the way sesame street, a pbs puppet show for literal babies, is pressing on with pride content despite vitriolic monsters descending on every post to insinuate they're pedophiles or demons while some of the biggest companies on the planet who could swim in olympic swimming pools of money like scrooge mcduck on steroids buckle and cave just emphasizes how completely and utterly pathetic these corporations are. they'd butcher a baby if it meant saving a penny.

where Starbucks and Target and Budweiser will be bullied into submission with the slightest push, puppets and people in your neighborhood stand tall

Sesame Workshop has been doing pride stuff since 2017. The Muppet Wiki has a nice list of stuff they've done:

Jim Henson supported his openly queer colleagues in the 1970s! The Muppet performer Richard Hunt was majorly influential on Sesame Street, the Muppet Show, and Fraggle Rock.

They also dumped Chick-fil-A in 2012 when CFA made their stance on gay marriage known.

It would be a dishonor to their memories for the Jim Henson Company to kowtow to queerphobic demands when their namesake always stood for diversity and acceptance of everyone, and it makes me proud to be a Muppet fan to see that insisted upon 💖🌈

My apologies to whatever poor Ao3 tag wrangler first sees the 'Bruce Wayne Muppet Threeesome' tag.

Your gift basket is in the mail.

"OP provide context"

Scroll my blog in fear like God intended.

I feel like the fact that I'm clearly stuck at the airport adds Energy to this one:

Nine Inch Snails

Ok so I just learned something

(commissions open)

chaotic muppets interview

These are the words of puppeteers who should not be up this early

when you’ve honed the fine art of perfectly-timed reblogging of something aimed at one specific mutual and they immediately like it

Tags from @krawdad because i thought this was very cool from a puppeteering perspective

[ID: Image one is a Sesame Street gif of Big Bird throwing a frisbee to Cookie Monster, who promptly takes a bite of it. Image two is a set of tags that read: “#i want to appreciate how wacky a stunt tossing a frizbee to cookie monster is from a practical standpoint #guy inside the bird cannot see out of it. he gets a feed of what the camera sees. #he actually catches the thing the bird actually threw

#and the only reason i can tell they didnt fake it is because cookie monster doesn’t look at the frizbee when he catches it #because the puppeteer was focused on catching the dang thing at all #how many takes must this have taken to pull off #usually you achieve that with a cut #it’s so much easier to just cut to the other character catching a prop #i appreciate the effort #and i want others to notice it #it is also a left handed catch #on a right handed performer #someone else is doing the right hand.” End ID]

It’s also a left-handed throw because the puppeteer’s right hand controls Big Bird’s mouth

this is a really cool puppet stunt o-o

You put that quote back into homestuck immediately

“The cast of Breaking Bad as Muppets”

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reposting this from twitter bc it's making me lose my mind

jim henson, frank oz & don sahlin showing off how to make various characters with a “whatnot/anything” muppet, 1969

#actual wizard like ACTUAL#you could take the absolute most cutting edge deepfake with every hi-res freckle and hair in place so you could zoom in to the atomic level#and it would not be as Real as this felt egg#with 2 puppeteers clearly visible (via @harrietvane)

Eat your greens!🍏

it’s his day

You will not be prepared for this man’s voice. But you will be delighted

Pick a movie. Keep one actor. Everyone else is a Muppet.

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Oh my God its true

Part of the joke is that her character is a dragonborn. And boy, back when 4e came out and introduced the modern dragonborn, there were a lot of people arguing very heatedly about whether or not female dragonborn should or should not have breasts. :)

You can’t just slam my brain with “there’s a licensed muppet style D&D show coming out” and then “it’s an adult comedy with a giant tit fraggle” and then “she’s a dragonborn” in one post. The last four or five weeks felt like a year as it is.

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Oh my God its true

how are yall gonna share this all and not mention that the muppet with the fraggle rack is named Arieola Borealis

Frank Oz and Jim Henson ad-lib as Fozzie and Kermit in this test footage for the first Muppet movie, and honestly it's pure gold.

This is a professional shitpost roleplay.

I’m crying becuase this is something I’ve never seen before, something original of that era of the Muppets with both Oz and Henson working on one of my favorite movies, but also becuase this is the funniest thing I have seen in mONTHS.