Merry Christmas and Weeba Weeba!

-Steve

Also, if you get a chance, I’d really appreciate it if you went out to the YouTube video of the song (link here) and left some honest feedback. Thanks!

Merry Christmas!

Steve

This is the final episode of the 2010 Christmas season, and in fact the final episode of this year. Kind of sad, but there are some wonderful things just around the corner for Muppet fans, so stay tuned!

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Keep Christmas with you, all through the year.

-Steve

Merry Christmas!

-Steve

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Merry Christmas!

-Steve

Craig Shemin calls in and we talk about a lot of favorite Muppet Christmas specials. I always learn a lot talking to Craig, and I guarantee you’ll enjoy listening to our conversation. Craig also wrote the new Muppets Kitchen with Cat Cora webseries, and is part of The Jim Henson Legacy.

The MuppetCast is sponsored by The Fingerbucket Report and Bell, Book & Comic. Life should be more Fun!

Thanks for listening! Questions/Comments about the Muppets or The MuppetCast can be emailed to me@muppetcast.com, or called in to the voicemail line at 614-364-4270. Follow the show on Twitter and join the Facebook page too!

Happy Holidays!

-Steve

Ryan Dosier also stops by from The Muppet Mindset and we catch up on the Muppet news. Ryan will join me in person next weekend for the Midwest Muppet Vault here in Columbus, OH!

The MuppetCast is sponsored by The Fingerbucket Report and Bell, Book & Comic. Life should be more Fun!

Thanks for listening! Questions/Comments about the Muppets or The MuppetCast can be emailed to me@muppetcast.com, or called in to the voicemail line at 614-364-4270. Follow the show on Twitter and join the Facebook page too!

Happy Holidays!

-Steve

The MuppetCast is sponsored by The Fingerbucket Report and Bell, Book & Comic. Life should be more Fun!

Cookie Monster is gunning for a host spot on Saturday Night Live (video), in the same vein that Betty White had a Facebook campaign that led to her eventual hosting of the show. Here is the official link to Cookie Monster’s SNL campaign page, so go “Like” this cause, and let’s make it happen!

Longtime Muppeteer Marty Robinson was part of Sesame Street’s appearance in this year’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, as he has been for almost every year past. This year, however, he brought his video camera with him, and he takes us behind the scenes to experience the parade from HIS vantage point! A rare look into the life of a Muppeteer.

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Happy Holidays!

-Steve

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Have a great week!

-Steve

The real topper to this week’s show is the debut of young Muppet fan Juliannah Wilson as she presents the first-ever Muppet Storytime segment. She provides our feature segment this week, gracing us with her reading of “Baby Kermit’s Christmas“.

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The special introduction to this week’s show will hopefully be heard all around the Disney podosphere this Christmas. It’s a combined reading done by some of us of the well-known editorial piece “Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus”. I’d like to thank EVERYONE who helped bring this idea to a reality in the span of a few short days. The voices heard on the recording are:

Juliannah Wilson as Virginia
Paul Barrie – A Window to the Magic
Bryan Ripper & Jonathan Dichter – All About the Mouse
Gary Chambers – The Mouse Lounge
Clinton Alvord – Comedy4Cast
Tom Corless – WDW News Today
James Songster – WDW Cast Member
Scott & Tracey Morris – Disney, Indiana
Tairy Rich – Disney Tidbits
Steve Swanson – The MuppetCast

Thanks to Michael Stork for his Kermit impression and the Hawaiian Christmas tune!

The MuppetCast remembers actress Alaina Reed Hall, who passed away a few days ago at age 63. Ms. Hall played the part of Olivia on Sesame Street from 1976 to 1988, and many of us grew up knowing her as a familiar face on the Street. We celebrate her life this week.

CBS News recently featured the Muppet Whatnot Workshop at FAO Schwarz on The Early Show, Saturday Edition. The hosts made their own whatnots!

If you own an iPhone or iPod Touch, you owe it to yourself to get the new “The Muppets Animal Drummer” app from the iTunes Store. For just $1.99 you can match skill with Animal, and even create your own original beats that Animal plays back to you!

Make sure to pick up the iPhone and iPod Touch-ready Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody (iTunes link) video for only $1.49. Normally I don’t buy the YouTube-released vids in iTunes, but I think you’ll agree that this is highly worth it.

The Muppets will appear on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on January 3 on ABC. Set your DVRs to see the Muppets pitch in and help a St. Paul, MN family save their home.

Sesame Workshop is set to begin making digital books starting in 2010. Check out their official eBook website!

Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter will not return to Goodspeed Opera House next holiday season. Instead, it may go out on tour, or find a different home in the Northeast US. Plans are still being made.

Carl Huster got the unique opportunity to work with Jim Henson very early in Jim’s career. If you’ve heard of the Southern Colnel Muppet character, Carl was working with Jim on the Southern Bread ad campaign, for which the Colnel was invented. Some great video on this site with rare Henson ad footage!

Thanks for listening! Questions/Comments about the Muppets or The MuppetCast can be emailed to me@muppetcast.com, or called in to the voicemail line at 614-364-4270 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              614-364-4270      end_of_the_skype_highlighting. Even better, stop by the Muppet Central Forums and discuss this and many other episodes with Muppet fans worldwide. Follow the show on Twitter and join the Facebook page too!

Have a great week!

-Steve