![]() Lost, because coming to the rescue is a fairy wearing leg warmers In one of my favorite bad line deliveries ever, "Aye Yi Yi. They will become his musical slaves for all eternity! Oh yeah,Īnd everything switched to animation, so the girl drummer says, Trapped in a crystal and floating to Rush's midair hideout, where Suspended 9,000 feet above the ground, in an alternate dimension, Teleportation later, the young 80's rockers find themselves "Mwa ha ha, I'm taking you to the Flipside!" One Next starts to glow! And a cartoon version of Rush Limbaugh The show's theme song when suddenly the mirror they're practicing Hadn't been the child actor to say the Power Glove was bad, this Teenagers in a garage rock band, the head of which was someoneĪctually named Kidd Video-and he looked like this. For the first minute or so, it was about four young I wonder what I would have thought of it. Have had a chance to see it (I remember that Punky BrewsterĬartoon, after all). The 1986/87 season as well, but only in reruns. Many places on the Web incorrectly say this cartoon only airedįor two seasons. I have fond memories of this show too, but we all gotta Smart as Henson's other shows it's a kindergarten program pretty It, the question you have to ask yourself is if you would buy Manufacturers could see the demand paying for all the Profit, and Muppet Babies isn't high-profile enough where Would take years and might not be worth it. Single live-action scene and repay them, a process that Would have to track down every single owner of every To put Muppet Babies on DVD, there's no flat fee now. In syndication were for time, so they musta paid for perpetuity). That currently existed at the time (the only cuts this show got But that onlyĪpplied to Saturday Morning, and the ways to distribute video Keep pumping in constant footage for a flat fee. Worked out a blanket deal with several video archive companies to Video footage, from Lucasfilm to newsreels, and most of it is Remember how every episode of Muppet Babies went, then you It's why it took six years to get out aįirst-season DVD for SNL (at this rate they'll never get to the It's why the Beavis and Butt-Head sets barely In existence! This fact has become a headache for the growingĭelays, sets more expensive than they'd normally be, and bizarreĬompromises like the Life Goes On set replacing its namesakeīeatles theme song. Of those contracts, that only applied to video formats currently WITH an annoying exception.due to the wording of many Meaning the footage could now be in the episode it was put intoįorever. That they would pay for the rights "in perpetuity," Rights again, or replace/redub/cut any legally dicey scene. Market, it was now the syndicator's problem-either buy the If a cartoon lasted long enough for the syndication Someone else for the duration that the show aired on their Only paid for the rights to broadcast a recording owned by ![]() They paid as little as possible - meaning, in some cases, they Many of the tightwad execs in charge ofĬhildren's programming started paying for such licensing, but Show was put together, and music and video licensing startedīecoming a popular trend. The 80's, MTV was starting to influence the way a traditional That's now put anchors around the necks of some programs. Muppet Babies is currently being held captive by a legal quirk Thing.All of Henson's other programs have made it to DVD by The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, even that short-lived Storyteller Frames or is currently configured not to display inline ![]()
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