OMG!!! "Thanks for the memories!!!" Wow, does this bring back the good old das of watching Johnny make a complete fool of himself, talking to a puppet frog! Dan, please, sir, keep these memories coming. They are so, so, enjoyed!
This is just so funny. I had a really good laugh at some of those lines. So fascinating to watch the wittiness of this exchange. The threesome conversation is brilliant.
I remember this exact show, I was expecting my first child and I sat there rubbing my tummy talking to the baby telling her how much fun we would have together when she arrived. We are still having fun together and still love The Muppits.
Thank you for bringing back this wonderful memory, you truly made me smile on this Saturday.
Hard to believe Henson would have been 85 this year! I watched the first episode of Sesame Street and never missed the Muppet Show. I will always be a fan.
I grew up watching Sesame Street and first Kermit and then later Jim Henson were my heros. I would answer the phone in junior high with “Hi ho, Kermit the Frog here”. My Dad loved watching the Muppet show with us, especially the critics Waldorf and Stadler. They were hilarious. I didn’t get to stay up late enough for Johnny Carson when this came on so thank you so much for sending it today. Jim Henson was a true artist and amazing performer.
As for your last sentence, you can see that clearly in the clip when Carson asks what Kermit is made of. Kermit stays perfectly in character, with Henson making all kinds of expressions on Kermit's face, while Henson talks like a normal person. Wow!
I DO remember this! When I was testing out of high school at 16 I would do my assignments with Sesame Street playing on my little room tv & my parents scratching their heads as to WHY their kid who was working so hard to get into college early was watching a kids’ TV show. Henson was like the family member you desperately needed to level things out. So polite he would have perhaps kept my dad from cursing (cussing down south) at the bad news on TV. So in touch with minority & gender equality he would have encouraged my own mom while in her kitchen working away to go back to school. So inspiring I used his Muppet family as a calming kind backdrop to keep me focused on my thesis & final projects.
Well Jim and Kermit, just as it isn’t easy being Green, it was pretty tough to get into an all male Computer Sciences curriculum at age 16 and very much a female, you helped me through! I did it! My parents never complained that I watched a kind human being with a little green frog to keep me centered. 49 years later I’m retiring from the 9 to 5 and doing what makes me happy. Imagine that!?
My children grew up watching Jim Henson's Muppets. My daughter was enamored of Miss Piggy, and our son, of Cookie Monster. So many lessons in living a moral life were offered through the personalities and actions of these amazing characters. Thank you Jim Henson for your thoughtful creativity, and Steady Team, for the reminder.
Thank you, Dan & Friends! I love Kermit and Jim Henson did so much for our culture; a man ao young at heart, dying so young. He left the world with the possibility that puppet animals, especially frogs, csn change the world. When I was a kid, I remembee the tshirt, "One Frog Can Save the World.," Forgive me if the words are off; it was too long ago. The theme that Jim Henspn brought tp the world was,, "Never count anyone out," and that underdogs, underfrogs, aka, the good guys, can get their day in the sun, too. Jim Henson helped to build the imaginations of generatuinsx and the dialogs, and themes of his film, and products, were consistent with such themes. If you were different,, or younger. Or weaker, bnb or all of those, you could still be a Winner. Henson showed us that what mattered most was inside someone, friendship, humor, and perseverance. My husband & I have a tradition, from Thanksgiving tp New Years, tp see all the Muppet Movies, and the Myppet Christmas Carol, top. We actually see various types of that story, arounf Christmas, but the Muppets are first. Lastly, all of my life, when Kermie sang, "The Lovees, the Dreamers, and Me," I felt like I fit in. The perdon I am at 55, is the same person I was at, 5, 15, 25, 35, 45. I am a Lovee & a Dreamer. To Kermie:" I GET IT!! AND, THANJ YOU!"" To Dan: Thank you for keeping your own child inside, alive and well, top. I watch Johnny Carson rerins on Antenna TV. He wss childlike, too. I am so interested in that topic, I have even written about it (not piblished thoudh). My owm Dad died young, at 99 1/2, so there is something to the magic that Jim Hendon had, abd shared with us all. Through his work, to bring these attributes to our sociery, and world, Jim Henson will live forever, and will be eternally young. God Blees Him!!
Ha! That's what frogs do. That's what Dan Rather does. He brings us a necessary smile and a belly laugh when we need it. Everybody knows that. Thanks, Kermit. Thanks, Dan.
Calculators! And I remember those HIGH TECH DEVICES then would be seized at the doors of many a math class and heralded as “another way to cheat”. Sounds pretty hilarious now.
I found recently picked up a few Japanese slide rules for just a few bucks each. Back then, the Sun Hemmi bamboo slide rules were highly prized and expensive. Just beautiful relics and marvels in precision workmanship. They had a benefit of graphically understanding the mathematical principles. Something missing today. That may have been the genuine cause of resistance against the electrical calculator.
I believe that is it exactly! It takes no work, thought or grasp of mathematics to punch in numbers, where as negotiating a slide rule or a Jeppsson pilot’s flight device circa 1976 takes knowledge of the instrument not to mention accepted use where you STILL have to check your calculations.
Same with celestial navigation. If someone doesn’t understand the very basic concepts of measuring points of reference, the task of properly programming a GPS is nearly impossible. A basic core of knowledge has been left behind and replaced by monkey tasks. I appreciate today, but believe the Zenith of mankind was in the 1960s through the early 80s.
I used to feel that I might want to try and study to be a school teacher until I worked in avionics & aerospace, living in the explosion of PCs. Working in IT before it was identified as such. Dependence on the PC does not help a young mind learn to survive I believe. Basic instincts-what becomes of them when the answers or what passes for them can be looked up on Google? I too believe 60-80 were the last times it was necessary to think in order to purely create. Oh now I’ve given myself a headache! I see friends my age who become forgetful using an online thesaurus to help them find the right words and I cringe.
You're right that old instincts and practices that were useful have faded away due to (some) technology. Not that long ago, if several cars were caravanning through a town, everyone knew what to do if a red light interrupted--the first cars would pull over after the intersection until the others caught up. That sort of universal sense is almost gone, and people who never learned it will be in trouble when cell towers are down--or are shut down by authoritarian states.
Wow! I remember that show! I watched it with my family!! 46 years ago! It seems like yesterday…
Really appreciated the laughs. Thank you.
OMG!!! "Thanks for the memories!!!" Wow, does this bring back the good old das of watching Johnny make a complete fool of himself, talking to a puppet frog! Dan, please, sir, keep these memories coming. They are so, so, enjoyed!
This is just so funny. I had a really good laugh at some of those lines. So fascinating to watch the wittiness of this exchange. The threesome conversation is brilliant.
I remember this exact show, I was expecting my first child and I sat there rubbing my tummy talking to the baby telling her how much fun we would have together when she arrived. We are still having fun together and still love The Muppits.
Thank you for bringing back this wonderful memory, you truly made me smile on this Saturday.
Hard to believe Henson would have been 85 this year! I watched the first episode of Sesame Street and never missed the Muppet Show. I will always be a fan.
thank you for the smiles...and the memories!
I grew up watching Sesame Street and first Kermit and then later Jim Henson were my heros. I would answer the phone in junior high with “Hi ho, Kermit the Frog here”. My Dad loved watching the Muppet show with us, especially the critics Waldorf and Stadler. They were hilarious. I didn’t get to stay up late enough for Johnny Carson when this came on so thank you so much for sending it today. Jim Henson was a true artist and amazing performer.
As for your last sentence, you can see that clearly in the clip when Carson asks what Kermit is made of. Kermit stays perfectly in character, with Henson making all kinds of expressions on Kermit's face, while Henson talks like a normal person. Wow!
I DO remember this! When I was testing out of high school at 16 I would do my assignments with Sesame Street playing on my little room tv & my parents scratching their heads as to WHY their kid who was working so hard to get into college early was watching a kids’ TV show. Henson was like the family member you desperately needed to level things out. So polite he would have perhaps kept my dad from cursing (cussing down south) at the bad news on TV. So in touch with minority & gender equality he would have encouraged my own mom while in her kitchen working away to go back to school. So inspiring I used his Muppet family as a calming kind backdrop to keep me focused on my thesis & final projects.
Well Jim and Kermit, just as it isn’t easy being Green, it was pretty tough to get into an all male Computer Sciences curriculum at age 16 and very much a female, you helped me through! I did it! My parents never complained that I watched a kind human being with a little green frog to keep me centered. 49 years later I’m retiring from the 9 to 5 and doing what makes me happy. Imagine that!?
My children grew up watching Jim Henson's Muppets. My daughter was enamored of Miss Piggy, and our son, of Cookie Monster. So many lessons in living a moral life were offered through the personalities and actions of these amazing characters. Thank you Jim Henson for your thoughtful creativity, and Steady Team, for the reminder.
That gave me a full face smile! What a delight.
Thank you, Dan & Friends! I love Kermit and Jim Henson did so much for our culture; a man ao young at heart, dying so young. He left the world with the possibility that puppet animals, especially frogs, csn change the world. When I was a kid, I remembee the tshirt, "One Frog Can Save the World.," Forgive me if the words are off; it was too long ago. The theme that Jim Henspn brought tp the world was,, "Never count anyone out," and that underdogs, underfrogs, aka, the good guys, can get their day in the sun, too. Jim Henson helped to build the imaginations of generatuinsx and the dialogs, and themes of his film, and products, were consistent with such themes. If you were different,, or younger. Or weaker, bnb or all of those, you could still be a Winner. Henson showed us that what mattered most was inside someone, friendship, humor, and perseverance. My husband & I have a tradition, from Thanksgiving tp New Years, tp see all the Muppet Movies, and the Myppet Christmas Carol, top. We actually see various types of that story, arounf Christmas, but the Muppets are first. Lastly, all of my life, when Kermie sang, "The Lovees, the Dreamers, and Me," I felt like I fit in. The perdon I am at 55, is the same person I was at, 5, 15, 25, 35, 45. I am a Lovee & a Dreamer. To Kermie:" I GET IT!! AND, THANJ YOU!"" To Dan: Thank you for keeping your own child inside, alive and well, top. I watch Johnny Carson rerins on Antenna TV. He wss childlike, too. I am so interested in that topic, I have even written about it (not piblished thoudh). My owm Dad died young, at 99 1/2, so there is something to the magic that Jim Hendon had, abd shared with us all. Through his work, to bring these attributes to our sociery, and world, Jim Henson will live forever, and will be eternally young. God Blees Him!!
Hear here, Inspiration you are. Ty Dan Rather. :)
Ha! That's what frogs do. That's what Dan Rather does. He brings us a necessary smile and a belly laugh when we need it. Everybody knows that. Thanks, Kermit. Thanks, Dan.
I also miss many things from this time. The desktop calculator was the affordable computer marvel then.
Calculators! And I remember those HIGH TECH DEVICES then would be seized at the doors of many a math class and heralded as “another way to cheat”. Sounds pretty hilarious now.
I found recently picked up a few Japanese slide rules for just a few bucks each. Back then, the Sun Hemmi bamboo slide rules were highly prized and expensive. Just beautiful relics and marvels in precision workmanship. They had a benefit of graphically understanding the mathematical principles. Something missing today. That may have been the genuine cause of resistance against the electrical calculator.
I believe that is it exactly! It takes no work, thought or grasp of mathematics to punch in numbers, where as negotiating a slide rule or a Jeppsson pilot’s flight device circa 1976 takes knowledge of the instrument not to mention accepted use where you STILL have to check your calculations.
Same with celestial navigation. If someone doesn’t understand the very basic concepts of measuring points of reference, the task of properly programming a GPS is nearly impossible. A basic core of knowledge has been left behind and replaced by monkey tasks. I appreciate today, but believe the Zenith of mankind was in the 1960s through the early 80s.
I used to feel that I might want to try and study to be a school teacher until I worked in avionics & aerospace, living in the explosion of PCs. Working in IT before it was identified as such. Dependence on the PC does not help a young mind learn to survive I believe. Basic instincts-what becomes of them when the answers or what passes for them can be looked up on Google? I too believe 60-80 were the last times it was necessary to think in order to purely create. Oh now I’ve given myself a headache! I see friends my age who become forgetful using an online thesaurus to help them find the right words and I cringe.
You're right that old instincts and practices that were useful have faded away due to (some) technology. Not that long ago, if several cars were caravanning through a town, everyone knew what to do if a red light interrupted--the first cars would pull over after the intersection until the others caught up. That sort of universal sense is almost gone, and people who never learned it will be in trouble when cell towers are down--or are shut down by authoritarian states.
What a dichotomy that technology has made us less capable of passing knowledge to succeeding generations. It’s made us ignorant.
Thanksgiving weekend here in Ontario...thanks Dan for reminding of one more part of my life that I am thankful for. Be at peace Jim Henson.