The Picard Maneuver to Comic Strips@lemmy.world • 6 months agoCharles Dickens Watches "The Muppet Christmas Carol" [R. E. Parrish]startrek.websiteimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1461arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1450arrow-down1imageCharles Dickens Watches "The Muppet Christmas Carol" [R. E. Parrish]startrek.websiteThe Picard Maneuver to Comic Strips@lemmy.world • 6 months agomessage-square22fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@fpslem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink30•6 months agoPuppets have been used in comedy and cultural commentary since Punch & Judy and before. Dickens would have dug it.
minus-square@CarbonIceDragonlink25•6 months agoI meant more the context of the individual characters. Like, having Statler and Waldorf as Marley is funnier if you know who those two are
minus-squareTheMongooselinkfedilink2•6 months agoAlso he’d need to know who Bob Marley was in order get the Jacob and Robert gag…
minus-square@AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink4•6 months agoPunch and Judy appear in the background of at least one of the opening scenes of The Muppet Christmas Carol
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Puppets have been used in comedy and cultural commentary since Punch & Judy and before. Dickens would have dug it.
I meant more the context of the individual characters. Like, having Statler and Waldorf as Marley is funnier if you know who those two are
Also he’d need to know who Bob Marley was in order get the Jacob and Robert gag…
Punch and Judy appear in the background of at least one of the opening scenes of The Muppet Christmas Carol