The Seriously Disturbing Muppet Version Of "Stand By Me" (VIDEO)

If you're a "Muppets" lover, you know a lot of Muppets have ravenous appetites and Big Mean Carl is no different. In order to nom nom nom on some rabbits, Carl tricks them by donning giant rabbit ears and serenading them by twilight to the song "Stand By Me." You know, like rabbits do.


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[cydRN]

11:04 AM on 04/05/2010

God I love the Muppets. And I'm going on 48.

[LMPE]

12:01 AM on 04/04/2010

More like "Stand In Me"

[Tommygun264]

08:59 PM on 04/03/2010

All these people shocked over how it might terrify children don't have a very accurate knowledge of history. In the original story of Snow White, the evil queen did not fall over a cliff as a result of her own misadventure as portrayed in the sanitized Disney version, but was tortured to death at the command of Snow White. Snow White directed the royal blacksmith fashioned a pair of red hot iron shoes, which were then nailed to the evil queen's feet, forcing her to dance herself to death. In the original "Little Red Riding Hood", the grandmother was eaten by the wolf, then saved when a huntsman came along, slaughtered the wolf and sliced the animal open, releasing the grandmother before she was digested. And we all remember what happened to the witch in the original story of "Hansel & Gretel".

[LMPE]

12:00 AM on 04/04/2010

Also, in "Cinderella", the stepsisters chopped up their feet to fit into the glass slipper.

[Epiphany2b]

05:47 PM on 04/03/2010

My impression of the Muppets when they first came along is that they were not intended to entertain children. It was later that the puppetry was used in Sesame Street, but totally different characters than the original ones. Bert and Ernie and those guys were created specifically for Sesame Street, as I recall, but should not really be grouped together with all the Muppet characters. That's kinda like saying Hitler and Mother Theresa were the same because they're both human . . . sorta, if you get my meaning.

[Spartan112]

10:22 PM on 04/03/2010

Your history is a little backwards. Sesame St. started in the later 60's, the muppet show in the mid 70's, though Henson did have a show with puppets in the 50's that featured Kermit the Frog.

[EndangeredJackalope]

04:30 AM on 04/03/2010

This will terrify children. They've totally forgotten who Jim Henson was... that, or this is what happens when Disney owns the rights to, and begins producing, Muppets stuff.

Gross

F Disney forever

[Spartan112]

09:00 AM on 04/03/2010

Are you kidding? You must not have been wathing the muppets very closely the first time around. I remember a skit with a hunter running around backstage blowing away bunnies with a shot gun and Fozzy tossing one of their lifeless corpses to the side...another scene with what is obviously a Foster's beer can on one of Janice's amps. It wasn't all sweet and innocent. Oh, and my son thinks this is hillarious.

[juicyhopfrog]

01:24 PM on 04/03/2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AafdwLbpA4k

[EndangeredJackalope]

03:29 PM on 04/03/2010

I'm not talking so much about the violence, as the dark imagery.

The old rabbit sketch is a comedy sketch also -- the hunter is bumbling, not scary, the music is whimsical and there is a laugh track.

I don't think this new video is henous, it just doesn't seem inspired the same way that Henson's work was

Dark Crystal was an ultra dark movie image-wise, but it was achieving something else.

[Scootaloota]

05:09 PM on 04/03/2010

I don't think Disney had anything to do with the content of this..."funny"...video. Blame the people behind the Muppets right now. Maybe the Muppets should have died with Jim Henson, if THIS is the best the new people can do.

F "New Muppets" forever.

[EndangeredJackalope]

06:23 PM on 04/03/2010

Disney owns the rights to the Muppets now..

Wikipedia: "This deal ended any affiliation between the Jim Henson Company and Sesame Street. The deal also ended any direct affiliation between The Muppets and Sesame Street with two exceptions: using many of the same puppeteers, and the agreement that Sesame Street may still use the term "Muppet""

Jim Henson Company still does its muppet thing, but they probably lost a lot of their founding creative, puppeteering and writing talent to the children's Television Workshop. (Although that is disputable, b/c Sesame Street is absolute non-educational garbage now.)
I don't know the relationship between Disney & JHC, but I assume their contract any new muppet character work (or new muppet characters) through JHC. Either way, the loose creative circle and freedom that the company had (as well as its heart and soul) is gone now. The Muppet Show muppets are hawking Home Depot on TV now... sucks.

I'm reading Michael Davis' book, "Street Gang," about the founding of sesame Street right now. The prologue and first few chapters explain how Michael Eisner & Disney corrupted the muppets, and expedited Jim's death by how callously they did it.

[EndangeredJackalope]

06:48 PM on 04/03/2010

Actually, let me short cut everything I just wrote and say that, yes, this video was produced by Disney.

If you go to their YouTube page, they link to Muppets.com (which re-directs to http://disney.go.com/dxd/index.html?channel=102451#/disneygroups/themuppets/)

Its likely that this was produced w/o anyone from the jim Henson company.

Disney owns the rights to the word "Muppets", and can make anything they want and call it a muppet. Including this dog pile.

[Aaron Cogan]

02:20 AM on 04/03/2010

Once more, this goes out to William.

[Aaron Cogan]

06:19 PM on 04/02/2010

This one's for William.

[clearwaterclearmind]

04:39 AM on 04/02/2010

doesn't hold a candle to watership down for traumatizing,

[qthedancer]

06:31 PM on 04/01/2010

Traumatic.

[MadMoll]

02:52 PM on 04/01/2010

Love muppet studios

[caslab]

12:11 PM on 04/01/2010

my favorite april fool's thing so far

[Joe Bayen]

11:05 AM on 04/01/2010

Funny