Awesome Muppets

Ok, so it’s just a cupcake. But there’s something just so right (and ever-so-slightly mind-bending) about this dessert that’s eating another dessert before your eyes. Plus, Cookie Monster.

Kermit, Miss Piggy and the whole gang take on David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo in their own, goofy, family-friendly way in the latest trailer for the upcoming Muppets movie.

We already know there’s a new Muppets album and Muppets movie coming out. Now we’ve got OK Go’s quirky new rendition of The Muppet Show theme, and a Muppet-laden video. (Thanks, Everyone!)

Contemporary musicians including OK Go, Weezer, My Morning Jacket, Sondre Lerche, and Andrew Bird take on classic Muppet tunes. Preview the entire album over at NPR Music: First Listen.

If you’ve ever thought that Tom Waits sounds a little like Cookie Monster, what with that raspy baritone growl, you’d be 100% correct. Mashups don’t get much better than this.

The Sesame Street gang busts out some classic Beastie Boys rhymes with their muppet-ized rendition of Sure Shot. We had no idea that Grover could handle the flute so adeptly.

Game-making genius Tim Schafer pitches his latest concept to an unlikely executive, Cookie Monster. With the exception of the cookie-eating part, he reminds us of every boss we’ve ever had.

An evil oilman has plans to tear down their theater, so the Muppets reunite to throw a telethon to raise $10 million to save their stage. The gang’s all here, plus Jason Segel, Amy Adams and Chris Cooper.

With The Green Lantern hitting theaters this week, this new parody teaser for The Muppets new movie hits at the perfect time. We only hope the movie is as amusing as its trailers have been.

The new muppet movie stars Jason Segel and Amy Adams as a small town couple who head to Hollywood to discover their dreams of hitting the big time, in James Bobin’s Green With Envy.

Long before Jim Henson unleashed his snarky Muppet Show, he worked with B.C. creator Johhny Hart on a pilot for The Wizard of Id. See the shape of things to come in this rare test footage.

While you won’t be able to buy Kermit or Ms. Piggy from the Muppet Whatnot Workshop, you can design your own Whatnot, one of the countless extras in Henson’s puppet-filled universe.

We’re loving this Muppet balloon animal collection from the Black Cat Balloon Company; whoever has these friends at their birthday party will no doubt be the coolest kid in school. (Thanks John!)

Not content with having a catch-all blog about “funny things”, Mike Lacher starts off the new year with a creepy meme. You wanna know what makes muppets cute? It’s the eyes. The goddamn eyes.

(Language NSFW) The video for Kanye West’s single Monster leaked just recently, but it’s already been parodied. Watch Kermy West, Faw-Z, Rizz Rat, Von Count and Piggy Minaj do their thing.

Cookie Monster wants to branch out from his monotonous Sesame Street day job, so he’s decided to try out as a guest host on Saturday Night Live. Here’s his audition tape.

Sesame Street takes on pop culture once again – this time aping Apple’s “there’s an app for that” tagline with their even more-useful-than-an-iPhone gadget, the iPogo stick.

We’re not sure if the guy in this video is really homeless, but his dueling-Kermit rendition of Bowie and Queen’s Under Pressure is the best thing we’ve seen in days. It’s the next big meme for sure.

…one of the few truisms in life – and Ricardo Autobahn and Jenny McLaren of Spray have memorialized it with this catchy pop song, accompanied by tons of classic Muppet footage.

We’re not sure how we missed Beaker’s take on old Ludwig van’s 9th Symphony when it first hit the web, but now that we’ve seen it, we felt the urge to share it with you. Mi Mi Mi Mi Mi Mi Mi Mi…

These dark and brooding gastropods from an old episode of Disney’s Muppets Tonight are just as depressing as anything we’ve heard from Trent Reznor himself. Go escargot!

Biologist Mike Dickison must have had some spare time during his PhD research on flightless birds, since he had time to spend figuring out the lineage of Sesame Street’s tallest resident.

The Swedish Chef shows us precisely what happens when you leave the popcorn in the microwave for too long. And now we can’t get that Hot Butter’s infectious Popcorn song out of our heads.