Sometimes when you don’t actually get nominated for Academy Awards, I guess you take things into your own hands. Your own hairy/furry/felty/fleecy hands. Sometimes with rods in them. So our friends at the Muppet fan site Tough Pigs have decided to do just that. Where 2014’s “Muppets Most Wanted” and “I Am Big Bird” didn’t get any Oscar love (not even Oscar the Grouch for “I Am Big Bird,” which is just sad), the gang at Tough Pigs are making their own awards show.
Named after Big Bird’s used-to-be-imaginary friend, who’s amazing and loveable and a little creepy, but the eyelashes win me over, and if I ever found one, I would fit him with a saddle and ride him like Battle Cat, the Snuffys (Snuffleupaguses for not-short) are awards that you can vote for.
They have all the “normal” categories you would expect from a Muppety awards show, like “Best Performance By a Muppet,” and “Best Feature Performance by a Human.” So you can vote for Kermit the Frog or Constantine or Fozzie Bear or Miss Piggy or Walter or Tina Fey or Ty Burrell or Ricky Gervais or Ross Lynch. But they also have categories like “Best Performances by Muppet Actor/Actress in non-Muppet Movie,” and “Best Performance by an Anthropomorphic Animal in a Non-Muppet Movie.”
Basically, just go over there and vote. It’s fun, and funny, and if you haven’t seen “Muppets Most Wanted,” you really the hell need to. It’s one of the funniest Muppet movies ever, and even though it underperformed at the box office, I don’t give a hoot. It made me laugh. And at least one of those songs should have been nominated. For reals.