Kermitment - A Muppets Podcast

This week we're joined by Brain Jay Jones ( @brianjayjones ), the award-winning, best-selling author of Jim Henson: The Biography , to talk about the second, much weirder Muppet Show pilot! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod , where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @slamschultz   

The Muppet Valentine Show Episode 16 Playlist The Muppet Show draws nigh! We herald its impending arrival by watching the first of two pilots for the show: a breezy little Valentine's day special with way too much Thog in it!  If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod , where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @M...

Julie on Sesame Street Our unofficial Julie Andrews miniseries continues with another special that's light on Muppets and heavy on awkward 70's sexuality. And Perry Como's back, for some reason! Get out of here, Perry! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod , where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGa...

The Julie Andrews Hour Keep US Beautiful The Emmys  This week, we watch an episode of the Julie Andrews Hour that's about 10% Muppets, 80% Julie Andrews, and 10% harmful Italian stereotypes!  If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod , where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @slamschultz   

For the second time in about a month, it's Christmas on Kermitment! This time, Perry Como drags his sleepy ass out of bed to deck some halls, jingle some bells, and hell, he might even partridge a pear tree or two. And you BETTER believe there are some Muppets along for the ride! Not any of the famous or good ones, but still... they're in there somewhere. Happy Holidays! If you can't get enough Ke...

Full Movie What's My Line? Sam and Matt watch the final Tales From Muppetland TV movie, which is, by far, the most cursed one yet!  If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod , where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @slamschultz    

Episode 11 playlist On Thanksgiving night, 1971, Muppets Inc. guested on the Dick Cavett show to talk about the past present, and future of the Muppets! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod , where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @slamschultz      

Kermit fully embraces his frog-ness and the nightmare that is Robin is unleashed on the world in Muppet Inc.'s sophomore attempt at Canadian TV-movie fairytales. If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod , where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @slamschultz

Episode 9 Playlist Bust out the disco ball and shimmy into your bell bottoms, we're boogying back into the 70s, baby! And we're kicking off this most Muppet-y decade with The Great Santa Claus Switch ! Christmas, in May??! That's just the nature of the Kermitment, kid. If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod , where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you c...

Hey, Cinderella!  Wizard of Id! In 1969, thanks mostly to the instant success of Sesame Street, Jim Henson was a god! But even gods make mistakes! Like, sometimes they spend a number of years trying to make a creepy, half-baked Cinderella retelling for some reason! And then they make whatever the Wizard of Id is! Oops! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod , where we'll tweet f...

Episode 7 Playlist Jim, Kermit, and Muppets Inc. embrace their destiny and assure their immortality in a sort of unlikely place: public television.  If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @slamschultz

Episode 6 playlist Muppets Inc. dips its toe into public television with a quartet of weird specials where 4 guys with varying degrees of facial hair get really excited about puppets! It's fun!  If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @slamschultz

Episode 5 Playlist Artistic integrity will only get you so far, especially if you're blowing all your money on felt! Throughout the 60s, Muppet Inc produced hundreds and hundreds of offbeat commercials that helped them hone their craft while also lining their pockets! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can...

Episode 4 Playlist This week, we celebrate the Muppet nearest and dearest to Sam's heart: Rowlf! He's a dog! But more than that, he was the first true Muppet celebrity!  If you can't get enough Kermitmnet, follow @KermitmentPod, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos, Sam: @slamschultz.

Episode 3 Playlist Oh brudder. Maybe we made this episode's playlist a little long!  In this week's ep, we power thru basically an entire decade's worth of Muppet TV appearances. We get deep into some weird old 60s junk in this one! But we also discover an amazing hidden gem of Muppet content: the Tinkerdee pilots! They're good, folks! If you can't get enough Kermitmnet, follow @KermitmentPod, whe...

Episode 2 Playlist This week, we start the experiment that is "the Kermitment" in earnest, as we go back to where it all began: Sam and Friends!  Watch in amazement as Jim Henson spins what is basically a public access puppet show into nation-wide fame in like 2 years! 

Episode 1 Playlist Hello and welcome to Kermitment! Each week, we'll be watching every piece of Muppet media we can find in chronological order!  But for our first episode, we decide to start with what we consider to be the highest heights the Muppets ever reached, 1979's The Muppet Movie . It'll all make sense once you listen! We promise!  Thank you so much for listening to our first episode! We...