Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Episode 142: How “Muppets Haunted Mansion” got made

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🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by discussing Disney settling its beef with Scarlett Johansson. They then talk with writer / director Kirk Thatcher about his nearly 30-year-long quest to get a Halloween-themed Muppet movie or TV show produced. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to fine tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop
0:02.7	when it comes to animation news and commentary.
0:05.6	I'm Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill,
0:07.7	and he and I are recording this on Thursday,
0:10.1	evening September 30th, 2021.
0:13.6	I'm gonna be a fun fun show with this week folks.
0:15.4	You're definitely gonna wanna hang around
0:16.7	for the second half, which is when Drew and I interview Kirk
0:19.8	Thatcher, the writer, director of Muppet Hothead Mansion.
0:23.8	Kirk is a really great guy,
0:25.0	and she has a number of stories about his career at Hanson.
0:28.2	Like how many years it took to actually get a Muppet Hothead
0:31.6	House movie made.
0:33.2	But first comes the news and today's fine tuning
0:35.6	is brought to you by Storybook Destination,
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0:46.3	and Drew, all right, literally what?
0:49.8	Minutes ago, some big news, bro, right?
0:52.7	Yes, Disney and Scarlett Johansson have reached an agreement
0:58.3	obviously this has been the better part of the summer
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