6x6 oil on panel, black floater frame
This is from the Muppet version of the Charles Dickens Christmas classic, directed by Brian Henson (son of the late great Jim Henson). Although this one came out in 1992, when I was an adult, I had grown up watching the Muppet show, so that … combined with my love of most things Christmas, meant I gave it a watch. And I wasn't disappointed.Scrooge (played by the inimitable Michael Cane) was a cautionary tale about an old man's transformation from a selfish asshole to a good person. I feel like if you played this movie backwards, you'd have the life story of Bill Cosby.
The only disappointing part was that poor Kermit was married to Miss Piggy. I never shipped Kermit and Miss Piggy. In fact, just the opposite. I wanted him to get as far away from that manipulative diva as humanly (frog-anly?) possible. I feel the same way about a couple I know, in real life, but far be it from me to say so (I say so… All. The. Time.) … but, I've learned that unsolicited advice is like listening to Yoko Ono sing. No one wants to hear it. So I suffer in silence, like the ger.damned.hero that I am.