Yesterday, the world learned the sad news that the great Texas character actor, Dabney Coleman, had passed away at the age of 93.

Today’s scene that I love comes from 1984’s The Muppets Take Manhattan.  In this scene, the Muppets try to sell Coleman on their idea for a musical.  Coleman, meanwhile, does his best to cheat the Muppets out of all of their money.  It takes a truly great actor to give a convincing performance while acting opposite a very large group of puppets.

(I mean, we all know Kermit’s real but I’m pretty sure that the rest of them are puppets….)