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GuySmileyfan

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There! You see? What did I tell you guys? The Muppets are making a comeback, again!😉
 

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Let's not get carried away. I'm cautiously optimistic about this and more excited than I have been for a muppet project in about a decade, but this is a one-time thing. We'll see if there's enough interest to justify a full order.
 

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I can definitely see this pilot being released and then never acknowledged again regardless if ratings are good or not.

Who knows. We could be surprised, and I definitely want more to come out of this, but all it takes is one screw-up from Disney and bam. Back to square one.
 
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I know Jim ended The Muppet Show so that they could go out while they were still on top, but the small screen failures of the past 40 years makes me wonder if they'd have been better off continuing the show indefinitely a la SNL or Simpsons. The quality probably would've declined at some point, but it would've kept the franchise in the minds of the public, whereas now they're constantly forced to reboot the Muppets every few years, often to no avail.

Either way, I've heard people all over the internet say for the past 15 years that "they just need to reboot The Muppet Show" and it will magically revive the franchise. So if this doesn't work, then I'm really at a loss for what the Muppets can do to gain popularity.
 

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I stand by my word with what I say when I believe “Muppets Tonight” honestly had more potential to grow, it just got a raw deal with ratings. Same thing with the 2015 series.
 
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