what ever happened to puppeteering as a form of entertainment?

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Mark Hamill on the Muppet Show circa 1980.


REMEMBER ALDERAAAAANNNNNN!



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viewing this for the first time since childhood has confirmed something for me:

Family programming really WAS better when we were kids*. It's not just the nostaglia rose-colored glasses on this one. Then again, there was an infinitely higher demand for programming for the entire family before the internet.

If you're old enough to remember before the internet became a household thing, I want you to meditate on that for a second. Think about that first dial-up modem and the screeching sounds it made when you connected. If you were the first cool kid on the block with a computer, remember having a limited number of minutes each month that you could be on line, like cell phone minutes.

Now try and picture how you're going to explain to your kids someday that you're older than the internet.







*(I use the term 'we' in the vaguest sense, as none of us at YourGeekWorld.com were born yet when The Muppet Show was canceled in 1981, though it was still on the air throughout most of our childhoods.)