Video: The Muppet Show Starring Sabrina Carpenter Teaser Trailer

[antsamthompson9]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm thrilled!

 

[GuySmileyfan]

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

 

[Muppet Master]

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.

 

[LittleJerry92]

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.

 

[Muppet Master]

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.

 

[LittleJerry92]

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.

 

[Muppet Master]

On a more positive note though, it'll be quite surreal to experience watching The Muppet Show on TV, as someone who wasn't around when it originally aired (which I'm guessing is most people in this thread). I'm just curious if the set design will stay true to the original series (the teaser points to the fact that it probably will) and if they're really going to replicate the original show's format to a tee (opening number, backstage scenes, newsflash, etc).

 

[GuySmileyfan]

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.

Fine. By all means. I guess I'll have to be cautiously optimistic too, but not in a negative way!

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.

I'm sure it'll be different this time. But we'll wait and see.

 

[MuppetsRule]

That's gotta be the shortest teaser trailer ever. 18 seconds.

But color me thrilled

 

[antsamthompson9]

JD Hansel: I think the potential of it is the most exciting thing. Naturally, that's how it goes. But not just the potential of more Muppet Show stuff and more good Muppet stuff and more of the Muppets in their element, more of these characters in the environment that they're from where they really belong. There's another thing about it that's pretty exciting or at least has a lot of potential to it. This could be the thing that breaks the Vogel vicious cycle. What do I mean by the Vogel vicious cycle? I mean the fact that it has felt like for a very long time, there has been this shadow cast over Matt Vogel's Kermit by internet comments being really really mean about it and there's been a sense that maybe we haven't gotten the big onscreen production with Kermit the Frog yet because maybe this Kermit is either not ready or just the general public haven't gotten used to it yet. And so why center a big production around a character that the general public is not used to yet in this form? But then because we don't get the big production, not enough people are seeing what the Muppets are doing and so they can't get used to this version of Kermit and so then they're bitter about it online and then it feels even more like maybe it's not time yet. And now I get the sense that it's time. I get the sense that it is time to play the music, time to light the lights. Everyone who likes the Muppets, I assume, I hope, is going to see this, see that it's out there, you know, unless there's another thing like the Jimmy Kimmel thing and people unsubscribe from Disney Plus forever and ever and ever, but you know what I mean. Barring anything like that happening again, presumably everyone who likes the Muppets is going to tune in for a new Muppet show and they're going to one way or the other get used to this Kermit the Frog or this is the moment where we realize they can't get used to it. The Muppets doing the Muppet Show again isn't even working because of how much people are not vibing with this particular element of the franchise. I don't know which way it's going to go. I'm hopeful for the less conflicting option, more nice option, but I don't know.