I got the Muppet Show Season 3 a couple of weeks ago and have been watching it. The Muppet Show Season 3 gives us the same amount of laughs, big named guest stars for the time, and a few new characters and spin off jokes.
The Muppet Show if you haven’t heard was variety show in the late 70’s that featured Jim Henson’s Muppet, you know Kermit, Fozzy, and Miss Piggy along with a cast of colorful characters and the two old men who sit in the box seats making jokes. There is also a human guest star that appears in every episode. This time the Muppets are getting a bit more higher quality guest star a few should be recognized by today’s youth. There is Sylvester Stallone that appears in an episode giving Kermit problem with groupies. Another episode features the 2nd half being a Piano concert by Liberache, and then there is also Harry Belefonte who has also made news in the past couple of years not for his talent but because he’s a one stop shop for photo opps with American hating dictators. Of course there is still the problem with the first two seasons that there are guest stars that I haven’t even heard of.
Still even without stars the show is memorable because of it’s unique characters and funny humor, Kermit, Fozzy, Miss Piggy, Scooter, and Animal are all timeless and there always funny with jokes that come out of left field. And they added in a few new ones this season. First is Annie Pig Sue who all though is the most formally introduced only has a handful of sequences. She is basically a young pig with a little orphan annie hair do and Kermit likes her and that causes him multiple fractures when it comes to dealing with Miss Piggy. Then there is Gladys a lunch lady has a new set is open up, it seems that other door on the far side of the back room leads downstairs to her little diner. She never is seen on stage but plenty of back stage jokes. Then finally making is debut a bit later in the season is Buregard, George the Janitors replacement. Buregard is has stupid and incompetent, has Geroge was grouchy and short tempered. This causes trouble on the sets has he can’t get the right fruit to do the Banana song, and when Sweetums finally helps him get the right fruit he says I thought those were peaches. In another show the ending song happens on a boat and the boat sinks because he and Beeker haven’t finished the set.
The show writers take bigger risks, one that takes them to another stage set, when the Muppet theater is fumigated the whole gang decides to do there show at a train station, this includes an original opening and closing credits that make the show a bit more unusual. In another show the characters catch Cluckitis and turn into chickens one by one. In finally another one Kermit and Piggy almost get married, or I should say Piggy almost tricks Kermit into getting married only to have Kermit catch wise and ruin it for her.
Some character designs of change Miss Piggy has started to look like she did now and the generic pig look is gone and she stands among the other pig muppets on the set. Animal also resembles more like he does in modern times has his head has shrunk and is a lot less furry. The biggest one is Gonzo who muppet was changed last season but his character is also starting to turn into the Gonzo we all know and love today. In the first two seasons he was a depressed failed artist who none of his acts would go right. That is still there, and there even goofy then ever. But he is more of the happy go lucky if a bit odd weirdo that we know and love then he was in the past few seasons.
The DVD set.
Last DVD set was disappointing most of the extras were for kids which included an interview with the Muppets, and most of the Muppets interviewed were from Muppets tonight and not the Muppet show. And a crappy music video followed that up. The only thing for older fans of the Muppet was the Muppets valentine special which was a special just prior to the Muppet show and kind of gave the show a bit of it’s roots. This time the specials are for the older fans, and I do mean the older fans. There is a 10 minute retrospective by some of the crew that worked on the Muppet show and what it was like to work with Henson and Oz. Then the DVD extras take us further back with some Purina dog food commercials that featured Ralph the dog in the 1960’s, followed by an early PBS documentary called Muppets on Puppets. Here Jim Henson goes about showing how they do there shows and how to create your own Muppet. It’s interesting if a bit slowed, it’s also in black and white and the source material was so old that the audio drops out for a few minutes in a segment. Still it’s a nice round of extras any old fan of the Muppets can sink there teeth into.
Final Recommendation.
I love the Muppet show and after 2 great season the show still hasn’t slowed down by season 3. If you can forgive the fact that a lot of the guest stars are hasbeens that nobody today will probably recognize you will have a great time with it.
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