The Muppets is a brand name that so well known around the world with the characters appearing in everything from TV shows to movies to commercials for bread. Well now they are taking on the world of online streaming with a new show which to say it's a but strange would be a huge understatement and well I thought that i'd do you all a favour by checking out the very first episode and give you my first impressions of "Muppets Now" enjoy.
There is no real plot to this show or even this episode it's just Scooter uploading the show and the episodes playing out. What I like about this set up is that from what I can gather all of the muppets are going to have shows that fit there personality so for example Miss Piggy has a fashion show while Kermit has a show interviewing people and Walter has a show learning all about the various hobbies of the various muppet characters , this set up to me works because it opens the door to alot of laughs as well as having shows that fit the hosts personality.
Starring in this episode is new Kermit voice actor Matt Vogel as Kermit the Frog and Uncle Deadly and Eric Jacobson as Miss Piggy , Fozzie Bear and Sam the Eagle. Also starring in the episode is Peter Linz as Walter , David Rudman as Scooter and Janice , Bill Barretta as The Swedish Chef , Howard Tubman , Dave Goelz as Gonzo and Julianne Buescher as Margaret and Beverly Plume as well as a whole bunch of celebrities none of which i'm going to spoil because they are really fun to see in this episode.
Like I said we do have a new voice actor for Kermit here and while Matt Vogel does do a good job I think his voice will take a while to get used to.The rest of the cast do a good job which shouldn't come as a surprise since alot of them have been playing these characters for nearly twenty years and so of course there going to know what that character would say and how they would react in certain situations.
This episode is twenty two minuets long but it really doesn't feel like it at all mostly because the episode is split up into several segments. Which I feel help with the shows pacing because your with one character just long enough to get some laughs and then you cut away from that character before it gets to boring which honestly keeps not only the episode but the segments from getting boring in my opinion.
That being said there are very few times where you see The Muppets together and so the episode isn't as fun as it perhaps could have been. Since part of what makes The Muppets fun to watch is seeing the characters interact with each other and sadly there isn't alot of scenes with The Muppet characters talking to each other which honestly makes the episode a little less fun to watch but hey this is only the first episode and so hopefully they will have more scenes together in future episodes.
Now given how this character was very prominent in the marketing for the show i'm surprised that the character of Joe The Legal Weasel aka Joe From Legal actually doesn't appear in the episode. This isn't a spoiler since there's really nothing to spoil in this episode but i'm shocked that the character wasn't included in someway shape or form given that he featured in pretty much every piece of promotional material for the show.
I'm trying not to spoil anything here but I will say finding out what Kermit's hobby is is honestly pretty freaking funny just because it was so unexpected. Then to make the joke even better Kermit tries to teach Walter his hobby which oddly works for that character , however Kermit's hobby really doesn't make sense as funny as it is simply because the hobby isn't something that Kermit would enjoy doing let alone be a master in.
I honestly feel that this show is going to take the best advantage of Disney+ releasing episodes weekly simply because of the fact that there will be a large group of people waiting to see the reviews for the episode to see if it's worth watching. Which your just not going to get if you release the episodes all at once plus given the format of the show I could see people getting very bored of the show if all the episodes were released at once.
Now then since this is The Muppets which means it's a comedy and so we have to talk about the jokes that are in the episode. Which yeah I thought the jokes were pretty funny again i'm going to spoil what the jokes are because of how funny I think the jokes are but I will say that there's a joke in Walters Muppet Masters show which I find to be freaking funny and is so in character for one of the characters involved and leave it at that.
Overall this was a pretty decent episode i'm not going to say that it's laugh out loud funny because it's really not. However there are alot of good things about the episode and it's a show that I can see pleasing old fans hopefully bring new fans to this franchise for the characters debut on Disney+ the show is alot better then what it really could have been in my opinion and since this is the first epsidoe i'm not going to give this rating but I might review the whole series when it finishes airing but we'll see about that.
All and I do mean all the images used in this review were gathered from the official Muppets fandom wiki page. I was honestly shocked at how many high definition images there are not only for this episode but for the series as a whole so yeah if you want high definition images for this show or this episode feel free to use the official muppets fandom wiki page and I only used alot of Miss pIggy images because she's a star and you all know it.