Muppet News Flash

Noun

Muppet News Flash (plural Muppet News Flashes)

1. (informal) Used ironically to introduce a sobering truth.
   • Well, I got a Muppet News Flash for you, pal; it is possible for a three-year-old girl who loves to watch ducks and collect sea shells to feel bad, and then a bit worse, and then a whole helluva lot worse, and finally lousy in a way that requires machines and tubes and pills and catheters and...1999, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 96, Fantasy House, page 151
   • Many horror writers cry that it’s the Curse of Categorization that keeps horror trapped in the literary cellar, and readily point to the publishers on whom they are all too willing to lay blame. Here’s a Muppet News Flash: it isn’t only publishers who categorize our fiction; it’s also the readers...2010 December 13, Gary A. Braunbeck, To Each Their Darkness, Smashwords, unpaged