Muppet Show Quotes

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Hip-hop has always been controversial, and for good reason. When you watch a children's show and they've got a muppet rapping about the alphabet, it's cool, but it's not really hip-hop. The music is meant to be provocative - which doesn't mean it's necessarily obnoxious, but it is (mostly) confrontational, and more than that, it's dense with multiple meanings. Great rap should have all kinds of unresolved layers that you don't necessarily figure out the first time you listen to it. Instead it plants dissonance in your head. You can enjoy a song that knocks in the club or has witty punch lines the first time you hear it. But great rap retains mystery. It leaves shit rattling around in your head that won't make sense till the fifth or sixth time through. It challenges you. Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don't even know how to listen to the music.
Jay-Z (Decoded)
If The Muppet Show had a basketball team, the score would always be Frog 99, Chaos 98." (Jerry Juhl on the crazy workload of The Muppet Show)
Brian Jay Jones (Jim Henson: The Biography)
Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy (Star of the Muppet Show) (Patalosh: The Time Travelers)
I watched every episode of The Greatest American Hero, Airwolf, The A-Team, Knight Rider, Misfits of Science, and The Muppet Show.
Ernest Cline (Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1))
His sister, in a big turquoise Angora sweater, leaned upon the wood frame of the open nursery door, anxiously looking out to see if he was really going to show, beaming and waving like a pastel colored TV Muppet when she spotted him.
Alan Moore (Jerusalem)
Randy rolled his eyes. “Oh sure. She said ‘bork dee jork de spork’ a few times. Of course it was difficult to get all of that, being as it was in an ancient Swedish chef language and all. It took me back to my Muppet watching days. Not to mention it was being shouted by one of those dementors from Harry Potter. The damned thing probably showed up here because it’s out of work, ever since that series ended.
Stephanie Rowe (Romancing the Paranormal: All New Tales)
Wall Street: I’d start carrying guns if I were you.      Your annual reports are worse fiction than the screenplay for Dude, Where’s My Car?, which you further inflate by downsizing and laying off the very people whose life savings you’re pillaging. How long do you think you can do that to people? There are consequences. Maybe not today. Or tomorrow. But inevitably. Just ask the Romanovs. They had a nice little setup, too, until that knock at the door.      Second, Congress: We’re on to your act.      In the middle of the meltdown, CSPAN showed you pacing the Capitol floor yapping about “under God” staying in the Pledge of Allegiance and attacking the producers of Sesame Street for introducing an HIV-positive Muppet. Then you passed some mealy-mouthed reforms and crowded to get inside the crop marks at the photo op like a frat-house phone-booth stunt.      News flash: We out here in the Heartland care infinitely more about God-and-Country issues because we have internal moral-guidance systems that make you guys look like a squadron of gooney birds landing facedown on an icecap and tumbling ass over kettle. But unlike you, we have to earn a living and can’t just chuck our job responsibilities to march around the office ranting all day that the less-righteous offend us. Jeez, you’re like autistic schoolchildren who keep getting up from your desks and wandering to the window to see if there’s a new demagoguery jungle gym out on the playground. So sit back down, face forward and pay attention!      In summary, what’s the answer?      The reforms laws were so toothless they were like me saying that I passed some laws, and the president and vice president have forgotten more about insider trading than Martha Stewart will ever know.      Yet the powers that be say they’re doing everything they can. But they’re conveniently forgetting a little constitutional sitcom from the nineties that showed us what the government can really do when it wants to go Starr Chamber. That’s with two rs.      Does it make any sense to pursue Wall Street miscreants any less vigorously than Ken Starr sniffed down Clinton’s sex life? And remember, a sitting president actually got impeached over that—something incredibly icky but in the end free of charge to taxpayers, except for the $40 million the independent posse spent dragging citizens into motel rooms and staring at jism through magnifying glasses. But where’s that kind of government excess now? Where’s a coffee-cranked little prosecutor when you really need him?      I say, bring back the independent counsel. And when we finally nail you stock-market cheats, it’s off to a real prison, not the rich guys’ jail. Then, in a few years, when the first of you start walking back out the gates with that new look in your eyes, the rest of the herd will get the message pretty fast.
Tim Dorsey (Cadillac Beach (Serge Storms Mystery, #6))
but aside from the cars the stars of the show were some make-believe characters called Muppets, still seven years away from Sesame Street fame. The auto show special two years earlier had been critiqued for being too dry; this one went to the other extreme. They were “clever little puppets,” noted one reviewer, “but there must be another way to add entertainment . . . with more auto-related features.
David Maraniss (Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story)
In Ernie’s book I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon, the cover shows stars shining right through a crescent moon. And in a “C in space” segment, the moon looks surprisingly happy, despite the fact that these stars are shining through it. OK, yes, the moon having a face and emotions is not astronomically accurate either, but that is still no excuse for teaching children inaccurate geometry. I expect more from a supposedly “educational” program. The only explanation I can think of is that, in the extended Sesame Street universe, there are Muppet bases on the moon, and those are the dots of light we are seeing.
Matt Parker (Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World)
Travaux en vert («opérations en vert» ou «façons en vert»)–opposés aux «travaux d’hiver» – sont, disent les dictionnaires, «l'ensemble des opérations culturales (rognage, l’ébourgeonnage, éclaircissages, la vendange en vert, le pincement, l’écimage, le rognage, l'entre-cœur, l’effeuillage etc.) que les vignerons pratiquent sur la vigne au cours de la période végétative» et «ils ont le plus souvent pour but de favoriser le mûrissement des grappes». Travaux en vert c’est, donc, une métaphore qui renvoie à des choses très précises. Comme pour la vigne et pour le bon vin sont nécessaires toutes sortes de «travaux», parfois, quand la culture devient «sauvage» (par l'abandon aussi) des «opérations», des «travaux» de toutes sortes sont, de même nécessaires. C'est la conclusion du personnage du livre, prof à la Faculté de Lettres (comme moi), qui doit parler de la poésie devant un «public» qui a perdu complètement, par ignorance aussi, le goût de la poésie, la vraie. La prof essaie de faire ses «travaux» et son «plaidoyer pour la poésie» d’une façon «alternative», en mélangeant des citations des grands écrivains et des allusions à la culture underground ou à la culture pop, des personnages de bandes dessinées et de Muppet’s Show, des films, des groupes de musiques etc. etc. J'ai fait, en 324 pages, une sorte d'histoire de la poésie, avec la participation des poètes de partout, de tous les temps. J'ai convoqué aussi «les hypocrites lecteurs» (semblables et frères!). J'espère que les fragments du livre roumain traduit en français peuvent donner une idée du projet de ce... Bildungspoem. (p. 9-10)
Simona Popescu (Lucrări în verde sau Pledoaria mea pentru poezie)
How mad do you think he’ll be? On the Muppet Scale?” Our junior year of college, we binged The Muppet Show and often used the Muppet Scale to describe how angry we or others were in any particular situation. It’s difficult to stay angry when discussing the Muppets, with Sam the Eagle at the low end and Miss Piggy finding Kermit canoodling with another pig on the high end.
Penny Reid (Beach Reads Box Set 3)
now they’re tittering about Paris, and their continuous snark mixed with cackles of laughter makes her think of the two hecklers, Statler and Waldorf, from The Muppet Show.
Jennifer Hillier (Things We Do in the Dark)
Most of the shows I do are held at the local playhouses,” Wade explains as he reaches up to take an old man Muppet off the wall. He begins to play with it. “But the last one I did—my personal favorite—was held at a church not far from here. Called Equestrians for Christ, it was a modern-day reenactment of the crucifixion. Basically,
Karyn Bosnak (20 Times a Lady: A Novel)
turn around and look up and, low and behold, see Jesus in Muppet form, hanging from a wooden stick. Once again. Poor Jesus. “But truth be told,” Wade continues, looking back at me, “non-religious people didn’t respond to the theme, so I canceled the show, and well…” Wade hesitates, like he’s afraid to continue.
Karyn Bosnak (20 Times a Lady: A Novel)
Mayor Gusherowski approached Adam with a Guy Smiley smile—the perfect blend of game show host and Muppet.
Harlan Coben (The Stranger)
Mayor Gusherowski approached Adam with a Guy Smiley smile—the perfect blend of game show host and Muppet. “Wonderful to meet you, Adam!” He gave Adam the perfunctory too-enthusiastic handshake, adding that little pull toward him that politicians believed made the recipient feel somehow inferior or obligated. “Can I call you Adam?” “Sure, Mr. Mayor.” “Oh,
Harlan Coben (The Stranger)