#MuppetMonday – Cute Muppet Recipes

October 31, 2011 By

I am always impressed by how creative people can be, whether it’s crafting or creating recipes. Some people are so talented that all you need to do is give them a very simple idea and BAM! They can come up with something really creative. 

In honor of Muppet Monday I surfed the ‘net to find some really creative Muppet recipes. Perhaps they might inspire YOU to come up with your own Muppet ideas.

For ingredients, supplies or directions just click on the title of each idea (done in bold text).

One of my favorite places to visit on the Internet for unique ideas is the Family Fun website. Check out this cute idea. 

Kermit’s Green Apples with Peanut Butter Dip, by Miranda Becker.

Animal’s Punk Pink Pasta, by Miranda Becker

Fozzie Bear Cupcakes, by Miranda Baker

Kermit Cupcakes – This is an easy recipe. It’s just tinted green frosting and eyes made out of Mentos. The pupils are drawn in using a food coloring marker.

Believe it or not I actually had a hard time finding Muppet recipes. :-( I hope when the new movie is released on November 23, 2011 that it will inspire people to get creative and come up with some more fun Muppet related recipes to try out.

For more great Muppet related posts please visit the wonderful bloggers below. Please take a moment to leave them some “comment love”. ♥ Everyone loves comments. Thanks!


Kimberly

*I was not compensated for this post. I posted this for the enjoyment of my site readers. Any opinions expressed are my own.
 

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Dr. Seuss’s Holidays on the Loose!

October 30, 2011 By

There are a few things that my family looks forward to on Thanksgiving – the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, seeing Santa at the end of the parade and stuffing ourselves with great food. There are also movies that we look forward to on Thanksgiving day including Miracle on 34th Street, March of the Wooden Soliders and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

It wouldn’t be the same without watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas at least a few times during the holiday season. I know many people who feel the same way.

We have How the Grinch Stole Christmas on DVD, however there is a new DVD collection that takes the movie a step further. The collection is called Dr. Seuss’s Holidays on the Loose! It features the classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas movie and includes two other movies, Halloween is Grinch Night and The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat. More on those movies later.

I have seen How the Grinch Stole Christmas more times then I can count (LOL). It wasn’t so much the movie that impressed me as it was the bonus features. Dr. Seuss’s Holidays on the Loose! contains some must see bonus features.

One of the bonus features I really enjoyed is called Dr. Seuss and the Grinch – from Whoville to Hollywood. This feature tells you everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Dr. Seuss, whose real name is Theodor Geisel. Seuss is his mother’s maiden name. She always wanted him to grow up to be a doctor so he gave himself the pen name Dr. Seuss.

This bonus feature gave you an in-depth look into the many behind such memorable characters as the Grinch, the Lorax, Horton (Horton Hears a Who) and of course the Cat in the Hat. I thought it was fascinating how he became such a beloved author.

There is also a special featurette which had to be filmed a very long time ago because it was hosted by actor and comedian Phil Hartman who was killed by his wife in 1998.

This featurette shows you all that went on with the making of the movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Did you know that it took 170,000 animation frames/panels just to make this film? That means it took about 10-12 frames/panels for just ONE SECOND of animation. That blows my mind! That is A LOT of drawing.

I always thought that Boris Karloff sang the songs in the Grinch movie. The songs were actually song by the man who voiced the Tony the Tiger/Frosted Flakes commercials. He was not given credit in the film either. His name was Thurl Ravenscroft and he passed away in 2005. He also voiced the role of Kirby in the Brave Little Toaster movies. He also did voice characters for other Dr. Seuss movies/shows.

Albery Hague, who played the role of Mr. Shorofsky (Music Teacher) in the series Fame wrote the music for How the Grinch Stole Christmas. WOW! Pretty interesting stuff.

At one point in the featurette Phil Hartman re-voiced scenes from How the Grinch Stole Christmas with voices of John Wayne, Frank Sinatra and Jack Nicholson to show you just how different the Grinch would be if he wasn’t voiced by Boris Karloff.

The movie, How the Grinch Stole Christmas are all on one DVD. There is a second DVD included in the package. The seconds DVD features two Grinch movies.

In Halloween is Grinch Night the Grinch is coming back to Whoville to declare that Halloween is really Grinch Night. All the residents run and hide from him, all except one boy who is determined to stop the Grinch.

The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat has the Grinch on a quest to ruin the Cat in the Hat’s life. The mean Grinch goes out of his way to do mean things to the Cat in the Hat, but the Cat in the Hat has a plan to not only stop the Grinch but also to see that his bad behavior is very disappointing to someone very special in his life.

To be honest with you I didn’t like either of the movies. I have never even heard of them before but my husband says he saw them, but a long time ago. We’ve been married 15 years so it had to be before we were married because I have never heard of them before.

I didn’t find anything appealing about them. The Grinch in the Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat looked more like the original drawings of the Grinch, where as the Grinch in Halloween is Grinch Night looked more like the Grinch from How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Even Max the dog looked different.

My husband said he doesn’t even remember watching both movies all the way through because he lost interest in them right away. Sadly I was the same way. I watched them so I could do a fair review, but if I wasn’t reviewing them I’d probably turn them off too. But that is just my opinion. Other people might love them.

For me the highlight of the DVD collection is the bonus features. I learned a lot about Dr. Seuss and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I will never look at the movie the same away again.

Dr. Seuss’s Holidays on the Loose! is currently available where most DVDs are sold.

Kimberly

*I received a free screener copy in order to do this review. There was no compensation. The opinions expressed are my own.

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The Original Christmas Classics on Blu-ray (Giveaway!)

October 30, 2011 By

 

It’s hard not to think about Christmas right now. Yesterday we received over 8″ of snow in a freak pre-Winter snowstorm here in the Northeast. As a joke my husband brought our five foot Santa up from the basement and placed him on our balcony among out Halloween decorations. Our neighbor’s loved it. My husband and I keep joking about packing up the Halloween decorations, putting up the Christmas tree and pop in some of our favorite holiday movies. :-)

I’m really in the holiday spirit early this year. Normally I’m ready for Chrismtas until mid-November. Just like the snow, my Christmas spirit arrived early this year.

When you ask people what some of their favorite holiday shows and special are I guarantee many people will mention classics like Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman and Santa Claus is Coming to Town. These beloved holiday specials are cherished by many people, both young and old, around the world. They are certainly classics.

These classics are available on Blu-ray, including Frosty Returns (it was an OK movie but not as great as the original Frosty) are now available as a new collection called The Original Christmas Classics.

We are slowly making our way through our most favorite movies and shows and trying to get them in Blu-ray. We still have some VHS movies and shows that we’re still trying to find in DVD or Blu-ray form.

We own these movies on DVD. I was hoping that the Blu-ray versions would be sharper and more colorful. Honestly they don’t appear much different then the DVD versions of the shows. We even tested it out by putting in Rudolph on the Blu-ray and then afterwards put in Rudolph on DVD and they appear to be the same quality. Not that it’s a bad thing. We’re trying to get our favorites on Blu-ray because we worry that DVD will soon become obsolete. So it’s OK that they don’t appear to have that same amazing blu-ray quality like some other shows do. Not only that but these are old claymation stop-motion shows. Perhaps you can’t improve upon them anymore.

My only disappointment in this blu-ray collection is the lack of bonus features. The beauty of blu-rays is that they almost always include bonus features like deleted scenese, a look behind the scenes, blooopers or even games. There wasn’t anything like that in this collection. I’m sure most people won’t mind because I have found that many people don’t even look at the bonus features. Personally I always make it a point to check out the bonus features.

Over all it’s a must have collection if you are a fan of these iconic shows. Blu-ray discs are always a superior quality and they hold up better then DVDs. The blu-ray discs will last for many years.

The Original Christmas Classics is sold at most retail locations that sell blu-rays. It retails for $44.99 but I have seen the set sold for in the $30 range.

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