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Feb. 9th, 2007 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dweniusA birthday gift I got tonight was the complete first season of the Muppet Show.
Episode one starts with "Manah Manah", and goes directly into a really warped interpretive dance with guest star Juliet Prowse and a bunch of lime green gazelle like puppets with no faces. No real intro material...Episode one looks like a mid-season, "we've been doing this for a while" show.
Episode two is a regular music cornucopia, featuring Kermit singing "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" (!!! and then getting belted by Miss Piggy for ogling Lydia, also a pig. I now wonder if there are other Marx Brothers references in the Muppet's oeuvre, or if this was just a nod to the vaudeville variety shows upon which TMS is based?), Connie Stevens singing "Teenager in Love" and "Close to You", Floyd from the Electric Mayhem singing Ain't Misbehavin', Gonzo growing a killer tomato plant to the strains of the 1812 overture, and a cameo by Bert singing "Some Enchanted Evening."
It was, in fact, fun for the whole family :) Is it deathless comedy? No. Will the episodes get better when The Evil Mouse People finally get around to releasing season's 2 and 3? Yes. Is it still funny for children and adults, for completely different reasons? Hell yes!
Episode one starts with "Manah Manah", and goes directly into a really warped interpretive dance with guest star Juliet Prowse and a bunch of lime green gazelle like puppets with no faces. No real intro material...Episode one looks like a mid-season, "we've been doing this for a while" show.
Episode two is a regular music cornucopia, featuring Kermit singing "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" (!!! and then getting belted by Miss Piggy for ogling Lydia, also a pig. I now wonder if there are other Marx Brothers references in the Muppet's oeuvre, or if this was just a nod to the vaudeville variety shows upon which TMS is based?), Connie Stevens singing "Teenager in Love" and "Close to You", Floyd from the Electric Mayhem singing Ain't Misbehavin', Gonzo growing a killer tomato plant to the strains of the 1812 overture, and a cameo by Bert singing "Some Enchanted Evening."
It was, in fact, fun for the whole family :) Is it deathless comedy? No. Will the episodes get better when The Evil Mouse People finally get around to releasing season's 2 and 3? Yes. Is it still funny for children and adults, for completely different reasons? Hell yes!
