Muppets Most Wanted, or Miss Piggy Most FLAUNTED?! (What? Nevermind.) This week we’re chatting about Ricky Gervais, Russian gulags, Miss Piggy’s incredible wardrobe, Animal, and the power of a tiny pot of green makeup! How many guest stars can *you* count? How many oinks (tails? snouts? hooves? how are we measuring these again??) will Abi and Jas give this film? You better grab that ink and quill, it’s time for another letter!! to!! Miss!!! PIGGY !!!! (it’s the title of the show, ya dig?)

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Celine Dion duet

Choose Film Podcast, (Knives Out episode STARRING OUR VERY OWN JAS!!!)

Cockatoo in Malibu!

Montreal Gazette, Miss Piggy on Celine Dion

Vulture: Muppets Most Wanted Celebrity Cameos

Following on from our career episode, we’ve got a special recording for you this week! It’s time for ~*~ FEMINISM ~*~ babyyyy!! This episode is a bit of a wild ride - Jas & Abi chat about the Sackler Centre First Award, our ever-changing /opinions/ on feminism, being “bossy,” and much, much more!! Get out your letter opener and prepare for lots of celebrity name-dropping, this one’s a real treat!

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Interview in Time Magazine about Miss Piggy and Feminism

Article in Vice about “the coolest pig in feminism”

Miss Piggy & Kermit on MTV

Miss Piggy says she’s NOT a feminist?! (in 2014)

Did you ever wonder about Miss Piggy and her many gigs? Ever sit and think about the career path of a feminist icon? Ever wish you could know what it would be like if that icon won a feminist award and then spoke to Gloria Steinem?? Yeah- us too! That’s why this episode is about all things ~career~ when it comes to OUR GAL!!!! have a listen & BE MORE PIG!!!!

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Interview from Collider about Muppets Now

Muppets Tonight! - Miss Piggy’s infomercials joke

Miss Piggy’s Movie Star Secrets

JUST BE MISS PIGGY! A surprise song!

This week, Abi & Jas talk the OG Classic: 1979’s The Muppet Movie. We cover all the good F’s: Fashion, Flirting, First Dates and… Favourite Jokes?! AND of course, we take an in-depth look at Miss Piggy in all her pageant-winning, commercial-booking, karate-kicking glory. Whether you’ve watched the movie or not, this one will give you some of that sweet, sweet electric mayhem!!

PS. Again, Guy, we do NOT hate Kermit!!!

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A love song for the ages!

Frog legs?

It’s time for the Flirting, the Fashion, the… Feel-good antics of The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show (1982)!! Abi and Jas talk through all the Fun and Frivolousness of this Fabulous show (can you tell the letter F will feature heavily?). We get at the good (calendar song: It’s me!!), the bad (that tan??), and the ugly (Tony Clifton?!). Watch along with us if you dare!!!!

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The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show

Scene from Muppet Treasure Island

The Muppet Show is out on Disney Plus, and we’re buzzing! All those opportunities to see our girl in ACTION - and by action we mean flirting!! This episode is all about Miss Piggy’s very early years of courtship and flirty fun. We chat names big and small, star signs, dead celebrities, styles of flirting, flirting while fat and much, much more in this alluring episode!!

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Danny Kaye and Miss Piggy, S3 E16

Top Hat (1935) with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

Special Link:

Ciate London’s Miss Piggy (referral code)

Miss Piggy didn’t always have her iconic voice - in fact she wasn’t even originally voiced by Frank Oz! Tune in for more fun facts and  some deeply relatable content about our favourite gal’s evolution, *her* favourite accessory (hint: FEATHERS!!), and lots, lots more in this episode all about Vintage Miss Piggy!!

SWAK!!

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Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass

Planet of the Pigs

Parkinson

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Jezebel, History of the feather boa

Susan Sontag, Notes on Camp

Interview with Lesley Salisbury

The Muppet Show debuted with a Valentine’s Day special back in 1974, and so shall this pod debut with a Galentine’s Day special, right now, in 2021! From Miss Piggy’s celebrity pals of the past, to her tight knit circle of divas in Muppets Now, to her intimate relationship with her very own creator, Jas & Abi chat all things FRIENDSHIP among gals!!  (spoilers: Joan Rivers AND Linda Cardellini!!!)

Consider this episode a sweet lil galentine to our very favourite pig!! <3 

XOXOink!!

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Now introducing: Letters to Miss Piggy, the only podcast that lets you INSIDE the envelope!! Join us (fabulous intercontinental fat pals Abi & Jas) as we write a series of loving screeds to public figure, swine extraordinaire, and Junior Miss Corn Pageant runner-up, Miss Piggy. 

Each episode, we'll talk about - and to -  the pig herself across a series of themes and throughout the ages, looking at clips, articles, interviews, AND MORE!! Whether you have an encyclopaedic knowledge of Muppets history or simply a passing interest in why Piggy wears pearls, this is the show for you.

Our first episode comes out 13th February; please address paper RSVPs to @LettersToMissPiggy on Instagram. We can't wait to see you then!!

Love and Kisses,

Jas & Abi

xoxo

PS: big love and respect to Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Henson Studios, and Disney for the canon of fabulous content & truly, for creating this icon in the first place!