Alicia I love this movie so much

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Haifis This story follows the lives of the four characters: Leroy the lazy donkey. T.R. the terrified rooster. Rover Joe, the old hound dog. And Catgut, the throaty singing cat.Leroy is owned by a Louisiana bayou-dwelling redneck by the name of Mordecai Sledge. In addition to being a farmer, Mordecai has another shady occupation: He is also a robber and he leads a gang of thieves.When a burglary goes wrong and the gang winds up with a bag of musical instruments instead of jewels, Mordecai blames Leroy and pulls out a shotgun. Leroy takes off with a tuba around his neck. (Known as a "devilhorn" to Mordecai.) Kermit the frog instructs Leroy how to play the tuba. Leroy decides to become a traveling musician.Next potential musician is T.R. which stands for Terrified Rooster. He is owned by an abusive and morbidly obese farmer known only as Old man Lardpork. Lardpork is furious that T.R. forgot to wake him up one morning. When T.R. makes a fresh comment about Lardpork's weight and causes Lardpork to drop his sandwich, it all hits the fan. Lardpork threatens to kill T.R. which causes the rooster to run away. On T.R.'s way out, he runs into Leroy. T.R. learns how to play the banjo.The third musical critter is Rover Joe, an aging bloodhound. Rover Joe is owned by a very nervous hillbilly named Mean Floyd. One night, Mean Floyd succumbs to paranoia and is convinced there are ghosts in his home. "Ghosts are coming out of the ground! I can hear 'em breathing! There's a ghost!" When Mean Floyd finds out the supposed ghost is none other than Rover Joe, he becomes furious and throws the poor dog out the window, causing the glass to shatter. Leroy and T.R. find Rover Joe and take him under their wing. Rover Joe learns how to play the trombone.The last is Catgut, a pretty female cat with long lashes with a raspy voice much like Carol Channing. Catgut was owned by a crotchety elderly man Caleb Stiles who lives in a big house. When Catgut refuses to kill the rats in the pantry, Caleb tosses her out of his home.Catgut joins the band and becomes the trumpet player.But then the four animals run into their owners again........what will happen? I'll let you see. Trust me, this is a great film! You will love it even if you are an adult like me!

MisterWhiplash I can't remember for the life of me how I saw this special. I think Nickelodeon used to show some old muppet specials on during the day or as special events (they also played the Muppet Show for a while I believe). I remember this clearly as Kermit the frog appears briefly at the start, and talks to a donkey who's on his way to "fame, fortune, and gogolala" (that last part isn't entirely correct quote, but it's close). For kids, it's an entertaining slice of obscure muppet-mania, as there is a host of regular farm-like muppets (not the usual assortment, so try not to be too disappointed by that), loaded with songs and some morals too with the story. It's also very 'old-school' as a TV production, but with the skill and charm that we all know and love from director Henson and writer Jerry Juhl. If you're a parent and you can find a copy- and have the courage to show it to such a child who didn't grow up properly on most puppets (save, hopefully, for Sesame Street)- it's worth a shot, and I'm sure it'll be a good collectible for Muppet fanatics.

T.S. Hunter Not sure why this one went out of print. In my opinion, this is the funniest thing to come out of Jim Henson's workshop. When I was a kid, it kept me and my brothers and sisters cracking up from start to finish. One line that was memorable and made us laugh till our sides hurt was when the man said to the donkey, "Le-roy! It's all yoooooure fault!" You have to see it to know what I mean. Hopefully this will someday come back in print. This is probably just a cult sort of thing, though; I grew up with the Muppet Show and the Muppet Movies.

dootuss I felt very compelled to reading the first commentary about this Muppet special. While it wasn't as good as the other "Tales from Muppetland" specials, it was pretty good. It had puppeteering, full body characters, and something I never noticed on any Muppet program marionettes. Maybe I saw it before somewhere, I don't know. But still, this was a great special.