{"id":8530,"date":"2009-10-24T13:48:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T19:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=8530"},"modified":"2009-10-24T16:35:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T22:35:53","slug":"saturday-afternoon-theater-muppet-violence-and-the-people-who-love-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/saturday-afternoon-theater-muppet-violence-and-the-people-who-love-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Afternoon Theater: Muppet Violence and the People Who Love Them"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What in the hell?? Jim Henson’s cuddly, charming muppets are gangsta! Enjoy this series of bits surrounding muppet physical and mental tortures of your being. <\/p>\n

The gory details lay underneath:
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\nRolf the Dog’s Ideal Proposal, “Buy Us or We Hurt You”<\/strong>
\nAn Ideal Toy commercial hosted by Muppet Rolf that grows more disturbing and psycho-twisted with each passing second. <\/p>\n

Coffee and Psychological Warfare<\/strong>
\nWhat people don’t know is the drug war started in the 50s with Wilkins coffee and a handful of muppet torture techniques.<\/p>\n

Kermit and the Power of Visual Thinking<\/strong>
\nkermit takes a lesson from a hipster expert in expanding his mind. But what happens when your mind expands too far?<\/p>\n

“I Want a Monster to Be My Friend”<\/strong>
\nA sweet little girl muppet sings a lovely song about finding her own monster to play with…if you know what we mean<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Surreal 420 Episode<\/strong>
\nAlan Arkin Jeckyll\/Hyde’s and massacres a warren of fluffy bunny muppets singing Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. Yes, that happened.<\/p>\n

The Devil Went Down to Georgia<\/strong>
\nIt should have been in last Monday’s The Devil You Knew mixtape<\/a>. We don’t think these muppet hill-folk will care much.<\/p>\n

Alice Cooper Welcomes You to his Nightmare<\/strong>
\nThe musical king of neo-vaudville shares his nightmare in full Dracula regalia, complete with Dracula trophy, with muppets playing back-up.<\/p>\n

Kermit Learns from the Master of Horror Vincent Price<\/strong>
\nCareful what you teach, Mr Price. It may come back to bite you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What in the hell?? Jim Henson’s cuddly, charming muppets are gangsta! Enjoy this series of bits surrounding muppet physical and mental tortures of your being. The gory details lay underneath:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[691,32,60,7],"tags":[1682,1680,1560,1561,1301,258,1559,1585,1589,382,582,4927,1681,125],"class_list":["post-8530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lol-intertube-madness","category-marketing","category-music","category-video","tag-alan-arkin","tag-alice-cooper","tag-commercial","tag-ideal-toys","tag-jim-henson","tag-muppets","tag-rolf","tag-saturday-afternoon-theater","tag-the-31-posts-of-halloween-2009","tag-the-60s","tag-toys","tag-video","tag-vincent-price","tag-you-tube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}