You’ve heard about the all new Muppet movie script that Forgetting Sarah Marshall star (and Judd Apatow gang member) Jason Segel has been working on? Well, according to The Sun, there’s a chance that if the big-screen project is a commercial and critical success, it might spin off into an all new Muppet TV series. Squeeeeeee!
[Let's all pause and catch our collective breath. If you need a moment, you can click here and read Whitney Pastorek's fascinating profile of nudity-loving Segel from a few months back.]
Anyhow, this development got me so excited, I had no choice — no choice I tell you! — but to pen a song of anticipation/celebration, set to The Muppets Show theme song. (Click here if you need musical accompaniment to my little ditty.)
It’s time for Kermit’s closeup
And yes, Miss Piggy’s too
A total Muppets comeback, it cannot happen too soon
The perfect family program
A certain ratings bang
Cue Gonzo and Camilla but not Jason Segel’s wang
Who misses goofy Beaker
And Bunsen Honeydew?
Who’d do a double cartwheel
If the Muppets were all new?
Big networks get things started!
Make sure it’s Henson-hearted!
Why don’t you get things started?
On the most sensational inspirational celebrational Muppetational
This is what we call The Muppet Show!
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Two words – Statler and Waldorf.
You guys feeling me?
Fantastic!
I’ve often wondered why one of my favorite shows left TV in the first place. To bad that Jim Henson is no longer with us, but his spirit lives on.
“It’s time to put on makeup!”
I’m totally excited, as long as it’s not given a more “adult” tone. Keep the Muppets family-safe (I don’t even want an outtake reel that’s adults-only.) No adulterating (hee, pun not intended) the Muppets.
Oh gosh this is going to be brilliant
My parents used to watch this with my older sister when she was a baby…so much so that there are pictures of my dad with a Kermit muppet doing shows for her.
Oh dear, here’s something I didn’t consider. Who will the guest stars be? They won’t EVER be as cool as Elton John, Alice Cooper, or Sly Stallone…
Squeeee indeed. I would love to introduce my niece and nephew to the jows of the muppet show. I remember how my brother and friends – all in high school! – watch the show every week.
Oh please, please please please please…ever since Miss Piggy appeared in the first Aussielo TV I’ve been jonesing for a return of the Muppets…Pigs In Space in paticular.
“All I ever wanted was you,
a dream come true,
oh, Miss Piggy,
it’s youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!”
I love the muppets and Jason Segal. Hope this doesnt take him away from ‘How I Met Your Mother’?
He should call his muppet movie,’Forgetting Muppets Treasure Island’.
Muppets Take Manhattan was the last great muppet movie.
Please please please let this be true. Anyone who is not sure if this is a good idea, go out and get the original series on DVD. I want my neices and nephews to experiance this show like I did. Best news I’ve heard in a long time.
Gre is right. The trifecta is “The Muppet Movie”, “The Great Muppet Caper”, and “The Muppets Take Manhattan”.
Best line in “The Muppet Movie” is when Mel Brooks says, “Excuse the brain!”
Best line in “The Great Muppet Caper” is when Fozzy (was it Fozzy) says, “What color are their hands now?”
I am almost 40. Is it pathetic that I know those lines still? HA!!!
Best line from Muppets take Manhattan:
Penguins “hey, anybody got a job?”
Everyone else: “NO!!!”
Penguins “well exchuuuuse us for living!!!”
Does anyone remember Muppets Tonight? Will this new show go down the same road?
NO WAY, LEAH!!! I forgot all about that. Thank you, water just got sprayed out of my nose. Just what I needed today.
Fletch – that line was Beauregard…They were going to catch the thieves red-handed.
“I’ve got some paper towels!”
This is great news. This is well overdue after a string of some subpar efforts. Now is the time…make it happen and make Jim proud.
That would make me so so happy.
Thank you for the clarification, Mazz.
What about when everyone was in this big conversation, and the crowd silences and you hear Janice saying, “Look, Mother. It’s my life. OK. So if I want to live on a beach and walk around naked…”
Thank you for that line! “Excuuuuse me for living” was the quintessential comeback for me and my classmates in the 3rd-5th grades.
Dr. Teeth: “It’s the cops. The fuzz. The P-I-”
Miss Piggy: “DON’T YOU DARE!!!”
I recall the Muppet Show trying to be revamped years back. The original Muppet Show was charming, goofy and clever. I remember the failed revamp to be none of those things but risque and tacky. I don’t think the magic can be brought back easily in these cynical times.
I’m psyched. I love me some muppets. I agree that some of the last few muppet efforts haven’t been too good. but, now is the time to change that and bring back the stories that really work with the characters we know and love.
personally, I enjoyed muppets tonight. I have rewatched almost all of the episodes fairly recently, and I have to say… I think it gets a bad wrap by a lot of people. It’s not the best. But it definitely had some high-end muppet moments.
Really, can anyone think of anything better than Elton John singing “Crocodile Rock” in that muppet-swamp? That ruled over everything back then…
I am a very big Muppet fan and was very sad when Muppets Tonight didn’t last. If you haven’t seen the episode with Garth Brooks, you haven’t really lived. Muppets Tonight was definitely worthwhile. The new characters that were introduced are already classics. Pepe anyone? Muppets from Space was a legitimate Muppet movie, but the more recent attempts don’t add up. Muppets work when they are just being themselves, not dressed up for the Christmas Carol, or Treasure Island or Wizard of Oz. Those movies just don’t work. Let’s hope for the best.
All I am waiting for is the Forgetting-Sarah-Marshall-inspired-Jason-Segel-real-life dracula musical. When is that coming to a broadway stage/theater near me?
Jason Segel is comedy gold. It makes sense he and the muppets would get together. I’d watch anything with him in it! (or made by him. and the muppets have been in need of a comeback for a long while!)
My kids (of all people!) love The Muppet Show. When I told them that I watched it as a kid, they couldn’t believe how lucky I was. Let’s hope they keep it goofy, clever, and sweet, like other posters have said.
Awesome. PIIIIGGGGS INNNN SPAAAACCCCE.
I can’t wait.
Does anyone remember the Jim Henson Hour witht he beautiful white lion, and featuring The Storyteller? I do have the storyteller but wish the whole thing had been released on DVD. I can’t quite remember Muppets Tonight. The Jim Henson hour did not last a season b/c it was put on Friday nights – the dead zone.
By the way, if you go to Youtube and search Muppets, look for Habenera with Beaker. It is hilarious.
Thank you for “Muppetational”! Word of the day!!
Is this truth?? Might they do it? So witty, heartfelt, slapstick, simple, complex and astoundingly entertaining for all ages. What’s not to like? Come Back MUPPETS!
Statler and Waldorf…too funny.