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"Forget Divergent, The Hunger Games, and X-Men&amp;amp;#8212;The Muppets franchise is the one I really care about, and the second installment from the folks at Disney (Muppets Most Wanted, in theaters March 21), does not disappoint. I took to the red (why wasn&amp;#x27;t it green though?) carpet at last night&amp;#x27;s world premiere to find out what&amp;#x27;s been going on with Kermit, Miss Piggy, and friends! I brought my six-year-old cousin, Julian, to his first &amp;quot;red rug&amp;quot; (that&amp;#x27;s what he calls it!). Before the festivities got under way, he said to me, &amp;quot;Jessie, I&amp;#x27;ve never met a Muppet before, so I might get a little scared.&amp;quot; Aww...so sweet. Sweetums is always the first to arrive on a Muppets red carpet (he kicked off the festivities for The Muppets in 2011), but did you know his first appearance was in The Frog Prince special? And even though Sweetums is quite intimidating at first, he&amp;#x27;s probably the most gentle and, yes, sweet of the Muppets. Scooter, Animal, and Gonzo: Someone please tell me why we haven&amp;#x27;t used these as dog and cat names more often? Because Ty Burrell (who stars as Jean Pierre Napoleon in the movie) is a good family friend, I decided to have my cousin conduct the interview (that&amp;#x27;s perfectly acceptable, right? Right?). It went something like this: Glamour&amp;#x27;s Youngest Reporter: Ty, who is your favorite muppet? Ty Burrell: Well, don&amp;#x27;t tell Fozzie Bear this, but he used to be my favorite Muppet and now it&amp;#x27;s Sam the Eagle [Ty and Sam spend most of the movie in scenes with each other]. Glamour: What happened? Ty: Well, I still love Fozzie Bear because he&amp;#x27;s really funny... Glamour: I don&amp;#x27;t like when he says &amp;quot;Waka! Waka!&amp;quot; because the St. Louis Cardinals have a baseball player named Wacha [pitcher Michael Wacha], so it confuses me. Ty: [Laughing] Ahh, I see. Well said! Tina Fey joked that she&amp;#x27;d receive an Academy Award for &amp;quot;best actress in a drama for sure&amp;quot; as a Russian prison guard. All-American Rejects guitarist Nick Wheeler proudly showed off his Muppets tattoo on the red carpet. Now that is dedication. Wow. Ricky Gervais plays Mr. Badguy (that&amp;#x27;s Bad-gee in French!) in the film, but he couldn&amp;#x27;t have been nicer. Case in point? He was late to the after-party so he could find a group of fans who he promised a photo to prior to the premiere. Statler and Waldorf thrilled the crowd (which consisted of Muppets super fans Candace Cameron Bure, Josh Grobin, Alison Sweeney, and others) at Hollywood&amp;#x27;s famed El Capitan theater when they appeared in one of the balconies to introduce the movie. The after-party at nearby Hollywood and Highland paid homage to the movie&amp;#x27;s global tour theme and had cuisine from several different countries. (For those who were looking for the dessert bar, I apologize because my cousin pretty much ate all of it). This tiny Interpol car is a running joke in the film, and it was on display at the after-party. I kinda think I could get through L.A. traffic a lot easier with it. Julian and I caught up with Ty and his wife, Holli, at the after-party. Back in November when Ty and I went to St. Louis to catch a Rams game, I couldn&amp;#x27;t stop asking him about getting to work with the coolest cast in town. &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s crazy when you realize you&amp;#x27;re actually working with these things you grew up with,&amp;quot; he said of the Muppets. &amp;quot;It really influenced a lot of my childhood.&amp;quot; And that&amp;#x27;s all from the Muppets Most Wanted premiere! The movie is super cute and features so many awesome celeb cameos (I&amp;#x27;m not spilling&amp;amp;#8212;you gotta go see for yourself!), and one of the funniest scenes I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen with a Kermit look-alike and Miss Piggy. Muppets Most Wanted opens next Friday, March 21. I can&amp;#x27;t wait to hear what you guys think! Who&amp;#x27;s your favorite muppet?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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