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That previous entry, with its villainous cackle, reminds me of…
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That previous entry, with its villainous cackle, reminds me of The Great Muppet Caper, which Leonard and I watched last night. Terrific! I got a bunch of jokes that I'm sure I didn't get the last time I watched it, which was probably ten years ago. I had forgotten how self-aware the Muppets get, and perhaps had never noticed how much humans in human-Muppet scenes must overact to keep up with Muppetry.
We might have watched, say, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai first, but Leonard said, "I demand the Muppets!" and so the die was cast.
We did get through the first two hours of Kuch Kuch last night. I last saw that three years ago. And it might have been better last time, when I didn't have the benefit of subtitles. Most of the translation is good, but sometimes I wonder whether it's an inane song lyric on its own, in the original Hindi, or whether the senior translator was on a coffee break. "Either I was insane previously or I've just become so" is an example.
Muppet Muppet Muppet Muppet Muppet.
