The Muppets has a new trailer out, and it’s pretty much two and a half minutes of sunshine and Beach Boys songs and Baby Goose knitting a scorpion jacket for Patches. Nothing against CGI, and there are plenty of CG-animated movies I love (most of the Pixar catalog), but for sheer cuddliness it still can’t touch puppets. There’s just something inexplicably endearing about them. I’m convinced there’s some correlation between tactile fuzziness and empathy that can explain our love of muppets, puppies, and Robin Williams’ career.

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One of the true joys of a new Muppets movie in this Internet age is that we were bound to be flooded either with new awesome videos or simply reminded of their old spectacular work. Either way, we win. But thankfully those lovable hand puppets have been hitting us hard with new parody marketing for The Muppets, which hits theaters on November 23rd. First we were treated to Muppet parodies of The Hangover 2 and The Green Lantern. Now, it’s Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

The Muppets stars Jason Segel and Amy Adams as a couple that helps Kermit the Frog reunite the Muppets to host a telethon to save the Muppet Theater, which is going to be destroyed by oil man Chris Cooper. Honestly, it could be about Waldorf and Statler trying on Depends while debating euthanasia and it would probably still be awesome. In fact, yes, I would watch that.

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What’s green and slimy and smells like bacon?  Why Kermit the Frog’s finger, of course.  Anyway, after a few fictional, movie-within-a-movie type trailers, The Muppets has an official trailer.  Starring Jason Segel and Amy Adams, directed by James Bobin (Flight of the Conchords, Da Ali G Show) and written by Jason Segel and Nick Stoller, it opens November 23rd.  Naturally, my favorite part was Fozzy showing off his “fart shoes.”  I’m a simple man.

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Hot off the release of their “Being Green” teaser (a sort of fictional faux rom-com), the marketing team for The Muppets has just released a new teaser, focusing more on the actual muppets.  This one’s called “The Fuzzy Pack,” presumably a play on The Hangover‘s “Wolf Pack” campaign.  Once again, the producers have done a brilliant job combining things that I love, in this case, namely, muppets and Danny Trejo. Chingón, guey, it must be my lucky day. Although this role might be a stretch for Trejo.  He’s a solid actor, I’m just not sure he has the versatility to pull off “convict.”

“Mira, Frog, ju theenk you’re the only one who’s had a feest up hees culo? Welcome to prison ése.”

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The Muppets opens in November, and stars Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, plus rumored cameos from pretty much every actor you’ve ever heard of, with James Bobin directing a script by Jason Segel and Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nick Stoller. And now there’s a trailer, yay!

On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world’s biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets’ former stomping grounds. To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate.

I could try to put my reaction to this teaser into words, but I think Tom Brady on a waterslide sums it up nicely:

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