppet poster. 00:50:44.800 --> 00:50:45.199 Yep. 00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:46.239 Silverhawks. 00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:48.079 Oh man, Silverhawks was awesome. 00:50:48.960 --> 00:50:50.719 Do you guys have any Silverhawks? 00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:51.679 No. 00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:53.440 No, no, I didn't. 00:50:53.679 --> 00:50:54.320 Gotcha. 00:50:55.840 --> 00:50:56.480 We had a couple. 00:50:57.039 --> 00:50:58.719 Dino writers are great too. 00:50:59.280 --> 00:51:04.800 Uh, and then we get, because you know, you gotta be a little educational in something like uh a Muppet magazine. 00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:09.599 So then we get Mondo Muppet, which is all about stuff that can fly. 00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:10.480 Yeah. 00:51:11.360 --> 00:51:14.320 And there's like a quiz, it's like a multiple choice quiz. 00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:16.960 You guys took the quiz?

00:51:18.079 --> 00:51:19.840 I did not, I only took one question. 00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:20.320 I took it. 00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:20.960 Did you take the quiz? 00:51:21.679 --> 00:51:22.239 I took the quiz. 00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:25.679 There were 16 questions, I got 12 correct. 00:51:26.880 --> 00:51:32.719 Uh, this is one where this is another part where I was like, I'm trying to read it, I swear, but my eyes are losing this battle. 00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:33.920 Yeah, it's a lot. 00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:35.679 Like, it it's scanned weird. 00:51:35.760 --> 00:51:36.239 I don't know. 00:51:36.559 --> 00:51:37.440 It is, yeah. 00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:43.119 And I don't know how much of that is the actual scan, and how much of that is just um like that. 00:51:43.360 --> 00:51:47.519 Just the page being warped, and yeah, maybe somebody spilled water on it or something. 00:51:48.400 --> 00:51:58.480 But it's things like uh in 1982, a sheep farmer in Wagga Wagga, Australia exclaimed Bah humbug when he discovered what in his corral. 00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:09.760 And then it lists like 747 forced to make an emergency landing, a downed helicopter, a balloon that had flown 10,000 miles from New York, a renegade sheep who was attempting to fly. 00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:12.880 Well, the answer was C. 00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:15.599 Balloon from the balloon. 00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:16.559 Yeah. 00:52:16.719 --> 00:52:17.679 And they're all like that. 00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:19.599 They're just uh there's a couple of funny ones. 00:52:19.679 --> 00:52:25.119 Um the one that I when I turned the page and actually looked at was uh let's see, which is the one I read. 00:52:26.239 --> 00:52:28.400 Oh, the Greek mythology one, number 15. 00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:28.800 Okay. 00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:30.239 About Icarus. 00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:37.440 So I I just remember there was a question about an Arctic tern, and I'm like, I know what sound an Arctic turn makes. 00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:40.159 Backstreet boys, backstreet boys. 00:52:41.599 --> 00:52:43.199 Yeah, my book is a little relevant for you. 00:52:43.760 --> 00:52:46.559 What kind of bird always says the name of our next man? 00:52:47.039 --> 00:52:48.320 Oh, I guess. 00:53:41.440 --> 00:53:43.360 Yeah, I'm glad you understood. 00:53:44.960 --> 00:53:47.519 I was afraid I'd have to explain that, so thank you. 00:53:49.599 --> 00:53:52.000 So I I've been watching these reaction videos. 00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:54.000 They just pop up on my feed randomly. 00:53:54.159 --> 00:53:58.079 And one of them was it was like Colin Mockery's best lines. 00:53:59.119 --> 00:54:00.079 That's up there. 00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:05.440 It's like they're talking about birds, you know, some something is like uh, I don't know, a turn? 00:54:05.760 --> 00:54:14.800 Yeah, so it was uh yeah, what what what bird makes the sound of their next band because they were doing that thing where they're trying to sell like a music collection record? 00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:15.440 Yeah, great. 00:54:17.679 --> 00:54:21.039 So Ryan was trying to get him to say an owl and a two. 00:54:21.599 --> 00:54:30.320 But uh and Colin's like, I don't know, a a turn, an arctic turn, and what sound do you think an arctic turn makes? 00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:33.360 And Colin goes, battery boys. 00:54:36.320 --> 00:54:38.800 And everyone loses it. 00:54:39.519 --> 00:54:40.880 It's great. 00:54:42.239 --> 00:54:44.000 That is a good show. 00:54:44.719 --> 00:54:46.480 Yeah, it's on Tubi now. 00:54:46.639 --> 00:54:48.880 So I just found it on Tubi the other day. 00:54:49.119 --> 00:55:00.159 Then we get like uh an arts and crafts thing about making uh like spacecrafts with uh uh just different papers, different materials, or like an uh egg carton, things like that. 00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:04.000 Yeah, like a paper airplane, but it's made out of a foam egg carton? 00:55:04.079 --> 00:55:05.280 That's cool. 00:55:05.840 --> 00:55:08.960 I mean, sounds like it would actually hold up, so who knows? 00:55:09.119 --> 00:55:09.440 Yeah. 00:55:09.760 --> 00:55:11.760 A couple sweet jokes at the bottom of that page. 00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:16.239 What did the parachuters say when the barbecue was beneath when he saw barbecue was beneath him? 00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:25.840 Cook out below! Uh they have a little insert here, like a sidebar that they called rarely sighted muppets. 00:55:26.079 --> 00:55:30.639 And it's not known rarely seen Muppets, like I don't know, droop or whatever. 00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:36.639 Instead, it's a column for people who have seen rare Muppets in the wild, like they treat it like Bigfoot. 00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:38.000 It's very silly. 00:55:40.960 --> 00:55:42.800 What if Bigfoot was a Muppet? 00:55:42.880 --> 00:55:44.480 What if it what if it was just Sweetems? 00:55:44.719 --> 00:55:47.440 I mean, yeah, that's yeah, it was Swedems the whole time. 00:55:50.079 --> 00:55:52.639 Oh man, rarely sighted Muppet. 00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:57.440 Oh, wait, well, speaking of jokes, what did the skeptical duck say to the Wright brothers? 00:55:57.760 --> 00:55:58.400 What? 00:55:59.199 --> 00:56:01.840 What goes up must wear down. 00:56:02.559 --> 00:56:08.079 Ah took a second. 00:56:08.320 --> 00:56:18.320 Uh then we get Gonzo's uh weirder than me, Flights of Fancy, where he it just talks about like weird flight designs. 00:56:19.039 --> 00:56:29.360 Yeah, he's nerding out about early flying machines, and it's a collection of drawings and photos of like weird-looking flying contraption designs that predate the modern airplane. 00:56:29.440 --> 00:56:30.000 It's neat. 00:56:30.480 --> 00:56:33.519 Because when you think Christmas, you think early flight. 00:56:33.679 --> 00:56:34.320 Yeah. 00:56:34.719 --> 00:56:38.400 I need to make things that fly, I need to hear about old things that flew. 00:56:38.800 --> 00:56:43.519 You'd think they would segue into talking about Santa's sleigh here, but nope.

00:56:43.840 --> 00:56:44.079 Right. 00:56:44.320 --> 00:56:45.039 Sounds perfect. 00:56:45.599 --> 00:56:49.519 It's like no one thought this was actually gonna be a winter uh issue. 00:56:49.599 --> 00:56:52.079 They're just like, uh, put that in. 00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:53.039 Okay. 00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:53.599 Yeah. 00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:54.800 Hey, do you still have that? 00:56:54.960 --> 00:56:58.880 You still have that uh that article you wrote on weird flying machines? 00:56:59.199 --> 00:56:59.760 Yeah, yeah, right. 00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:02.000 We're a pain short for Muppet magazine this week. 00:57:02.079 --> 00:57:04.480 Uh I don't have anything Christmas related. 00:57:04.639 --> 00:57:05.519 Whatever, just get me. 00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:06.159 Fine. 00:57:08.639 --> 00:57:11.039 Uh yeah, then we get uh kids' videos. 00:57:11.199 --> 00:57:16.719 There's uh Fraggles, the Cosby kids, you know, Fat Albert, uh Danger Mouse. 00:57:17.039 --> 00:57:17.679 Danger Mouse. 00:57:18.639 --> 00:57:19.679 I loved Danger Mouse. 00:57:19.920 --> 00:57:22.079 I wish there was a Christmas episode of Danger Mouse. 00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:33.920 I looked and there's nothing I used to say, oh Crikey and O Ek and Roger just out in the world to people who had no idea what they're like, what's wrong with you? 00:57:34.159 --> 00:57:38.159 No, I went I went with Penfold's Outcrums! That's a good one too. 00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:47.440 The one I always remember was uh the robot that uh his name was Grovel, but every time his master talked with called him by name, the robot would start to grovel. 00:57:47.679 --> 00:57:48.800 I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Master. 00:57:49.119 --> 00:57:50.480 Oh my gosh, I love that. 00:57:50.639 --> 00:58:01.440 And then there was the German scientist who would always say no and then Penfold, but he would say it in German, so Penfold would pull out a calculator and calculate, but he'd be like, nine, nine, nine! That's three nines or twenty or twenty-seven. 00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:02.960 Great. 00:58:03.119 --> 00:58:10.079 And then he I can't remember how I can't remember how like yeah, because it got to four, so it must have been six. 00:58:10.480 --> 00:58:14.800 Nah, I can't remember, but it was like uh uh six nines or fifty-four. 00:58:14.960 --> 00:58:18.159 I am not caring how many are for, I am against. 00:58:21.199 --> 00:58:24.320 I'm like, that was a hat on a hat, but you you you landed it. 00:58:24.480 --> 00:58:25.440 But it worked, yeah. 00:58:25.599 --> 00:58:26.239 Yeah. 00:58:28.480 --> 00:58:35.360 Well, before we get another Silverhawks um ad, we actually get Miss Piggy's advice column. 00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:39.039 Now, this is where you might have thought you had a stroke for real. 00:58:39.360 --> 00:58:44.159 This is so silly because Miss Piggy is writing this. 00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:51.920 She has a cold because she was out shoveling snow while Kermit had to finish putting the issue together. 00:58:52.239 --> 00:58:55.039 And she's writing how she sounds. 00:58:55.199 --> 00:59:02.719 You know how you get a cold, you're all stuffy, and so you say a comic strip would write out, I have a cold in my dose. 00:59:02.960 --> 00:59:05.360 She's writing this whole thing like that. 00:59:05.519 --> 00:59:07.920 The whole column is written like that. 00:59:08.400 --> 00:59:11.360 So she was just using the voice-to-speech function. 00:59:11.920 --> 00:59:12.639 I guess so. 00:59:12.880 --> 00:59:17.679 Like, yeah, someone's transcribing this and just like, okay, none of this makes sense, but sure. 00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:41.760 Yeah, and then it devolves into Kermit writing in to Piggy's advice column saying she's making far too much of this cold, and then Piggy's writing to Fozzie to tell Kermit she's not talking to him, and then Scooter and Janice get involved, and then there's a sticky note at the bottom from Kermit saying the staff just chipped in to send Piggy to Tahiti for two weeks to get rid of her. 00:59:41.840 --> 00:59:43.920 I mean her cold, get rid of her cold. 00:59:45.440 --> 00:59:51.280 Now, I don't mean to point out plot flaws in this magazine, but I thought Janice was already in Hawaii. 00:59:51.519 --> 00:59:52.079 Hey yeah. 00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:53.280 Well, she's writing in. 00:59:53.360 --> 00:59:54.000 I don't know. 00:59:54.239 --> 01:00:01.679 And then when Rolf is interviewing Jonathan Silverman, he is now okay with the cold, but he was complaining about it in his earlier column. 01:00:01.840 --> 01:00:06.239 But now Jonathan Silverman is not happy with the cold when he's in when he's when Rolf's gonna be a little bit more. 01:00:06.400 --> 01:00:08.639 Oh yeah, the photo of him looks like he's shivering. 01:00:09.840 --> 01:00:13.039 And Rolf's like Rolf writes something like, I'm not cold. 01:00:13.119 --> 01:00:14.000 Are you penguins cold? 01:00:14.079 --> 01:00:16.320 And the penguins go, nah, this is beachweather. 01:00:18.159 --> 01:00:23.199 And then the back cover is an ad for crest toothpaste. 01:00:23.519 --> 01:00:24.480 Oh yeah. 01:00:24.719 --> 01:00:25.280 Yeah. 01:00:25.599 --> 01:00:28.079 So great crest checkup. 01:00:28.320 --> 01:00:29.360 Hooray, hooray. 01:00:29.440 --> 01:00:31.760 There's a real neat way to get great crest checkups. 01:00:32.400 --> 01:00:34.880 Do they have like a team of superheroes around this time? 01:00:35.440 --> 01:00:36.079 I think you're right. 01:00:37.199 --> 01:00:43.679 Oh man, oh, was this around the time when Crest had that like whole big long name game music video? 01:00:44.239 --> 01:00:45.360 Do you know what I'm talking about? 01:00:46.159 --> 01:00:47.679 I do, but I don't I don't know what to do. 01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:59.440 It was on I want to say it was on Nickelodeon, and it was it was Crest toothpaste, and it was just this substitute teacher starts doing the name game, you know, like Joe Joey, Boboy, Banana Fanna. 01:00:59.760 --> 01:01:03.360 It's a music video for

that that's like six or seven minutes long. 01:01:03.519 --> 01:01:05.920 It's a fever dream and a half. 01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:12.159 Somebody find that this is the weirdest thing I've ever watched in my life. 01:01:12.400 --> 01:01:14.719 I know it on tagging at the end of the episode. 01:01:14.960 --> 01:01:15.519 Yeah. 01:01:16.239 --> 01:01:17.280 If I can find it. 01:01:18.000 --> 01:01:26.079 I have to point out that in this crest ad, the the there's three kids like in a like floating like hot air balloon, but it's a but it's crest. 01:01:26.559 --> 01:01:27.039 Sure, yeah. 01:01:27.599 --> 01:01:28.320 Oh no, it's two kids. 01:01:28.559 --> 01:01:30.880 Okay, that makes it even worse, because I thought it was only two of the three. 01:01:31.360 --> 01:01:32.000 They're awards. 01:01:32.400 --> 01:01:34.000 They're holding plaques. 01:01:34.719 --> 01:01:35.039 Yeah. 01:01:35.599 --> 01:01:38.960 If there's one thing toothpaste shouldn't advertise, it's plaque. 01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:46.800 That's the opposite of what I want in Crest. 01:01:47.119 --> 01:01:47.360 Oh man. 01:01:49.679 --> 01:01:51.679 Using Crest will give you plaque. 01:01:52.000 --> 01:02:02.639 They have like the moon in the sky, and the moon has like an old 1900, like it it looks like the the trim to the moon uh old style movie. 01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:03.920 And it has arms. 01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:07.840 The moon has arms with little gloves like Mickey Mouse. 01:02:08.239 --> 01:02:09.920 And it's reaching for the balloon. 01:02:10.239 --> 01:02:11.360 Oh, it's so weird. 01:02:11.599 --> 01:02:17.039 Yeah, it looks like one of the like it would be on one of those postcards that uh Craig would post from Weird Christmas. 01:02:18.159 --> 01:02:18.800 Oh, yeah. 01:02:18.960 --> 01:02:19.440 Yes. 01:02:19.760 --> 01:02:21.119 It totally looks like that. 01:02:21.360 --> 01:02:29.760 But yeah, there it's about the crest pump, which was uh, if you remember, it was like that that cylinder, uh-huh, and then it actually had like a little pump on it and it would squeeze out. 01:02:29.840 --> 01:02:30.079 Yep. 01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:33.920 And I thought that was the coolest thing I'd ever seen back in the day. 01:02:34.559 --> 01:02:35.199 I definitely had one. 01:02:35.280 --> 01:02:37.599 I was like, you mean I don't have to unscrew a cap? 01:02:37.760 --> 01:02:40.079 I can just pump it, sold. 01:02:40.639 --> 01:02:41.440 Shut up and tell me. 01:02:41.679 --> 01:02:46.079 I wish they still made that because my kids can't put the stupid cap back on. 01:02:47.440 --> 01:02:48.719 I know the feeling. 01:02:48.960 --> 01:02:51.199 Oh, I hate the flip-up caps that they have now. 01:02:51.280 --> 01:02:54.159 Like they you don't unscrew it, you just pop it open and pop it back closed. 01:02:54.480 --> 01:02:57.599 But then, like, all the toothpaste just gets caught now, you can never close it again. 01:02:58.320 --> 01:03:04.000 Yeah, it's just like a mess of, and when it's theirs,

it's just like a solid blue mass. 01:03:04.400 --> 01:03:06.239 And another thing I don't like. 01:03:08.559 --> 01:03:10.320 Stupid toothpaste. 01:03:10.719 --> 01:03:12.880 I ain't for it, I get it. 01:03:15.679 --> 01:03:16.559 Oh man. 01:03:17.440 --> 01:03:19.519 So, yeah, that's the magazine. 01:03:19.599 --> 01:03:21.599 I mean, it's uh it was fun. 01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:24.800 It was cordy, but like totally enjoyable. 01:03:25.599 --> 01:03:26.639 Oh, this was delightful. 01:03:26.719 --> 01:03:30.320 I'm sad I missed this when it was in its heyday. 01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:31.599 Oh, for sure. 01:03:31.679 --> 01:03:33.599 I would have like stolen all these jokes. 01:03:34.239 --> 01:03:34.880 Oh yeah. 01:03:35.039 --> 01:03:35.599 Yup. 01:03:36.719 --> 01:03:37.199 Yeah. 01:03:37.760 --> 01:03:40.639 I'm definitely stealing cookout below the next time I'm asked for a joke. 01:03:40.880 --> 01:03:41.440 Beautiful. 01:03:41.679 --> 01:03:44.880 It's gonna be part of your stand-up routine, for sure. 01:03:46.719 --> 01:03:49.119 Now the audience participation time. 01:03:49.679 --> 01:03:50.159 Oh no. 01:03:50.559 --> 01:03:59.039 What did the no um what would you guys say is your uh happiest like moment of this magazine? 01:03:59.920 --> 01:04:04.159 Just being able to read this and find it all, it's on Muppet Wiki. 01:04:05.360 --> 01:04:07.920 Being able to flip through it is a real gift by itself. 01:04:08.159 --> 01:04:12.960 Uh, it looks like Muppet Wiki co-founder Scott Hansen is the one who added these scans. 01:04:13.039 --> 01:04:14.000 So thank you, Scott. 01:04:14.239 --> 01:04:14.719 Wow. 01:04:15.199 --> 01:04:15.519 Wow. 01:04:15.679 --> 01:04:16.639 Um that makes sense. 01:04:16.800 --> 01:04:17.599 Let's check this out. 01:04:17.840 --> 01:04:20.800 I I enjoyed all the Christmas Kermit puns. 01:04:20.960 --> 01:04:26.239 I feel like I'm going to flesh more than one of those out to a full song on the podcast at some point. 01:04:28.079 --> 01:04:29.920 Well, if you need some harmony, just let me know. 01:04:30.079 --> 01:04:32.559 I'll just I'm roping you in. 01:04:34.880 --> 01:04:43.840 I think we have I think we have our Christmas Day uh Christmas Podcast Network uh tag for the year. 01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:47.519 Oh man, that's great. 01:04:47.599 --> 01:04:51.360 Um yeah, I mean I gotta the whole thing, you're right, it was totally fun. 01:04:51.440 --> 01:04:58.719 It for me, it's definitely just the uh the twice the night before Christmas was just it was just so so much fun to read. 01:04:58.800 --> 01:05:00.639 It was quite enjoyable. 01:05:00.800 --> 01:05:01.280 It really was. 01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:16.239 Um but now we come to my favorite part of the uh magazine here, which is kind of hard, but it's where we do our Gag Me with the Spoo, where we do our best impression of our least favorite moment here. 01:05:16.480 --> 01:05:19.840 So as a guest, I'll let you go first, just kind of set up the scene for us. 01:05:21.119 --> 01:05:23.119 Whoever wants to go first is fine. 01:05:23.840 --> 01:05:29.840 Well, speaking of uh Kermit's opening editorial and all his reworked Christmas carols about being a frog. 01:05:30.079 --> 01:05:30.960 Kermit's a frog. 01:05:31.039 --> 01:05:32.079 I don't know if you knew this. 01:05:33.039 --> 01:05:35.360 He's a frog, so he sings these. 01:05:35.440 --> 01:05:43.599 We talk about it in dashing through the swamp in a one-toed open sleigh for the march we go, laughing all the way. 01:05:43.679 --> 01:05:44.960 I'm not laughing, Kermit. 01:05:49.280 --> 01:05:54.320 Uh, I'll take mine from the beginning of the Kermit Pee-Wee interview. 01:05:54.960 --> 01:05:55.280 Okay. 01:05:56.239 --> 01:05:58.480 Hey Pee-Wee! Thanks for inviting me. 01:05:58.639 --> 01:06:00.639 Wow, what a neat place! You've got here? 01:06:00.719 --> 01:06:01.679 Who's your decorator? 01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:04.559 Oh! I just sort of happened. 01:06:07.280 --> 01:06:09.199 I used to be able to do such a better pee-wee. 01:06:09.360 --> 01:06:10.320 I fell down. 01:06:10.719 --> 01:06:16.559 Oh no! I share it with all the boys and girls who watch my TV show. 01:06:16.719 --> 01:06:17.679 I don't know what it fred. 01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:18.800 Just hang out here, you know. 01:06:19.039 --> 01:06:19.360 That works. 01:06:19.519 --> 01:06:19.840 That works. 01:06:19.920 --> 01:06:20.639 You still gain it. 01:06:21.920 --> 01:06:22.960 I thought it was gonna be so good. 01:06:23.039 --> 01:06:25.119 I was like, oh, I'm gonna be on the Raddies this year. 01:06:25.199 --> 01:06:26.639 I can't wait for them to play that clip. 01:06:26.880 --> 01:06:28.800 Garbage! Garbage. 01:06:30.800 --> 01:06:32.079 There's still time. 01:06:33.119 --> 01:06:34.400 You gotta invite me back again. 01:06:34.480 --> 01:06:35.599 I'll work on something else. 01:06:35.760 --> 01:06:35.920 Yeah. 01:06:36.079 --> 01:06:38.159 You never know what the audience votes for. 01:06:38.239 --> 01:06:40.400 You know, that that could be a winner right there. 01:06:41.679 --> 01:06:50.559 So I went with my what I thought was the worst was at the end of the um twice the night before Christmas, and the rat's asking, What's the down of a thistle? 01:06:50.639 --> 01:06:52.159 And the other guy just goes, I don't know. 01:06:52.960 --> 01:06:54.559 I was like, what a no pun? 01:06:55.039 --> 01:06:56.000 Like no clever comeback. 01:06:56.400 --> 01:06:58.400 I'm just like, let's now, I'm done drawing this. 01:06:58.800 --> 01:07:00.960 He's like, Man, I ran out of ideas. 01:07:03.039 --> 01:07:05.440 We tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas. 01:07:06.559 --> 01:07:07.760 But you know, G.I. 01:07:07.840 --> 01:07:09.599 Joe taught us that knowing is half the battle. 01:07:09.679 --> 01:07:11.199 What do you guys think the other half is? 01:07:12.639 --> 01:07:18.320 Sending your holiday greetings to Muppet Magazine, 300 Madison Avenue, New York, New York, 10017. 01:07:18.559 -->

01:07:23.119 You'll then receive a postcard from Kermit himself reading, Hi Ho, it was great to hear from you. 01:07:23.280 --> 01:07:27.440 The whole gang sends a big hello signed K the F, Frog in Chief. 01:07:27.760 --> 01:07:28.559 K the F. 01:07:28.800 --> 01:07:30.559 That's what it says on the postcard. 01:07:30.800 --> 01:07:33.039 Muppet Wiki has a picture of the postcard. 01:07:33.280 --> 01:07:34.000 I know, I know. 01:07:34.079 --> 01:07:37.840 That's just I feel like that's that address. 01:07:38.079 --> 01:07:39.280 That's a somebody's rapper name, right? 01:07:39.360 --> 01:07:40.239 That's a rapper name. 01:07:40.559 --> 01:07:41.440 K the F. 01:07:42.079 --> 01:07:48.559 That address is currently where Price Waterhouse Cooper's LLP is, and those are the accountants who count the votes for the Oscars. 01:07:49.039 --> 01:07:50.159 Oh, well, okay. 01:07:51.440 --> 01:07:52.239 In New York? 01:07:52.719 --> 01:07:53.360 Apparently. 01:07:53.599 --> 01:07:55.679 Well, maybe that's just where their headquarters is. 01:07:56.000 --> 01:07:56.320 Okay. 01:07:57.440 --> 01:07:59.360 Also, Sephora is also there? 01:07:59.840 --> 01:08:00.239 Of course. 01:08:00.960 --> 01:08:01.599 It's a big building. 01:08:01.760 --> 01:08:02.400 Yeah. 01:08:05.119 --> 01:08:08.719 I'd say the other half of the battle is uh Christmas puns. 01:08:09.360 --> 01:08:11.440 Or frog Christmas puns, to be specific. 01:08:11.920 --> 01:08:12.960 Frong puns, yeah. 01:08:13.199 --> 01:08:13.599 Yeah. 01:08:13.840 --> 01:08:15.280 Well, those are both better than mine. 01:08:15.360 --> 01:08:18.720 I just thought uh no one's half to battle, the other half is subscriptions. 01:08:19.920 --> 01:08:20.479 Yup. 01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:21.600 That's it. 01:08:22.720 --> 01:08:24.319 Uh guys, it's been a lot of fun. 01:08:24.399 --> 01:08:29.039 But tell me about your shows and you know anything else you want to plug or you got coming up, and why don't we start with you, Tim? 01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:30.720 Uh well, let's see. 01:08:30.880 --> 01:08:38.159 The Can't Wait for Christmas podcast, where you can find us at can't waitforch.com, and uh from there you can find all our various socials. 01:08:38.319 --> 01:08:49.119 Uh this year we are picking the ultimate Ebenezer Scrooge in Scrooge of Palooza, where you can vote every episode uh on who is who's the best Scrooge. 01:08:49.439 --> 01:08:53.199 And uh Michael Kane from the Muppet Christmas Carol is currently in the mix. 01:08:53.279 --> 01:08:55.520 He he passed his round and went on to the next one. 01:08:55.680 --> 01:09:03.119 Uh uh speaking of Muppets, if you tune in to our November episode, you might hear two familiar voices. 01:09:04.079 --> 01:09:06.319 I I say this as though we've already recorded it. 01:09:06.479 --> 01:09:08.560 This is all hoping everything goes well in the future. 01:09:08.800 --> 01:09:09.039 That's right. 01:09:09.119 --> 01:09:14.159 This is but yes, this is dropping like a week from Monday, so okay, yeah, yeah, okay. 01:09:14.319 --> 01:09:15.840 So it's gonna happen. 01:09:16.239 --> 01:09:22.479 I'm gonna uh corral these guys back to talk about uh uh something that was mentioned earlier, the Christmas toy. 01:09:22.960 --> 01:09:23.680 Oh, so good. 01:09:24.960 --> 01:09:25.439 So good. 01:09:25.600 --> 01:09:26.399 One of my favorites. 01:09:26.560 --> 01:09:30.000 I remember well, I don't want to spoil it, I'll save it for for no. 01:09:30.479 --> 01:09:43.199 I was like the they've both already done excellent episodes about it on their own podcast, so listen to that first, and then the leftover when you come when you come to listen to my podcast, you'll at least already have some good episodes you've already heard. 01:09:43.359 --> 01:09:44.960 Oh man, I gotta write some new material. 01:09:45.199 --> 01:09:49.199 So the Christmas the Christmas toy is turning 40 this year, so it's a big deal. 01:09:49.439 --> 01:09:49.920 Wow. 01:09:50.079 --> 01:09:53.199 Yeah, that's wow. 01:09:53.520 --> 01:09:56.640 That's Mike? 01:09:57.520 --> 01:10:02.720 Uh AdventCalendar.house is always where the Advent Calendar House is. 01:10:02.800 --> 01:10:09.680 Uh if you want more Muppet Joy in your life, I am now officially a staff member at toughpigs.com. 01:10:09.840 --> 01:10:10.159 Woo! 01:10:11.279 --> 01:10:12.079 That's amazing. 01:10:12.399 --> 01:10:13.600 We have fun over there. 01:10:13.680 --> 01:10:18.960 I have a podcast episode coming out uh because Tough Pigs is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. 01:10:19.279 --> 01:10:20.159 So that's fun. 01:10:20.560 --> 01:10:22.479 Uh I am working on something for Christmas. 01:10:22.560 --> 01:10:23.760 It's gonna be great. 01:10:24.239 --> 01:10:24.720 Nice. 01:10:24.960 --> 01:10:26.000 That's gonna be awesome. 01:10:26.720 --> 01:10:27.359 Very cool. 01:10:27.520 --> 01:10:28.079 Definitely. 01:10:28.159 --> 01:10:30.000 I mean, you guys know, go check out those shows. 01:10:30.079 --> 01:10:36.079 They're they're both amazing shows, way better than what anything I put out, but it's great always having them here. 01:10:36.319 --> 01:10:40.399 So it's uh you guys are two of my favorite uh guests. 01:10:40.479 --> 01:10:41.520 It's just it's always fun. 01:10:41.760 --> 01:10:45.279 So um on that note, I'll end it with thanks again. 01:10:45.520 --> 01:10:52.159 And for crazy goings on during the holidays, the Muppet Babies present their version of the classic poem Twist the Night Before Christmas. 01:10:52.319 --> 01:10:59.760 And all of us at Muppet Music Television get together to check us out on our social media pages, which you can find at Linktree.com slash Totally Rad Christmas. 01:11:00.319 --> 01:11:03.920 And if you're feeling like Waldorf playing Santa, leave us a review on iTunes. 01:11:04.000 --> 01:11:06.399 It helps us reach more people and spread some rad holiday cheer. 01:11:06.479 --> 01:11:11.680 Now don't forget to check out our merch shop on tpublic.com and our super dope website, totally radchmas.com. 01:11:11.840 --> 01:11:16.000 May your days be merry and keen, and may all your holidays be green. 01:11:16.399 --> 01:11:16.960 Later, dudes. 01:11:19.039 --> 01:11:19.600 Nice. 01:11:22.560 --> 01:11:30.800 Get ready for a toothpaste that tastes so great! Kids will rush to brush! New quest for kids with a flavor that's so different, some kids call it Delicious! 01:11:36.720 --> 01:11:37.199 Delicious! 01:11:37.520 --> 01:11:40.159 No matter what they call it, they'll rush to brush. 01:11:43.039 --> 01:11:46.479 And while they're enjoying the flavor, they'll be biting cabinets, too.