Muppets

The Culture Roundup to End All Roundups

By Kelsey Keith on Dec 30, 2009 1:50pm

You may have noticed a profusion of year-end and decade-end lists floating around this here blog and the across the internet landscape. The Aughts brought us many things: social media, terrorism, the death of print media, Google dominance, design for the masses, locavore eating, and Barack Obama. We’ve already shown you a handy visual diagram of the years 2000-2009, but now it’s time to expand the focus with a meta roundup to end all roundups: our ten favorite lists that encapsulate the best and worst of our present age.… Read More

Film

Would You Rather See Woody Allen’s Manhattan Moved to Brooklyn or Taken Over By Muppets?

By Heather Schwedel on Sep 1, 2009 12:42pm

Fans of director Woody Allen (especially, we find, those who think Annie Hall is too mainstream) absolutely die for Manhattan, the 1979 romantic comedy wherein Allen’s character romances a 17-year-old. Today we came across an NYU film student’s update of Allen’s film, bearing the all-too-appropriate-for-2009 new name, Brooklyn. The trailer absolutely nails the opening montage with classical accompaniment. A very cool idea, we must concede, but how does it stack up to another offshoot of Manhattan we found a few months ago? That one starred muppets. Check out both videos after the jump, and voice your opinion in our… Read More

Web

Video of the Day: Muppets on Coke

By Alex Catarinella on May 8, 2009 11:32am

The colorfully-cracked out Coca Cola ad meets Labyrinth (sans David Bowie!) music video after the jump makes us excited for the summer. Because what’s more refreshing on a sunny day than drinking a Coke OUT OF THE BOTTLE and rocking out to Calvin Harris with a bunch of muppets who live in an organ on a hill? Thanks to Kanye (or one of his talented minions) for finding this one. … Read More