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Wednesday 10 May 2023

My First Impressions Of The Muppets Mayhem TV Series

 


Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem are a band that have apart of the The Muppets brand since The Muppet Show first debuted in the late sixties. Well now after almost fifty years of being the sideshow their now taking centre stage and to celebrate this fact i'll hopefully be reviewing the full show and so now then join me as I give my first impressions of the show that somewhat tries to bring the mayhem with the show in question being called simply just "The Muppets Mayhem" enjoy.

The plot of these episodes is when it's discovered that the band too out an advance to make an album in the seventies a record label secretary tries to get the band to actually make an album. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad with the plot being the type of heartfelt plot that we'd expect from the creator of The Goldbergs but done in the stereotypical Muppet form in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Starring in these episodes is this shows co-creator  Bill Barretta as Dr. Teeth and Leslie Carrara-Rudolph as Penny Waxman. Also starring in these episodes is Dave Goelz as Zoot , Eric Jacobson as Animal , Peter Linz as Lips , David Rudman as Janice , Matt Vogel as Floyd Pepper , Anders Holm as JJ , James Hong as Chef Dan , Jennifer Irwin as Delilah Gertz , Ducktales 2017 and Sonic The Hedgehog film star Ben Schwartz as Gus D'Vore , Lilly Singh as Nora , Tahj Mowry as Moog and Saara Chaudry as Hannah.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad. With the The Muppet performers doing great as their characters which is to be expected given the fact that alot of them have been playing their respective characters for decades at this point but what let's these episodes is the acting from the human cast who were just very wooden , lifeless and boring.



For a show that has the word mayhem in it's title there's oddly enough very little mayhem to be found in these first three episodes. Which for a show that has The Electric Mayhem as it's lead characters you'd think that the show would feature plenty of mayhem and yet in these first three episodes there's barely any kind of mayhem at all which makes the show feel tame which shouldn't be the case at all as The Electric Mayhem are always anarchic in all of there appearances and yet for some strange reason in these first three episodes there just not bringing the mayhem at all. 


Speaking of the band they are really good in these first three episodes and feel alot more like a family then they previously have done. With the band mostly being written very well I say mostly because something happens in episode three which I won't go into here because it's a spoiler but it feels out of character for the band to be acting they way that they do in episode three of this show which is a shame because when this show gets the band down well we get alot of really funny moments out of them but sadly tho the show really doesn't get the band down well all the time.

This show was co-created by the creator of The Goldbergs Adam F. Goldberg and you can tell because his fingerprints are all over this show. Right down to each of the first three episodes not only having an ending song but also having a deep emotional message to them the second of which got really old really fast and I hope to god that that trope doesn't continue on in the rest of the episodes because not all episodes need to have a big emotional final scene to them sometimes just ending on a joke is good enough and that should be the case for anything involving The Muppets.


I'm just going to be honesty this shows human cast of characters just aren't that interesting and the show almost sows to a crawl whenever they appear on screen. Which is a shame because they get alot of the really big emotional moments in the first three episodes and it just doesn't work because those characters aren't written all that well and are acted even worse and while they might improve over the rest of the series when you start them of on rocky foundations it doesn't matter how they end up because the foundations for them were so really bad in the first place.

Now then the first three episodes of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of no longer then twenty nine minuets with each episode being around the twenty eight minuet mark. Which for a Muppets TV show is a bit on the long side with these first three episodes not really needing to be as long as they are as you can very cut alot a good five minuets from each episode but I will very gladly admit that each of the first three episodes do indeed have some really good pacing to them with each of the episodes really just flying by. 


So now then since this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad. As there are some bad jokes to be found in these first three episodes but when the show tells a really good joke you really do know about it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall this show so far is a pretty decent show altho I don't know why Disney decided to release all of the shows ten episodes on the same day as they don't usually do that and it's not really something that works for well for this kind of show at all in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in these first three episodes in this very post and since i'm planning to review the show as a whole tomorrow i'm not going to be rating the show just yet.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I used in this very post from the official The Muppets fandom wiki page and Google Images. With the website that I personally recommend using to get the actual images from this show being the official The Muppets fandom wiki page this is simply because nearly all of the images that are featured and are thus up and on the official The Muppets fandom wiki page are all fairly high in quality and as well as being very fairly high in definition.