new Muppet videos on YouTube!

[elizabear]

http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/2008/072508.shtml

"And now, brand-new Muppet Show sketches designed especially for the Web have started appearing on YouTube. They're there under the guise of being posted by the characters themselves. In the best tradition of viral marketing campaigns, their real origins have been left mysterious. They do, however, give every indication of being official productions; Disney listened very politely to my questions on this subject, and didn't call back.

"But any corporate skulduggery is forgiven for one simple reason: These things are good. Not just passingly cute, but somehow reminiscent of what made the Muppets tick in the first place.

They're short pieces, mostly musical sketches: The Swedish Chef and Beaker sing the Habanera from Carmen with only the words "bork" and "meep;" Gonzo and his trained chickens cluck out the Blue Danube Waltz; Sam, the American Eagle, his attitude as relevant as ever ("WORLD wide web? Is there a way to put this on just the American part?"), leads an Independence Day sing-along. At the end of each, Statler and Waldorf, the disagreeable old men in the balcony, peer into a computer screen and deliver a zinger. "How many hits did that thing receive?" "Unfortunately, not enough to kill it!" "

You can find them on YouTube, but if you go to the article I've referenced above, all of the videos are embedded in one place. I suspect these are related to Jason Segal (of "How I Met Your Mother") writing a new Muppet movie. Yay!

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Watching the first one, my first thought was, "Mmm...cute...but Beaker better be on fire by the end of this!" And I was not disappointed. :)

[dsrtao]

My timing was off. I said "The violin catches fire in 3.. 2.." and it did before I hit one.