So, I love the muppets. When I was little, my favorite show was the Muppet Babies. I used to listen to the soundtrack of the Muppet Movie on my record player while I played in my room or while I was falling asleep (also Disco Duck and Bill Cosby and John Denver and the Muppets A Christmas Together among others). I used to not be able to listen to America the Beautiful without adding "Patriotism swells in the heart of the American bear."
Jamie thinks my love for the Muppets is odd. I don't think she sees the appeal. But I grew up on Muppet stuff. Labyrinth, Fraggle Rock, the above mentioned Muppet shows/movies/soundtracks, Sesame Street, as well as reruns of The Muppet Show and a retelling of the Frog Prince with Kermit. I won't even begin to explain my love for the humor of the Muppets. It's all stuff I think is silly and hilarious and I love that now we are getting Monkey into all of it.
So anyway, that was a longer explanation than I planned, but it all comes from wanting to go see this exhibition. Jim Henson's Fantastic World.
Also, I just learned this fun fact : 1954-Jim graduates from Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, and enters the University of Maryland. See how COOL Maryland is?
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I'm a huge Muppet fan too. In fact, growing up, I had every single Muppet soundtrack known to recording history on cassette. Now I have imported and saved them as mp3s onto my computer, and I just listened to a lot of them the other day! It was such a blast from the past, and still as funny as ever.
I think Mom went to Northwestern High... You should ash her.
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