It’s time to play the music. It’s time to light the lights. It’s time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight. Whether or not you were a child of the 70s and 80s, you know the opening lyrics for the Muppet Show theme. You know Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, Waldorf and Statler, Miss Piggy and Gonzo. The conflicts on the weekly variety show airing in the late 1970s were the stuff of legend for kids growing up at that time. What can we learn from these puppets who showed us how to be better and worse and everything in between?
Influencing policy (training slides from Fast Track Impact)
All I Ever Needed to Know About Social Media I Learned from the Muppets - #psusocial edition
1. Tonya Oaks Smith
James Montgomery Flagg, via Wikimedia Commons
All I Ever Needed to Know About Social Media
I Learned from the Muppets
#PSUsocial
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Tonya Oaks Smith
2. Shari Erwin,Aaron Rester, and Tonya Oaks Smith
It’s time to play
the music.
It’s time to light
the lights.
It’s time to
meet the
Muppets…
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11. Shari Erwin,Aaron Rester, and Tonya Oaks Smith#PSUsocial
Don’t be a downer
hitfix.com/comedy/10-halloween-costumes-from-the-saturday-night-live-archives
12. There’s Life Beyond
the Four-Year University
Shari Erwin,Aaron Rester, and Tonya Oaks Smith#PSUsocial
Enthusiasm is excellent
youtube.com/watch?v=KlJM4UhbQ7A
13. There’s Life Beyond
the Four-Year University
Shari Erwin,Aaron Rester, and Tonya Oaks Smith#PSUsocial
Nerds like us are allowed to be
unironically enthusiastic about
stuff… Nerds are allowed to love
stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-
the-chair-can’t-control-yourself
love it. When people call people
nerds, mostly what they’re
saying is “you like stuff.”
- John Green
14. Little people are important
#PSUsocial fandango.com/movie-news/15-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-muppets-747498
15. Little people are important
#PSUsocial flickr.com/photos/themadwifey/3315718162
16. Winning takes a team
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adventuresofalostboy.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/
muppet-mayhem-part-1-the-muppet-movie/
20. Conceal your flaws by
sucker punching
anyone who has the
audacity to mention
them.
- Miss Piggy
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21. There will be trolls
flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/8234189233/#PSUsocial
22. There’s Life Beyond
the Four-Year University
Shari Erwin,Aaron Rester, and Tonya Oaks Smith
Statler: I’m Statler.
Waldorf: I’m Waldorf.
We’re here to heckle “The
Muppet Movie.”
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23. Weird can work
#PSUsocial themuppetmindset.blogspot.com/2011/09/
weekly-muppet-wednesdays-gonzo-great.html
24. There’s Life Beyond
the Four-Year University
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Gonzo: I want to go to Bombay,
India and become a movie star.
Fozzie: You don't go to Bombay to
become a movie star! You go
where we're going: Hollywood.
Gonzo: Sure, if you want to do it
the easy way.
26. Humans make the show
npr.org/2011/11/21/142509532/for-muppeteers-it-isnt-easy-being-invisible#PSUsocial
27. There’s Life Beyond
the Four-Year University
Shari Erwin,Aaron Rester, and Tonya Oaks Smith
Please watch out for each
other and love and forgive
everybody. It’s a good life,
enjoy it.
- Jim Henson
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28. There’s Life Beyond
the Four-Year University
Shari Erwin,Aaron Rester, and Tonya Oaks Smith
Life’s like a movie.
Write your own ending…
- The Muppet Movie
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