Gig mates in puppet wrangle

American bands Weezer and Saves the Day are in a mini-wrangle over the similarity of their forthcoming videos. Weezer will promote their forthcoming release ‘Keep Fishin' with a video starring Jim Henson's Muppets. Saves The Day, meanwhile, have a video made for their second single ‘Freakish’ featuring – yep, you got it - a cast of Muppetesque puppets. The video coincidence comes shortly after a Weezer tour where Saves the Day were support - members of the latter claim they told Weezer about their video at the time. "We were just kind of surprised and thought, 'How'd that happen?'" Saves The Day bassist Eben D'Amico told reporters. "Our immediate reaction was, 'Oh no, that kind of sucks.' I hope people don't ignore our video now, because we were really excited about it. But I think they're probably both good and unique videos that have their own things going for them, Muppets or no Muppets." But Weezer say the similarities are definitely coincidental. "Of every video we've ever made, this is the one we've had the least to do with," frontman Rivers Cuomo says. "We wanted to hand the responsibility for videos over to someone else and see if they could do something cool. I didn't have anything to do with devising the video … I just showed up and pretended I was singing." Meanwhile the President of the Jim Henson Company says Marcos Siega, the director of the ‘Keep Fishin' video approached the studio about the concept of using the Muppets long before the Saves the Day clip was shot.”