‘The Muppets’ Recap & Review: The Classic Show Is Back

The Muppets are back on the screen, and things are still the same. Yet, a little different: Kermit and Piggy have split the sheets. Hence the title “Pig Girls Don’t Cry.” This time the show has a little more in common with 30 Rock, but the gags haven’t changed much. The characters go throughout their day-to-day, and Kermit explains the challenges of running Up Late with Miss Piggy and starting a new show to be filmed  “in that crazy, hand-held documentary style.”

‘The Muppets Recap & Review

Kermit leads the morning meeting to get the show in order: the stunt crew needs to get stronger harnesses to support Miss Piggy; Gonzo decides that interviews are good devices, but confides in an interview that he hates that device; the band learns to stop playing when the talk show begins.

Love-lorn Kermit the Frog decides that Piggy isn’t all that great from the standpoint of a non-boyfriend. He can’t even express how his life is a “bacon wrapped hell” without being told he cannot use the word “hell.”

Gonzo is putting together a show called “Dancing with the Czars.” The writers room is alive with  Russian music when a pig walks through the door. Kermit and Denise have been dating for a couple months. They  got together when they “cross-promoted” at a synergy meeting.

Fozzie is meeting his girlfriend’s parents for the first time and is confronted by her father about small detail that he is a bear. He uses his relationship to Miss Piggy as a tool to get into their good graces. He tells the mother he can introduce her Piggy and when he calls in on the favor, Piggy doesn’t know who he is.

Kermit takes control when he finds out that Piggy dismissed Elizabeth Banks as a guest. He wants Elizabeth Banks on the show, and that’s final. The writing team reminds him how bad an idea it is to go over Piggy’s head, but it’s too later to go back.

All the issues Kermit is trying to juggle come to a head when he is confronted by Fozzie’s girlfriend’s parents and Elizabeth Banks being on set. Piggy storms out and the two break up on the sidewalk by a hot dog stand.

Fozzie breaks up with his girl after her parents won’t accept him as a bear. She doesn’t care, but he does. It looks like it will be a long road ahead for The Muppets this season.

Pictured: Gonzo (David Goelz) and Kermit the Frog (Steve Whitmire)