Sentences with phrase «which muppet»

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Gary Knell, President and CEO of Sesame Workshop, shares lessons from Sesame Street, why kids (and adults) still love it, and which Muppet he calls his favorite.

The themes that Jim Henson's electric Kool - Aid acid trip tackles through its tacky sketches, instantly - dated guest stars, and cobwebbed musical interludes run the gamut from loneliness (a disturbing rendition of Jim Croce's «Time in a Bottle» in which a Muppet mutilates and pickles himself) to war (a version of Buffalo Springfield's «For What It's Worth» sung by forest animals being terrorized by mad redneck hunters) to exotic burlesques that predict the melancholia lacing The Dark Crystal and the eternally underestimated The Muppet Movie.

Part of the fun of The Muppet Movie comes from just wondering which Muppet will turn up next, an activity that somehow doesn't grow old even when you know the movie by heart and are watching it for the umpteenth time.

When we answer a few simple questions to let our friends and family know which Muppet character we're the most like or which car we'd drive if we had our pick, we're sharing a digital piece of our analog lives.

Not exact matches

More than 1,400 Ontario households may soon get an unexpected gift: the miracle of alternating current electricity, with which to heat their homes and roast their geese and snuggle up on the couch and watch The Muppet Christmas Carol.

I wonder what Graham has to say about their signs that suggest they chose to stop carrying the Muppet toys because they were unsafe, something which is a blatant lie, or the fact that Chick - fil - A was caught creating fake FB accounts to post supportive comments about this issue on their corporate FB site.

With respect to my Arsenal brothers and sisters, anyone who thinks Chelsea is CERTAIN to win the PL this season (which by the way is only two - fifths competed) is a Muppet.

I hate to say it but Monreal has become a much better player after being put as a CB, his interceptions are better than before and timing of tackles is better... guessing his time at CB actually gave him experience at defending which being a LB didn't quite cover and he has improved from experience in a alt position... an EDUACATION YOU MUPPET.

Players — whoever wants to go then just bloody sell them, get the money in along with a new manager & start being serious in a rebuild as we have the resources & fantastic stadum... which we have never heard rock once as its been a horrible last 10 yrs for Arsenal under these muppets.

Ozil is surrounded by muppets like Giroud and Walcott they don't score from the chances Ozil creates, if only we had our own Aguero who by the way has 14 goals which is 2 more than Giroud while having played less games!

All of that said, in a perverse way, this maturation of the franchise may be exactly what was needed if The Muppets has any hope of being the same lightning rod or have the same longevity as the original Muppet Show, which ran from 1976 to 1981.

However, with no 3 - D option offered, they'll miss the payoff, which must have been significant (at least in theory) based on the way the film serves up such illusions with nearly the regularity of gimmick - based theme park attractions like Honey, I Shrunk the Audience and Muppet * Vision 3D.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Unlike the first two Muppet movies, which were independently produced and merely distributed by Columbia, these two will remain in the Sony library unless Disney (or another studio) purchases the rights.

He sets off on a convincing bicycle ride that makes clear the stakes are higher and the technical wizardry to which «Muppet Show» viewers were accustomed would be continuously surpassed.

While it is remixed to the 5.1 channel format in which most of today's movies are offered on DVD, The Muppet Movie still sounds fairly anemic and flat.

There is also a mini-booklet devoted purely to the Muppets which holds a trio of handy coupons ($ 5 off «The Muppet Show» Season 1, $ 3 off any other Kermit's 50th Anniversary Edition DVD, and $ 3 off Muppets» Wizard of Oz) plus promotional information on current Muppets goings - on and information on the United States Postal Service's Mailing the Muppets Keep - in - Touch Kit.

Indeed, it borders on miraculous that Jonze was able to assemble his hulking costumes, rowdy action, emotional introspection, and gifted but incongruous vocal cast (which also comprises Forest Whitaker and Chris Cooper) into anything more than a Muppet Lord of the Flies.

Characters move to a new location, start bickering, get interrupted by zombies, at which point a character cocks his / her weapon, exclaiming some variation of «Get out of the East End you zombie muppet!»

As the last of a dying breed — Muppet fans — when the opportunity arrives to visit star - studded Los Angeles, they don't hesitate in touring around the old muppet theater, which they find has long been abandoned and, with its contract about to expire, is in grave danger, as business tycoon Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) is eager to collect on the oil beneaMuppet fans — when the opportunity arrives to visit star - studded Los Angeles, they don't hesitate in touring around the old muppet theater, which they find has long been abandoned and, with its contract about to expire, is in grave danger, as business tycoon Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) is eager to collect on the oil beneamuppet theater, which they find has long been abandoned and, with its contract about to expire, is in grave danger, as business tycoon Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) is eager to collect on the oil beneath it.

We travel to the Los Angeles set of the upcoming Disney film, which stars Jason Segel, Amy Adams, and Jim Henson's iconic Muppet creations.

There are at least ten Disney films that have gotten this treatment, and some of them have gotten it more than once — adaptation of The Jungle Book, for instance, has resulted in both TaleSpin (a debatable example, but many of the characters are clearly named and patterned after ones in the film) and Jungle Cubs (which gives the characters the «Muppet Babies» treatment).

That's the general Muppet - style approach to character in this edition, in which Helena Bonham Carter enacts disturbed heiress Miss Havisham broadly enough to confuse her with the saucy hostess she played in «Les Miserables», or any of her Tim Burton vamps.

I think there was something generic about the writing for each specific Muppet, which led to some characters like Janice, The Swedish Chef, and Mr. Teeth left with only a couple of lines of dialogue not fully showing their unique personalities.

«Jim Frawley's Extended Camera Test» (17:53) restores and extends a feature from Sony's original 2001 Muppet Movie DVD (which had 13 minutes and 34 seconds).

Building on the critically acclaimed Superbowl commercial, the Muppets will join the Toyota Highlander in an exhibit which will give auto show patrons a chance to play three iPad games featuring the luxurious SUV and the Muppet characters.

, which publishes Pixar - licensed books such as «The Incredibles» and «Cars» as well as «The Muppet Show» and more.

Rather than give advice that protects muppets from themselves, Vanguard chases AUM which no doubt increases the salary and bonus of managers.

Rebalancing works for muppets because it counteracts your tendencies to chase performance which lowers your financial returns.

A term like «muppet» which can be used in a derogatory way can be argued to be a badge of honor for some people.

[Which must infuriate my muppet critics — they'd much prefer to believe I simply hate all juniors!]

But this must have come as a bit of a shock to the few PCI muppets left, they were already counting the bopd from this well... So yes, it may certainly impact sentiment which is disappointing, but as far as my actual valuation's concerned it has zero impact — I'd never dream of assigning any kind of tangible value to a new exploration well.

[And I have to admit, shorting some of these juniors is like shooting fish in a barrel... Which has a certain logic, I'm sure promoters think about muppet investors & their hard - earned cash in similar fashion.

I've been at TT for 20 years now and have probably worked on the good, the bad and the ugly from Traveller's Tales history, but from the older games perhaps my favourite was Muppet Racemania which a lot of people would probably never played.

Muppets are almost always left handed; this is on account of the fact that the puppeteers that control them use their dominant hand (usually right) to control the head of the puppet and their non-dominant hand (usually left) to control the wand which moves the muppet's hand.