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Oregon Is Bad

Or at least it’s portrayed as such in one of the movies I saw in the past few days. Again, there are three here, and SPOILERS of varying severity for all three. The Strangers, Chapter 1 – I know I … Continue reading →

Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Dreams, Food, Humor, Muppets, Music, Religion, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged aliens, animal, david arquette, disco, fozzie bear, home invasion, hulk hogan, jeffrey tambor, kermit the frog, miss piggy, muppet babies, muppet treasure island, muppets from space, pepe the king prawn, pornography, rizzo the rat, the great gonzo, the muppets' wizard of oz, the strangers, the strangers chapter 1, wizard of oz, x (2022) |

First Star I See Tonight

SPOILERS for all five of these! I had meant to write about some of them earlier, but I haven’t been feeling well as of late. Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV – This is a four-part documentary … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Corporations, Humor, Magic, Muppets, Music, Revisiting Disney, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged abuse, amanda bynes, brian peck, creep, dan schneider, drake bell, found footage, fozzie bear, head of the class, john wayne gacy, kermit the frog, long john silver, miss piggy, muppet treasure island, murder, nickelodeon, quiet on set, robert louis stevenson, sam the eagle, sexual harassment, stars, the poughkeepsie tapes, tim curry, treasure island, wish, wishes |

The Ozual Suspects

The Characters of Oz: Essays on Their Adaptation and Transformation, edited by Dina Schiff Massachi – This collection of essays by different authors, some of whom I know personally, discusses various Oz characters and how they’ve been used over time, … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Christianity, Eric Shanower, Feminism, Gender, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Live Shows, Magic, Magic Items, Muppets, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Plays, Politics, Religion, Sexuality | Tagged a good man but a bad wizard, a living thing, all wound up, angelica shirley carpenter, aunt em, but first there was a scarecrow, charlotte greenwood, cowardly lion, danielle paige, david maxine, dee michel, dina schiff massachi, dorothy and the heroine's quest, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, feathertop, fred woodward, gita dorothy morena, glinda, glinda and gender performativity, golden cap, hank the mule, heart over head, intelligence, j. l. bell, jack pumpkinhead, james satter, jinjur, katharine kittredge, knitting, louis f. gottschalk, love magnet, mark i. west, mary lenard, matilda joslyn gage, miss piggy, nathaniel hawthorne, nome king, oliver morosco, ozcon international, ozma, ozma of oz, ozma sorceresses and suffrage, paige gray, patchwork girl, piecing together the patchwork girl of oz, polychrome, prince silverwings, private jo files, queen ann soforth, queen coo-ee-oh, rinkitink in oz, robert b. luehrs, ruth berman, scarecrow, scoodlers, shaggy man, shannon murphy, straight outta oz, the characters of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the muppets' wizard of oz, the nome king, the proto-sissy the sissy and macho men, the tik-tok man of oz, the wizard of oz (1902), the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, todrick hall, trading knitting needles for pistols, walter squire, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, witch's familiars or winged warriors, witches, witches wicked and otherwise, wizard of oz |

Why Don’t You Get Things Started?

We finished watching what’s available on Disney Plus of The Muppet Show, which means all of them except for the Brooke Shields and Chris Langham episodes, the former because of music rights issues (mostly for “Off to See the Wizard,” … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Celebrities, Humor, Monsters, Muppets, Music, Poetry, Prejudice, Sesame Street, Star Wars, Television | Tagged bobby benson, c-3po, chewbacca, cookie monster, count von count, debbie harry, fozzie bear, glenda jackson, jerry nelson, kermit the frog, koozebane, link hogthrob, lips, liza minelli, luke skywalker, mark hamill, marty feldman, miss piggy, pigs, pirates, r2-d2, racism, rats, rizzo the rat, robert frost, robots, roosevelt franklin, sam the eagle, shirley bassey, Statler and Waldorf, steve whitmire, the great gonzo, the muppet movie, the muppet show, the muppets, they shoot horses don't they |

Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas

We watched a few Christmas-related things this month, and I wasn’t necessarily planning to post about them all at once, but that’s kind of how it worked out. There were some things for which I don’t necessarily have a full … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Celebrities, Christianity, Christmas, Comics, elvis presley, Fairy Tales, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Muppets, Music, Nursery Rhymes, Religion, Sonic the Hedgehog, Technology, Television, They Might Be Giants, Toys, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged adventures of sonic the hedgehog, babes in toyland, ballet, boogeyman, captain and tennille, clarence carter, clarence nash, dan castellaneta, dance, dogs, don knotts, donald duck, donkeys, donny osmond, dr. demento, dr. ivo robotnik, drew barrymore, duck the halls, dudley moore, el vez, elves, fat daddy, flaming lips, fozzie bear, free design, frosty the snowman, grounder, gus goose, j. otto seibold, jingle bell rocks, john denver, john linnell, john lithgow, john waters, johnny marks, laurel and hardy, lew zealand, liberace, little bo peep, long john baldry, ludwig von drake, macaulay culkin, march of the wooden soldiers, marie osmond, matt groening, michael stipe, mickey mouse, miss piggy, monkeys, nat king cole, nativity, north pole, nutcracker suite, olive the other reindeer, penguins, pigs, princess sally acorn, reindeer, robots, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, run dmc, santa claus, santa claus the movie, scratch, scrooge mcduck, sean marshall, sonic christmas blast, superman, susan cooper, the small one, the three little pigs, the twelve days of christmas, tom bosley, tom tom the piper's son, tom wilson, vivian walsh, wayne coyne, ziggy, ziggy's gift |

Drag Out the Dickens

I can’t quite recall what my introduction to A Christmas Carol actually was. I have a memory of my dad reading it to me as a kid, quite possibly an abridged version, even though it’s pretty short as is. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Christmas, Comics, Holidays, Humor, Muppets, Plays, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a christmas carol, bob cratchit, charles dickens, clarence nash, donald duck, ebenezer scrooge, fozzie bear, fun and fancy free, ghosts, giants, goofy, jacob marley, jim henson, kermit the frog, mickey and the beanstalk, mickey mouse, mickey's christmas carol, miss piggy, mr. mole, mr. toad, mr. water rat, peg-leg pete, rizzo the rat, robin the frog, scooter, scrooge mcduck, the adventures of ichabod and mr. toad, the muppet christmas carol, the wind in the willows, tiny tim, wayne allwine, willie the giant |

Let Us Contemplate the Sadness of a Banjo-Playing Frog

One thing I noticed in the book Yama Yama Land, by Grace Duffie Boylan, was a reference to a giant frog playing a tennis racquet like a banjo. Picture by Edgar Keller So what’s the connection between frogs and banjos? … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Cartoons, Comics, England, History, Humor, Muppets, Music, Neil Gaiman, Nursery Rhymes, Poetry, Relationships, Television, Terry Pratchett, They Might Be Giants | Tagged a frog he would a-wooing go, a moste strange weddinge of the frogge and the mowse, a very sad story about a frog and a banjo, anthony crowley, banjo frogs, banjos, chris ware, edgar keller, fiddles, frog and banjo, froggy went a-courtin', frogs, good omens, grace duffie boylan, kermit the frog, mcsweeney's, mike doughty, miss mousey, miss piggy, pobblebonks, soul coughing, the muppet show, the muppets valentines show, tom and jerry, yama yama land |

When the Muppets Are in the World

I’ve finished watching the first three seasons of the original Muppet Show, and while there were seasons after that (a total of five, I think), the others aren’t out on DVD. Season Four was originally supposed to be released in … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Muppets, Television | Tagged bobo the bear, fozzie bear, kermit the frog, miss piggy, muppets tonight, pepe the king prawn, rizzo the rat, rowlf, sam the eagle, scooter, the muppet show, the muppets (abc), uncle deadly |

Desperately Seeking Santa

Merry Christmas! Since the day is almost over, I might as well share my thoughts on a few Christmas movies and specials I watched this year. I Am Santa Claus (2014) – A documentary examining the lives of several people … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Christmas, Holidays, Humor, Muppets, Music, Sesame Street, Television, Uncategorized, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a muppet family christmas, andy williams, art carney, bert and ernie, big bad wolf, big bird, christmas in disneyland, disney, disneyland, fozzie bear, fraggle rock, glenn miller, hanna-barbera, i am santa claus, kermit the frog, mick foley, miss piggy, muppet babies, sandy duncan, santa claus, swedish chef, yogi bear, yogi's first christmas |

The World’s Most Dangerous Frog

Muppets Most Wanted – Beth and I have been watching The Muppet Show recently. She says she doesn’t like it, yet she’ll still watch every episode. She’s like Statler and Waldorf, I guess. No, she says she likes seeing the … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Humor, Muppets, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged animal, christoph waltz, constantine, danny trejo, ernest goes to jail, kermit the frog, matt vogel, miss piggy, muppets most wanted, ricky gervais, salma hayek, sam the eagle, Statler and Waldorf, the great muppet caper, the muppet show, the muppets, tina fey |