Did You Know: The Muppet Show episode 221 partly rewrote the famous Buffalo Springfield song For What Its Worth (Stop, Children, Whats That Sound) to be an Anti-hunting song. The song is performed by forest animal Muppets, who are periodically interrupted by rampaging human game hunter Muppets. Hunting Community Response: This segment provoked an article in Field & Stream (June 1978). In How to Raise Hell, writer Richard L. Hall expresses his displeasure, but only speaks in passing of the Muppet animals singing a once popular rock song. Instead, his concern is with the Muppet hunters, including the joke in which they brag about hitting vehicles, and when the program ended a few minutes later with a deranged fuzz-ball screaming Bunny rabbit! Bunny rabbit! and shooting the hell out of everything, I was about ready to boot the tube. Hall then advises a letter campaign, while noting it has to be more careful and polite than firing off a letter to the Muppets saying that Kermit the Frog and Company are full of fertilizer. He suggests targeting the sponsor, and reprints one response from the CEO of Chart House restaurants, who says he is unaware of their sponsoring any such program but assures Hall that he understands the need to harvest wildlife and that he would not be a part of a propaganda campaign using the tactics you mentioned (on The Muppet Show).
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 06:24:10 +0000
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