Has it really been that long?

[BenPanced]

Saying good-bye to Jim Henson 20 years later. (http://geekscape.net/jim-henson-1936-1990-saying-goodbye-20-years-later.html)

[auntybug]

OMG! Thanks for making me feel old, Panced! I remembered parts of that with Big Bird giving the eulogy. :(
*sniff*
*plays Muppet Movie soundtrack*

[Zoombie]

._.

Sad memories. And I was only a year old when he died!

[BenPanced]

I watched the first episodes of Sesame Street first run, back when Gordon actually had hair (yeah, I know. Two different actors). If you'd told me then I was part of a cultural revolution, I woulda looked at you funny because I was about 4 or 5 when it first came on and you might as well have been talking Martian at me.

I also remember when they first introduced Luis and Maria. Maria was amazed and got a little homesick when she experienced her first snowfall because she's originally from Puerto Rico. And I cried buckets when Mr. Looper died.

[MattW]

Hooper. Mr Hooper.


And I loved The Muppet Show - it was the only thing I was allowed to watch during the evenings.

[Soccer Mom]

Wow. I can't believe it's been so long. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTwq1_9VH68

I need a muppet fix.

[Soccer Mom]

And here is one guaranteed to make some of us feel damn old. Brooke Sheilds as a young girl with the muppets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_FD2HBcAz8&feature=related

I'll go now. I'm probably going to be watching muppet videos all night. I can't stop once I get started.

[maestrowork]

A new muppet movie with Jason Sagel. I hope he will do Jim Henson proud.

[maestrowork]

And here is one guaranteed to make some of us feel damn old. Brooke Sheilds as a young girl with the muppets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_FD2HBcAz8&feature=related

I'll go now. I'm probably going to be watching muppet videos all night. I can't stop once I get started.

This makes me feel even older... She was younger than I am NOW.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjSjB-3xPVM&feature=related


I don't know anyone who grew up in the 70s and 80s who haven't been affected, in some ways, by the Muppets and Jim Henson.

[Shadow_Ferret]

I don't know anyone who grew up in the 70s and 80s who haven't been affected, in some ways, by the Muppets and Jim Henson.

The Muppet Show was a great show. And on the first few seasons of Saturday Night Live, they had an adult version of the Muppets. Very funny. (Netflix has the first season of SNL available for Instant Watching.)

Here's Scred singing with Lily Tomlin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb68zu_dTmU).

[Starhorsepax]

In some ways Henson is close to immortal. There will forever be a part of him there whenever Kermit, Miss Piggy, Big Bird and many others show up on screen. Or lunch boxes. Or dolls or....

[scarletpeaches]

I cried at the episode of The Muppet Show when Kermit and Fozzie talked about losing Mr Henson. :(

Yeah, sue me.

[maestrowork]

You just lost a whole parking lot of street cred,

[Chris P]

Wow! 20 years already. Henson was a genius. I got the first three seasons of the Muppet Show on DVD a couple years ago. Nobody did sketch comedy better. Nobody.

[dgiharris]

This makes me feel even older... She was younger than I am NOW.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjSjB-3xPVM&feature=related


I don't know anyone who grew up in the 70s and 80s who haven't been affected, in some ways, by the Muppets and Jim Henson.

I think there is such a shift in the various generations that grow up in America.

Everyone growing up in the 70s and 80s had a very similar TV upbringing. Cable was in its infancy so there weren't a billion different things on TV. As a result, my generation pretty much watched all the same shows of the generations before us. Even, in many cases, the shows our parents watched. I can't tell you how much of my childhood favorite shows were in black and white!!!!

As such, shows like Reading Rainbow, Electric Company, Muppets, Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, Gilligan's Island, Brady Bunch, Bewitched, I Love Lucy, Looney Toons etc. etc. hits a chord with pretty much everyone older than 26.

But now, there is simply too much stuff on tv and as such, all of our shows have fallen by the wayside. In fact, I doubt kids nowadays have ever seen a show in black and white LOL, they'd probably ask their parents "what was wrong with the TV?"

And the tragedy of that is that they will never know the genuis of the Muppets or Looney Toons or so many of the other shows we grew up with :(

I guess nothing lasts forever...

Mel...