User talk:Scarecroe

Sad Kermit
Hi Scott. Could you please explain to me why that article is not relevant here. It seemed just as relevant as The Bear Wit Project, The Grouch Report or The Muppet Show in Ham's Deep. It might not have been an official, or even a flattering, "Muppet Mention" but I don't understand why it is any less relevant than the other unofficial creations or references in here. Please let me know how the relevance of a Muppet parody, mention or reference is based around here so I don't make the same kind mistake in the future when contributing. Ӝ 23:50, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * That's a good question, actually, and might be worth bringing up at current events. No doubt Scott will address this himself, but in my opinion, I think YouTube fan videos are a can of worms for a number of reasons. One, there's so many of them; you add "Sad Kermit," and then everyone whose ever created a random Muppet fan video or vicious parody or whatever will want to add theirs, from the Scorsese Sesame Street thing to "C for Cookie" and so on. Second, they're extremely temporary, even moreso than most online things: pulled for copyright violations, re-uploaded again, moved to different sites... Bear Wit Project, which it's worth noting was added nearly two years ago, when the Wiki was just starting and a lot of things weren't well defined, is pretty similar (and the site itself dead, though the film still circulates on YouTube and so on). The Grouch Report is also kind of borderline (not a fan site but a personal parody blog, which is *also* now offline). So my own feeling is that it's worth staying away from interent distributed fan videos entirely, and probably parody blogs unless they're put out by a reputable outfit, like The Onion. So under that rule, things like Homestar Runner would be allowed, Sad Kermit, films of Elmo cussing, etc., wouldn't. Similarly, any parodies, whether unflattering or otherwise, which were released theatrically or via mainstream commercial video, or aired on broadcast or cable TV (whether in the US or elsewhere), are allowed: Robot Chicken, Meet the Feebles, Bernie und Ert, etc. Internet memes come and go, and "Sad Kermit" and the like have a much shorter lifespan, even if many people see them in that brief time, than film or TV properties which can and usually will be re-run, released on DVD, and so on. Finally, articles on Robot Chicken or the [{Family Guy]] references just note that these exist and are proof of the Muppets visibility as pop-culture references in mainstream media, but can't exactly be seen as support of the programs. Whereas linking to fan videos on YouTube, Daily Motion and the like, which Henson and others see as copyright violations, could be interpreted as supporting the practice, and that's just probably not good policy for the Wiki (for similar reasons, we don't allow YouTube links to anything which is commercially available). -- Andrew Leal (talk ) 00:43, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Nice Koch!
Hey, Scott! Thank you so much for finding out about Koch Records! I didn't even know about it! I've been bouncing off the walls all day! You know what's funny? I guess since Sony Wonder had handled audio and video, I assumed that Genius would take over both. Now that I went back and read their press release from early this year, it just said "home entertainment products", so I guess that just meant video. And now that I think about it, that was the only time in SS history that one company did do both. So now I hope Koch will want to do a lot of stuff differently, like reissue original LP's (I'm still waiting for a boxed set of the first 6 albums!), keep the Sony CD's in print, and maybe even make new releases with a mix of recent and classic tracks! I realize they can't do all of that at once, but it'll be interesting to see what they do! I can't wait to make the discography even longer! -- Ken (talk ) 01:08, 3 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I hope this means new albums and reissues, too. I have a feeling that SW is done with the nostalgia market for now only a few years after the release of Songs from the Street. But they really haven't released any of their newer original material, so I would guess there'll be a mix of that and the classics. —Scott ( talk ) 03:06, 3 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm hoping that the new video releases kind of give us an idea where they're going. It seems like the Play with Me Sesame stuff is a mix of old and new clips, and I don't mind that.  I was telling Danny that I have nothing against Elmo personally, but I think after 1998, when everything they sold had "Elmo" in the title, that's when I got turned off until I found the wiki.  And I'm curious if Genius is going to keep all the video titles in print, because some of the Sony stuff goes back to the original Random House editions, and those were great!  I really think that we're about to turn a corner of getting old stuff again!  I never would have thought that somebody would have wanted to do a Fraggle CD set, but maybe the season sets are driving interest in them again, so I'm hoping that if they keep going with Old School sets, the audio will complement that, too. -- Ken  (talk ) 03:41, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

FlagFreak
Hey, dude -- I'm using a wiki to communicate with you this time instead of e-mail. :)

FlagFreak left me another message on my Central talk page. I told him that if he wants to get back on the wiki, he should have his parents send me an e-mail. That'll either shut him up, or it'll put me in contact with his parents, so I can get them to take away his computer. (I've done this before, and the parents are always horrified to hear that their kid has been harassing people online.)

I also protected his user page on Pixar. So that, I hope, should be that. -- Danny (talk ) 15:32, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Ellen Greene
Oh, shucks. I thought since we had a page for Little Shop, that meant that we were considering the movie to be part of our coverage. But I guess it's just there for the Frank Oz connection. -- Danny (talk ) 00:37, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Tape boxes
Hi, Scott! Thanks for picking Muppet Masquerade!

Is there a box for videotape titles? I'm starting to go through the Playhouse Video titles, and I wanted to put a box under the cover picture like the LP's have, but I don't see one anywhere. Thanks! -- Ken (talk ) 06:35, 27 October 2007 (UTC)


 * There's not much to say about VHS cassettes outside of distributor and release date so we never made one. That information is usually handled in the article's text. Do you really think we need one? —Scott ( talk ) 15:40, 27 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, Wendy and I have been going through the Muppet Show videotapes (Playhouse and Disney), and we found the catalog numbers and release years and running times. My feeling is that they should match how the DVD boxed sets look, with the little box under the bottom.  What do you think? -- Ken  (talk ) 17:10, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Uneven column headings
Hey, Scott, I noticed that on Fozzie's Muppet Scrapbook, the "Source" column heading doesn't line up with the others. I copied down the coding, and looked at some other titles in the Playhouse Video series, and it's exactly the same coding, and they look fine. Does it look uneven to you? Thanks! -- Ken (talk ) 04:16, 23 October 2007 (UTC)


 * They look okay to me. If you send a screenshot, I might be able to help more. —Scott ( talk ) 06:06, 23 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I looked at it on different computers, and "Source" still looked like it was up too high. So I retyped "Source", and now it looks fine. -- <font color="Blue">Ken  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 05:32, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Song of One
Hey Scott; would you mind looking at Talk:Number Song Series? Ingeborg got some verification on the segments in the Song of One that she thinks came from Karen Falk. -- <font color="Blue">Wendy (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 18:16, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

More Muppet Babies cartoon references
Hey, the same user uploaded this, the full Spider-Man sequence from the "Comic Capers" episode.... including a cameo, in new footage, by Stan Lee at the end! -- <font color="Blue">Andrew Leal (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 05:45, 10 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Wow! Man, how sweet would it be to have a complete MB set. The treasures that await us... —Scott ( talk ) 06:06, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Attack of the Image Problems
Hey, take a look at Brool, and especially Image:Broolminstrel.jpg. It could be my computer, I suppose, but it's weird. Instead of a Muppet character, I get a video ad link, every time. It also only affects the current image, not the earlier revision. If it's just me, then I guess I need to look into something, but if it's Wikia, and it's happening on more than one page, it's a big issue. The image seems to vary from an annoying "Download smilies" to images of women's breasts, sometimes as video links. -- <font color="Blue">Andrew Leal (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 15:47, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, whatever it was, it seems fine now. I only hope it stays that way (I took screengrabs if it does turn out to be Wikia). -- <font color="Blue">Andrew Leal (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 15:54, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Aaaand it's back. Sometimes I'll get the regular image for a second, then it skips to the ad. I'm running my antivirus program again just in case it's my machine, but I'm not sure that could be the cause. -- <font color="Blue">Andrew Leal (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 15:59, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, I just ran AdAware, seems it was just really aggressive spyware. Sorry for the false alarm, but I admit, with some of the problems we've had with images lately, my first assumption was that someone hacked either into us or into Wikia (and since they added video ads on the side, I've been even more leery). -- <font color="Blue">Andrew Leal (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 16:58, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Glad you figured it out. I hate those video ads, too. —Scott ( talk ) 17:47, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Filmographies
Hey -- It looks like something happened to the div class="appear" tags... Check out the filmography on Beaker. Do you know what's up? -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 14:17, 7 October 2007 (UTC)


 * It looks okay to me. —Scott ( talk ) 15:17, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Composer Gallery
Hey, Scott! I enjoyed you're desicion of switching from the chart format to the gallery on the composer pages and the song pages for characters. -- Ernie and Jim 23:21, 4 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks, me too! I think it works out much better that way. —Scott ( talk ) 23:26, 4 October 2007 (UTC)


 * The Joe Raposo page looks teriffic compared to before. I included a couple of songs that weren't included before ,however I think if more songs will be added they might take too much room.Ernie and Jim 00:18, 5 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Ah, the more the merrier. That's what's nice about a wiki: it's not paper :) —Scott ( talk ) 00:47, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Questions
Hi, Scott! I've been looking at how the song pages link to the divide tags on the singles page, and I've noticed that sometimes the coding has underlines in between the words, and sometimes it doesn't. Is there a certain way we're supposed to be doing it?

Also, I noticed that Scotty J. was the person who did a lot of work with the records when you first started, but he hasn't been on here for almost a year. Do you still talk to him? -- <font color="Blue">Ken (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 05:27, 2 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah, if the anchor tags have an underscore in them, they should be used when linking to the page. Scotty J's around, he's just busy these days. —Scott ( talk ) 05:30, 2 October 2007 (UTC)