Your Thoughts: The Muppet Show Starring Sabrina Carpenter

[minor muppetz]

It is a great special.

I am at a loss on if this feels more like a special event (like a 50th anniversary special) or a regular episode of a show. Well, we do get a crowd of characters, many of whom hadn't been seen in years, but the acts do feel more like it's a typical episode. Aside from Rowlf playing some notes of "Rainbow Connection" and "Moving Right Along", along with the theme song, they don't repeat any songs the Muppets have done before (and I'm not familiar with any of the songs featured... it's a shame, as far as I know, they didn't do at least one older song), or re-do the best known routines. It is a surprise we don't get Pigs in Space or Veterinarian's Hospital (I feel the Muppet News sketch should have been Vets Hospital). Many expected characters don't get lines or much screen time (kind of making it feel more like an episode of a series).

 

[oknazevad]

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 what they do best.

 

[MWoO]

It is a great special.

I am at a loss on if this feels more like a special event (like a 50th anniversary special) or a regular episode of a show. Well, we do get a crowd of characters, many of whom hadn't been seen in years, but the acts do feel more like it's a typical episode. Aside from Rowlf playing some notes of "Rainbow Connection" and "Moving Right Along", along with the theme song, they don't repeat any songs the Muppets have done before (and I'm not familiar with any of the songs featured... it's a shame, as far as I know, they didn't do at least one older song), or re-do the best known routines. It is a surprise we don't get Pigs in Space or Veterinarian's Hospital (I feel the Muppet News sketch should have been Vets Hospital). Many expected characters don't get lines or much screen time (kind of making it feel more like an episode of a series).

They basically made an episode of The Muppet Show instead of doing a longer special that could have had everything thrown in.

If the special was an hour, or 45 min without commercials, they could have done everything, put it would have felt crowded. If anything, part of the back stage plot was that they have so much more they can do and its not enough for just one episode. Considering the response, I would think a full series happens even if its just one season.

What surprises me are the amount of people online that genuinely think this is the first time we've seen the Muppets in 50 years. Like... they never actually went away.

 

[oknazevad]

If the special was an hour, or 45 min without commercials, they could have done everything, put it would have felt crowded. If anything, part of the back stage plot was that they have so much more they can do and its not enough for just one episode. Considering the response, I would think a full series happens even if its just one season.

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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".

What surprises me are the amount of people online that genuinely think this is the first time we've seen the Muppets in 50 years. Like... they never actually went away.

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 underrated Muppets Tonight. That is, if we're not counting the last half hour of the 2011 film, which is basically a straight up episode of TMS. (If anything, the end that film was the perfect set up for a revival, but instead they went the sequel route and the 2015 series.) Much of the comments I've seen are more akin to touting the idea that the Muppets are back at their best.

 

[minor muppetz]

I'm surprised, I thought I read that the special would be 40 minutes, on Disney Plus the run time is 32 minutes. That's a little odd.

I kind of wished there was an extended edition with two extra minutes... basically giving us the equivalent of a "UK Spot" (the extended version being the Disney Plus version).