266: It's Impossible Being Green

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The premiere of ABC’s new comedy “The Muppets” prompts us to look at the entirety of the Muppet universe and lore, from TV to movies to viral videos. We also ponder what’s wrong with the new ABC series, posit some theories about how Kermit went from “Sesame Street” to “The Muppet Show,” and participate in an impromptu Muppet draft. Don’t felt, don’t tell.

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0:00.0	It's the incomparable episode number 266 for October 2015.
0:09.0	Yay!
0:14.0	Kermit the Frog is not here, but it is the incomparable podcast, and we are talking about the Muppets.
0:20.0	I am your host, Jason Snell, and I'm joined by four Muppety people to talk about Muppets in general.
0:26.8	We will touch on the ABC Muppet series in specific a little bit, but then we are going to move along past it, I think, because there will be blood on the tracks.
0:33.9	And we will just move along.
0:35.6	Nothing more to see there, but we will touch on it a little bit
0:37.5	because you got to have a news pig. You got to have some little connection to current events.
0:42.4	It's fun. And that's why we're doing this right now. Let me introduce you to my panelists.
0:47.0	David Lour, hello. Hey, Bert. Hello, Ernie. Philip Michaels is out there. Hello, Philip Michaels.
0:54.8	I like to think of myself as the Fossey bear of this podcast.
0:58.9	I cannot do Fossey's voice.
1:00.2	Interesting, because we like to think of you as the Scooter.
1:02.6	You take that back, you filthy bastard.
1:04.9	I apologize.
1:06.3	I didn't mean it.
1:07.7	Scooter is the most superfluous of all of the Muppets.
1:10.9	There is no Muppet more useless than Scooter.
1:13.9	Anyhow, we're getting ahead of ourselves.
1:15.5	We will save it for the podcast.
1:17.2	What, this is the podcast?
1:18.5	Oh, no.
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