Episode 73 - The Muppets Go To The Movies (1981)

This week we find ourselves still at the bottom of a dank hole, surrounded by semi-intelligent, ratlike creatures that are always learning lessons about morality. Will we ever get out? And if we do, what will be waiting for us? Episodes covered: Uncle Matt's Discovery, Junior Faces the Music, and A Tune for Two Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! There's a new shirt to buy! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im_sam_schultz

We're back in Fraggle Rock for the penultimate season, and we ain't alone: Fraggle Rock writer Sugith Varughese is back to talk to us about his experience writing the episode Sprocket's Big Adventure! This one's a corker! Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im_sam_schultz

Kermitment has made its third trip around the sun, and to celebrate we're answering questions from viewers like you! But that's not all! We're going back in time, all the way to 1969, to watch a piece of Henson media we skipped the first time through: weird-o TV movie The Cube! Listen, won't you? You might just learn something! Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im_sam_schultz

This week, not only does Kermitment celebrate it's third anniversary, it does so with Elmo himself: Ryan Dillon! What more is there to say, really? We spent an hour and a half hanging out with someone who played Elmo! and oh yeah, we watched a Muppet thing too but... Elmo! Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im_sam_schultz

We spent a looooong time in 1985! And we're almost out of it, but before we are, we have to go back and catch up on some new-to-us and newly-discovered bits of Muppet detritus we've missed along the way. A classic kitchen sink episode!  Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im_sam_schultz

This week, Jim heads to Germany to talk to marionette-ist Albrecht Roser and then goes down unda' to chat with shadow puppet genius Richard Bradshaw... and guess what? His episode rules! An actually-good episode of World of Puppetry? Now I've seen everything!  Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im_sam_schultz

We're just about done with 1985, a year we've been in for a loooooong time, and we're in that mode of Kermitment episode where we're watching a bunch of random junk we missed throught the rest of the year. This week, we watched the interstitals from a series of Muppet Show compilations on VHS that give us the increasingly-rare opportunity to hang out with the non-baby versions of some of our favorite Muppets! Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im_sam_schultz

We're done with Muppet Babies season 2! Only... six more seasons to go..................................... Episodes covered: The Great Muppet Cartoon Show, The Muppet Museum of Art, By the Book, and When You Wish Upon a Muppet Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im_sam_schultz

This week, the boys witness history as the adults of Sesame Street are finally introduced to Mr. Snuffleupagus! Not only that, but Elmo as we know him makes his first Kermitment appearance!  As if that weren't enough, we also got to talk to Sesame Street set photographer, puppet builder, and Muppet legend Richard Termine! We're really earning our Muppy this week! Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im_sam_schultz

This week we talk about the 1980s Muppet Babies, per usual, BUT before that, we have a great conversation with animator, director, and voice actor Matt Danner, whos extensive work on the 2018 reboot of Muppet Babies included voicing Baby Kermit. We got a Kermit on Kermitment!!!  Episodes covered: I Want My Muppet TV, Musical Muppets, and What's New at the Zoo Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @KermitmentPod, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im_sam_schultz