The Muppets

[Daniel]

Poster and teaser for Muppets Mayhem:





Only real issue I have is the lack of color. Nice to see Animal's "I NY" shirt from Muppets Take Manhattan make a comeback!

[Ben]

I just hope it’s better than Muppets Now. Then again, pretty much anything is better than Muppets Now. Love the 11.5 nod.

[Daniel]

I'm ready to rock!

[Ben]

They hope we like the new direction…

[Daniel]

New poster:



Outta sight!

[Ben]

Like, reeeeeeeealy groooooovy! Fur shuuuure!


(barp)

[Daniel]

Trailer:



Wow! Looks like so much fun. Puppetry tricks! And the cameos!

[Ben]

Hence my comment above, this obviously has a Spinal Pap feel (Spinal Pup-petry?), especially with the volume knob nod, but hopefully it can also be its own thing. There’s something "off" about the wide shots of the band playing, but I can’t work out what it is — maybe everyone else's legs to Janice looking too "thick", so look more like humans in body costumes than puppets, but other than that this looks gold (or platinum? Let’s hope they actually release the album!) and maybe we'll get a Mayhem World Tour for a second season!?

I did laugh out a couple of times, and the voices are much more spot on than they’ve been in a long time — even Janice! — perhaps because they are more character driven than just extensions of the Muppeteer's natural voices. This does look like it will be good! Cameos! DeadMaus!? Did not see that happening after the spat with The Diz! Kind of wish Rowlf was going along with them, as he’s often popped up like an honourable member of the Mayhem, but then again he’s awfully close to sounding like Dr Teeth. But this certainly feels closest to the old school since the last two theatrical films.

Hopefully our reactions will mirror Floyd's response to "I got a fork!"

[Randall]

It does look good! Another reason to keep Disney+, and quite unexpected.

[Daniel]

Disney has released a portion of "Rock On", one of the original songs for the series:



Includes some new footage too. Rockin'!

[Ben]

My Muppets-growing-up sister and I are getting ridiculously excited about this series.

[Daniel]

Five episode titles have been revealed. What's cool is that each are referred to as "tracks" and named after existing songs:

Track 1: Can You Picture That
Track 2: True Colors
Track 3: Exile on Main Street
Track 5: Break on Through
Track 6: Fortunate Son

[Ben]

Just as long as they continue to do that…tenderly.

[Daniel]

A brief break from the Mayhem, Kermit dropped by British GQ to participate in their "10 Essentials" video series:



Some nice references littered throughout. "And nothing a subway full of commuters loves more than an amphibian plucking out John Denver tunes during morning rush hour". I wouldn't mind! I kinda like the water bottle! (not so much the color)

[Ben]

Or even Paul Williams!