Everyone knows who The Muppets are; the iconic gang of felt celebrities have been on our televisions since their first show in 1976 and ever since have become loved worldwide. Even with other successful productions such as Fraggle Rock and Bear in the Big Blue House, Jim Henson productions always returned back to make productions with the gaggle of haunted puppets that had been so good to them.
Even after selling The Muppet Studio to Walt Disney in 2004, they continued to make films and are about to release their latest project, The Muppets, the movie. After blowing the dust off the box's that they were stuffed in, or coat hangers they hung on and after the long mental journey they went on to come up with the name for the film, they set about to get an all-star team of writers and actors by getting Jason Segal to write and act in the production which will be the first Muppet theatrical film since Muppets In Space hit cinemas in 1999.
With the impending release of The Muppets movie, Jim Henson's creations have been out in force to promote the new movie, appearing on TV shows like WWE's Monday Night Raw, Jay Leno, Ellen and even Children In Need. Not to mention the countless internet parodies that has sprung up from The Muppets camp of films such as Twilight, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Green Lantern and Paranormal Activity.
With all this marketing and guest appearances you can't help but think a lot of work has gone on, behind the scenes, to get the Muppet word out there. So much in fact, that I'm starting to believe that maybe they aren't just expensive, furry, marionettes, but rather real creatures that Jim Henson productions have worked into the ground and exploited because those little guys haven't got their own union.
Yes! It's starting to make sense now! Jim Henson got hold of these poor bastards and has made them do explicable things on television for years. Jim spent all his life making them jump through hoops and in the process neglected his son, Brian Henson. So maybe NOW, Brian , who took the reins after his father's death, is still enraged with jealousy and is making Kermit pay, striking him and bellowing "Dad preferred YOU!" (Insert sound of a backhand against felt).
What if he took advantage of miss piggy too? She probably had three of his children that he has kept quiet. That, I imagine, would definitely drive Kermit to breaking point and in an extreme tit for tat revenge plot, the frog, might try to seduce Brian's wife. Let's say, Mrs Henson had a child from that fling but maintained that it was still Brian's, but Mr Henson was still suspicious "I keep coming home to find our child, sat in the middle of the stairs, playing the BANJO, singing 'it's not easy being greatly unloved'. And WHAT is the deal with his eyes!?. When he laughs, his arms flail about! I swear to god, Mary, If he 'Welcomes me to The Muppet Show' once more when I come home from work, I won't be held responsible for my actions!"
Beaker never got the support he needed, either. That poor sod clearly had a speech impediment or maybe even a disability, but that was looked over. Tiny Tim was probably pushed down those stairs, that's why he had that bad leg. IMAGINE THAT!
It's okay though, because it is just my imagination running away with me and, for legal reasons, I would like to take this opportunity to say that Brian Henson does not abuse his Muppet's. Not until the reviews come out anyway