If you are like me, your childhood babysitter tended to be the television. One of my favorite shows that I could NOT miss (next to Dukes of Hazard and Miami Vice) was The Muppet Show. I badgered my parents in taking me to EVERY movie those felt folks ever starred in. I distinctly remember going to a fake Muppet show in the mall and talking to the Miss Piggy puppet during their little show. I was trying to show her that I had the doll version of her in my hand but she was not listening.

It is quite possible that I learned my sarcastic assness from those two old geezers in the balcony. I perhaps got my big heart from those plastic round eyes from Kermie. I could use a little bit of Miss Piggy’s confidence. And I still run into people who remind me of Beeker, talking all their nonsense. These Muppets are the bomb, I tell ya. Nobody else except Maude got real humans to dress up in stuff and talk to cloth like they were real. Seasame Street doesn’t count since there were actually PEOPLE in those costumes. We all know Kermie is real. See below.