This post originally appeared on Marni’s blog Just For The Halibut Marni Hill – Let’s take a look at the few main options, shall we? Live Appearances The news about The Muppets performing live at the Hollywood Bowl this coming September was certainly...
Jarrod Fairclough – 5 years ago the world sat in cinemas and saw the long awaited return of a bunch of lovable characters from the 70’s – The Muppets! After a few years of being teased with news by writer and star Jason Segel, life finally became a...
Jarrod Fairclough – Yesterday our fears were realized, as ABC announced that they had cancelled The Muppets after one season. Obviously the entire Muppet fan community is saddened and disappointed at the lack of faith that ABC showed in the series, which, while...
Jarrod Fairclough – Team Love. Team Friendship. Since Kermit and Miss Piggy split in August last year its a real battle that’s been fought between divided Muppet fans. And on Tuesday night the whole thing finally came to a head, as Kermit and Piggy...
Jarrod Fairclough – 20 minutes and 24 seconds in to last night’s ‘Generally Inhospitable’, three single words were uttered that had been coming from the very first second of Episode 1. It was three words that audiences had been dying to hear...
Jarrod Fairclough – Back in August last year, the internet went in to meltdown when it was announced that Kermit and Miss Piggy had ended their relationship. While there was a lot of table flipping and over used ‘grave turning’ comments, I also saw...
Jarrod Fairclough – I’ve spoken a lot about this ‘retool’ that The Muppets has undergone in the second part of its first season, so it would be pointless for me to harp on about the specifics again. However, there is one particular change that...
Jarrod Fairclough – After close to 2 months on hiatus, The Muppets returned last night, with audiences getting their first look at the new ‘retooled’ series under show runner Kristen Newman. Since the announcement of the ‘reboot’, there...
Jarrod Fairclough – This week the most anticipated film in years opens around the world. Fans all across the globe are lining up to see what could be the biggest film event of the decade. Will the audience fall in love with these characters, or...
Jarrod Fairclough – The internet is full of inspirational quotes. All you need to do is scroll down your Facebook page and you’ll see that your Aunt Linda has shared some quote about travel laid over a picture of the horizon. Well, there’s no reason...
Jarrod Fairclough – Last week I talked about the redemption of Miss Piggy in this series, and how she had gone from a crazy egocentric diva to a crazy slightly less egocentric diva. Since the break up of Kermit and Miss Piggy, it’s been very easy to side...
Jarrod Fairclough – One complaint that has plagued not just the series, but the characters in general, is that The Muppets have become Flanderized versions of themselves. The term comes from the idea that a character will have a small trait, which will...
Hey there. We thought we’d take a quick break from our SPOOOOOOOKY Halloween Week to do a public service, and that’s to remind you that The Muppets is on tonight, at 8/7c on ABC! Why are we reminding you? Because that’s just what we do! So...
It’s Halloween Week here on The Muppet Mindset, filled with spooooooky articles! LOOK OUT, THERE’S A SCARY GHOST BEHIND YOU! In ‘What Might Have Been’, we’re looking at all the unfinished films, specials and TV shows that were once in...
Mitchell Stein- The legendary Jim Henson would often say “Simple is good.” Where this new Muppet show has so far kept trying things moving as fast and cram in as much as possible, this week takes a bit of a slower, simpler approach. Where the general...
Mitchell Stein- When it comes to the new Muppet series, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of middle ground on this new Muppet show. It seems either folks will love it or rip it to shreds. Admitting that this is a fairly odd setting to see the Muppets in, I think...
The following is our review of ‘The Muppets’, which aired last night on ABC. If you have not yet seen the episode, and wish to avoid spoilers, please be warned that this review contains a multitude of them. Jarrod Fairclough – The music is playing,...
Today is the day, ladies and gentlemen! In just a matter of hours, The Muppets return to prime time with the first episode of their new series! We want you to have the best viewing experience possible, so we’ve put together these instructions, which we call:...
Yesterday Kermit and Miss Piggy announced that they were no longer in a romantic relationship, and that while they would continue to work together, they would be seeing other peoples, pigs, frogs etc. And the internet went NUTS. In a response that was surprising to...
Yesterday The Muppets took over Comic Con with a one hour panel all about their new series ‘the muppets’, which begins airing Tuesday September 22 at 8/7c. In attendance were Executive Producers Bill Prady, Bob Kushell and Randall Einhorn, as well as...
