The boys usher in the New Year with talk of documentaries, and the annoyance of the Documentarian interjecting themselves into the narrative and becoming the central character- is that at all necessary? Then of course, like all good academic conversations, the topic leads to porn and the numbing of the modern mind to the naked image and what […]
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Too Graphic For a Podcast
Posted: 3rd January 2015 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film Review, History, Podcast, Sex, Television, The MuppetsTags: Behind the Green Door, Bill Cosby, Connor Baxter, Debbie Does Dallas, Deepthroat, Documentary, Dogtown and Z Boys, Errol Morris, Kai Lenny, Ken Burns, Molokai Paddleboard Race, Paul Williams, Paul Williams Still Alive, Phantom of Paradise, Porn, Russ Meyers, Star Begotten, Supersize Me, Taxi Driver, The Muppet Movie, The Scene, Winnebago Man
Back when the MUPPETS were Great: A Merry Christmas From The Muppets
Posted: 23rd December 2013 by Dion in Christmas, Television, The Muppets, UncategorizedTags: Christmas, Disney, Fraggle Rock, Jim Henson, Lady Gaga, Sesame Street, The Muppet Movie, The Muppets
(After watching the horrible 2013 Muppet Special entitled Lady Gaga & The Muppets’ Holiday Spectacular, I wanted to republish an article that ran on Podwits.com in 2011 about one of the best Christmas Specials of all time, the 1987 A Muppet Family Christmas. This may have been the last great thing Mr. Henson put out before […]
A Merry Side-Cast Christmas
Posted: 18th December 2013 by Dion in Cartoons, Celebrities, Christmas, Film, History, News, Podcast, Side-Casts, Television, The Muppets, Up on The Soap BoxTags: A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Christmas Story, A Christmas Story 2, A Muppet Family Christmas, A Very Brady Christmas, Buster and Chauncey's Silent Night, Cheers, Child's Play, Christmas, Coronation Street, East Enders, Father Christmas, Gene Autry, Good Times, Hanukkah, Holiday Affair, It's A Living, Jehovah's Witness, Jingle all the Way, John Carpenter, Krampus, Miracle on 34th St., National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Neighbors, Patrick Stewart, Perfect Strangers, Phil Hartman, Railroad Alaska, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus, Side-Cast, Sidecast, Snoopy, Star Wars Christmas Special, T.I.G.F., Thanksgiving, The Brady Bunch, The Muppets, The Thing, Tom Akins, Twas The Night Before Christmas, Whittier Alaska, Zombies
Dion and contributor J. Blake are back for what is probably their BIGGEST (and LONGEST) Side Cast yet! After an extended intro of probably the duo’s worst college drinking story, they ease into the Christmas Spirit by way of Whittier Alaska, the Krampus (Saint Nick‘s long-lost brother), and the posthumously released Phil Hartman animated Christmas movie. Nothing is off […]
More Muppets!…Can It Be?
Posted: 25th December 2011 by Tiberius in Christmas, History, Music, Television, The MuppetsThe Muppet love is endless at The Podwits this Christmas! We have uncovered many forgotten Muppet-centric holiday heart-warmers! My final Muppet post is this fantastic rendition of an Emmet Otter song, originally sung by Emmet’s Ma, and later covered in 1979 by the late John Denver and Robin the Frog on the “John Denver and the […]
The Christmas Toy…Story?!
Posted: 24th December 2011 by Tiberius in Christmas, History, Television, The Muppets, ToysTags: Disney, Pixar, Toy Story
I was recently encouraged to watch a long forgotten Muppet special from way back in 1986! Even I, a long time Muppet aficionado, somehow missed this one… So I gave it whirl… Oh Boy! What I discovered was so shocking, I was forced to make the children leave the room or else their psyche would […]
A Merry Muppet Christmas, Part 3 – “Christmas Eve on Sesame Street”
Posted: 21st December 2011 by Dion in Christmas, Television, The MuppetsTags: 86th Street, Christmas, Frank Oz, Jim Henson, New York City, Sesame Street
Another great Muppet Christmas Special to be highlighted in this series, is one of the earliest, the Emmy Award-winning Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. It originally aired on PBS on Sunday, December 3, 1978, and sadly is another one of the great Muppet specials that hasn’t been aired probably in 20 years.
There Ain’t No Hole In The Washtub…!
Posted: 18th December 2011 by Tiberius in Christmas, Television, The MuppetsTags: 70's, Christmas, Jim Henson, Muppets, TV
I like the Muppets! I think they lost their edge after the 1979 release of The Muppet Movie, but that happens when you go main stream… Before that, Jim Henson was making big plans for his company. The Muppets were on Sesame Street. They had their own TV show, The Muppet Show. They had made numerous […]
A Merry Christmas From The Muppets Part. 1
Posted: 17th December 2011 by Dion in Christmas, Television, The Muppets, UncategorizedTags: Christmas, Disney, Fraggle Rock, Jim Henson, Sesame Street, The Muppet Movie, The Muppets
I have come to the conclusion that there are two time-frames when concerning the Muppets. Pre-Jim Henson’s Death and Post-Jim Henson’s Death. Sadly, the latter has not been as rewarding and fruitful in the world of the Muppets since Mr. Henson’s passing. Who or what is to blame? That is a debate for another day. […]
Muppet Song “Mahna Mahna” Sourced to a Porno
Posted: 6th December 2011 by Dion in Music, News, Sex, The MuppetsTags: Jim Henson, Mahna mahna, Sweden: Heaven and Hell, The Big Lebowski, The Muppets, XXX
Who would of known. I don’t know why it has taken until 2011 for this to come out, but rumor on the street is the classic Muppet song “Mahna Mahna” is from a 1968 Italian porn film entitled Sweden: Heaven and Hell. Huh.