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andyiguess505
1 year ago

this is really hard to read, but it's true. Disney has sucked the soul out of the muppets. the performers have been trying to put it back, but every time they do they are thwarted by this stupid fucking corporation. fuck you disney

Screenshot of selected excerpts from an Interview between Frank Oz and The Guardian that reads : Frank Oz, the legendary co-creator of the Muppet Show and Sesame Street characters, has not worked on either show since 2007, nearly 14 years ago. “I’d love to do the Muppets again but Disney doesn’t want me, and Sesame Street hasn’t asked me” The 77 year old told the Guardian. “They don’t want me because I won’t follow orders and I won’t do the kind of Muppets they believe in”. “The soul’d not there” anymore, he admitted. “The soul is what makes things grow and be funny. But I miss them and love them.” “There’s an inability for corporate America to understand the value of something they bought.” He explained. “They never understood, with us, it’s not just about the puppets, it’s about the performers who love each other and have worked together for many years.” “Eisner was trying to get Sesame Street, too, which Jim wouldn’t allow,” he recalled, “but Jim was not a dealer, he was an artist, and it was destroying him, it really was. The Disney deal is probably what killed Jim. It made him sick.” When Frank Oz spoke of Jim Henson, it was like they had convinced themselves that they were actually brothers. In The Guardian feature, he said that he has lived in New York since he was 19. “Ever since Jim asked me to come here to work with him on The Muppets.” He has often described himself as the real Fozzie Bear to Jim Henson’s Kermit the Frog. “People don’t understand, anyone can do a voice”, he said. “It’s not the voice — it’s the soul”

this makes me want to throw up and cry and scream and punch a wall

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