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Ken Plume
@kenplume.bsky.social
I write, do interviews, host podcasts, produce, & other stuff.

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The opening of the first PBS (then NET) episode of MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD from 1968...
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Do they still need me to check in on FourSquare?
August 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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The single Late Night With Conan O’Brien bit that I contend best exemplifies and crystallizes the brilliantly absurdist comedic sensibility he fostered…
November 17, 2024 at 1:25 AM
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From that time you could see me on CONAN and, because I've been on too many amusement park rides, I found my eyeline to camera for my patented audience member reactions (never look at the monitor or the action - FIND YOUR MOMENT TO SHINE)...
November 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Conan O’Brien & @andyrichter.co - The Galaxy’s Best Bounty Hunters…
December 8, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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There's a special charm to all of this, but it ends with Frank Oz bringing a delightful bit of Muppet character chaos in Cookie Monster's interaction with Arthur Fiedler... (2/2)
November 8, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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More from Sesame Street at the Boston Pops in 1971. The escalation of the comedy business in Frank Oz’s performance is sublime, and fully rooted in character (note the little rhythmic dance that Cookie Monster does right before he dives back into the comic business)... (1/2)
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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DANCETIME.
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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And there are few things as intensely beautiful as James Earl Jones counting to 10 on SESAME STREET and then breaking…
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Speaking of old school SESAME STREET, there are few things as beautifully intense as James Earl Jones reciting the alphabet…
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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There are a lot of fantastic moments from the criminally-overlooked SUPERMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, but this bit from the "World's Finest" team-up with Batman delivers not only an iconic @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Joker end, but also proof that Batman has a killer wit colder than Victor Fries.
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Periodically, this @pftompkins.bsky.social bit about the quality clientele he would encounter during his time working at a novelty hat shop will bubble up in my brain and then, having delighted me once again, will recede into the depths to await its next surprise visit...
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Astonishingly, the ZELDA game franchise somehow managed to survive this launch...
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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I was already feeling old watching this, but then I realized paperboys are now as antiquated a job as milkmen...
November 9, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Periodically, this @pftompkins.bsky.social bit about the quality clientele he would encounter during his time working at a novelty hat shop will bubble up in my brain and then, having delighted me once again, will recede into the depths to await its next surprise visit...
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
DANCETIME.
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Astonishingly, the ZELDA game franchise somehow managed to survive this launch...
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I was already feeling old watching this, but then I realized paperboys are now as antiquated a job as milkmen...
November 9, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Speaking of old school SESAME STREET, there are few things as beautifully intense as James Earl Jones reciting the alphabet…
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Jim Henson & Frank Oz performed many double acts together, but here's a two-hander w/ Kermit & Grover that’s straight out of vaudeville. The timing puts Swiss clockwork to shame,& their interplay is incredibly kinetic, expertly delivering a lesson w/in the comedy. Jim’s timing at the end? Priceless.
October 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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This promotional film for ESSO's Flying A stations even manages to work in a little bit of animation via a trademark Muppet ending...
October 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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I’ve mentioned it before, but I absolutely love Jim Henson’s corporate films from the 60s. Much like Stan Freberg’s innovative pieces of the same period, Henson’s team had no qualms about going with weird, wonderful concepts that would have stuck out amongst its competition...
October 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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From 1975, Cindy Williams auditioning for the role of Princess Leia with Frederic Forrest as Han Solo...
October 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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And here's an alternate alternate STAR WARS universe where Kurt Russell
and William Katt were Luke Skywalker and Han Solo…
October 29, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Here's an alternate STAR WARS universe where Kurt Russell and William Katt were Han Solo and Luke Skywalker...
October 29, 2025 at 4:21 AM