Obscure Muppet Moments

[mneme]

After many years, I've finally seen (and own) an obscure Muppet musical that I grew up listening to: The Frog Prince.

Much fun, and even quite a bit of found filk here (in particular, M'Im Inteen and "Frogs")--with much of the asthetic of The Court Jester, only with muppets. Most quotable (aside from songs):

"Robin, I'm sorry, but this is too hard for just two frogs."
"Kermit, you're right. We need more frogs!"

Comments

[mneme]

Ok, will answer here, then.

Oh, yes. I did too, and did too! It was delightful watching drcpunk struggle with that particular Spoonerism (since while while it was my first time -watching- the musical on video, it was her first exposure to it at all!).

The biggest difference (though really, it's all wonderful, and while there are some advantages to the mind's eye, it's nice to get the visuals) is that "Sweetums" (the song Sweetums sings about eating a frog) works far, far better on the screen, where you can see the action, which is quite entertaining, rather than just hear various thumps and crashes.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes: Sweetums gonna hit and smash/turn old frog to Froggie Hash.

I'm not sure if it's comforting or frightening that I know the majority of the lyrics to the various songs off the top of my head even today, a good 30 years since I originally heard the album.

I know it's available on VHS, if one knows where to look. I should find myself a copy one of these days.

::hums "Sir Robin the Frog"::

[mneme]

I've had N'Im Inteen and "Frogs" ("Sing out for the mud and sing out for the ooze...") running through my head near-continuously for the last few hours.

It's not, BTW, all that easy to find the video (though, obviously, possible). It's OOP (made in 1990, never re-issued), and took me two tries to buy from people selling through Amazon -- the first seller shipped a The Frog Prince box with another video inside it (to balance it out, the second seller shipped The Frog Prince out of the original box, so I now had a box to keep it in, and I did get a refund on the first sale).