Miss Piggy – A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa

John Denver and The Muppets: “A Christmas Together” is still one of my favorite Christmas albums, and the album and TV special are part of my fondest memories as a child. So it was delightful to see this memory from Miss Piggy on Monsters and Critics during an interview about the new Muppet Christmas special on NBC Wednesday, December 17, 2008, at 8:00 p.m. (tomorrow).

April MacIntyre’s Miss Piggy interview: NBC’s A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa

What’s your fondest memory of past Christmases?

Miss Piggy: My fondest memory? Let’s see, you know, it might’ve been sitting around a campfire with my Kermie and John Denver…
Yes. And he was a very special friend to all of us. And we just sang Christmas songs together and it was wonderful. It was cold outside but we had the fire and we had our body warmth…which I shared with Kermie.

Who do you think is the most beautiful female celebrity currently?

Miss Piggy: Besides moi?

Yes, that you would give props to.

Miss Piggy: Okay. Of course, the assumption has to be made. Let’s see, well, you know, we have many beautiful, talented actresses that I handpicked to costar in the Christmas special with moi.

Just to name a few: Uma Thurman, yes – you might have heard of her?

You have Petra Nemcova and Uma Thurman appearing with you on your special.

Miss Piggy: Yes, Petra Nemcova – yeah, exactly. Her and Jane Krakowski, yes, and Whoopi Goldberg. Yes, all of them. Yeah, I handpicked them myself because I find that they are beautiful people both on the inside and the out, but not nearly as beautiful as moi.

Don’t Attack My President

Yeah, I can’t stand Bush the man or his presidency. And I consider myself a liberal. But I am an American, and I do not appreciate anyone throwing a shoe at my president. And I don’t appreciate my friends on the Left laughing about it.

It took me about half a day after seeing the footage to reach this conclusion. At first I found it funny just because of the sheer farce of it, of course. And I share Conan O’Brien’s impression that Bush was fast at dodging the tossed object. But I am an American, and I am alarmed when the leader of my country is physically attacked.

What really has bothered me was the second shoe. How did this guy ever throw out a second shoe? He should have been flattened to the ground immediately and arrested.

I’ve learned not to speek too much about things I can’t really understand (not exactly a Blogger’s manifesto, huh?). I don’t know what it was like for our Secret Service or how they were limited in their ability to protect him, so I will not presume to know how to better do their job. But as an American who is about to entrust the Secret Service with a new president who makes an attractive target to a racist nutjob, I hope they have everything under control.