I would love to continue from yesterday’s clip of the day, and spotlight more of those clever Hellboy II: The Golden Army promos (here’s another one with Lipton; and another one; here’s one with “Wolf” from American Gladiators; here’s one with Zachary Levi of TV’s Chuck; and another one; here’s one with TV’s Ghost Hunters).

BUT tomorrow is Independence Day, aka the 4th of July, and that means it’s time for MUPPETS. Specifically the most patriotic Muppet of all: Sam the Eagle, who presents us with a rendition of “Stars and Stripes Forever” performed by Beaker, Animal, the Swedish Chef, Bobo the Bear, a penguin and some chickens. Sam also recites part of the Declaration of Independence, Crazy Harry provides the fireworks and Statler and Waldorf show up for some criticism. Forget the hot dogs and the red, white and blue boxer shorts; this is all you need to make your holiday complete.

The employment of all the Muppets with poor communication skills reminded me of those other holiday greetings from Saturday Night Live. Phil Hartman is “Frankenstein”, Jon Lovitz is Tonto and Kevin Nealon is Tarzan, and the trio does their best, with their respective speech impairments, to sing Christmas songs. There was also another one with Chris Farley as himself subbing for Tonto.

Anyway, if you’re looking for more Muppets stuff to enjoy on your three-day weekend, check out the list of 10 Muppet origins on the mental_floss Blog, and also be sure to pay proper respects to two important Kermits who left us recently: Kermit Scott, a childhood friend of Jim Henson’s who may be the famous frog’s namesake and Kermit Love, who was co-designed Big Bird and other characters for Henson.

Have a happy bork bork, meep meep!