Blog: Cobain In a Coma

THE MUPPETS TAKEOVER!

THE MUPPETS TAKEOVER! I love the Muppets. Looking back, my adoration for Jim Henson was probably my first huge gay crush. I think what impressed me most about the Muppets was that despite the fact that they seemed geared toward children with their technicolor felt skin and bugged-out eyeballs, they weren't talking down to me or underestimating my intelligence. I got all of the sex, drugs, violence and political humor (and if I didn't I'm sure the dialogue shaped my future ideas on the world). In their movies they routinely shattered the fourth wall with complex themes of films within films in a [...]