{"id":1204,"date":"2011-12-17T19:51:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T01:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2011-12-18T19:28:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T01:28:54","slug":"muppet-aficionados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"Muppet Aficionados"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7627\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1204-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/muppets_aficionados.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/muppets_aficionados.mp3\">https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/muppets_aficionados.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/muppets_aficionados.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1204-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/muppets_aficionados.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"muppets_aficionados.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1206\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1206\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/meanmama.jpg\" alt=\"Trouble in the balcony!\" title=\"Mean Mama\" width=\"300\" height=\"365\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/meanmama.jpg 300w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/meanmama-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trouble in the balcony!<\/p><\/div>Hi-ho!  It&#8217;s Christmas time, and we&#8217;re doing something special.  We&#8217;re doing The Muppets! What do Muppets have to do with animation?  Well, they&#8217;re puppets&#8230; and that&#8217;s kind of a form of animation.  &#8230;sorta.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo, we&#8217;re joined this week by Stephanie O&#8217;Donnell and Don McLeod.  For nearly two hours, we run through the entire history of the Muppets from Sam &#038; Friends to <i>Muppets In Space<\/i>.  We dig up some obscure Muppets you may not have even heard of.  We talk about the Muppeteers, too.<\/p>\n<p>This episode is dedicated to Jim Henson and Richard Hunt, two geniuses who left us too soon.<\/p>\n<p>Show Topics:<br \/>\nSesame Street presents The Seven Deadly Sins<br \/>\nWhy did Gonzo cross the road?<br \/>\nIs Oscar homeless?<br \/>\nScary Muppets<br \/>\nStephanie is a stan<br \/>\nTiny Fuppets and Meet The Feebles<br \/>\nFonzie jumps a voodoo shark while the corpse of Bernie dances a jig<br \/>\nJason Seagal gives kermit a pearl necklace<br \/>\n&#8230;and Little Muppet Monsters TOO!<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1207\" style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1207\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/jim_henson_and_ninja_turtles_1990.jpg\" alt=\"Jim &amp;  The Turtles\" title=\"Jim &amp;  The Turtles\" width=\"488\" height=\"291\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/jim_henson_and_ninja_turtles_1990.jpg 488w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/jim_henson_and_ninja_turtles_1990-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bet you forgot he was involved in that movie!<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1208\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1208\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/richardsweetums.jpg\" alt=\"Just another day on the job for Rich\" title=\"Richard as Sweetums\" width=\"310\" height=\"456\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/richardsweetums.jpg 310w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/richardsweetums-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just another day on the job for Rich<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Oopsie&#8230; Almost forgot!  Here&#8217;s that Smokey Robinson vid!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ws_vnXup7so\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi-ho! It&#8217;s Christmas time, and we&#8217;re doing something special. We&#8217;re doing The Muppets! What do Muppets have to do with animation? Well, they&#8217;re puppets&#8230; and that&#8217;s kind of a form of animation. &#8230;sorta. Anyhoo, we&#8217;re joined this week by Stephanie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=1204\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}