The "Muppet Puppet Show" (with special guest star Jim Henson!)
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- Опубликовано: 13 дек 2010
- I had this crazy idea about combining clips and audio from various Muppet productions into one video, and this is the result.
All of the voices that you will hear are the original people. When Scooter says the name "Jim Henson" in the cold open, that's really Richard Hunt's voice, lifted from the TV special 'The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson'.
When Kermit introduces the show, I spliced together syllables from guest-stars JIM Nabors and Florence HENderSON.
And when Kermit introduces Jim later in the show, it's actually Jim-as-Kermit saying his own name from the 'Secrets of the Muppets' episode of the Jim Henson Hour.
The clips are cobbled together from: John Denver episode (cold open), Jim Henson's American Express commercial (flopped mirror image), Jim Nabors ep. (Kermit's intro), Florence Henderson ep. (audio), Ethel Merman ep. (a Kermit clip and Java audio), Beverly Sills ep. (audience applauding), Senor Wences ep. (a veritable gold mine of clips about them doing a puppet show), Mummenschanz ep. (Statler and Waldorf), The Muppets on Puppets public television documentary (Jim in black and white), Cleo Laine ep. (various), Chris Langham ep. (Statler and Waldorf), and the Edgar Bergen ep. (Fozzie's ventriloquist act).
Special thanks to Heralde for his timely assistance, to D.W. McKim for helping me recall which episode one clip was from, and to KermiClownVideos for filling in the gaps of the episodes I was missing.
I hope you've enjoyed watching! 
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The Muppets had such a distinctive style of their own that people forget just what an encyclopedic knowledge of puppetry Jim Henson really had. Even before the Muppets made him famous as a writer and voice actor, He was a master puppeteer who could do Balinese shadow puppets, Italian Renaissance marionettes, Javanese rod puppets, early American ventriloquist dummies, and his own plush felt designs with ease.
In some ways it's a shame the Muppets adopted such a limited range of signature builds and techniques because he could do so much more than we're used to seeing. It still comes through on occasion; the bicycle ride in the first Muppet Movie is a work of pure wizardry. But this is a wonderful glimpse into some of the knowledge & talent that Jim didn't get to show so much underneath Kermit & Ernie.
The scene with Jim Henson and Rowlf is such a good meme!
3:52 Rowlf: How will I ever explain this to Lassie 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wow. Great job. Thanks for the videos!!!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching. I always get a kick out of seeing this one find new viewers.
Rowlf: NO NO Jim I’m a dog remember. Woof woof. Always cracks me up 😅😂 2:48
Jim Henson: I don't want to be known just for puppets.
Jim Henson:
3:19 LOL Rowlf playing dead 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
TIL: the term Slapstick Comedy comes from noisemaking "slapstick" used in comedies like the old Punch and Judy
How could the Muppets get any bette r !
2:46
He sounds like kermit rowlf guy smiley ernie satler.
There could be a reason for that.
Not much left
Mostly chopped out
Oh, do you have a more complete copy? If so, I'd love to see it.
@@LextheRobot
I'm just begging
Shouldn’t Rowlf have two guys under him?
Yes, for the right-hand assist. But as a joke, "there's two men down there" doesn't read as well to the general audience as "there's a man down there." I remember once watching a clip of Rowlf and Fozzie playing a duet, and commenting to my friend John (who has actually been a professional puppeteer before) about the 'four performers' crammed together in front of that small piano. He turned slowly and stared at me in realization of what I meant and said, "I frankly never would have thought of that." So if they'd said two men were under Rowlf, simply for the sake of veracity, it would have probably confused most of the viewing audience.
Great work!
Anyone else actually feel really bad for Rowlf? That was some good work by Jim and whoever operated him there.
Thank you!!! I've waited nearly three years for someone to notice/comment on that. It was one of those things that cracks me up every time, and just the other day on Jim's birthday I re-watched this and wondered why no one had ever caught it. You must really know your Muppet Show clips! Good catch!
They need to have a real theater in New York and have this be a Broadway show and do this, and have a guest star appear, I would totally go to that.
For an amateur work it is amazingly done! The sheer amount of time you would need to do this requires a whole lot of preparing, gathering voices and joining all together.
Great job there!
Thanks for the kind words! Yes, it was a labor of love.
I love those scenes with Jim. The puppeteering work is fantastic.
I suspect it's Frank Oz performing Rowlf in that one scene (the head and left hand, anyway, with someone assisting on the right hand). The voice tracks were pre-recorded, probably on an actual vinyl record back in those days, according to some other behind-the-scenes footage where they would show how a skit was done.
what a wonderfull show and what a guest
Funny stuff RIP Jim Henson
Always in Our hearts Jim!
This is really wonderful. Thank you. It's like a real episode has somehow fallen out of a wormhole.
Thank you. That's high praise. I was very pleased with how I was able to piece it together with some semblance of the structure of an actual episode.
Great editing job!
Very well put together.
Thank you! I'm still rather proud of this one.
Thank you! It's nice to see that it's still finding new viewers.
These voices are from my childhood. i see puppets I have not seen for thirty years and yet they are remembered.
I took some of my Muppet Show DVDs over to a friend's apartment one time. He was a professional puppeteer, and despite not having seen the episodes in decades, knew every line of dialogue and could even tell me where he'd been sitting in his parents' home as a kid when he first saw them. But, of course, the DVDs included the UK-only spots, and those BLEW HIS MIND. He was like, "Whoa! What is THIS? I have never seen this skit before!!!"
Man, is this ever brilliant! Very well edited and entertaining. Thanks for putting this together.
This is my FIRST video that I watched
Very good dubbing and editing. Excellent job!
@muppetspuppets I loved it when Jerry Juhl and Frank Oz did the "Punch and Judy" part
Nice job i watched this elementary now i'm in high school
AWESOME STUFF!!!!!!
That was really cool :)
love it
Wonderful...
Really nice... thank you...!!!
The Muppets are puppets.
I just realized something that occurs totally by accident... Gonzo dislikes Fozzie's ventriloquist act until the chicken joke, and then he's suddenly on board with it. LOL
Good Job!
That would be nice :( I wish he was a guest star but he’s an actor for Kermit 😢
Jim Henson, killing the magic
; A ;
3.21 Jim Henson reminds me a little of George Carlin in 1978
Wayang... That's the javanese puppet
@collgoff
Well, this particular video was edited together by me, LextheRobot. My real name is Alex Newborn.
But technically all of the content was made by a genius named Jim Henson and his talented crew at the Muppets. Writers like Jerry Juhl, puppet builders like Don Sahlin, performers like Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Dave Goelz. The list goes on forever.
Good one and its thanks to Jim Henson and his family with many others we all got to know and Love the muppets.Look at the many years they have been going and still are.even Walt Disney worked with the Jim Henson family. And to think it all started with Punch and Judy.Puppet shows are a very good way and have proving to get out any hate rage agression and they do always work.Its puppets hand control not real people getting hurt.thats whats great about it. And for many of us who do know Frank Oz went on into Starwars. The magic of the muppets will still go on for years to come without doubt. Theres been many puppet shows and always will be and loved admired by many millions.and theres those who cant stand puppet shows and only have hate rage anger agression for real people in the real world. People who can get hurt very bad and not by a puppet. And theres those who do love the muppets.us who do know how to have fun.
agree with miss piggy aggressive puppetry.punch and judy
@muppetspuppets You are very welcome!
I thought Java was part of Indonesia!
we are puppets i say
SPOILER : miss piggy is played by a guy..
Yes, Frank Oz.
@MermaidJassica Read the full description for the complete list of episodes which were cobbled together into this.
what episode of the muppet show did you use for this
Who made this video?
Well if this isn't meta, I don't know what is.
Yep, that was the very word one of the first commenters here used to describe it.
"noraa danielle 7 years ago
That was SOOOOO meta."
logic breaking
Rowlf from 1967. In the tv show our place. Our Place CBS 1967 Part 2 of 6
Java... I see what you did there... ;)
3:42 puppet existential crisis
Why did jim do that to Rowlf...that is so cruel. Making him see the hand behind the puppetry.
1:52 what's that music in the background?
It's from a Muppet skit called "Java". I impishly decided to put it under Jim talking about a puppet from a land called Java.
The song was called "Java" long before Jim built a skit around it. It was written by New Orleans songwriter Allen Toussaint and first appeared in 1958 on "The Wild Sounds Of New Orleans." The famous trumpet version that shows up on the Muppets, I *think* was the version recorded by trumpet player Al Hirt in 1963.
HOW THE HELL IS JIM TALKING TO ROWLF. WHAT IS AIR.
+Linny Crocus Jim pre-recorded the voice for Rowlf, probably, and he had other puppeteers lipsync to the track.
+Quentin T. This is an early example of how genius Jim was at using the television medium to push the boundaries of what was believed possible with puppets. A refinement of the technique was also used in the first Muppet Movie when Kermit and Rowlf sing a song together, or didn't you wonder how Jim could harmonize with himself as two different characters? And Quentin T. is right, the Rowlf tracks are pre-recorded, but Jim's own voice is live. When I created this clip, I could never get the shots of the b/w documentary to rip from the DVD, so in desperation I re-filmed them off my big-screen TV, and re-synched the dubbed picture with the original audio. I kept getting the lip movements out of sync every time I used Rowlf as my guide. Then I realized that even as good as the performance was, there was usually a bit of delay on the first word of each of Rowlf's lines. By the end of the line, the puppeteer-- I assume Frank Oz, though I don't know for certain-- was back in synchronicity, but the first words were slightly off. I had to sync off of Jim's lines instead, even though his mouth movements were much harder to see due to his beard.