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Monday, December 19, 2005
In case anyone was wondering...
There seem to have been 3 Muppet Christmas TV Specials:
- A Christmas Together with John Denver 1979(I haven't seen it, but I heard the soundtrack this weekend and it was charming)
- A Muppet Family Christmas 1987(I've seen this long ago and I think it was pretty good) featuring regular Muppets, Sesame Street and also Fraggle Rock characters, which leads to the indelible scene in which the Swedish Chef thinks Big Bird would make an excellent entree.
- It's A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie 2002(in the "It's a Wonderful Life" mold. I've seen it--it had its moments)
And of course the feature film The Muppet Christmas Carol 1992.
In exciting Muppet-related news, IMDB reports that a Fraggle Rock feature film is in production and (apparently) scheduled for release in 2007! Likewise a Dark Crystal sequel , but I can't imagine that going well. Jim Henson is gone, and now Jerry Juhl, the main writer for the Muppets is gone, too. I saw his obit in the Chronicle in October. We just won't talk about the Muppet Wizard of Oz, ok? It's not representative.