Happy Birthday to Jim Henson
Posted By Kathleen David on September 24, 2008
Today would have been Jim’s 72nd birthday. I plan to watch various Muppet programs and a documentary I have on the Muppets in his honor today. I bet he would be amazed at the number of lives he still touches today. I know he was amazed by it back in the day.
There is a lot I could write about this topic but I have done so over the years.
So I ask you the reader of this web log, what is your favorite or most memorable Muppet Moment?
Yesterday was Peter’s Birthday. We went for his traditional birthday breakfast. I had cleaned up his office for his birthday present. The girls gave him a deluxe copy of the Iron Man movie. Then we went to the Mets and Cubs game, ate in the Diamond Club, and watched the Mets win one. The Mets win put his birthday in a good birthday category.
Caroline, having been told that her birthday is after Daddy’s, asked when it was going to be her turn to have a birthday. We explained that both Halloween and Thanksgiving were happening before her birthday arrived. She sighed heavily and said that’s a long time.
I need to get my glasses fixed after they got mysteriously very bent. No one claims to know what happened but I am hoping that they are fixable.
It is a lovely day today. I think I may go out and get some more yard work done. I am giving serious thought to renting a chainsaw to get a bush back to size and get rid of a tree that should not be growing so close to the house. Actually, I would be perfectly happy to just get rid of both.
I am grateful that the Mets won on Peter’s Birthday.
I was first-generation Sesame Street, being 4 in 1969, so Muppets have always been a part of my life. I remember being absolutely amazed by the Muppet Movie, watching Kermit’s fingers moving on that banjo and trying to figure out how the heck they did it.
The Muppet’s Christmas Carol is perhaps my favorite incarnation of that movie.
But my favorite moment had to be waking up in the middle of the night in a panic to a deep voice saying “Me like that! That feel good!” and then, after several minutes, realizing someone had rolled over on Tickle Me Coookie Monster.
Never, never put Tickle Me Cookie Monster next to hopping Tigger.
If you haven’t seen it, You Tube has a clip of Unnecessary (?) Censorship that focuses on Sesame Street, censoring random words that makes some of what Elmo says very very different, and very very funny.
This should be the link. Rated G for any kids listening.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Vh9_Hi1kY
For me, it was A Muppet Family Christmas special, the one where they all got together with the Sesame Street characters and the Fraggle Rock characters. I was all of four years old at the time, so I didn’t recognize the guy washing dishes at the end, but when I put it together on a repeat viewing years later, I loved how cool it was that he dropped in for the family reunion of the family he created.
Being 12years old when Sesame Street started airing here, I missed out on the early stuff. I did get to enjoy the stuuf from the mid 80s into the early 90s via my kids. Although I must say that while the 3 older boys absolutely loved it (born in 85, 86 and 88), Brooke (born in 93) was not overly fond of it, preferring “Play School” (locally produced and aired on the same network, straight after Sesame Street).