March 21st is a great day, this year for two reasons.

First…my most wonderfullest niece, EJS, turns SEVEN!!! OH MY GAWD! And…I’m going to be there to celebrate with her! I made her a promise, I would always be there, either on her birthday or for her party and I am keeping my promise! Friday birthday, Saturday, party! [I may repeat myself when I talk about this wonderful event again! sorry!]

Second…the inspriation for this post…THE “MUPPETS MOST WANTED” Movie is coming out on FRIDAY!!! I am such a child! I know that and I’m ok with it! I have loved the Muppets since I was a kid and was first introduced to Sesame Street and then when The Muppet Show premiered in 1976, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074028/?ref_=nv_sr_1, I was hooked. I own the first three seasons of The Muppet Show, [that’s all that’s out on DVD as of now], all the movies, some that you may never have heard of.

There is something special and magical about The Muppets, not just that they make me feel like a kid, which is AWESOME! [must be read in that kid-excitement voice!] but I smile when I hear a muppet voice, song, see a video, you name it, there is just something comforting about the Muppets. Maybe it’s the memories they envoke, the good thoughts and times, the traditions.

One tradition was the night before Thanksgiving we would watch The Muppet Movie and the The Wizard of Oz, go to bed and my dad, sister and I would get up way too early to go to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. That memory alone makes me smile.

I can remember specific scenes in Sesame Street that made me smile, or the guest stars on the Muppet Show, I had some of my first introductions to stars there! I can still see Alice Cooper walking down the dungeon stairs, Carol Burnette dressed like a giant vegetable singing, Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem Orchestra, John Denver, Beverly Sills, I could go on and on and on! And the guest stars in the movies! Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Whoopie Goldberg, Dom DeLouise, Gregory Hines…the list goes on and on, its almost like a game, can you name all the stars? Sometimes it’s great to look back and see stars that are no longer with us and how they reached out to a younger generation.

How about the famous people who are immortalized by being portrayed as a muppet? Vincent Price, Pat Sajack, The Andrews Sisters, that list goes on and on!

They started premiering movies in 1979 every few years through 1984, then a jump to 1992 through 1999, then eleven years until the next movie. TOO long!
The Muppet Movie June 22, 1979
The Great Muppet Caper June 26, 1981
The Muppets Take Manhattan July 13, 1984
The Muppet Christmas Carol December 11, 1992
Muppet Treasure Island February 16, 1996
Muppets from Space July 14, 1999
The Muppets November 23, 2011
Muppets Most Wanted March 21, 2014

I can sit and watch the movies over and over again, I know you’re shocked, but I love them. I am a big kid and i will go see these movies by myself, why not? I’m a great date! I’m looking for a midnight show on Thursday in Boston! You know I’ll be there front row!

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