The Academy Is Foolish For Not Letting Jason Segel Perform His Muppets Song At The Oscars

Not only is it a crock that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences nominated only two songs for Best Song, but now Deadline reports that we won’t even get to see the songs performed at this year’s Oscars! The blame seems to have landed on the awards show’s time constraints; each year it’s a battle to keep it to a neat and hopefully entertaining three hours, and despite protests from Fox and Disney, the songs got cut.

Honestly, I don’t care either way if we see “Real in Rio” from Rio—the real crime is taking away “Man or Muppet” from The Muppets. It was written by Flight of the Conchords‘ Bret McKenzie and performed wonderfully by writer-star Jason Segel (not to mention the cameo from The Big Bang Theory‘s Jim Parsons). If we could get Zachary Levi and Mandy Moore onstage last year to sing their Tangled song, then we shouldn’t miss out on these relevant, genuinely beloved actors.

It’s no secret that Jason’s musical numbers are instant viral content, from his schadenfreude anthem “You Just Got Slapped” on How I Met Your Mother to the impromptu Les Miserables duet he and Neil Patrick Harris launched into on a talk show years ago. If the Academy wanted the Oscars fever to last beyond February 26, they should have included Jason, Jim, and those damn adorable puppets.

The Academy is trying to do damage control by saying that the show isn’t set in stone yet. “Someone ‘leaking’ this possibility to you is just another way for people to try and influence the creative direction of the show,” an insider wrote to Deadline. We only hope they’ll change their minds and book Jason before he finds something better to do.

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