#muppety rant

[consistencydotcom]

Muppets Mayhem should have been abt Scooter being the mayhems new manager instead of Nora, along his sister Skeeter taking that sister place and Walter being the one helping find them a place to play replacing JJ

And it's a story of Scooter proving himself he's good enough to manage the electric mayhem, as they bond as a family

[zootenthusiast]

Some Muppet “hot takes” (by me, ViVi aka Zoot enthusiast)

1. I don’t really like Pepe. His character is fine in small doses but I don’t like how much Disney is pushing his character and I don’t think he works as well as a duo with Gonzo like Rizzo did (dude I miss Rizzo so much😭)

2. I prefer Lips’ regular speaking than the gibberish he speaks now (although the gibberish is funny at times)

3. Even though he’s my absolute favorite character ever I prefer Zoot’s character in earlier muppet media and I don’t like how now he’s basically been reduced to an idiot

[consistencydotcom]

Zoot is so out of character it makes me want to explote

They made him waaay to stupid and everything he says it's just "where am i" like thats the funniest shit they got

Also i don't like his magic elements at ALL. They said they didnt have a good character for him even thought he has been a good character in muppets 2015 and anything ever

gang don't flame me for this PLEASE. but I physically cannot watch muppets mayhemlike I wanna so badly but ever time I try to I end up running laps around my house it HELP ME. like there's electric mayhem lore in this show I need to watch itpleag... it just is so corny most of the time I'm sorry bro😭🙏 hdhhuggg.. I love these guys so much though.. I just need to power through🙏

[jupitersflytrap]

just for once could i have a normal interest

[prokopetz]

With my schedule being The Way That It Is lately, I don't know when I'll be able to pull together a complete and playable version of Eat God, so I'm hoping this will sustain interest until that time comes. This document contains the complete character creation rules, more or less, incorporating reader feedback from the previous thread.

For those who've expressed interest in giving the character creation rules a spin, well, here you go!

For those just joining us (and anyone who's been following this blog all along but has somehow managed to miss every single previous post), Eat God is a tabletop roleplaying game where you play as a bunch of small muppety critters who are – as the title suggests – on a mission to kill and eat God. Its inspirations include... well, I'm going to let y'all work that out for yourselves.

As always, comments, criticisms, and bizarre rants welcome, though I can't promise I'll be able to respond in any timely fashion.

[popculturebuffet]

Dog City: The Big Squeak Review (Birthday Review for BlahDiddy)

Hello all you happy people! And it’s time for my first regular review of the year and as the start of the year tends to be i’m still dealing with some old buisness. In this case it’s another one of my birthday reviews I do for my friends.. and so far the only one I hope is late. 

The reason for this is simple: when I came up with the idea I found out my longtime friend BlahDiddy’s birthday was in october.. which was already jam packed because october. 

As such i’m just now getting to his birthday present, though he was fine with delaying it. And we’ve got a hidden gem here as this is a series i’d only barely heard of but man on man was I missing out. 

Dog City is a cartoon, with live action muppet segments, created by muppet god Jim Henson. Yes really. It started as a one hour short for the Jim Henson Hour, an anthology series where Jim tried out new things I really need to check out more of. I couldn’t find anything on the making of this cartoon why it came to be, only tha tit comes from Nelvana who have the ENTIRE SERIES on thier retro rerun youtube channel. As such I got to check out a high quality copy of the pilot. Should this cartoon have stayed or played dead? Join me under the cut to find out

So rather than do my usual recap style, i’m breaking form format a bit.. which is approriate as while the episode is MOSTLY an animated story it does have a unique gimmick that I find truly special.

See Dog City itself.. is a show within a show. We watch the episodes.. but as their crafted by animator Elliot Shag, played by Muppet’s legend and Elmo Portrayer Kevin Clash. As such Dog City’s lead, Ace Heart talks with Elliot every so often and vice versa, with Elliot able to impact the plot by drawing things or changing thigns up due to crafting it and almost accidently killing ace by writing his hero into a death trap.. but not knowing how to write him out. It’s a premise that honestly needs to be used again, having the cartoonist able to actively impact the story. He also draws it from his own life, heh: in this ep his boss wants a new cartoon “You hated it... oh no DESPISED it my mistake”, and Elliot can’t think of anything till he gets an idea from his assitant worrying someone will steal his squeaky when he lends it to elliot. This leads into the main plot where Ace has to solve a rash of squeaky toy thefts all over the city. Simple stuff but the interplay between ace and elliot is what makes the series special. While a toon talking to the animator isn’t new, hello Duck Amuck, the idea of him and his creator being buddies and having back and forth like this... while also not ENTIRELY new hasn’t been used in aninatiom all that often. Elliot feels less like a cruel god and more like Ace’s buddy, best exmplified in one scene where Ace wants the usual femme fetale to come in.. only to get an angry swedish woman dog ranting about her lost squeaky toy. We then get some gags as Elliot tries out some other ideas from a sumo wrestler to what ace actually wants, playing with both the cliches of the genre and just being funny. While the two only interact about twice, they just have a really nice dynamic that helps add flavor to the show. Otherwise I can’t say much about the wraparounds with elliot as this episode only has so many and only a fraction of his supporting cast.. but I do like them. 

The one thing I can say is that the puppets for these segments.. are uhhh.. well look

You get used to them, they aren’t bad, but they are WEIRDLY realistic and it really took me out of things the first time I saw them. Which likely worked fine for the noir parody, as these are repurposed from the pilot just giving them new clothes and such, but not so much for what’s supposed ot be slice of life fun. BUt eventually you get conditioned to accept these muppety mouths of madness and life goes on so I can’t say it detracts from the show but I also can’t sleep at night because of them so yeah. 

As for Dog City itself.. the cartoon is fucking senstational. The premise is simple: Ace Hart is your standard noir detective solving crimes, chewing ass and kicking bubblebgum. You get it. He has a flirty relationship with head detective Rosie O’Gravy, his frenemy on the force and your standard late 80′s early 90′s kid sidekick in Eddie and takes on the crminal genius of Bugsy Vile, his goofy henchman and his lounge singer gun moll Kitty who owns their base.  Simple cartoon setup. 

What makes it work so well though.. is the humor. Good god this series did it for me. Picture the Naked Gun but following a PI instead of a police squad detective and you have this series. The dialouge is fast, the jokes rediculous and all of it is played completely straight. As a result you get Ace and Rosie doing the i’m rubber and you are glue thing or a literal british bulldog sitting calmly while the bad guys have him leashed in the corner, while our climax has the bad guys dropping a safe on our heroes, only for ace to draw him a wench to knock a beam to knock the safe out the of the way because the show became an early ds game for a second. We also get a TON of Dog Puns. oh my god the dog puns. From Ace walking eddie home at the end complete with leash, to various fetch jokes I was amazed at how many dog jokes they not only made funny but crammed into 20 minutes. I loved this sort of thing in Bojack Horseman and i’m glad to see it wasn’t the first show to have fun animal behavior based gags like this. I don’t know if the series can keep this up for all three seasons, but i’d certainly love to see them try. 

As for the plot it’s approriatley silly: our villians steal a vault to get a mouse for Kitty, and I love the owner: an unflappably british bulldog, a literal one so he’s on far less cocaine and more tea. He dosen’t react to being frisked, kidnapped.. only to near murder. Tis the british way. He uses a squeaky toy to open the vault, hence the thefts to try to use a diffrent one to do the same, to no avail. But if there’s a problem, yo, ace will solve it, and from there it’s pretty standard. But again... it’s not really the PLOT that makes this one go. It’s the jokes, too many to relist. It’s just got that dry, rapid fire zucker style humor that really makes this work, something Henson himself had his own brand of. And while this leans more into naked gun than muppets it’s still a winnder and worth checking out

So i’d like to thank blah for getting me to review this. He’s been aa good friend to just talk about stuff with from ninja turtles to spider-mans various bizzare rouges to CREEPER

No not him

No not the grinch’s penis

There we go there’s the boy. And yes that’s a real character. Even was on Batman the Animated Series. No really here’s my proof

If you have any context for what the hells going on here... send it to me I haven’t seen this episode. Maybe next year. Til lthen while this was a short one i’ts a hearty see ya real soon to all of you. Please consider joining my patreon or discord. 

[lifetimeinafist]

I am extraordinarily lucky to be surrounded by so many good people these days: 1. My muppety puppy pile of a cohort. These goofs who push me creatively and personally, who take such care with the stories I bring them, who know when I need that extra long hug. The people I see entirely too much but it’s somehow never enough???? 2. My family of choice: My spine, my center, my home base. The people who listen to every rant and build me back up again. Who make sure I occasionally eat something that isn’t pasta and watch at least three dog videos a day. People who are willing to swap Star Wars theories at 3AM and proofread my nonsense essays too. My loves. Grad school is hard. Your 20’s are hard. These people make it easier. And I’m damn thankful.

[ispeoples]

If you dare want I started another tumblr, @seriouslyrobynispeoples so I can stick to more Muppety things here.

You’ll see things like: personal rants and thoughts, puppies, tattoos, Canadian things, food, pretty pictures, funny images, and 80′s and early 90′s pop culture. Among other things. Of course I’ll throw the odd Muppety and Sherlock thing in there. There will be swearing. I like swearing.

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[consistencydotcom]

It's been like 529 days, wheres Lips the muppets, Disney

[consistencydotcom]

Family

[consistencydotcom]

Hello Lips was used again after 2 years does anyone wanna talk about that

[consistencydotcom]

I love love love the electric mayhem

[consistencydotcom]

Missing Zoot and Lips latelly

[consistencydotcom]

Gang should i finish my fiddleauthor animation yes or no

[consistencydotcom]

Marvin Suggs top surgery is my favorite muppets episode

[consistencydotcom]

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYPONY