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Muppets, All Through the Night. Clip of the Day

Christopher Campbell
By Christopher Campbell posted 10 months ago
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There’s a new Muppet special premiering on NBC tonight called A Muppet Christmas: Letters to Santa. So, because I’m a Muppet-loving fool, I figured it appropriate to feature Jim Henson’s creations once again in the Clip of the Day. This isn’t some kind of marketing ploy, though, and anyway I couldn’t find any clips or ads specific to the new program. In order to make this post more film-related, I initially thought about sharing a scene, preferably a musical number, from The Muppet Christmas Carol, but I wrote enough about my love for that movie last year for another site.

So, I’ve used this as an opportunity to finally showcase a brilliantly edited music video for a song called “All Through the Night” by Brooklyn r&b group Escort (despite their retro disco sound, they’re a current band, interestingly featuring former members of the popular Boston ska band Skavoovie and the Epitones). It’s not a legitimate Henson production and it doesn’t have to do with the holidays — unless your holidays consist of making love to Muppets all through the night — but it’s one of the best videos I’ve ever seen on YouTube.

One of the things on my Christmas list this year, by the way, is to hear of a definite production start for Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller’s planned Muppet movie (and I’d also like Segel’s Muppets-related “Dracula’s Lament” song from Forgetting Sarah Marshall to receive an Oscar nomination). And if those guys can find a way to fit some Muppet disco into their film, I’ll be their biggest fan.

Check out the awesome music video after the jump.

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  • Steve S. said

    I hear ya, I’m anxious to hear that they’ve officially started writing the script. I had the head of the Muppets Studio on my podcast the other week, and things were still just “in development”. Incidentally, I have all four writers of the new Muppets special - including the great Paul Williams himself - on my show, The MuppetCast, this coming Sunday! You’ll hear songs and clips from Letters to Santa along with him. I love your video clip in this post, too. You can find The MuppetCast at http://muppetcast.com.