Paul Gadzikowski

• Fri, 13:25: If you learn tell me RT @TheOnlyTrout I need to advertise LB somewhere in its niche (people that like literary humour). If only I knew where
• Fri, 19:46: #AKOTAS update: I really like the linedrawing in this one. http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2557.htm #webcomics #kingarthur
• Fri, 20:32: @fourzoas Isn't everything with Muppets a musical? #Labyrinth
• Fri, 20:51: Anyone know how to stop Windows Vista from trying to "sync" a thumb drive every time you plug it in? It makes the cursor flicker.
• Fri, 22:04: Hero of Three Faces update: then and now. http://tinyurl.com/3f4c3s/aayn.htm #3faces #mash #nursejackie
• Fri, 22:54: Last weekend's BBCA Graham Norton: Hugh Laurie looks odd shaven any more.
• Sat, 07:46: @truthmakr Perhaps that's referring to the handcuffs.
• Sat, 08:30: @choochoobear Is there such a thing as too many pancakes?
• Sat, 08:41: You can't beat the classics. http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/archive/2011/05/21
• Sat, 09:44: "Patriotism swells in the heart of the American bear."
• Sat, 10:10: "I promised me."
• Sat, 10:14: Muppet drivers can't pull to a stop without bumping into something.
• Sat, 10:19: Some people think the giant Animal in the ghost town is trick photography but it's obviously a parade balloon.
• Sat, 10:26: "Please sir, my name is Kermit the Frog, and we read your ad, and we've come to be rich and famous."
• Sat, 10:34: "Life's like a movie. Write your own ending."
• Sat, 10:58: Hero of Three Faces update: House divided. http://tinyurl.com/3f4c3s/aayo.htm #3faces #housemd

• Thu, 15:36: Script done for tomorrow's AKOTAS, plus art done for an LJ community exchange.
• Thu, 18:03: So ... Henry VIII once married Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman?
• Thu, 18:44: Watching the Grey's Anatomy season finale. It's all people knowing they'll get in trouble if they're found out, and getting found out.
• Thu, 19:02: owait this isn't the finale, the finale's on later tonight
• Thu, 20:04: #AKOTAS update: planning ahead. http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2556.htm #webcomics #kingarthur
• Thu, 20:51: @allyngibson Checked out some of the links in your LJ post and now I'm compelled to search out the whole Muppet Movie on YouTube, you SOB.
• Thu, 21:03: "I'd miss this old swamp, but ... millions of people happy."
• Thu, 21:10: "They're holding auditions for frogs next week, and if they need frogs they must need bears."
• Thu, 21:25: "Have you tried Hari Krishna?"
• Thu, 21:30: Now that @horselawyer is home from choir rehearsal, it's time for last week's #Bones. The previews said "one will not survive".
• Thu, 21:48: I guessed wrong. #Bones
• Thu, 21:50: I was expecting it at the end of the episode. ...I hope there isn't one then too. #Bones
• Thu, 22:23: Now skipping to tonight's #Bones.
• Thu, 22:24: Laughed out loud. RT @Axonite Station V3 - Linton's looking for problems! http://su.pr/17c3rG #webcomics #comics
• Thu, 22:41: I remain tired of the panicky expectant father trope. #Bones

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

Tonight scarfwoman and her law school/bar exam study buddy went for Chinese, leaving me to my own devices. I put on The Muppet Movie and made peanut butter & jelly sandwiches and french fries.

Every time I deep-fry french fries I think of billroper. I was present for the incident in the song.

I don't have the latest release of The Muppet Movie though I went looking for it. I hoped to discover that it's not the abridged version that's all that's ever been released to home video before. But the Blockbuster only had the latest version for sale not rent, and the Hollywood Video didn't have it at all. The Hollywood did have the (or a) previous release, though, and since I haven't seen it in ages I rented it anyway. The summer this movie came out was a rough time for me, and I saw it ten times (which is how I knew there were always two cuts). But "life's like a movie - write your own ending."