Why Do We Always Come Here?

There is nothing on Earth that makes us sigh with satisfaction as much as a bunch of Muppets running around in the 1970s. Though their post-Jim work is uncomfortable and stilted, the classics will endure pretty much forever. So we're bowled over by YBCA's Muppets, Music & Magic event -- days and days of vintage Muppet mayhem, some of it rather obscure indeed.

The excitement begins on June 21 with "Muppets 101," a sort of primer on who and what and how. It's followed over the next two weekends with screenings of "Labyrinth" and "Dark Crystal" and OMFG "Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas" FTW!!! They're also screening some vintage Henson commercials and experiments, some of which are extremely odd and unMuppetty indeed; and also "Dog City" (not the company's finest work, alas) along with "The Storyteller" (probably the finest programming ever created). We can't recommend this highly enough.

Disclaimer: SFist_Matt is a fond former employee of the Henson studio.