{"id":590,"date":"2011-11-23T17:03:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T17:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/?p=590"},"modified":"2011-11-23T17:03:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T17:03:46","slug":"the-muppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/the-muppets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Muppets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted to see that, after a 12 year absence, The Muppets are finally back with a brand new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1204342\/\" title=\"The Muppets\">movie<\/a>. I&#8217;m even more delighted that it is a film which my  friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quinnzone.com\" title=\"Mike Quinn\">Mike Quinn<\/a> had a hand in&#8230;quite literally. Though it was touch and go, so to speak, as the day before he was due to fly off to LA to start work on &#8216;The Muppets&#8217;, he was still putting the <a href=\"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2010\/12\/26\/the-making-of-thomas-dolby%E2%80%99s-the-toadlickers-%E2%80%93-part-2\/\" title=\"The making of Thomas Dollby's 'The Toadlickers' promo directed by Paul D.\">finishing touches<\/a> to the puppetry for <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/5SuZMwe-XRc\" title=\"Thomas Dolby The Toadlickers directed by Paul D\">The Toadlickers<\/a> \u2013 the promo I directed for Thomas Dolby. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Muppets opens in screens across The US today. If you like me can&#8217;t wait for Kermit to cross the pond, then here&#8217;s a preview featuring some dancing chickens performing Cee Lo Green&#8217;s &#8216;Forget You&#8217;&#8230;or as I&#8217;ll be referring to it henceforth, &#8216;Cluck You!&#8217;  <\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tLdYI8zk4QQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;and if dancing chickens are your thing, you&#8217;ll find some more here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5SuZMwe-XRc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted to see that, after a 12 year absence, The Muppets are finally back with a brand new movie. I&#8217;m even more delighted that it is a film which my friend Mike Quinn had a hand in&#8230;quite literally. Though it was touch and go, so to speak, as the day before he was due &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/the-muppets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Muppets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[79,318,1],"tags":[319,304,625,624],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-muppets","category-uncategorized","tag-mike-quinn","tag-the-muppets","tag-the-toadlickers","tag-thomas-dolby"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1cZYU-9w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5368,"url":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2018\/02\/25\/london-worldwide-comedy-short-film-festival\/","url_meta":{"origin":590,"position":0},"title":"London-Worldwide Comedy Short Film Festival","author":"Paul D","date":"February 25, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This just in from the Director of the London-Worldwide Comedy Short Film Festival, regarding 'The Toadlickers' music video I directed for Thomas Dolby: \u00a0\"Our judges thought your film had many admirable qualities so we have awarded it an \"Honourable Mention\".","rel":"","context":"In &quot;80s&quot;","block_context":{"text":"80s","link":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/category\/80s\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=1050%2C600 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=1400%2C800 4x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}