Muppet Movie addendum

In my most recent post on The Muppet Movie I wrote: "In the abridged, home video version there's voice-over from Dr. Teeth as the camera pans up to the stained-glass window, and then it cuts directly to the flashback of Kermit and Fozzie entering the church. In the unabridged version, there were other clips from previous scenes between the window and the flashback, and longer voice-over. ... Other things I remember about the unabridged version: The dialog under the end title music is more audible. The sequence when the sets fall over at the end of the finale lasts longer. Um ... that's all I got."

There's another difference that I don't recall noticing before this time. The end title music is a medley of the movie's melodies in a Bremen Dixie jazz arrangement. I remember that included were, in this order, Can You Picture That?, Moving Right Along, maybe I Hope That Something Better Comes Along, maybe the instrumental piece as they arrive in Hollywood, maybe Rainbow Connection, concluding with The Magic Store. I really liked this medley/arrangement, and I used to play it in my head all the time, but - as you can tell - I've forgotten quite how it goes.

In the version of the film I just rented and returned, the end title goes Can You Picture That?, Moving Right Along - and then repeats them. That's it.

I used to have this movie memorized (except for the mad scientist scene which I didn't like), including the cut bits. Aside from those listed above, the differences between the unabridged theatrical release and the cut home video release are transparent to me now, just because I've forgotten all the others. But I can't think of a clearer indication that this cut is a remix than that end title music. No one writes an end title medley that consists of the same two-song set twice.

I said to myself as I drove home from the rental with the DVD, "Well, even if it's the abridged version I can remind myself how the end title music goes."

Edit Happy ending in the comments here

Arthur 2/3/06

Here are cartoons from Arthur, King of Time and Space since last Friday. Fanfiction cartoons in a separate post.

( The unplanned theme for the week: timezone jumping )

Thanks for reading.

Fanfiction 2/3/06

Here are cartoons from the fanfiction sketchbook website since last Friday, except for Hourly Comic Day cartoons which are already in my LJ here. Arthur, King of Time and Space cartoons in a separate post.

( truth in advertising; dream girls; new 'do )

Thanks for reading.

Feeling left out

I understand there's a controversey raging because Mohammad recently appeared in cartoons in a Danish newspaper, when Islam forbids the depiction of the prophet's image.

( THIS cartoon's been on my website for two years. )