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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 NoData · · Score: 4, Funny


      Why do we always troll here?
      I guess we'll never know.
      It's like some kind of torture
      To try to get first post!

    2. 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. Boo! Horrible Story! Worst Story Ever! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, it's not as bad as some of Zonk's other stuff. Yeah, it's not a dupe. I suppose this is okay. Yeah, it's not bad. In fact, it's pretty interesting. I'd like more stories like this. Encore! Encore!

  3. 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?

    1. Re:The last vestige of chilhood innocence has died by yroJJory · · Score: 5, Informative

      Uh, Disney owns the Muppets now (with the exception of the CTW Muppets). They are already (unfortunately) "sold out".

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  4. 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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  5. Forced Muppet Labor by TheStonepedo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I waldorfed violently from my balcony when I saw that muppets were being abused. Do we call PETA or ACLU on this one?

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  6. It's not very good... by Nimrangul · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The voices are poor imitations of their originals.

    The writing is pretty bad, nothing witty or zinging about it.

    They don't bad mouth it properly, even when an act was amazing on the Muppet Show they'd hate it. With this they're playing it too soft.

    I think it would be hard for them to have come up with a worse idea, except maybe if it were to get into extremely bad racist jokes, violence and sexual content. That's about the only thing they could have done to make this a worse desecration of my childhood.

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  7. To quote the originals... by squidsoup · · Score: 3, Funny

    "That was TERRIBLE!"

  8. Sorry by Ironweaver · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry I'm afraid we're all out of waldorfs

  9. 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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  10. Muppet Porn? by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...Pepe the Prawn begs Miss Congeniality to cuff him...

    Does this imply some sort of Muppet porn flick? I'd watch that for a dollar!

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  11. 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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  12. I guess I'm the only one who liked it. by interstellar_donkey · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Weird.

    People have been accusing me of being out of touch with the rest of the world. I guess this cements it.

    I thought it was funny, and the kind of thing I'd watch every week. Not super funny, mind you, but good enough to see again.

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  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. Re:I remember the Muppet show by redheaded_stepchild · · Score: 3, Funny

    After the cameras are off
    Statler: I can't beleive it's come to this.
    Waldorf: Well, it can't get any worse.
    Statler: They made me smile! And for a movie I didn't even see!
    Waldorf: You think that's bad? I'm still waiting for this freak to get his hand out of my butt!

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