The Muppet Show

[dbolack]

Funny how shortly after these two mention the show (producers?) being broke, there's a quick reminder that Disney and ABC are behind it.

Being borderline broke is a constant running throughline with the muppets..

 

[Umbran]

Being borderline broke is a constant running throughline with the muppets..

Yep.

we got that with the "I like a good kink" line from Sabrina

So, I think I want to return with what I actually said - was that in their attempt to make them more adult, they also made them mean spirited.

It wasn't the adultness that was the problem, in and of itself. As you and others have noted, there's always been some adult elements - it was expected that parents were watching with their children in a prime-time show. It was what form of adultness they chose - as someone noted: "crass and confrontational", cynicism and interpersonal meanness - that didn't work.

 

[RealAlHazred]

I'd like to ask someone who watched the one-off -- is it appropriate for a 2-year-old? My daughter loves Muppet Babies, but I'm concerned that the actual Muppet Show is too adult. But I'm in my late 50s and my memories of the Muppet Show are dim, beyond a general memory of being vastly entertained. Oh, and some Statler and Waldorf lines.

 

[Umbran]

I'd like to ask someone who watched the one-off -- is it appropriate for a 2-year-old? My daughter loves Muppet Babies, but I'm concerned that the actual Muppet Show is too adult.

Well, that depends on what aspects of "adult" you are concerned with.

In her first song, Sabrina Carpenter cartoonishly clears a barroom of disruptive monsters.

The language is tame, but the vocabulary is not targetting kids not yet even in grade school.