My Requisite Muppet Post

I know I said my tenure here wouldn’t be all posts about The Muppet Show but guys, it has been a week (not because of The Hairpin I love it here I’ve chained myself to the CMS and am never leaving!!) and about the only thing that makes me feel better is this video. It’s simple and utterly delightful and a perfect encapsulation of everything muppet.

Last year a museum near me had an entire retrospective of Jim Henson’s work, and in the part about creating The Muppet Show he said that whenever they couldn’t figure out a way to end the sketch, they’d either have one muppet eat the other, or have everything explode. In my opinion, all the best Muppet sketches end one of these two ways, so please take this as an extended metaphor for whatever you want.