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Muppet Classic Theater (also known as Muppet Family Theater in the Republic of Ireland and Muppet Fairy Tales in the United Kingdom) is a direct-to-video musical comedy film featuring The Muppets. It is the first direct-to-video feature film in The Muppets franchise .
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Jim Lewis is a former Jim Henson Company staff writer with a wide variety of writing and production credits.
Lewis first worked with the Muppets as the editor of Muppet Magazine, having previously worked as a staff writer for Children's Television Workshop's Enter magazine. His first actual production was the 1988 direct-to-video Hey, You're as Funny as Fozzie Bear.
As is the case with fellow Muppet writer Craig Shemin, the credited work of Jim Lewis represents the tip of the iceberg of his true contributions. From the late 1980s through 2004, Lewis was the Muppets' primary in-house writer, contributing to countless interviews, promotional material and Muppet appearances. He was responsible for a large amount of web content and a great many of the press quotes attributed to the Muppets, and he also wrote much of the Gonzo, Rizzo, and Kermit material on the Muppets from Space DVD commentary. In this capacity, Jim Lewis contributed a great deal to maintaining the tone and consistency of the Muppet characters in the years since Jim Henson's death.
One classic example of his work was Kermit the Frog's 2002 acceptance speech on receiving a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame:
The 2006 book release of Before You Leap, which was "written" by Kermit the Frog, was actually penned by Lewis. Lewis also penned Pepe the King Prawn's 2008 book It's Hard Out Here for a Shrimp.
Although credited as co-producer of Muppets Tonight, according to Lewis,
•••Miss Piggy's Hollywood for The Jim Henson Hour (with Bill Prady)
•••Muppet Classic Theater (with Bill Prady)
•"She Drives Me Crazy" (parody lyrics for Kermit Unpigged)
•••Muppets Tonight (also producer)
••Kermit's Swamp Years (with Joey Mazzarino)
••The Muppet Show Live (with Craig Shemin)
1.Below the Frame Episode #9
2.Lewis, Jim The Muppet Newsflash interview
3.Lewis, Jim, Muppet Central Form: "The Brand New Ask Jim Lewis Thread," September 2008.
4.Fairclough, Jarrod, "Jim Lewis: An Exit Interview," Tough Pigs, October 3, 2022.
5.Hill, Jim, "WDW's new "The Muppets Present … Great Moments in American History" show brings authentic Muppet mayhem to Liberty Square," The Huffington Post, November 9, 2016.
6.Podcast Transcription – The Muppets Mayhem: Backstage Pass – “We Will Rock You”
Writer Jim Lewis puppeteered the clarinetist penguin shown during the opening scenes of the video. The European releases of the production, retitled "Muppet Fairy Tales," presented it as a two-part video (each containing three stories).
Sep 27, 1994 · Written by Jim Lewis and Bill Prady, each story also features an original song. Gonzo and Rizzo host a presentation in the Muppet Theater of six fairy tales performed by the Muppets. Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Robin the Frog, Gonzo and Rizzo star in the various stories.
The Sesame Street Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson, many for the purpose of appearing on the children's television program Sesame Street.
The Muppets perform six classic fairy tales: Three Little Pigs, King Midas' Golden Touch, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Rumpelstiltskin, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Elves and the Shoemaker. Hosted by Gonzo and Rizzo the Rat. Director. David Grossman. Writers. Jim Lewis. Bill Prady. Stars. Dave Goelz. Jerry Nelson. Steve Whitmire.
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