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] Brilliant bit of not-so-subtle meta plot there. It's the production staff saying "we've got plenty more where this came from". It is the fist time we've seen them in, what for me, is their best format in decades. The closest thing to an actual revival of TMS before this was the criminally...

I think that was the intended point. By not making it into something overly "special presentation" and integral just a straightforward episode, they're singling to the powers that be at the House of Mouse that the best thing to do with the Muppets is just keep making their routine show, which is...

My thoughts? Nailed it. It is, simply put, nothing more than a new episode of The Muppet Show. Which is all it needed to be.

The fun coda to this was the post (from Joe from legal) "explaining" why some characters were omitted from the 70, including Clifford for being too cool.

I wouldn't pay too much mind to the use of "reboot". Yes, what you say is strictly true, that "reboot" means to ignore the previous continuity and start a new one, but Hollywood press has been incorrectly overusing the term for a while now, even using the term for things that are explicitly...

Well, I would think the feature length TV movies would be the ones toward the bottom of the list, as they're generally less meaningful productions. Of those three, I actually like VXM the most. Yes, some of the gags were quickly dated because they're a bit too tied to the immediate moment, but...

That's true, there's really no way to know for sure. I would think it might change the performance, though. There's a difference between a puppeteer performing to a pre-recorded voice track and someone rubbing over the puppeteers voice in post-production.

The network is now Universal Kids, Sprout survives as the name of the midday preschool block. Notably, Chica the Chicken has gone off to kindergarten, and so will make only occasional appearances, while a new talking dog puppet named Snug co-hosts the wraparound segments from the Sprout House...

It didn't in New York. I think your safe. The network isn't preempting anything, local stations might.

It was local only. I'm in the New York area, and it was uninterrupted. Not a network thing, and not something that in anyway speaks to the network's handling of the series.

Great episode. Fantastic message in a very Muppety style. Joan Jett was the perfect guest, used perfectly. And the B plot was great, too. Especially the chicken puns. Even the throw away gags, like Chip with the newspaper, were on point. Superb Muppet balance of humor and message, and a great...

Lots of shows take winter breaks these days, as it allows production to catch up while avoiding reruns, building anticipation for the spring premier. That said, most of the shows for which that model works best are serialized dramas and adventure series. Think Agents of SHIELD, Once upon a...

Funnily enough, of course, is that Janice was named for Janis Joplin (though they're very different in personality), just as the other members of the Mayhem were inspired by 60s & 70s musicians. So in some ways that's a spelling "correction", lol.

This episode did exactly what it needed to do. It actually wasn't all that different from the last couple before the break, indicating it was more a tweak than a reboot (which is what I predicted), but for those who didn't watch it every week before the break, it was just enough to show the...

A Swedish Chef and Muppet Labs sketch at once! Nifty!