The Muppets | Disney The Muppets Mickey Moose The Muppets Kermit the Frog is at wit's end backstage when he has to deal with a moose named Mickey. The Great Muppet Caper: Hey, a Movie! The Great Muppet Caper Investigative reporters Kermit, Fozzie, and Gonzo are out to solve the crime of the century in this song-filled, star-studded extravaganza. The Muppet Movie After a fateful meeting with a big-time talent agent, Kermit the Frog heads for Hollywood dreaming of showbiz. Along the way, Fozzie Bear, the Great Gonzo, and the dazzling Miss Piggy join him in hopes of becoming film stars too. But all bets are off when Kermit falls into the clutches of Doc Hopper, a fast-food mogul seeking to promote his French-fried frog-leg franchise! The Great Muppet Caper Lady Holiday is a high-fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace has been stolen. But when Kermit mistakes Miss Piggy for her, it's love at first sight. Unfortunately, Lady Holiday's scheming brother is also wooing the sultry swine so he can frame her for another brazen jewel heist!

Now it's up to Kermit and his Muppet pals to clear Piggy's name and catch the real culprits. The Muppet Show (TV Series 1976–1981) - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 4:34 PM, UTC NEWS There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Kermit the Frog and his friends struggle to put on a weekly variety show. Creator: There's no show today, almost; the theater is turned into a dance marathon hosted by Gonzo. 8.8 Danny Kaye finds his gig on the show rather discouraging considering Statler and Waldorf are sitting outside rather than see the guest star. 8.6 In honor of guest star Vincent Price, the show is filled with monsters, ghosts, vampires and spooky sketches. Meanwhile, a three-headed monster tries to audition for Kermit.

8.6 Florence Henderson, 'The Brady Bunch' Actress, Dead at 82 25 November 2016 6:10 AM, -08:00 | Rollingstone.com a list of 31 titles created 02 Jan 2013 a list of 48 titles created 24 Sep 2014 a list of 22 titles created 07 Jan 2016 a list of 22 titles created 11 months ago a list of 42 titles created 2 months ago Title: The Muppet Show (1976–1981) 8.5/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 4 Primetime Emmys. Another 8 wins & 25 nominations. See more awards » Videos Sesame Street (TV Series 1969) Animation | Comedy | Family On a special inner city street, the inhabitants, both human and puppet, teach preschool subjects with comedy, cartoons, games and songs.

Stars: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Caroll Spinney Kermit the Frog , Clifford and friends struggle to put on a weekly TV variety show. Stars: Dave Goelz, Kevin Clash, Jerry Nelson Kermit and his new found friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog-legs merchant is after Kermit. Director: James Frawley A curious young hand puppet named Oobi encourages logical thinking. Along with his little sister Uma, best friend Kako and grandfather Grampu, Oobi discovers the outside world in a new way each day. Stars: Tim Lagasse, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Noel MacNeal The adventures of the various inhabitants of an underground civilization. Stars: Karen Prell, Gerard Parkes, Kathryn Mullen Kermit and his friends go to New York to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated. Director: Frank Oz Kermit, Gonzo and Fozzie are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy. Director: Jim Henson Gonzo is contacted by his alien family through his breakfast cereal.

He is kidnapped and it's up to Kermit and the gang to rescue Gonzo and help reunite him with his long-lost family. Director: Tim Hill A Muppet fanatic with some help from his two human compatriots must regroup the Muppet gang to stop an avaricious oil mogul from taking down one of their precious life-longing treasures. Director: James Bobin The Muppets' twist on the classic tale. Director: Brian Henson While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick. Director: James Bobin The Muppets Valentine show was the first of the two specials for The Muppet Show. Valentine on ABC in 1974. Director: Jim Henson Edit Storyline Kermit the Frog is the manager of a cabaret-style theatre house, which invariably has more drama behind the stage than on it. He has to contend with wannabe-comedian bears, the smothering advances of Miss Piggy , crabby regular theatre patrons, homicidal chefs, livestock, not to mention making the weekly guest star feel welcome.

Written by Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au> 29 January 1976 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Die Muppet Show See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia In February 2003, Disney purchased The Jim Henson Workshop. The deal includes characters such as Fozzie Bear and Dave Goelz , as well as the Bear in the Big Blue House (1997) franchise. Sesame Street characters such as Big Bird and Elmo are not included in the acquisition, as they are owned separately by the Sesame Workshop. See more » Quotes Statler : What have you got for an opening act this time? A Chinese gorilla dancing ballet? Kermit : Cancel the opening number. Chinese Gorilla: Dong day do dai dai do... Steve Whitmire and Dave Goelz 's gags in the end credits vary. See more » Connections This show is not only BRILLIANT, it's GENIUS! 24 February 2004 | by Cini34 (Mainframe) – See all my reviews The Muppet Show is, by far, one of the best constructed variety shows out there.

Plus, it has all our favorite Muppet characters, and seriously, who can go wrong with the Muppets? This show is a perfect blend of song and dance, Muppet and guest star interaction, and just plain fun for the whole family. The humor in the show offers the perfect mix of adult jokes and gags that fly right over the heads of children, and laughs that both child and adult can enjoy. Jim Henson truly created a masterpiece with this show, not to mention his popular films and other spin-off shows. The Muppet Show also offers a wonderful glimpse of many of the stars of yesteryear (the mid- to late-1970s), many of whom still survive today. This show definitely needs to be picked up by one of the networks for syndication because, although it seems somewhat dated at times (not much, though, really) it's genuine entertainment value could boost any network's ratings. Deservedly so, I've given The Muppet Show a rating of 10 stars out of 10! 10 of 12 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes The Muppets.

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See more awards » Videos Edit Storyline The Muppets return to prime-time with a contemporary, documentary-style show. For the first time ever, a series will explore the Muppets' personal lives and relationships, both at home and at work, as well as romances, breakups, achievements, disappointments, wants and desires. Written by Production Finally. A network tv show with full frontal nudity. See more » Genres: 21 July 2015 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Did You Know? Trivia In episode 2 the character "Lips" has a brief line of dialogue. He is the horn player in the Electric Mayhem Band. While featured in previous Muppet television and film projects, he has never spoken before that. See more » Quotes Simply not the Muppets in any sense... 8 January 2016 | by spacelordxaffax (Europe) – See all my reviews I'm a fan of the Muppets and I liked the Muppets tonight,so I don't feel I'm overly sentimental or stuck in the past.

But if you are going to revive an old show you'll need to capture some of he magic that the made the original a success. They did so with Star Trek after they figured it out. The magic of the Muppets was a combination of a Rebellious anti authoritarian, witty adolescent type of humor. A bit like Monty Python but without the black, gore and nastiness. Then there were the characters that were really well thought out and often very complicated without seeming so. And then there were first rate puppeteers, who could really play those characters like first rate actors/comedians. This new series has none of that. The puppetry is stiff and mediocre. The lines aren't delivered that well, and the puppets don't come alive. Everybody could do puppetry on that level. But worst of all they take well established and loved special characters and make them kind of normal, and boring. Animal speaks whole sentences and shows depth. That basically destroys everything that made him fun. Your not supposed to feel at ease with Animal. He has only pure in the moment cave man emotion. He doesn't speak, he utters emotions in terms of two words max. Sex,food,Drums and violence, that's Animal.

You don't know where he's been and you don't know where he's going. You don't ask. That's what makes him fun. All these characters are kind of maimed by this show. If they think we need a new kind of muppets to fit these times, let them at least create new muppets for it. As for me, I don't like "these times" anyway. 10 of 16 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Bobo the Bear | Muppet Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Giving Kermit a bear hug on The Muppets . Bobo the Bear appeared on Muppets Tonight as the jovial but bumbling security guard at the KMUP TV studio. Bobo was featured prominently in the episode featuring guest star Cindy Crawford , in which Bobo fell in love with Crawford and made a number of clumsy attempts to woo her. Ernst Stavros Grouper insisted that Bobo change his name to "Whitley Nibbles the Television Elf." In another episode , Bobo claimed his name was "Bizzo the Bat," in order to scam Rizzo out of food.

In Muppets from Space , Bobo played a character named Rentro , an assistant to Jeffrey Tambor's government agent character (K. Edgar Singer) at the Top Secret Facility C.O.V.N.E.T. (which Bobo says is "cleverly disguised as a cement factory"). Although he and Singer are portrayed as the "bad guys" in the film, Bobo's kind-hearted nature shows through when his character tries to save Gonzo from being captured and having his brain removed at the command of Singer. Bobo appeared on Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony at movies.com, where he was seen auditioning for Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. Bobo performed parodies of Star Wars characters such as Yoda : "'Careful you must be when sensing the future!' Geez, what is this guy, dyslexic or something?" He also appeared in " The Muppets on Muppets ," a bonus feature on The Muppet Show: Season Two , where he says his favorite place to visit is New Zealand .

Other appearances include potraying an airport security guard in A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa , working alongside Nathan Lane , and starring in a series of videos on Disney Xtreme Digital called "Better Living with Bobo," where he is paired with Beauregard . In The Muppets , Bobo serves a similar function to his appearances in Muppets from Space and Letters to Santa, as the well-meaning, suit clad assistant to the antagonist. In this case, Bobo is the "less-helpful-than-you-might-wish assistant" to Tex Richman . [1] He and Uncle Deadly also cameo together during the wedding scene in Muppets Most Wanted . On The Muppets , Bobo works as a stage manager for Up Late with Miss Piggy . In " Hostile Makeover ", it's revealed for the first time that he has a daughter, for whom he is selling girl scout cookies. In " Swine Song ", he laments to the audience that he hopes the new show format will go over well because his wife just had him install a new pool.

Contents [ show ] Behind the scenes The Bobo puppet originally debuted as one of the bears that hibernated with Fozzie Bear in Muppets Take Manhattan (where he was performed by Jerry Nelson ). The puppet was slightly altered when it was used as Bobo. Prior to becoming Bobo, the bear puppet would also be used on a promotional photo for the unproduced series W.I.L.D. , in Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree , and in a Muppet Time recurring sketch, " Frog Scouts ," as a customer who buys all the cookies from them. Willa Paskin Willa Paskin is Slate’s television critic. The show, co-created by Bill Prady, a muppeteer from wayback , finds Kermit and his pals plagued by work stress, day-to-day irritations and relationship problems. It is set behind the scenes of Miss Piggy’s late-night show, Up All Night With Miss Piggy, where Kermit is the executive producer, Animal plays drums in the house band, Gonzo is the head writer, Statler and Waldorf are perpetually in the audience, and so on.

It melds the backstage set-up of The Larry Sanders Show or 30 Rock (fans of which will recall that Kenneth the Page already thought everyone on that show was a Muppet ) with the mockumentary tricks of The Office: the talking head interviews, the glances at the camera. The resulting comedy is knowing, self-referential, low-energy, and a little jaded, perfectly promising qualities in a new sitcom, unless that new sitcom stars a green frog beloved for self-identifying as a “ lover and dreamer .” The Muppets turns the rainbow connection grey. Advertisement The Muppets, historically, have been an ebullient and silly group who love to entertain people, not in some crass or soulless way, but in a generous and good-spirited one. In The Muppets, though, anxiety and overwork creep in. (The mockumentary format is also not a great fit for Muppets, who have many skills, but immobile eyes.

Moving lids and irises are required for the deadpan glances to camera so necessary to this format.) There is still the occasional bolt of pure Muppet-y sweetness, like a series of jokes that rely on staff writer Pepe the King Prawn’s multiple claws, but the first two episodes largely focus on the bummers and indignities of workaday life. Fozzie Bear is a dating a human woman (Riki Lindhome), a premise mined for anxiety and adult content (“When your online profile says passionate bear looking for love, you get a lot of wrong responses”). The woman’s parents don't approve of this interspecies match and Fozzie desperately tries to change their minds. Bobo the Bear sells his daughter’s Girl Scout Cookies around the office, but after having little luck he mourns that he’s teaching his daughter “that she can’t rely on her father.” Gonzo struggles to come up with bits that please Kermit. And everyone is working overtime for a nightmare boss, an egomaniac with a horrible temper, unpredictable whims, and a hatred of direct eye contact: Miss Piggy.

Miss Piggy has always been a high-maintenance diva, but in the sweeter environs of past Muppet entertainments, her bad behavior was milder. Even at her worst— hitting Kermit all the time, for example —she was the sour powder slathered onto the Muppet gummy bears: the lip-puckering tang that made them taste so good. In recent years, Piggy has even become a kind of feminist icon, authoring a piece for Time, “ Why I am a feminist pig .” On The Muppets she is, it’s true, a woman with a late-night show, but otherwise she’s a real boor. Get Slate in your inbox. The first two episodes orbit around Piggy’s bad porcine behavior. In the first, Kermit insists on booking Elizabeth Banks as a guest despite Piggy’s protestations. He and the crew spend the episode tip-toeing around Piggy, who they believe doesn't like Banks for petty reasons. It turns out she just doesn’t like her for inappropriately personal ones.

In the second, she’s been in a hellacious mood for days—the crew hides beneath their desks, rather than risk eye contact—because she doesn’t have a date to an awards show, and only a famous person will appease Piggy’s ego. Eventually Kermit hooks her up with Josh Groban, whom she tries to impress by forsaking her own tastes and going highbrow, pushing to interview some authors even though she’s never read a book. Kermit only breaks Groban’s spell over Piggy by playing to his ex’s vanity. Bossy, shrill, hysterical, irrational, moody, and all the other condescending words that are disproportionately used to describe and police women’s behavior, all truly apply to this iteration of Miss Piggy. (Except frumpy . Even this Miss Piggy is not frumpy.) I am aware, as I write this, that Miss Piggy is not a real person. But this is exactly why she is such a potent symbol. Miss Piggy is not a human being, but she is controlled by human beings, human beings who have hung her out to fry: You can almost smell the bacon.

The original Miss Piggy is a forerunner to the complicated female protagonists TV continues to provide, characters from Liz Lemon to Hannah Horvath, from Skyler White to UnReal ’s Rachel Goldberg, deeply flawed women not primarily, or even particularly, concerned with being likeable. But it’s hard to get past this iteration of Miss Piggy’s unpleasantness because that’s all there is: She’s not a fully developed moi, just a set of high-maintenance tics. Making Missy Piggy so awful has dour ramifications for the rest of the Muppets: Why are they working so hard for this pig, who can’t even deign to remember Fozzie Bear’s name? Have they no self-respect? Nothing more joyful to do? The Muppet who comes off worst is Kermit, who spends his days sneakily managing Piggy’s moods, working up the nerve to disobey her, a mild-mannered middle manager. His voice, previously so adorable, began to sound to me mealy and weak, like the vocal equivalent of pleated khakis. Top Comment Miss Piggy changed, I feel, after meeting British Prime Minister David Cameron.

I'm not sure what happened, but it seems she was left traumatized while he came out a head. :-/ More... The New ‘Muppets’ TV Show Will Scar You - The Daily Beast ALL GROWN UP The New ‘Muppets’ TV Show Will Scar You A world in which Miss Piggy gets bikini waxes and Fozzie Bear is hip to Grindr? For Henson purists, it’s shocking. But as franchise reinvention, it sort of works. Kevin Fallon 09.22.15 5:10 AM ET In the lead-up to Tuesday night’s premiere of the new The Muppets TV show , ABC president Paul Lee has been touting that this is “not your grandmother’s Muppets.” We had no idea how serious of a warning that would be. As you may have heard, the new sitcom version of the beloved Jim Henson gang features Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, and the gang in more “adult” situations than we’re used to seeing them in. In theory, it’s an enticing idea. Written and executive produced by The Big Bang Theory mastermind Bill Prady, The Muppets is shot mockumentary-style, like The Office.

The famous characters all work for a late-night show hosted by Miss Piggy and executive-produced by Kermit, and the cameras follow them outside the soundstage and into their personal lives. (Fozzie is dating a human girl whose parents don’t approve of the fact that he’s a bear, for example.) There will be people who think it’s a hoot to live in this conceit, where the Muppets are grown-up sitcom characters and not as schticky as we’re used to seeing them. And there will be people who will feel like their childhood innocence is being marauded by the man who brought us Bazinga . Because the truth is, bold as this creative decision was—and executed quite successfully, too—it’s jarring, at best. At worst, it’s a bastardization. This is a world where Fozzie knows what Grindr is. Where Kermit’s new girlfriend (more on that later) makes sexual innuendos. Where Zoot is an alcoholic and there are jokes about Miss Piggy’s pubic hair. Wocka wocka! Prady is as much of a scholar on the Muppets as there comes.

He has written for seven different Muppets shows or specials and worked on a different potential Muppet TV show in 2007 that never started the music or lit the lights. And it’s his love and affinity for—and supreme knowledge of—these characters that makes this work as well as it does. Every “grown up” plot point, whether a work woe or a relationship drama, makes perfect sense in the greater Muppet universe. It’s just that some of us don’t want to live in a universe where Fozzie Bear knows what kind of fetish he would be on a gay sex hookup app. All of that said, in a perverse way, this maturation of the franchise may be exactly what was needed if The Muppets has any hope of being the same lightning rod or have the same longevity as the original Muppet Show, which ran from 1976 to 1981. The Muppets really struggled to stage their pop culture comeback following Jim Henson’s death in 1990. The vaudevillian nature at the heart of their humor was a dying comedy genre and the beating heart behind these characters’ humanity was no longer around to give it a pulse.

A short-lived attempt to reboot them with ABC’s Muppets Tonight in 1996 was proof of their waning appeal. They seemed fated to be cultural relics. But 2005’s The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz was delightful, as was the 2011 movie The Muppets and its sequel, last year’s Muppets Most Wanted . Given the success of those projects, both creatively and commercially, it certainly makes sense that ABC would want to give another go at a TV show. Strike while the puppet fabric’s hot. Despite the fact that it should prove polarizing to purists, making the gang more “adult” is the smartest way to bring them back. As Matt Zoller Seitz points out in Vulture , what ended up dooming Muppets Tonight, ultimately, was too much faithfulness to the original TV show. The Muppets Show was very much an homage to the classic variety hour, a format forever married to an antique sense of humor that—as Neil Patrick Harris could certainly tell you —has struggled to modernize without feeling cheesy or dated.

This Muppets, however, embraces the very trendy entertainment that threatened the franchise’s relevance all these years: more mature, less earnest humor; the rise of the single-camera comedy; and the reality-TV conceit that the show spoofs. But really, dipping its toes into these “new” trends in entertainment is actually the most classically “Muppet-esque” thing about The Muppets. For all the attention there will undoubtedly be on the PG-13 jokes and the fact that Miss Piggy and Kermit have broken up in Tuesday night’s premiere, the show’s best humor is right in line with what the franchise has always done so well, which is both deconstruct and mock and pay loving tribute to show business and the very process of putting on a show. Get The Beast In Your Inbox! Daily DigestStart and finish your day with the top stories from The Daily Beast. Cheat SheetA speedy, smart summary of all the news you need to know (and nothing you don't). The Muppets (TV series) - Wikiquote The Muppets (TV series) Directed by Randall Einhorn and Matt Sohn, developed by Bill Prady and Bob Kushell , and based on characters created by Jim Henson .

Just another tv show starring an egotistical pig. Kermit the Frog: When Piggy starts interviewing the guest, that is your cue to stop playing. Dr. Teeth: Ahhhhhhhh, did not know that! Kermit the Frog: Uh, Bobo? Bobo the Bear: Yes, sir? Kermit the Frog: Listen, next time we do a sketch where Piggy flies across the stage, I think we should choose a wire that actually supports her weight. Bobo the Bear: Oh. Should've worked. It was a cable from a wrecking ball... Kermit the Frog : And one more thing, everybody. Uh, the crew that's shooting our behind-the-scenes documentary has asked us to be more available for those one-on-one interviews. Is that okay with everybody? [various muppets express agreement as the camera cuts to Gonzo doing a one-on-one interview] Gonzo : One-on-one interviews? What an over-used device. You tell the camera how you really feel , and then they cut back to you saying something completely different. I hate these interviews. [cuts back to the production meeting] Gonzo : I love those interviews. Great device!

Kermit the Frog : But, Gonzo, isn't your mother on a South American cruise ? Gonzo : Yeah, and I'm a little worried ; I haven't heard from her in a while. Kermit the Frog : [to the camera] We've created a color -coded alert system to track Piggy's moods . Green : she's calm. But we've never been at green. Yellow: she's in tears. Orange: I'M in tears. And with a "Code Red", if she locks eyes with you, it's already too late. [Kermit, Scooter, and Uncle Deadly are hiding under a desk as Miss Piggy goes on a rampage] Miss Piggy: WHO REPLACED MY THICK SHARPIES WITH FINE-TIPPED SHARPIES?! I'M SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS, NOT WRITING THE BIBLE ON A GRAIN OF RICE! Kermit the Frog: I have a feeling this isn't about pen thickness. Uncle Deadly: I was fitting Piggy for a new dress... Kermit the Frog: Oh, no, no, you forgot to cut out the tag? She knows her size?!

Uncle Deadly: Oh, please. I've woven such a cocoon of lies, she doesn't know what size, weight, or how old she is. Miss Piggy: LOOK AT THIS NONSENSE! PENCILS, HIGHLIGHTERS, A BACKSCRATCHER?! IF YOU'RE ITCHY, TAKE CARE OF IT AT HOME! Kermit the Frog: What is going on? Scooter: The Peoples' Choice Awards are coming up, and she doesn't have a date. Uncle Deadly: Shocking. She seems like such pleasant company. Miss Piggy : HOW DARE YOU TRY TO CALM ME DOWN WITH CAKE! [pause] GIVE ME THAT CAKE! [Miss Piggy leaves] Kermit the Frog: Wait here. [peeks out] Clear. [Everyone emerges to find the office in ruins.] Scooter: Whoa. [Dr. Bunsen Honeydew whimpers. Kermit, Scooter, and Uncle Deadly turn to see that he is holding a calendar with a pen sticking out of it] Dr. Bunsen Honeydew: I tried to offer her a ballpoint.

[faints] Bobo the Bear: Hey guys, hey guys, it's that time of year again! I'm selling cookies for my daughter's troop so she can win a mountain bike. Uncle Deadly: We are only interested if you have a box of dreamy dates. Bobo the Bear: Ooh, well, the Fudge-Alongs have raisins. I mean, they're not dates, but they are also a sun-dried fruit. Pepe the King Prawn: Kermit has cooked up some kind of plan to make the Grobans and Piggy fall in love during the music... It's a stupid idea, but I love it. [chuckles] Mostly because I LOVE love... Kermit the Frog: Now, I'm not saying that I solved everything because Josh took Piggy to the Peoples' Choice Awards... But if they ever build an Executive Producers' Hall of Fame, I think you'll be entering through the Kermit the Frog Pavilion. I mean, since they've been going out, I've been waking out to the sound of my alarm instead of my own screams! Do you know what that means? For the first time ever, we're at a Code Green! YAAAAAAY!

[on Up Late with Miss Piggy] Miss Piggy : Does it make you angry that libraries are giving away your book for free? You make nothing while libraries make millions ? Reza Aslan : I don't…think that's right. Miss Piggy : I totally agree. Libraries have had it too good for too long! Reza Aslan : [stunned silence ] Fozzie Bear: Jay Leno 's candy dish... Oh, if this candy dish could talk... Pepe the King Prawn: Yeah, you would have a talking candy dish, and maybe that would have been impressive, okay. Rizzo the Rat: You're not worried about getting caught? Those rich people have security cameras everywhere! Fozzie Bear: Yeah, but he wouldn't care about a BOWL. I mean, he probably put it out so I would take it! What about THAT theory, huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Scooter: Piggy's been so great, I've been skipping my pre-show cry! Animal: YOU pre-show cry? ANIMAL pre-show cry!

[Kermit has just announced that he will be getting rid of Josh Groban despite the rest of the crew's protests] Rizzo the Rat: Hey, there's, like, twenty of us. Why didn't we stop him? Dr. Bunsen Honeydew: Hmmm... Perhaps our happiness has made us too soft. Pepe the King Prawn: Interesting... Gonzo : Oh, that's right—so I went behind your back. [Fozzie has just announced that he is leaving the show to write a movie] Yolanda the Rat: [to Kermit] Did you have something to do with this? Kermit the Frog: What makes you think that? Fozzie Bear: And it's all thanks to the encouragement of my dear friend! Kermit the Frog: He's got lots of friends. Fozzie Bear: Kermit the Frog! Kermit the Frog : Kermit's, like, the third most common frog name in America . Kermit the Frog: You're a good comedian, but you're not a writer. Fozzie Bear: So you LIED to me? Kermit the Frog: I didn't want to hurt your feelings...

So please just turn around and come back, okay? Fozzie Bear : No, no, because I am a writer . You don't have to believe in me ; I believe in me! Oh, you see, that-that's good dialogue right there. Kermit the Frog : Uh, honestly , it's a little contrived . Where are you going, anyway? Fozzie Bear: Nope, I'm off the grid! And you'll never find me! Fozzie's GPS: Turn right at Big Bear Road. In 0.2 miles, your destination is on the left. [Kermit hears this and begins to write down the address] Fozzie Bear: That lady's lying! Good-bye! [tries to hang up phone] Kermit the Frog: Yeah, I'm still here. Fozzie Bear: Oh yeah? Well, good-bye! [tries to hang up phone again] Kermit the Frog: Still here. Fozzie Bear: I don't know how to hang this thing up when it's on the map. This always happens. Kermit the Frog: Okay, hit the home button, then the phone icon and then the red button.

Fozzie Bear: Okay, home button, phone icon, red button, aaaaaaaaaand... We're at Angry Birds. [sighs] [Pepe, Rizzo and Chip have just discovered an e-mail that Gonzo is sending to a girl] Gonzo : Look, she's just a girl I met online. It's no big deal. Chip : Hey, that contradicts a previous e-mail where you described her as a healing ray of sunshine on your wounded soul. Ed Helms : Okay. [Fozzie has just discovered that Statler tricked him and was not really injured. He is now driving in his car] Fozzie Bear : Every forest ranger will tell you the same thing. Most bear attacks do NOT happen because of hunger. They happen because some bear had his feelings hurt. Ed Helms : [to Piggy and Scooter] Uh, excuse me, I don't know whether or not you folks have considered whether or not you should keep believing , but I say [sings] don't stop believin', hold on to that feelin'… Kermit the Frog: Welcome to the Morning Meeting, everybody... or should I say the "Whenever You Decide to Show Up" Meeting?

Floyd Pepper: Uh, is that the official name now? That works a LOT better for us... Zoot : Withdrawn. Gonzo : Oh, what about a scale ? That would be thoughtful . Girls are always asking if they look fat ; with a scale, they can know for sure. Gonzo : Well, what about a bag of socks ? They're cheap , and if she hates 'em and throws 'em at you, it's not gonna hurt —like that scale did. [Scooter and Kermit are at Color Me Mine] Scooter : You're gonna start with orange ? Kermit : What's wrong with orange? Scooter : Nothing, uh, orange is great if you're painting a, um…a, um…a, um…an orange . [Kermit has completed a plate featuring him and Denise on their first date] Scooter : So you went to the zoo on your first date? Kermit : Uh, no, it's a coffee shop. Scooter : Oh. Uh, why is there a hippo? Kermit : That's a table. Kermit : Piggy, couldn't you give the list a rest ?

Haven't you ever heard of forgive and forget ? Miss Piggy : Who said that? Whoever[ sic ] it was, I'm putting them[ sic ] on my list. Zoot: Is that the real moon , or just a department- store one? Floyd Pepper : Ain't no real moon—not since the '70s . Zoot: [referring to Floyd Pepper's friend Eddie's time machine ] Yeah, he let's me use it on weekends . I climb in there on Friday ; when I get out, it's Saturday . The whole thing takes about a day . Kermit the Frog : You know what my dream is, Gonzo? That my friends know they can tell me anything and I'll never judge 'em. Gonzo : Wow, Kermit. That is a very boring dream. Brian Lowry , " TV Review: 'The Muppets' ," Variety (17 Septemer 2015). The mature version of "The Muppets" will cover a range of topics from sex to drugs . Miss Piggy came out as a pro-choice feminist during an MSNBC interview .

The puppet characters loved by kids in the 1970s and 1980s and beyond are now weighing in on interspecies relationships and promiscuity . … ABC has ruined "The Muppets." How many parents want to explain the punchline of sexually charged jokes to young children ? Many parents unknowingly will let their children watch an episode only to find out its perverted nature too late, unless they are alerted ahead of time. 1MM and others need to get the word out to families to avoid this program at all costs. " Warning! The New 'Muppets' is Not Family-Friendly ," One Million Moms (24 September 2015). C.f. " 'The Muppets' Slammed as 'Perverted' and 'Ruined' by One Million Moms Advocacy Group ," The Wrap (23 September 2015); " US pressure group calls for 'perverted' Muppets show to be banned ," itv (18 October 2015). Kermit and Miss Piggy, please meet Joe Camel .

It is a tragedy that one of the most iconic children 's television shows in history , The Muppets, would be so filled with adult content— sexual innuendoes , sexual references, drugs and alcohol , to be exact—that it would become too toxic for children. Tim Winter, president of Parents Television Council, cited in " Press Release: New PTC Research Finds ABC’s The Muppets Exposes Kids to Adult-Themed Content Every 3 Minutes ," Parents Television Council® (20 October 2015). Additionally, one bar scene in the 4th episode was long enough to consume almost one-quarter of the show's screen time, during which Muppet characters were shown drinking and becoming drunk from beer , wine , and hard liquor . The Muppet Show: Kermit the Frog and Friends Returning to Series Television? - canceled TV shows - TV Series Finale The Muppet Show: Kermit the Frog and Friends Returning to Series Television? by Trevor Kimball, January 23, 2007 “It’s time to play the music. It’s time to dress up right.

It’s time to raise the curtain on The Muppet Show tonight!” Over 30 years ago, Jim Henson’s Muppets took the airwaves by storm and debuted in their own original-run syndication variety show (the first of its kind in history). The series was a smash success around the world and ran for five seasons, and spawned feature films, TV specials, new television series and a slew of merchandising. Though The Disney Channel’s and ABC’s 1996-97 Muppets Tonight series met with an early demise, there have been rumors about a new Muppet show for several years. Concepts have included a host of diverse ideas, from an edgy FOX variety show to an ABC mock reality-show competition to find America’s Next Muppet. Now, so many years later, it looks like Kermit and friends may finally be headed back to their roots. It’s been reported that the Walt Disney Company has recently completed a presentation pilot for a new weekly television series starring Kermit, Piggy and the gang. The pilot is ten minutes long and is part of a proposal for a mini-series that would be shot in an Office-like mock documentary style.

The mockumentary film crew would be led by fictional British filmmaker and interviewer Ian Bascombe. The mini-series would follow lovable Kermit the Frog as he travels to reassemble his old gang so they can launch a new Muppet Show. Since we last saw the beloved characters, they have each moved on to new jobs and lives. Insecure Fozzie Bear is a solo stand-up comic (after spending a year writing for the TV series Moesha), headstrong Miss Piggy is an actress in Hollywood, patriotic Sam the Eagle works in security, etc. Once the group is assembled, they then have to plan, develop and produce the new show — and the viewers would see it all via the documentary footage. The pilot, which is reportedly now circulating inside the Disney offices, was written and produced by Bill Prady. It was directed by longtime Muppeteer Bill Baretta who also directed the 2004 America’s Next Muppet pilot.

The pilot utilized the Muppeteering talents of Barretta (known for performing characters like Bobo the Bear, Johnny Fiama, Rowlf the Dog, The Sweedish Chef, etc.) as well as longtime Muppeteers Steve Whitmire (Kermit the Frog, Rizzo the Rat, Beaker, Statler, etc.), Dave Goelz (Gonzo the Great, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Waldorf, etc.), and Eric Jacobson (Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam the Eagle, etc.). Barretta, Whitmire and Jacobson perform some characters originated by the late Jim Henson and Richard Hunt, retired Jerry Nelson and busy director Frank Oz. The short pilot also featured cameos by actress Melina Kanakaredes (TV’s Providence and CSI: NY) and director John Landis (movies like Coming to America and Michael Jackson’s Thriller music video). Though we won’t know for some time if the pilot will be developed into a full mini-series, the early signs look very good. Since purchasing the Muppets in 2004, Disney has been looking for new ways to rejuvenate the Muppet franchise.

Insiders are hopeful for the mini-series and say that it is truly unique and very entertaining. Some say that it is very likely that the new mini-series will get the greenlight and would quickly be moved into production. If that happens, the mini-series could hit televisions by late 2007. Even better, there are rumors that, if the mini-series is made and is well-received, this could kick-off a new regular Muppet TV show. The new series, like the classic Muppet Show, would follow the Muppet clan as they produced their show on a weekly basis. If past experience is any indication, popular film, music and television stars will be clamoring to take part in the show. We’ll keep you posted on additional “Muppet-ational” news so stay tuned!

Question: What is the name of the bear in the television series ‘The Muppets’?
Answer: Fozzie