"Another Webby Bites the Dust"

Last night, all of the who's who on the web turned out at the 14th Annual Webby Awards ceremony, hosted by The Office's B.J. Novak. Among these web wonders were The Muppets, winners of four Webbys (two actual Webbys and two People's Choice Webbys) for their insanely popular YouTube viral video "Bohemian Rhapsody."

It's a tradition at the Webbys for the winners to accept their trophies with a five-word speech. Last year, when Beaker accepted his award for "Ode to Joy" his five-words were obviously "meeps" but this year it was a hot topic among Muppet fans wondering which fuzzy funny friends they would send to accept the award since "Bohemian Rhapsody" had over 70 Muppets in the video. Personally, I was pulling for the singing cacti, but I didn't hold my breath.

Instead, The Muppets sent Animal and Floyd Pepper. Which, while surprising, makes complete sense when you think about it. Someone had to translate for Animal and keep him on a short leash! To hear the five-word speech and to laugh your head off, check out the link below...


http://www.youtube.com/webby?x=rYRysrYH3Gg

Floyd Pepper accepting a Webby Award in 2010? This goes right up on my list of "awesome things I never thought I'd see." Congratulations to The Muppets and a huge thanks to The Muppets Studio for bringing out Floyd in the spotlight again!

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The Muppets Win!

The winners of the 2010 Webby Awards were announced today. I tried to act surprised when I saw that the Muppets had won in both the Music and Viral category for "Bohemian Rhapsody," and then I truly was surprised when I saw that they also swept the People's Voice awards in both categories as well--that's four awards! (Counting brought to you by the Count.)
Huge congratulations are in order to the people at The Muppets Studio for this huge win. The people have obviously spoken, and the people love the Muppets. I can only assume this will mean a rush of even more awesome Muppet stuff soon.

In celebration of the huge victory, let's watch "Bohemian Rhapsody" again, shall we?



In other Webby news, SesameStreet.org also won the Webby Award they were nominated for in the Parenting section. This is another very-much deserved award and the people at Sesame Workshop should be commended!

Congratulations to both The Muppets and Sesame Street on their Webby Awards!











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News Update: April 29, 2010

NEWS UPDATE: April 29, 2010
In case you missed it a few days ago, the Muppets appeared on The Nerdist Podcast with Chris Hardwick. Hardwick interviewed our funny, furry friends about "Bohemian Rhapsody," their two Webby nominations, what they do on their off time, and more! Hardwick is obviously a huge Muppet fan, so getting to hear someone as excited as we would be interview the Muppets is a real treat. Also, it's nice to have an interview with the whole gang at once, not just a few.

The Muppets have been very busy lately, after their turn podcasting, they released a new video on their YouTube account. It features Kermit and the rest of the Muppets as they provide actual commentary on "Bohemian Rhapsody" as it plays. It's hilarious, classic Muppet humor and I don't remember the last time I laughed so hard. This is a can't miss Muppet video, so... don't miss it!

Huge Disney fan Jim Hill has posted an update about what the Muppets have been up to lately and delves a little bit into what they'll be up to in the near future. Not much of the information is news to us obsessed Muppet fans, but it's still an interesting read.

Our friends at ToughPigs have posted the winners (losers?) of the Ugly Muppet Toy Pageant 2010, complete with comments from the hilarious tough piggies themselves! The entries are both hilarious and disturbing... but luckily, it's mostly just hilarious.

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Bohemian Rhapsody: The Muppets Comment Back

If you live under a rock (and I'm sure at least one of you does), and you've missed, or somehow ignored, my shilling for you (and everyone else) to vote for The Muppets in their two nominations for "Bohemian Rhapsody" in The Webby Awards, then maybe you'll listen to the Muppets!

Those hard working furry people have taken the time out of their (apparently) very busy schedules to comment directly on the Bohemian Rhapsody video as it plays. Yes, it is indeed as hilarious as it sounds:

So... once you get up off of the floor from laughing, head on over to The Webby Awards and cast your vote for the Muppets in both the Music and Viral categories. Remember, tomorrow (April 29th) is the last day to vote, so do it quick!

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The Muppets - Webby Nominations: Official Press Release

Greetings, Muppet fans! Are you tired of me telling you to go vote for the Muppets in The Webby Awards yet? Well, you'll have to sit through one more post of it today. Today I have the official press release for The Muppets run at The Webbys directly from The Muppets Studio. So enjoy, and get out there and vote!

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE

The Muppets' YouTube sensation “Bohemian Rhapsody” has been nominated for a People’s Voice Webby Award in both the Viral and Music Categories! The Muppets' version of Queen’s classic rock-opera song begins as a simple video conference that swiftly escalates into an all-singing, all-squawking frog-pig-&-bear-filled symphony of inspired Muppet foolishness. These Webby nominations come on the heels of "Bohemian Rhapsody" vying with X Factor and Rage Against the Machine for the Christmas No.1 spot in the UK.

 

Please vote for the Muppets’ "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the "Music Video" category at http://www.youtube.com/webby?x=music and in the "Viral Video" category at http://www.youtube.com/webby?x=viralvideo.   Voting ends April 29^th.

“TWO WEBBY NOMINATIONS! Animal Spreads The Word!” on YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/muppetsstudio













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The Race for The Webbys Gets Sick! Erm... Viral, that is.

Have you heard? No, not that the Bird is the Word (Big Bird, of course), but that the greatest thing on the Internet ever, "Bohemian Rhapsody" by The Muppets, has been nominated for two Webby Awards? I'm sure you have, since I've been shilling votes for them for a week and a half now.

Anyway, The Muppets Studio has also received the news that they've been nominated, so in order to steal votes away from their competition, they've turned to the medium that garnered them the nomination in the first place: viral videos.



If you are still holding out your vote for The Muppets after that, I don't know what's wrong with you and I think you should get to a doctor, stat. C'mon, don't you want to make Animal's Mama proud? You probably should... because she might eat you if you don't.

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News Update: April 15, 2010

NEWS UPDATE: April 15, 2010
Earlier this week, our friends from TVShowsonDVD.com have reported that Lionsgate is continuing its trend of releasing loads of rare Henson specials on DVD. The next release? 1989's "Sesame Street: 20 Years and Still Counting" special on July 6th. This is an extremely exciting release since this special has never been commercially released and... it's just an awesome special.

Yesterday, Greg over at The Muppet Newsflash tweeted two new pictures of the upcoming "Muppet Monopoly" and "Muppet Yahtzee" board games being released this August. At this point it is still not known if the Monopoly will be a straight re-release of 2002's Muppet version or if it is entirely new.

Have you heard of Google? Well, I hadn't until I heard that Sesame Street's 40th Anniversary was being promoted on their logos this past fall. (Kidding, of course.) The fine folks at Google have teamed up with the even more fine folks at Sesame Street once again to create some new, actual commercials for the search engine. Both Bert and Cookie Monster receive the commercial treatment, and they're both awesome. (Thanks to our friends at ToughPigs for picking up on this story!)

Speaking of ToughPigs, they've posted a great interview with Roger Langridge about adding Skeeter to the comic book world of the Muppets. It's incredibly insightful and I highly recommend checking it out!

And of course, the big news of the week is that The Muppets "Bohemian Rhapsody" has been nominated for two Webby Awards in the Music and Viral categories. If you haven't done so yet, get over there and vote! Thanks to us, the Muppets currently have a huge lead in the polls in both categories, so keep voting and keep it up!

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Webby Wednesday: Vote for Bohemian Rhapsody!

EDIT: Bohemian Rhapsody has returned to The Webby Awards YouTube page for voting. Muppet fans, go forth and vote!!

It's that time of the year again: time for The Webby Awards to honor the best of entertainment on the internet. As I'm sure you all remember, last year Beaker's "Ode to Joy" viral sensation won a People's Choice Webby and Beaker even appeared to make an acceptance speech.

This year, to the surprise of almost no one, the Muppets biggest viral smash hit of all time, "Bohemian Rhapsody" has been nominated--and not just for a single Webby, but for two! That's right, Animal and his Mamma crooning along with the antics of all the rest of the Muppets in the video have garnered them nominations in both the Music and Viral categories.

The competition in these categories is pretty stiff, such as "Auto-Tune the News," "David After Dentist," and "Lindsay Lohan's eHarmony Profile," but the Muppets had a pretty heavy early lead against them all (before they mysteriously disappeared from the ballot).

And, luckily, we Muppet fans can help them hold that lead! Yes, by simply visiting the Webby's YouTube channel and registering we can vote to propel our Muppets to two victories!

On a slightly disappointing note, earlier today the Muppets Facebook page alerted us that "Bohemian Rhapsody" had somehow disappeared from the ballot of both categories. It has since been fixed, but in its time away the Muppets have slipped to second behind "David After Dentist." Obviously this cannot stand, so it's time once again for that great Muppet fan rallying we're all so good at.

Get over to the Webby's channel and register so you can vote, vote, vote!

And while you wait, why not vote for SesameStreet.org in its quest for a Webby?










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