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The Tale of the Bunny Picnic
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
English - July 07, 2020 08:00 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MB - â â â â â - 32 ratingsTV Reviews TV & Film christmas holidays holiday specials christmas specials christmas commercials classic tv advent calendar christmas tv Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Hello, sunshine! Join us for a hop back to Easter 1986 to revisit the Jim Henson special, The Tale of the Bunny Picnic â which is about neither Easter, nor a bunny picnic â but it did introduce the world to Bean Bunny, the Muppetsâ Nermal. Â
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đ Guest: ÂEmily Rowley (@mlerowley). Â
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đŹ Topics & Tangents: Â1. Jim Hensonâs original introduction to The Tale of the Bunny Picnic. Â
2. The Jim Henson Hour. Â
3. Bean Bunny is still around at Muppet*Vision 3D in Disneyâs Hollywood Studios. Â
4. Bean was also a late-series addition to Muppet Babies, and his picture is on the playroom wall in Disneyâs new Muppet Babies. Â
5. The Muppet Musicians of Bremen and its grotesque, full-size Muppet bad guys. Â
6. Sweetums in Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince. Â
7. Bean trying to tell the other bunnies to quiet down or the dog will hear them is also the plot of the first act of Trolls. Â
8. Every Easter Bunny costume is terrifying. Â
9. Yâall remember Puffalumps? You do now. Â
10. The Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta is home to several Muppets from this special, including both Bean and his Dragon Bunny form from his dream sequence. Â
11. Carlin Trammelâs Video Tour of the Center for Puppetry Artsâ Jim Henson exhibit. Â
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đŒ Retro Commercial Break: ÂMcDonaldâs Muppet Babies Holiday Huggables, 1988. Â
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âThe Tale of the Bunny Picnicâ © 1986 Henson Associates. Â
Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house. Â
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Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost. Â
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.