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My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour, Part 7: Fitness/The Song of the Cloud Forest
Song of the Cloud ForestIn Leland, Mississippi, there’s a delightful little two-room museum called Birthplace of the Frog: The Jim Henson Delta Boyhood Exhibit. If you’ve never been to it, I highly...
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My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour, Part 8: Videotape/The True Bride
MUPPETELEVISIONOkay, now this feels like a show that 1989 can be proud of.Last week, I mentioned that MuppeTelevision felt like it was falling back on things that had worked on The Muppet Show a decade...
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My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour, Part 9: Garbage/Sapsorrow
MUPPETELEVISIONMost episodes of The Jim Henson Hour‘s MuppeTelevision have a theme that ties the whole episode together. Sometimes, as with the “Oceans” episode, that theme is also relevant to the...
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My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour, Part 10: Secrets of the Muppets
How do the Muppets work?This is the question posed to Jim Henson by a dog named Jojo in the opening moments of The Jim Henson Hour. Millions of viewers have asked variations of that question while...
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My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour, Part 11: Living with Dinosaurs
Everyone loves Calvin & Hobbes.It’s been almost twenty years since Bill Watterson’s comic strip ended, and it’s still as popular as ever. The collections continue to be on the shelves of every...
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My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour, Part 12: Food/The Three Ravens
For the past few weeks, the Tough Pigs homepage has featured this nifty graphic promoting our Jim Henson Hour reviews (designed by our own Joe Hennes). It always makes me chuckle because it looks like...
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My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour, Part 13: Inner Tube
In his career as a filmmaker, Jim Henson directed a wide variety of projects, including feature films, TV specials, individual episodes, segments for Sesame Street, and short films like Time Piece.Time...
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My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour, Part 14: The Pitch Reel
Welcome back to My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour! So now we’ve watched every episode, and last time around, Anthony Strand covered the Inner Tube pilot that served as the seed from which the strange...
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My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour, Part 15: Final Thoughts Part 1
Starting on the 25th anniversary of the television premiere of The Jim Henson Hour, Tough Pigs’ own Ryan Roe and Anthony Strand have been reviewing every episode of the ambitious but short-lived...
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My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour, Part 16: Final Thoughts Part 2
Starting on the 25th anniversary of the television premiere of The Jim Henson Hour, Tough Pigs’ own Ryan Roe and Anthony Strand have been reviewing every episode of the ambitious but short-lived...
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Fran Brill Week: Beyond the Street
Join us for a week-long celebration of Muppet performer Fran Brill! Fran recently announced her retirement from performing, so we’re dedicating a week’s worth of articles to her colorful career with...
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Henson Company Shows on Amazon Prime
Exciting news for Amazon Prime members in the United States! Variety reports that starting today, several Jim Henson Company titles are available for streaming free with an Amazon Prime subscription....
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Every Post-Muppet Show Muppet Episode, Ranked
When Muppets Now premieres later this week, it will be the fourth revival series for the gang from The Muppet Show. In a remarkable coincidence, the other three add up to exactly 50 episodes: 12...
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An Interview with Muppet & Sesame Street Writer Mark Saltzman: Part 2
This is part two of a three-part interview. Click here to read part one. Read on for part two, in which Mark Saltzman talks about writing for The Jim Henson Hour (and why it didn’t work) and The...
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My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour, Part 11: Living with Dinosaurs
Click here for the complete list of My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour reviews! Everyone loves Calvin & Hobbes. It’s been almost twenty years since Bill Watterson’s comic strip ended, and it’s still...
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My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour, Part 12: Food/The Three Ravens
Click here for the complete list of My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour reviews! For the past few weeks, the Tough Pigs homepage has featured this nifty graphic promoting our Jim Henson Hour reviews...
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My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour, Part 13: Inner Tube
Click here for the complete list of My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour reviews! In his career as a filmmaker, Jim Henson directed a wide variety of projects, including feature films, TV specials,...
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My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour, Part 14: The Pitch Reel
Click here for the complete list of My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour reviews! Welcome back to My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour! So now we’ve watched every episode, and last time around, Anthony...
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My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour, Part 15: Final Thoughts Part 1
Starting on the 25th anniversary of the television premiere of The Jim Henson Hour, Tough Pigs’ own Ryan Roe and Anthony Strand have been reviewing every episode of the ambitious but short-lived...
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My Weeks with The Jim Henson Hour, Part 16: Final Thoughts Part 2
Starting on the 25th anniversary of the television premiere of The Jim Henson Hour, Tough Pigs’ own Ryan Roe and Anthony Strand have been reviewing every episode of the ambitious but short-lived...
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