If The Muppet Show Returned...

[AndyC]

I can't imagine a kid being scared of any and all muppets, but there were a few that had a pretty monstrous appearance. Sweetums was pretty nasty looking, although he was generally played as a big, furry sweetheart.

The sad thing is that the muppet show would never come back exactly as it was, because somebody would feel the need to update it and make it hip. I'm sure the vaudeville theatre setting is so far from anyone's experience that it would never be kept. Likewise, a lot of the best characters were products of another time - Fozzie's old-fashioned standup, Dr. Teeth and his very 70s band (had a poster of them for years), etc. And, as Freep said, today's celebrities are a bland bunch, and wouldn't offer much variety in guests. I also wonder how many would want to sing and dance with muppets. Then again, they probably grew up on Muppets like the rest of us.

[Susan]

it's not the same watching the muppets without jim henson
They did try to revive the muppets for awhile just a few years back..it wasn't the same



Post Edited (03-04-04 18:47)

[Neon Noodle]

it's amazing what will scare the kids. My daughter was watching Harry Potter 2 yesterday and started whimpering when Ron started to vomit slugs.

[Yaddo42]

Like AndyC has said the premise of the original (a run down vaudeville variety show that guests were usually "acting" reluctant or uneager to be apart of) is so far removed frm what the audience for a new version would be familiar with.

Besides true variety shows are pretty much dead now. There aren't the type of well known performers capable of doing sketches and broad musical comedy numbers (usually of other people's songs). I'd love to see someone like Christopher Walken (who in addition to being creepy is a very talented theatre song and dance man, just look at Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" video or some of his better SNL appearances) or even Crispin Glover do the show. Jessica Simpson seems to be the kind of minorly talented "all around entertainer" who might work on the show, I figured that's why they put her in the Pizza Hut ad, but most of her fame now comes from being a naive, pampered, and dumb fading pop star on a "reality show." When she was on SNL, the only time she really seemed to come alive was during that "Lashey Family Variety Show" musical number during the monologue.

I'd love to see some of the olds Muppet Show eps again - Alice Cooper, Bob Hope, John Cleese, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Shirley Bassey, Raquel Welch.

Nowadays, we'd probably get: Clay Aiken, Britney Spears, David Spade, Kathy Griffin, Michael Ian Black, and either Lindsey Lohan or Hillary Duff.

[Mr_Vindictive]

Yaddo,

The scary thing is that I believe that Michael Ian Black would actually fit in.

[wickednick]

The Muppets kick ass. I bought some of the dvd of there shows and I still reguarly watch them.I would love if they brought the Muppet show back but Im kinda worried because Disney recently just bought the rights to the Muppets.

[The Burgomaster]

I don't think I would watch it.  After about 1 season of the original show, I lost interest.  Plus, the Muppets have not been the same since Jim Henson died.  I'd rather watch reruns of Sesame Street.

[Lee]

Michael Ian Black is such an idiot! I can't stand that guy.

[Yaddo42]

To each their own, Skaboi. I've just never been a fan of MIB, his comedy troupe The State, or any of their projects or series.

A lot people seemed to find him amusing on VH-1's "I Love the (your decade here)" shows, but I quickly got so tired his attempts at stone-faced irony that I could almost predict exactly what he was going to say during the first time I watched any of them.

Now LEWIS Black on a new Muppets show, I'd go for that. I can see him being stuck having to deal with Beaker, Animal, or the Swedish Chef, and exploding over not being able to understand any of them. Or maybe bonding with the larger monsters.

I'd like to see Rob Zombie too, who's about as close to Alice Cooper as we have these days. Plus I've seen him in enough interviews to see that he has a sense of humor about himself.