Happy Birthday Jim Henson.

[puppetmaker]

Today would have been Jim Henson's 70th birthday.

So in honor of that, tell me your favorite moment of Muppets or Henson's work in general.

I am grateful that I got to meet Jim Henson

Comments

[papillon-enrage.livejournal.com]

"Ahhh, a bear in his natural habitat: a Studebaker!"

Actually, there's no way I can choose. Sesame Street was, in some ways, my corruption. I grew up in an excessively conservative household. I remember looking out into the back yard on day, I was no more than three, and exclaiming "Gosh, what a big dog is in our backyard". Well, gosh was a forbidden word in our household. My mom immediately began asking where I had heard the word. I remember being frantic when I thought she was going to cut off Sesame Street.

I'm so grateful for the whimsy and clever humor that infused everything Jim Henson touched.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

The Muppet Movie was so well done that I think it lives in most of our imaginations. I just wish that Caroline could see it on the big screen sometime.