Chuck

As a matter of fact, pause this.

Well, yeah. I think it actually is probably better received now than it was originally.

Well, yeah. I think it actually is probably better received now than it was originally.

Well, yeah. I think it actually is probably better received now than it was originally.

I think critics appreciated it, but it didn't do so well at the box office. But now it's become kind of a cult classic for sure. Yeah. And one of the reasons why... it didn't do that well at the box office because audiences didn't quite know what to make of it. They heard Frank Oz, who co-directed it, Jim Henson, and puppets, and I think they went expecting the Muppet movie. This is 1982.

I think critics appreciated it, but it didn't do so well at the box office. But now it's become kind of a cult classic for sure. Yeah. And one of the reasons why... it didn't do that well at the box office because audiences didn't quite know what to make of it. They heard Frank Oz, who co-directed it, Jim Henson, and puppets, and I think they went expecting the Muppet movie. This is 1982.

I think critics appreciated it, but it didn't do so well at the box office. But now it's become kind of a cult classic for sure. Yeah. And one of the reasons why... it didn't do that well at the box office because audiences didn't quite know what to make of it. They heard Frank Oz, who co-directed it, Jim Henson, and puppets, and I think they went expecting the Muppet movie. This is 1982.

And they got the Dark Crystal instead, which is really dark. Yeah. The theme is good versus evil, and the evil in it is really, really evil. And the stuff that happens to some of the puppets, including really cute puppets, is really horrifying. And I read this awesome quote recently. By Frank Oz, and basically he says, like, Jim thought it was okay to scare kids.

And they got the Dark Crystal instead, which is really dark. Yeah. The theme is good versus evil, and the evil in it is really, really evil. And the stuff that happens to some of the puppets, including really cute puppets, is really horrifying. And I read this awesome quote recently. By Frank Oz, and basically he says, like, Jim thought it was okay to scare kids.

And they got the Dark Crystal instead, which is really dark. Yeah. The theme is good versus evil, and the evil in it is really, really evil. And the stuff that happens to some of the puppets, including really cute puppets, is really horrifying. And I read this awesome quote recently. By Frank Oz, and basically he says, like, Jim thought it was okay to scare kids.

As a matter of fact, he thought it wasn't healthy for kids to never be scared.

As a matter of fact, he thought it wasn't healthy for kids to never be scared.

As a matter of fact, he thought it wasn't healthy for kids to never be scared.

So, like, he purposefully was trying to scare kids, and he wanted to take the tradition back to, like, grim fairy tales, which were very, very dark and graphic. Oh, yeah, that's a good point. That's what he was going for with The Dark Crystal.

So, like, he purposefully was trying to scare kids, and he wanted to take the tradition back to, like, grim fairy tales, which were very, very dark and graphic. Oh, yeah, that's a good point. That's what he was going for with The Dark Crystal.

So, like, he purposefully was trying to scare kids, and he wanted to take the tradition back to, like, grim fairy tales, which were very, very dark and graphic. Oh, yeah, that's a good point. That's what he was going for with The Dark Crystal.

Oh, okay.

Oh, okay.

Oh, okay.

And he still had a lot of cred, even in the late 80s. If you think about it, his heyday was the late 70s, early 80s with the Muppet show, the Muppet movies. And then after that, it was like, yeah, I'll try this with Jim Henson. I'll try this with Jim Henson. And even still, he was on a pretty great streak And at the end of the 80s, he had two TV shows on, The Jim Henson Hour and The Storyteller.