Just Another Muppet Monday - The Holiday Show (Part 1)

 

Good Morning everyone, and welcome back to another great week here at Geek-tastic.  This week, for those of us in the US, marks the beginning of the holiday season with Thanksgiving on Thursday.  What will follow will be a month long consumer spending spree that will leave us all destitue until somewhere around the middle of March.

 

However, the holiday season does have a few fun things to make up for the vast overspending and the accumulation of credit card debt.  It has holiday specials.  Yes, holiday specials, the most cheesy and usually lame episodes of our favorite shows.  Every genre of show has a holiday show too, action shows, detective shows, sitcoms, dramas.  You name it and I can probably find you a holiday episode of just about every show ever made.  Most of them are atrocious, but every now and then a gem of pure awesome can be found amongst their number.

 

The above clip is the first part of one such example.  The Muppet Family Christmas, the greatest combined Muppet show ever made, featuring characters from every Jim Hensen show all together to celebrate the holidays with each other.  The Muppets, Fraggle Rock, Sesame Street...they're all there. 

 

Some wonderous soul has posted the entire holiday special onto youtube in five separate parts, so for the next five weeks I'm going to be posting a portion of the show to the site here every monday morning for your viewing pleasure.  The last part will be posted on Monday, December 22nd, just in time for Christmas.

 

So let's get this party started rolling!  Our story starts off with Kermit and the Muppet crew all heading up to visit Fozzy's mom for Christmas.  Unfortunately, they didn't tell her they were coming.  She had plans to go to the tropics for Christmas and had rented her house out to the old guy and Sprocket (his dog) from Fraggle Rock.  But just as Fozzy's mom was about to leave, the truck with all the muppets show up and a large bit of chaos begins. 

 

This first part of the story also featuers a performance of Jingle Bell Rock from the always awesome Electric Mayhem!