There’s a brand new muppet show!
I mean, I guess it feels like, past a certain age, it feels like there’s always a brand new muppet show – The Muppets Tonight, The Muppets and The Muppets Now.
Not counting, too, the films (with the 2011 The Muppets movie in particular being the best – 2011! 15 years ago! Holy smokes).
But I guess what’s different about this one is it’s largely a return to basics. Just do the old show as was, with new guests. We watched it and enjoyed it. I mean, not as funny as nostalgia would have you believe and I suspect it could never go as weirdly avant-garde as the original muppet show. Youngest son T watched it after watching the muppet show and I looked in on him, during a bit where a famous (in the 70s/80s) dancer was ballet dancing with a bunch of felt horses, in an abstract slightly hallucinogenic way – asked him what it was like “peaceful”.
Anyway, today Kayleigh Donaldson over on bluesky linked to an article asking who should host the muppet show next, now, as it typical, I went straight to posting without reading the article, so didn’t spot they’d already suggested Alex Horne and Greg Davis, but I had the same idea and wrote an entire synopsis:
Alex Horne. But only as an emissary of Greg Davis who will turn up in the final seconds only for the show to end due to it over running. But the whole thing should be Alex making sure everything will go perfectly due to Greg’s outrageous rider.
Alex should do all of the songs/things that he thinks are rehearsals for Greg, but are actually recorded and meanwhile the muppets (each in turn) back stage should be trying to convince Alex they should be on taskmaster which of course Alex has no power over but they dont know that.
Then when Greg turns up and the show ends Greg of course is furious and the end of the show is pure chaos as each muppet is demonstrating a task while Alex is profusely apologising to Greg who is incandescent with rage while miss piggy quite fancies Greg all while doing the final number.Look just let me write it.
And that’s it. Today writing a pitch deck for the Terran Omega animated series (I mean I might as well throw a coin in a wishing well, but a still it’s a good exercise and by doing it I’ve essentially laid out – at the current pace of drawing – about 9 years of work… so lets hope someone offers to pay me for it and I can do it much much quicker)
