{"id":1937,"date":"2011-11-22T03:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.streamdoubletrouble.com\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2011-12-24T21:46:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T05:46:51","slug":"how-the-muppets-were-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamoftheconscious.com\/how-the-muppets-were-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Muppets Were Saved"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s time to play the music! It\u2019s time to light the lights! It\u2019s time to raise the curtain on\u2026THE BIGGEST COMEBACK TOUR EVER!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve heard of the Muppets right? No, not MY muppets \u2013 their puppety namesakes.<\/p>\n

After more than a decade spent largely out of the spotlight, mostly doing whatever felt puppets do when no one is watching, Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, and the rest of the Muppet repertory company are poised to return to the big screen on Nov. 23 in Disney\u2019s splashy, star-studded musical comedy\u00a0The Muppets.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tomorrow, the Muppets return. I. Cannot. Wait. Doesn\u2019t that sound like the most amazingly romantic date night ever?! MUPPETS!<\/p>\n

Ok, I\u2019ll calm down. Suffice it to say, I\u2019m a big fan of Jim Henson\u2019s felt puppets.<\/p>\n

Netflix started it all. I was about 15 weeks pregnant \u2013 busy barfing my brains out when I wasn\u2019t curled up into the fetal position in the reclining chair. Jon netflixed (is that a verb like googled yet?) \u201cThe Muppet Show\u201d season 1.<\/p>\n

He then proceeded to sing the intro song for the next month. Really, I only got it out of my head because I landed in hospital lockdown. Hours before I was wheeled into the circus of an OR, Jon posted a cryptic status update on Facebook.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time to play the music
\nIt\u2019s time to light the lights
\nIt\u2019s time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It stuck.<\/p>\n

Suddenly I found myself head over heels in love with two cranky wrinkly balding men. There was nothing more handsome in this world than Statler and Waldorf.<\/p>\n

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Thoughtful. Always observing and taking in everything around him.<\/p><\/div>\n

As they grew (at warp speed), they became best of friends. Ok, not really \u2013 they seem to be more trying to kill each other. But tell me those weren\u2019t incredibly awesome costumes.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t quite expecting the slapstick activity to follow us right along. We had another incident report today. And on the scale of increasing injuries, this one even warranted a call home mid-day.<\/p>\n

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Happy-go-lucky. Constantly cracking jokes that no one understands.<\/p><\/div>\n

In true Destroy fashion, he\u2019d climbed up on a boat play setting previously deemed \u201cbabyproof\u201d at school. Yet, rather than exiting through the opening in said structure, my little muppet decided to walk the plank. \u201cYeah. He\u2019s going to have quite a black eye tomorrow. We\u2019ll call you back if we can\u2019t get the bleeding to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

When I picked him up, I grilled his teacher. His incident report noted that treatment required Neosporin and a lot of TLC.<\/p>\n

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You should see the other guy...<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cHe certainly quite the ladies man, our Destroy,\u201d Miss Stephanie said knowingly. \u201cHe needed hugs from all the women.\u201d Apparently my rebel without a clue figured out that girls may have a thing for the dangerous ones.<\/p>\n

So, turns out Fozzie is quite ladies bear. And just maybe the Muppets spent this past decade in the ER\u2026<\/p>\n

So from our Million Dollar Miracle Muppets to the grand comeback of Henson\u2019s, may your opening be grand! God Save the Muppets!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s time to play the music! It\u2019s time to light the lights! It\u2019s time to raise the curtain on\u2026THE BIGGEST COMEBACK TOUR EVER! You\u2019ve heard of the Muppets right? No, not MY muppets \u2013 their puppety namesakes. 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