File puptcrit/puptcrit.0701, message 56


Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 19:40:39 -0600
From: Freshwater Pearls Puppetry <puppeteer-AT-freshwpearls.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Creepy puppets in culture


By the time The Muppet Show and Sesame Street were on the air, I was 
too old for puppet phobia, and easily fell in love with Kermit and 
friends.

But... my first exposure to muppets scared me witless. It must have 
Henson's early TV series, Sam and Friends. I couldn't have been more 
than 5-6 years old, maybe less. I remember big-mouthed puppets gyrating 
about, singing "Big Bad John" -- a sort of vocal folk tale about a Paul 
Bunyanesque character. Big Bad John was too big and bad for my little 
girl sensibilities to begin with, and those mouthy puppets belting out 
his praises with 26 levels of reverb gave me nightmares for weeks. 
Years. Many, many years.

Now I read on imdb.com that Sam and Friends always ended with the 
muppets eating each other or blowing everything up. =8-0  Ack!  
Repressed memories... it all comes back...

Holy buckets, get me a therapist!!


On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Leslie Evans wrote:

>> However Kukla, Kermit, Lamb Chop and their brothers
>> and sisters never scared me a bit...
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