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Oh No, Muppet Twitter Is Feuding With the SNL Movie
No weapon formed against Jim Henson shall prosper.
His over-the-top cartoonish squareness, in comparison to the hip, freewheeling SNL gang, is repeatedly played for laughs.” The day after the Cracked piece was published, the Twitter account for “Kermitment - A Muppets Podcast” (incredible name) tweeted a screenshot of this part of the article, sparking the backlash. He pops up periodically throughout the film to meekly tell Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle) about the ways the writers are mistreating him, leaving his Muppets in suggestive and violent poses, and refusing to write his script. Forty-nine years later, as SNL enters a milestone season, many members of that season-one cast depicted in the film have died, receded from the spotlight, pivoted to spirit distilling, or are Chevy Chase.
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