Blast from the Past

I was hanging around at Wal-mart this afternoon, waiting for my flat tire to be fixed. Yuck. (Having to wait for the AAA guy while it's bazillion below zero is not my favorite way to spend a Friday afternoon.) Anyway - I decided to treat myself to a DVD I been thinking about for a while -- Season One of The Muppet Show

"It's time to play the music! It's time to light the lights! It's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight!!"

I forgot how funny it was!! The very first skit is the "Mahna Mahna" song. It's currently being used on a Dr. Pepper commercial. (The one with the girl in the restaurant with the amazing guy and after she sips her Dr. Pepper, all she can hear is people singing, "Manamana...") I never realized that it was from the Muppet Show. Anyway - it's just getting better. It's so self-referential. Kermit keeps drawing our attention to the fact that he's a puppet and how weird it is that he is doing all the stuff he is doing. It truly is brilliant. I'm genuinely looking forward to the rest.

Later...okay, now it's the second episode and Connie Stevens is coming on to Kermit... That's just weird.

I think I'm going to have a running commentary. I just can't resist. Now it's episode three and Joel Grey is performing "Cabaret" with the Muppets. To me, Joel Grey is the old man who tried to kill Dawn on to of the scaffolding at the end of Buffy Season 5. I know that he is famous for his work on Broadway, but he'll always be that very creepy man to me. So, here he is on the Muppet Show as a much younger, happy man. So strange...but fun! Kermit is asking him about his little daughter, Jennifer. (She grew up to be "Baby" in Dirty Dancing :-)