The Muppets is a brand that will never go away they will always some form of product good to go be it a new film a TV show or whatever there will always be something to do with The Muppets. However there seems to be one Muppets show that alot of people forgot about myself include and that's there 2015 workplace comedy show called The Muppets and so here is my review of that shows first episode with the episode itself being called "Pig Girls Don't Cry" and once again the show is called "The Muppets" enjoy the review everyone.
The plot of the episode is Kermit has booked Elizabeth Banks as a guest for Miss Piggy's late night talk show called "Up Late With Miss Piggy" the only issue is Miss Piggy doesn't like Elizabeth Banks and Fozzie Bear trys to win over his human girlfriends parents. In all honesty the plot wasn't that bad it's exactly the kind of plot that you would expect from a workplace comedy starring The Muppets but at the same time the plot isn't as good as it could have been in my opinion.
Starring in this episode is Steve Whitmire as Kermit the Frog , Rizzo The Rat , Beaker , Statler and Lips and Eric Jacobson as Miss Piggy , Fozzie Bear , Sam The Eagle and Animal. Also starring in this episode is David Rudman as Scooter and Janice , Matt Vogel as Uncle Deadly , Floyd Pepper and Sweetums , Julianne Buescher as Denise and Yolanda Rat , Dave Goelz as Gonzo , Dr. Bunsen Honeydew , Waldorf , Zoot and Chip , Riki Lindhome as Becky , Tom Bergeron as Himself , Imagine Dragons as Themselves and the writer / director / producer and one of the stars of Charlies Angels 2019 Elizabeth Banks as Herself.
In terms of what I thought about thee acting in this episode it honestly wasn't that bad all of the muppet performers do a solid job which given that alot of these actors have been playing these roles for decades at this point shouldn't come as a surprise. As for the human actors they do a solid but I honestly feel that there performances would have been better if they took the Michael Cain approach and treated this show like it was an OSCAR worthy film and pretend that there co-stars weren't muppets but that's just what I think anyways.
This show is the one where they broke up Miss Piggy and Kermit and I have to say that I kind of like the character that they paired Kermit up with for most of the show. Denise (who is the character that they paired Kermit up with the vast majority of this shows run) is the complete opposite of Miss Piggy which kind of makes her a good fit for Kermit but at the same time i'm always going to prefer Missy Piggy and Kermit over Denise and Kermit.
Simply because we've had decades to get to know Missy Piggy and to see what she and Kermit are like together. Where as with Denise she and Kermit break up during this show and she's not been seen since and so i'm of course going to go with the pairing that we've had for decades because that pairing just works and while it is interesting seeing Kermit with another girl friend nothing is ever going to top Miss Piggy and Kermit in my opinion.
Honestly I like alot of the jobs that they gave the muppet characters in this show with Gonzo being the main writer for Up Late With Miss Piggy and Kermit serving as the executive producer for Up Late With Miss Piggy. What I don't get is why didn't they make Fozzie the main writer for Up Late With Miss Piggy since his whole thing is telling bad jokes which is exactly what Gonzo is pitching in this episode.
From what I can gather this show got very mixed results not only from critics but also from fans of The Muppets. I myself thought that the show was good when I first watched the episodes as they were being aired back in 2015. However now five years later and having seen better media related to The Muppets I gave to say that this show isn't that good but it's not also not that bad either since it does keep the spirit of the original characters intact and it does something new by making this more of an adult type of show.
This episode had a running time of twenty one minuets and twenty six seconds which I honestly felt was about right. Since even with both of the plots of this episode there's not really enough there to warrant anything even close to thirty minuets as such I do feel that twenty one minuets and twenty six seconds was the perfect amount of time for this episode since it meant that every scene had to be about advancing both plots of this episode (which i've mentioned right back at the start of this review) and that meant that no scene felt like filler or at least that's what I think about this episodes running time anyways.
Now then boys and girls since this is a comedy that does mean that I have to talk about the jokes that are in this episode. Honestly I thought that the jokes in this episode were rather hit and miss since while Scooter getting into a fight Elizabeth Banks was funny some of the Staler And Waldorf stuff wasn't that funny and alot of this episode has jokes like that since for every funny joke the episode has it very quickly follows it up with an unfunny joke.
Overall this was a really funny episode or at least in some parts it was a really funny episode since yeah as i've mentioned in this review the episode does have some faults. However the show does have alot of going for it and I liked the fact that it took the more mature route with these characters since it's an angle that hasn't been done before and don't worry if you forgot about this show because it only lasted one season lasting sixteen episodes with the first episode airing on September 22nd 2015 and the final episode airing on March 1st 2016 as for my rating for this episode it gets a 6 out of 10 from me.
As for where I got the images that I used in this well the images that I used in this review were gathered from the official The Muppets fandom wiki page. Since I only went to one website for the images that I used in this review I have no choice but to recommend that you use the official The Muppets fandom wiki page if you want any images regarding The Muppets since alot of the images on the official The Muppets fandom wiki page are very high definition which if your like me you'll know is always a good thing when your making a review.