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[–] [email protected] 60 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Yeah unexpected darkness there

[–] [email protected] 57 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Kermit misses the whole arm in there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

he's not the only one. 😢

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You had Jim Hensons arm in you? That's a story for an autobiography.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

it could have been. I got a gym membership, but maybe I misunderstood.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sorry I'm officially lost here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

"gym" is pronounced "jim", not "gei-hm"

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Didn't Jim Henson die a completely preventable death, too? He had strep throat that went untreated for several days and it caused organ failures from toxic shock syndrome.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Dr. David Gelmont announced that Henson had died from Streptococcus pneumoniae, an infection that causes bacterial pneumonia. However, on May 29, Gelmont reclassified it as organ dysfunction resulting from streptococcal toxic shock syndrome caused by Streptococcus pyogenes. Gelmont noted Henson might have been saved had he gone to the hospital just a few hours sooner. Medical expert Lawrence D. Altman also stated that Henson's death "may have shocked many Americans who believed that bacterial infections no longer could kill with such swiftness." A lack of familiarity with this possibility, combined with the then-recent deaths of prominent men (including Rock Hudson, Liberace, Roy Cohn, and others) whose AIDS deaths had first been publicly euphemized as other illnesses due to AIDS's pervasive stigma, led to a false but widespread rumor that Henson had died of AIDS--a rumor that was swiftly and directly refuted by Dr. Gelmont. Frank Oz believed the stress of negotiating with Disney led to Henson's death, stating in a 2021 interview: "The Disney deal is probably what killed Jim. It made him sick." Henson was cremated and in 1992, his ashes were scattered near Taos in New Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Henson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptococcus_pneumoniae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptococcus_pyogenes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So he pulled a Bob Marley, then. Also known as a Steve Jobs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

As far as the other comment suggests, it wasn't so much a case of choosing to die or choosing a ridiculous "treatment" but just getting unlucky with having step go real bad in a hurry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Except Henson wasn't a jackass in real life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

He did cheat on his wife.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Taste your bro's cock before it's too late, bros.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Wait, lemme message my bro real quick

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that's an actual Penny Arcade comic... But it's something they would publish.

Was this a guest artist filling in for them? This sounds like exactly the kind of joke their guest artists would do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It was done by whoever does Haus of Decline. It's not an official guest comic, but it is an affectionate parody.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

As sad as the loss of Jim Henson has been to the world, Ernie continues to be performed on Sesame Street by others willing to stick their hands up his butt. (I'm just saying.)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 64 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

jim henson was the voice of ernie. frank oz voiced bert

e. they replaced him https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/Sesame-Street/Ernie/

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Who keeps putting all these tears in my eyes?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Their tub has three knobs?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hot, cold, and tub/shower selector is what I assume

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Your diverter is a knob? Interesting. I've only seen them as a little pull handle, usually on the spout.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Sorry, I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

My tub had 3 knobs. Middle one sends water to shower head instead of the tub. You wouldn't know unless you grew up in a house with 60s style plumbing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the mythic Third Temperature which only muppets can feel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Hot, cold, felt

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

"R-r-rubber ducky y-y-you're th-the one..."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Man, I hate you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I had this dream. But instead of Bert and Ernie it was me and my dad.