A Camp - I Can Buy You
Mark Linkous was the key member of Sparklehorse before his early death, and he produced this album of Nina Persson's
Link to another version of it, for those of you region-locked out of it like me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FezTbs6XChM
My mother's cat stares for food from one side of her chair and then, after being fed, stares from the other side of the chair because that is clearly a different kitty who has not been fed yet.
"Those...aren't gills."
Chemical Brothers - One Too Many Mornings
Ignoring the Stan-shaped elephant in the room -- both songs sample the same drum beat from Dexter Wansel's "Theme from the Planets".
When the Dungeon Master had to wrap up all his plot threads in the final session.
Naw, it's got to be Aretha Franklin's "Respect". Or maybe the Beatles with "Twist and Shout". Soft Cell's "Tainted Love"?
Frank Oz slowly losing his mind during endless takes
As a supplement to yesterday's link to Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, here's an extended outtake of Frank Oz (as Ma) and Jerry Nelson (as Emmet) becoming ever more loopy and funny during take after take of a scene in the special.
(There's a few different bloopers at the start of the video but they're nothing special, so I linked directly to the good part.)
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
A Henson Production Christmas special produced in Toronto for showing on the Canadian TV network CBC in 1977. It was recut for American TV in 1980 and was nominated for four Emmys in 1981.
Please remember that the Void™ is for screaming into and the Abyss™ is for staring into. Staring into the Void™ is a breach of your licensing agreement.
Hip Knox and the Queer Machine were a one-hit wonder back in the Nineties, I think.
"Why do we even HAVE that button?"
Operation Sandy: sea launch of a V-2 from the deck USS Midway (1947)
This is film of Operation Sandy, the first sea launch of a large rocket. It took place on the deck of the USS Midway in 1947, with a captured V-2 setting off at a janky angle and then breaking up before making it to 5 kilometers high:
I've linked to the flight portion of a newsreel about the whole thing.
My theory is that they're all actors playing parts (as is sometimes stated in Muppet stuff) and the scripts don't have to be self-consistent.
"Watch out for that icy patch!" (A Muppet Family Christmas, 1989 version)
"In this one-hour Christmas special, Fozzie Bear surprises his mother Emily on Christmas Eve by bringing the entire Muppet gang to her farm to celebrate the holidays. Doc and his dog Sprocket, who had planned a quiet Christmas, end up joining the Muppets in their holiday activities and preparations."
Origin story for the the shortest-superhero-career-before-being-shot-to-death ever.
"Gork invented new thing that use pepperonisaurus and mammoth cheese left-overs."
"I'll take plot twists pulled out of my ass for $400, Alex."