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Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor - Episode 122: Why the “Roger Rabbit” sequels all stalled out

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4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by talking about which minor character from “The Muppets Take Manhattan” has now joined the cast of the “Muppet Babies” reboot. They then talk about Steven Spielberg’s complicated relationship with the Walt Disney Company Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, I'm going to fine-tune it through Taylor. You won't stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.

0:05.2

I'm Drew's co-host, Entertainment Writer Jim Hill, and he and I are recording the show on Sunday, May 16th, 2021.

0:13.3

I was looking at this day in Disney, looking for stir ideas, and today's kind of a sad day in Disney and animation history.

0:23.3

It's 31 years ago today. We lost Jim Henson to bacterial pneumonia.

0:29.2

But then a year to the day is when the Disney MGM version of Muppet Vision 3D opened.

0:38.4

And you know what, Jim? I was going to tell you this, that the Muppets at Walt Disney World, some kind soul has uploaded it to YouTube.

0:46.2

It always gets taken down, and it was aired on the magical world of Disney 10 days before he died.

0:54.0

That's right. Is it the Brian James Jones Bio, which by the way, again, I love.

1:00.8

It's after one that has the story about the, in the middle of production, and there's sort of killing time at Disney MGM.

1:07.8

And somebody opens a vanity fair, and there's a quiz in it, and it's one of those. How long will you live quizzes?

1:14.5

And I guess Jim was looking at his, oh, I'm going to live forever. This is great. So it's like, just makes me sad.

1:21.1

Other Muppet-related news and two animation. If you've been following it all the Muppet Baby show for Disney Unions.

1:27.9

I haven't, Jim. I, it might shock you that that is where I set the bar. Yeah.

1:32.1

I bring this up because just recently, they've introduced it to character the cast, and it's Jill,

1:39.6

who you may remember was one of the advertising executives that Kermit met in Muppets Take Manhattan for

1:46.5

Mady Four. I think there was Jill and Gill and Bill. But it's, you know, just the idea that they look at the show.

1:54.0

It's like we need more females. And so they dug to the pile and found Jill being going to soon to be

1:59.4

advertising executive. Other Muppet-related news, you must have seen the thing about the Muppet-Hotted Mansion.

2:06.5

Yes, I've heard it's, I've heard, I've heard the script is hilarious, Jim. So I'm really excited.

2:12.5

One quick correction when Len and I talked about this. I mentioned that they were supposed to be

2:16.9

shooting this summer. And as it turns out, they actually took advantage of the fact that the park

2:21.8

was closed to shoot some on location stuff in April. But I guess in kind of the Muppet tradition of

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