For the upcoming DVD and Blu-ray launch of The Muppets Disney has released a new promotional trailer that channels in more than a few ways another much-anticipated release, The Hunger Games.

You can check out the video here below.

I missed The Muppets in theaters last year so I’m anxious to catch the movie in the comfort of my own home. It’s good to hear that the big-screen comeback of Jim Henson‘s cherished creations did well enough at the box office for Disney to green-light a sequel, even though star/co-writer Jason Segel won’t be back next time due to a full dance card.

Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, of The Muppets fame, put every other celebrity couple to shame last night when they walked the Red Carpet at the 84th Annual Academy Awards in designer fashions.

We got a glimpse of the duo yesterday, but now Disney has released several backstage and Red Carpet images of the happy couple, who were at the awards ceremony in Hollywood because “Man or Muppet,” a song from their recent movie, was nominated for Best Original Song (which went on to win the category).

Check out all 15 images here below, along with more details on Kermit and Piggy’s fashions.

The Muppets hits DVD and Blu-ray on March 20, 2012 and is available for pre-order now.

Buzzfeed grabbed some screenshots of two of the best-dressed Academy Awards attendees on the Red Carpet tonight – The Muppets stars Kermit The Frog and Miss Piggy.

If you sat through E!’s super-early pre-Red Carpet coverage of the Oscars this afternoon, then you might have caught Kermit the Frog doing a duet with one of the guys from Glee on “Rainbow Connection.” In all honesty, sounded great.

You can’t blame the good people at Fox News for feeling the need to stir up some outrage; their relentless campaign of disinformation against President Obama has made them pariahs among more respectable news outlets and the current crop of Republican presidential candidates isn’t exactly inspiring confidence that the GOP will take back the White House this Fall (in a recent Fox News poll 44% of their viewers now believe that Obama would win a second term if either Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich were the 2012 Republican candidate for President).

One of the network’s favorite targets has always been “liberal” Hollywood and how they want to impose their debauched lifestyles and depraved beliefs on the fragile young mindsets of young Americans and lay waste to traditional family values in an apocalyptic fire of legalized abortion and medicinal marijuana. Most of the time certain outspoken celebrities give the fuming news drones at Fox plenty of fuel for their bilious fury, but then there are other times when it’s obvious that they’re just grasping at straws.

Here we go again, another design mashing something up with the Hypnotoad as if the world really needs anoth–ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOKERMIT!

The t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel is “Hypnokermit” which mashes up the Hypnotoad from Futurama with Kermit the Frog from The Muppets

The shirt, by AJ Paglia, went on sale at RIPT today, Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at midnight CST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it’s over, it will not be sold on the site anymore.