The Muppets Take Manhattan: Deep Thoughts About the Meaning of Art, Assumptions About Women in the 80s, and Business Frogs in Marketing

About this episode

The episode discusses The Muppets Take Manhattan, exploring themes of art, gender assumptions in the 80s, and marketing.

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Hey, I tell you what is. Big city, hmm? Live, work, huh? But not city only. Only peoples. Peoples is peoples. No is buildings. Is tomatoes, huh? Is peoples, is dancing, is music, is potatoes. So, peoples is peoples. Okay? Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit returns this week with Emily's take on The Muppets Take Manhattan. Although this 1984 film, directed by Frank Oz, still offers plenty of comedy, music, and whimsy, its treatm...

People in this episode

Hosts: Emily Guy Birken, Tracie Guy-Decker

Topics covered

• The Muppets
• 80s cinema
• women in film
• art and culture
• comedy
• marketing

Keywords

• Muppets
• Frank Oz
• 1984 film
• art
• women in the 80s
• comedy
• marketing

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Books & works: The Muppets Take Manhattan

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