On this week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie, I finally get to talk about the Muppets.

Now, I have discussed  them in the past — The Muppet Christmas Carol comes up on Kristian Bruun’s holiday episode, and Paul Sun-hyung Lee and I tackled it on Jeremy LaLonde’s Black Hole Films episode about it almost a decade ago.*

But incredibly enough this is the first time I’ve dedicated an episode of my own show to a Muppet movie, and I’m very glad I got to do it with Nicole Bazuin, whose new movie Modern Whore does let star Andrea Werhun pull a couple of faces Miss Piggy would appreciate. (Modern Whore just came out on VOD, but the film has one more screening this Thursday night at the Lightbox — catch it with a crowd if you can.)

So have at it! Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice, or download the episode directly from the web and listen to it while pretending to be your identical twin brother to thwart Charles Grodin. We’ve all been there.

And then get caught up on your Shiny Thingses! Things were a little busy last week but I did have time to experience Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights”** and Albert Birney’s OBEX, both of which place us alongside their characters in fully realized artificial realities … though only one of them is actually, you know, good. And of course paid subscribers got my exclusive reviews of Obsession, The Wizard of the Kremlin and The Punisher: One Last Kill in Friday’s edition of What’s Worth Watching, so that was nice.

… what’s that? You didn’t get it? Perhaps you should upgrade your subscription! I mean, I’ve been asking you to for years at this point. Take the hint!

*speaking of Paul, by the time you read this I’ll have seen The Mandalorian and Grogu, in which I fully expect him to have a cameo. I’ll let you know as soon as I can.

**the quotes are not as much of an affectation as I expected