Agreed. He treated the muppets as fellow actors and it created a wonderful energy that still shines through all these years later.

There’s a few Scrooge movies I like to catch each year: Muppet Christmas Carol, Scrooged, and Spirited has joined the ranks recently. There’s one particular scene in that last one that absolutely horrifies me in the best way. They modernized a lot of it and made it more accessible to people who might otherwise see these concerns as outdated.

The bitch hit me with a toaster!

Check out spirited too!