Imagination Illustrated: The Jim Henson Journalby Karen FalkForeward by Lisa HensonAvailable wherever books are sold and on Amazon.com Ryan Dosier – Straight from the heart of the Jim Henson Archives comes Imagination Illustrated: The Jim Henson Journal, an...
Ryan Dosier – On Saturday afternoon at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City (technically Astoria, but you don’t really care about that), dozens of Muppet fans, plenty of Muppet performers, and a who’s who of Muppet history showed up to pay...
Jarrod Fairclough Presents: The Ramblings of a Muppet Nerd – Edition Number I Don’t Remember AnymoreA FEW THINGS I NOTICED IN THE MUPPETSHello. I’m back. It’s been a while, eh? How are you? You’re looking well. Is that a new sweater? Okay, enough...
Ryan Dosier – Welcome back to class, class! No quiz again this week, because my cousin’s hamster took the papers… he didn’t eat them, but instead started his own Muppetology course next door. Don’t fall for it. He isn’t licensed!...
Today we’re so excited to present the final pieces in our friend and contributor Danny Beckwith’s Muppet Monster Mash-Ups series! Today we’ve got two more Muppets who have been monsterized as well as a final picture collecting all seven Muppets in...
Ryan Dosier – Welcome back my haunting hands, to our fourth and final installment of the Muppet Halloween Costume Spooktacular 2012! All this month we’ve been showcasing this year’s new Halloween costumes from the Muppets and Sesame Street. Check out...
The Muppet Mindset Repentantly presents…HOW TO…Live on Sesame Street First and foremost, come to terms with the fact that your friendly neighbors there will be monsters, talking food, singing cows, massive birds, hairy Snuffleupaguses (Snuffleupagi?),...
Our good friend and contributor Danny Beckwith has returned with even more stellar artwork in his Muppet Monster mash-up series! This week we’re spotlighting spooky incarnations of Gonzo the Great, Fozzie Bear, and Rowlf the Dog as some of the most iconic...
Ryan Dosier – Oh, finally! Now you students show up to class! I’ve been here for months teaching to an empty classroom. Where have you been?! What? What’s that? The classroom door has been locked for the entire semester? …The janitor is trying...
Ryan Dosier – Another October Tuesday means another part of the Muppet Halloween Costuem Spooktacular, 2012! Check out Part 1 and Part 2 from earlier this month before kicking back to enjoy some snarky observations on this year’s crop of Sesame Street...
The OTHER Muppet BabiesPhoenix Alvarado – In 1984, the Muppets took Manhattan and during their time there Miss Piggy had a dream where the six main Muppets were shown as babies. These would be known to Muppet fans everywhere as the Muppet Babies. Originally just...
Starting this week and for the rest of the Fridays in October, we at The Muppet Mindset are thrilled to present some wonderful artwork from our friend and contributor Danny Beckwith! Danny has created a special series of art just for us for our 2012 Halloween...
Ryan Dosier – We’re back again with the next installment of our Muppet Halloween Costume Spooktacular series, where we put a snarky spin on this year’s crop of Muppet and Sesame Street Halloween costumes! Don’t forget to check out Part 1 before...
Ryan Dosier – Greetings and happy haunts, Muppet fans! Today marks the second day in October and the beginning of our yearly transition into Muppety Halloween mode! Oooooo! (That was a ghost.) The first two years of The Muppet Mindset, when October came around,...
The 43rd season of Sesame Street debuted on Monday and the new big thing on the show this year is a brand new segment, Elmo: The Musical. The all-singing, all-dancing segment is designed to replace Elmo’s World, which has really been starting to show its age in...
Today we feature a very special article from three of Jerry Nelson’s very close colleagues. First is a beautiful eulogy written for us by Joseph Bailey, writer for The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, and many more things including last year’s spectacular book...
John Tartaglia – When Ryan asked me if I’d want to contribute anything to The Muppet Mindset in response to Jerry Nelson’s passing, I had to really think about what that would be. First, it is a great responsibility to have the opportunity to say...
Ryan Dosier – In honor of Labor Day, today we’re discussing five of the hardest working Muppets who definitely deserve to put up their feet and take the day off.5.) BeauregardAs the janitor for the Muppet Theater, there is perhaps no one who deals with...
78 Years of Mr. Jerry Nelson by AverageJoeArtworkJosh Hankemeier I heard the news just before I started work that morning… “Jerry Nelson…1934-2012” No… Like many of you, I felt like a sledgehammer hit me in the chest. It was like May 16,...
Ryan Dosier – Jerry Nelson released his solo album, Truro Daydreams, back in 2009. One of the biggest regrets I have when it comes to The Muppet Mindset is that I never took the time to post a review of the album for Jerry Nelson to read. So here I am today to...
