The Muppets Take Tarantino

4 May 2007 | Community, Culture, Internet, Media, TV & Movies | Comments

Nanette, a colleague of mine, happened upon a hysterical Muppet version of Pulp Fiction.

In addition to sheer humor, this is also significant as an example of what Henry Jenkins calls “participatory culture.” The internet empowers a casual version of this sort of revisioning, but even before the spread of cheap bandwidth and videotools this was happening. The first famous example I can recall is “Star Wars: The Phantom Edit.” Can anybody else think of pre 2000 examples that caught fire?