Seminal Fashion Moment: Blondie on the Muppet Show, 1981

The road to rock 'n roll perfidy has to begin somewhere, and for me, it began in 1981 when I was a six-year old watching "The Muppet Show." I was insanely devoted to the show (as well as "Three's Company" and "Solid Gold," which kind of explains a lot about me.) But there's no episode I remember as well as the one where Blondie showed up to party with Kermit and company. She sang "Call Me" and "One Way or Another" and I just loved it so much, from her pink eyeshadow to her orange jumpsuit to helping the Frog Scouts get their punk merit badges. I kind of went nuts and began a campaign of intimidation and terror (okay: tantrums and whining) till my parents got me a record of Parallel Lines from some neighbor's garage sale. (I promptly smashed it with my bike by accident about two weeks later.) I'm sure some rock music historian will peg this as an example of the decline of punk, but whatever: everyone should get their punk merit badges, you know? The world would be a better place. Blondie got slagged for incorporating disco and rap into the lilly-white environs of punk music, so I'm sure a "real" punk would have been appalled to see a former CBGBs queen on a mainstream kids' show. But if you think about it: what's more punk than out-of-control six-year olds? Anyway, here's the goodness:

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