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Statler And Waldorf From the Balcony

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the muppets-with-attitude dept.

An Anonymous Reader wrote in to mention Statler and Waldorf From the Balcony, a short feature on movies.com where the surly Muppets review current films. From the site: "This Week's Episode - Will War of the Worlds' aliens scare off our cranky coots? Will Bewitched be the end of Will? Plus, Pepe the Prawn begs Miss Congeniality to cuff him."

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  1. hello by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    this sucks!!! doesn't it?

    1. Re:hello by jaseparlo · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Nope you haven't lost your edge. The Muppet Show had independence, and cleverness, the guests weren't there spruiking their latest movie or album, they were just there to entertain. This however is just selling movies. The characters weren't in character, they did cheap trouser gags instead of clever kids humour. Crap

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  2. The last vestige of chilhood innocence has died by Beebos · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When the Muppets have sold out, there's no use in fighting it anymore. The world is a dark, despicable place. I might as well join the dark side. Can anyone think of any great ways I can screw my fellow man?

  3. Not even close... by Duncan3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The voices, manerisms, etc are all WAY off...

    Are any of the muppets not being pimped now? Miss piggie and kermit are selling pizza, ugg...

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    1. Re:Not even close... by yroJJory · · Score: 4, Insightful

      There's a reason for that. Both Jim Henson and Richard Hunt are no longer living.

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  4. That made me want to slam my head on my desk by suitepotato · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If only Henson had lived, we might not be visited with these travesties.

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  5. Re:Proprietary WMV files = crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Suck it up, would you rather it be in garbled DivX?

  6. And MOV is better? by spoco2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, no, instead let's all happily link to mov files instead... oh, wait, we need a propriety player for that too.

    Oh, and if I actually want to watch it fullscreen I have to PAY for the damn privilage... I don't think so.

    Ridiculous anti MS drivel.

    And yes, I know there are alternatives to using quicktime itself... but there are for wmv files too... I didn't write the first post did I?

  7. When's the funny part start? by noewun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you listen carefully you can hear Jim Henson doing 6,000 rpm in his grave.

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  8. Way Off.. by Thinko · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They strayed from everything that made these guys funny in the first place..

    Way too much chatter, and far too 'happy'.. it's supposed to be short glib responses that are cynical and comedic, not conversational or 'talk-show-host'.

    Way to totally miss the boat on this one, this is a disgrace.

  9. Just not the same anymore. by Warlock7 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The original voices for Statler and Waldorf are two members of the original team, who have passed away.

    Richard Hunt, who was the original voice of Waldorf, he passed away in 1992. Jim Henson was the original voice of Statler and the world lost him back in 1990.

    It seems that the new voice of Waldorf is now being performed by Dave Goelz who is the voice of Gonzo the Great, Fozzie Bear and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew. While, now, Jerry Nelson is doing the voice of Statler. Mind you, it's a reprise of the role. He played it in one of the original pilots for the show, 'Sex and Violence'.

    All in all, the new voices completely bother me. I have to say that the new voices bother me more than anything else about the new Muppets. It makes it very difficult to try and be objective about the new Muppets when Jim Henson was personally responsible for many of the characters' voices.

  10. Re:I guess I'm the only one who liked it. by globalar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think it's the disapointment in seeing the Muppets not only blattently commercialized, but also out of character and poorly voiced. Dialogue and characters are so important, even when the actors are using puppets.

    Beside, on /. people go nuts over Han Solo's penchant to shoot first. This is like changing him into a raving homosexual (not that I care about your sex life).

  11. Quicktime sucks. by b00m3rang · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To answer your question, everyone who runs Windows, and many people running alternative OSes with players that support WiMP's codec set... which is a lot of people.

    How can you be so enamored with a player that doesn't even support playlists, anyway?

  12. Re:It's not very good... by jaseparlo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    your childhood was not all it's cracked up to be

    No it wasn't, some things stand the test of time and are still good now, some things you try them out now and wonder what on earth you saw in it when you were young. Go back and watch old Muppets episodes. They were good, and still are.

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