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Thursday, April 14, 2011

TV Orson Welles Creepily Interviews Jim Henson and Frank Oz

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:18 PM

What the fuck television show does this come from? Why is the interview with Henson and Oz interspersed with images of dead and suicidal Muppets? What's going on? Devour has no answers, and neither do I:

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IFC knows: http://www.ifc.com/news/2011/04/watch-or…

Looks like this is a mash-up of two unrelated things.

Posted by PA Native on April 14, 2011 at 1:33 PM

Ew, the dead Miss Piggy shot has a Lord of the Rings dead-pond-thingy feel to it...

Posted by Canuck on April 14, 2011 at 1:41 PM

I'm unsure as to the footage of the dead/suicidal muppets - I think I'll choose to agree with PA Native - but the excerpt would appear to emanate from "The Orson Welles Show" (1979).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173582/

Posted by bullwinkle

on April 14, 2011 at 1:44 PM

I was going to say that it's Orson Welles and he do whatever the fuck he wants to do.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on April 14, 2011 at 1:54 PM

Where's a bong when you need it?

Posted by heywhatsit!? on April 14, 2011 at 2:01 PM

Mwwwwaaaaaaaaaa the French...

Posted by Medina on April 14, 2011 at 2:25 PM

Dr. Tobias Funke (David Cross) = young Frank Oz?

Posted by Mr. Happy Sunshine on April 14, 2011 at 2:41 PM

Miss Piggy was Ophelia in muppet hamlet. For my money, muppet hamlet was the most original thing to happen to shakespeare since leonardo dicaprio. Other than that, ROTFLMAO.

Posted by PugilistPuck on April 14, 2011 at 5:11 PM

WTF! And the follow up was Angie Dickinson?! How did I miss this as a kid?

Posted by Smartypants on April 14, 2011 at 6:00 PM

@3 I watched the one & only episode of "The Orson Welles Show" just a few weeks ago. It was a self-produced pilot that never got picked up. The majority of it is an interview with Burt Reynolds, which is why the show ever mattered at all. Burt was kinda big in 1979.

The show is difficult to watch, with trademark Welles avant garde camera work and transitions. Not sure if it was ahead of its time, or if it is one of those things for which there never will be a time.

Posted by Sir Vic on April 15, 2011 at 7:41 AM