Muppeturgy: A "The Muppet Show" Rewatch Podcast

It was 20 years ago today…when we started recording this episode. Look, some of us have a lot of opinions about The Beatles! It’s possible the people who made this movie have no opinions whatsoever about The Beatles? Certainly very little understanding of the meaning of most of their songs. But hey, there are bright colors and Bee Gees and Peter Frampton most certainly not coming alive as an actor! Somehow there’s a character named Strawberry Fields but not one named Penny Lane or even a meter maid named Rita. What are we even doing here? Listen and find out, with our very special guest start, Patrick Cotnoir! https://muppeturgy.com/episodes/sgt-pepper

The Phaaaaaaaaantom of the Paradise is here inside…The Portrait of Dorian Gray? Sure, why not? Muppet Show guest star and Christie’s president Paul Williams stars and composes the most bag of cocainey movie yet in the bag of cocaine season. With our very special guest star, Amy Spalding! https://muppeturgy.com/episodes/phantom-of-the-paradise

Welcome to our new season, all about movies that appear to have been greenlit by a bag of cocaine! We’ve mentioned a lot of these in passing before but now we’re taking a deep dive into the shallow end, starting with The Apple, one of the most WTF films ever made! Is it a cautionary tale about the corrupting influence of fame? An allegory for totalitarianism? A retelling of Genesis? Yes, and so much less! We’ll try to make sense of it all with our very special guest star Amy Spalding! https://muppeturgy.com/episodes/apple

It’s America’s 250th birthday! We’d sing it a song (it took two people to write it!) but we’re…ambivalent at best. So instead we’re looking back 50 years to when patriotism felt less fraught (but not as much as you might think!), the centennial was bi, and the culture was mono. We watched an assortment of artifacts of varying levels of interest and weirdness, and we made you a playlist so you can too (though we don’t really recommend it). There are even some Muppets! From 1982. Never mind, it doesn’t matter. Anyway we hope you have a great holiday weekend however you choose to celebrate, or ignore, or protest, and to our non-American listeners have a great day and we’re sorry we’re like this. https://muppeturgy.com/episodes/bicentennial

Remember back when we did the Star Wars Holiday Special and were sad it didn’t include the commercials? Well thanks to two lovely listeners who shared that we are bad at searching YouTube, we can now be completists and talk about the commercials? Was that a good idea? Is there a government publication that can tell us? Will a neutron bomb take out anti-regulation eagles? Is our pantyhose union made? What will cure our headaches? And most importantly, what is Tobor?? !tuo dnif dna netsiL https://muppeturgy.com/episodes/swhs-commercials