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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 98% of 45 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights -- this spirited return to The Muppet Show's roots is clever, earnest, and feels exactly right." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 80 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. James Poniewozik of The New York Times praised the Muppets' return to form, writing, "The Muppet Show, it turns out, doesn't need to be retooled for a new era, because the Muppets exist outside of time. These are, in fact, your grandparents' Muppets, and your parents'.…
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60 of 183 · most liked firstI marvel at how Jim Henson’s brain worked. This film was a presentation piece to the executives at CBS when he was trying to get them, ultimately unsuccessfully, to pick up The Muppet Show... But if you’re a TV exec sitting in a boardroom watching this, there’s no way it’s not leaving an impression.
positive · AI labelView post →Fun Fact: Four actors have portrayed Inspector Clouseau in film, and all four have appeared as guests on The Muppet Show. I have no idea what to do with this information.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's the Muppet #LetterboxdFriday Show, with our very special guest star, #LastFourWatched, YAAAY! I time-traveled from 1 of the Muppet Show's pilot eps to the gang's 2026 special, basked in the 1979 classic film's glow, & saw a Muppet Show Pitch Reel. What can I say, they convinced me! #Letterboxd
positive · AI labelView post →I marvel at how Jim Henson’s creative brain worked. This film was a presentation piece to the execs at CBS when he was trying to get them, ultimately unsuccessfully, to pick up THE MUPPET SHOW. If you’re a TV exec sitting in a boardroom watching this, there’s no way it’s not leaving an impression...
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the first orders of business was to see how the Muppets would look on film. "We're taking the characters out of the Muppet Show and bringing them into the real world," Jim said. On a rainy Spring day, Jim, Frank Oz, and Frawley went into the English countryside to film test footage.
neutral · AI labelView post →Can't make a Blade movie, can't make the Muppet Show, what is it you would say you actually do here?
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm was (and am) a HUGE M*A*S*H fan and I adored #LorettaSwit, who worked hard to make Margaret more than the annoying "Hot Lips" moniker that followed her from the movie. And if you want to love her even more, here's part of her memorable and incredibly game appearance on The Muppet Show in 1980.
neutral · AI labelView post →Jim Henson was one of my biggest heroes. Seeing the original Kermit the Frog puppet he used to puppeteer during The Muppet Show and The Muppet Movie felt incredible.
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s the 50th anniversary today of the debut of The Muppet Show. One curious theme running through the recent J. Reitman movie about the launch of SNL was the contempt the film had for Jim Henson, who was aboard the first season and who is depicted in the film as a Hippie Artiste (derogatory)
neutral · AI labelView post →Disney History 8/24/1936 Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets and the voice of Kermit the Frog, is born. Henson was the force behind Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, The Muppet Movie, Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, The Labyrinth, and Yoda. He sadly passed away at the age of 53.
neutral · AI labelView post →these people couldnt how to make movie where a Black dude kills vampires because it didnt fit into their ever expanding cinematic universe of IP they can't figure out what to do with, "we don't know how to make the Muppet Show that we literally just made" is unfortunately unsurprising.
neutral · AI labelView post →Was watching a Hayley Mills Disney movie and decided to treat myself to The Muppet Show and this skit is on and how is it so genius?
neutral · AI labelView post →Just took about 120 mg of THC via a fistful of gummies and am smoking a bowl of my most potent weekend weed. In a half hour I'm going to start this movie. I grew up on this show, so they gott damn well better have gotten it right. I'll be watching from the astral seats. #TheMuppetShow #MovieSky
positive · AI labelView post →The Muppet Show | Official Trailer | February 4 on Disney+ and ABC.
neutral · AI labelView post →Can we bring back Muppets Tonight, or the Muppet Show, maybe a Muppet Movie? Gimmie something Disney
neutral · AI labelView post →The Muppet Show was an English production done by ITV (its director Sir Lew Grade came from an entertainment background and knew a good show idea when he saw it.) The US channels turned Jim Henson down flat. Stars would fly on Concorde to get to London to film episodes.
neutral · AI labelView post →A genuinely good film debut for the Muppets around the peak of the Muppet Show. Seriously, I’m still amazed that Jim Henson and his team delivered a solid job with the special effects for the time.
positive · AI labelView post →50 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Muppet Show, as you likely know, was filmed at Elstree by ATV. While the Creature Shop select were over to film the first series they made their UK TV debut on Des O'Connor Entertains.
neutral · AI labelView post →It is everything wonderful about the Muppets distilled into 15 minutes. I love The Muppet Movie, I love The Muppet Show, but if I was introducing someone to the Muppets who had no awareness of them, Muppet*Vision 3D would be my pick. (3/6)
neutral · AI labelView post →Kid, watching Gene Kelly do “Singin’ in the Rain” on The Muppet Show: “I think this is better than what they did in the movie. He’s all surrounded by Muppets.”
neutral · AI labelView post →For us Muppet fans, we have sayings about this for every famous person ever. Steve Martin? From the Muppet Show? Orson Welles? From the Muppet Movie? Michael Jackson? From A Special Sesame Street Christmas?
neutral · AI labelView post →Jim Henson worked for years to get both TMS and FR on the air--and once that happened, he was ready to move on to the next thing (in both instances, it was film). As he said of The Muppet Show, "We certainly enjoyed it. It was a nice show to do." Nice indeed.
neutral · AI labelView post →TV Release Roundup, February 2026. | Name | Series | Date of Release | Platform | Genre(s) | Country of Origin | | ----------------------------------- | ------------------- | --------------- | -------------- | --------------------------------- | ----------------- | | Motorvalley | New Series | 02/10/2026 | Netflix | Action, Drama | Italy |…
neutral · AI labelView post →I almost made a joke about there being nothing kids in 1979 wanted more than a Charlie McCarthy doll, but then I remembered he was on the Muppet Show and in the Muppet movie, so I guess it makes sense they'd try to capitalize on that.
neutral · AI labelView post →can Seth Rogan do for the Muppets on TV what Jason Segal did for the Muppets in film? Well judging from this first clip of The Muppet Show, I say 100% yes www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIqS...
positive · AI labelView post →I introduced Cathy to The Muppet Christmas Carol tonight for our weekly movie, and she loved it. Now I’m binging The Muppet Show. My night’s going pretty well. #MovieSky 🎥 #TheMuppets
neutral · AI labelView post →Film? If we're only talking stuff Henson directed, I love love love The Great Muppet Caper, but The Dark Crystal is an incredible cinematic accomplishment. Show? It's *gotta* be The Muppet Show! Fraggle Rock and The Storyteller were something special, though. Character: It's always been Rowlf!
neutral · AI labelView post →Film: Labyrinth Show: The Muppet Show Character: Assuming this means a character he also played, Dr. Teeth.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm watching *The Muppet Show* for the first time in my life and I'm enjoying the heck out of it.
positive · AI labelView post →Hello. I would like to know your top 3 Muppets, please. For the purposes of this question, “Muppet” is a literal Muppet, ie, was on some version of The Muppet Show or Movie. So no Fraggles or Pilot or Big Bird. Statler & Waldorf count as one Muppet.
neutral · AI labelView post →The SNL movie looks fine and all, but what I want is a movie about the premiere episode of The Muppet Show
neutral · AI labelView post →Today is Jim Henson’s birthday. The #Muppets were a huge part of my childhood, from Sesame Street, to the Muppet Show, to the Dark Crystal movie, and so much more. His was the first celebrity death that affected me, as if a piece of my childhood was taken away and was gone forever. #dailynerdpic
neutral · AI labelView post →16. The Muppet Movie presents Camilla the Chicken as part of the core Muppet gang, unquestionably teamed with Gonzo at all moments in the film. However, prior to the movie's debut, Camilla only appeared in four episodes of the Muppet Show, and almost never for more than one sketch.
neutral · AI labelView post →TV and movie tough guys tend to make the most astoundingly hilarious guests on the Muppet Show.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Muppet Show | Teaser Trailer | Disney+.
neutral · AI labelView post →Plus, if a celebrity is already on the Disney payroll, promoting a new movie or something, they can appear on The Muppet Show as part of its promotion! My God can you even IMAGINE a Muppet Show episode with RDJ and Chris Evans promoting Doomsday in the style of their classic Star Wars episode?
neutral · AI labelView post →Considering how Muppets transformed the way puppetry worked on television, then making the jump beyond the Muppet Show into movies in real settings, then a space people could be brought into. And yet it felt genuine and real. It all was like "Yeah, this is Muppets." The verisimilitude of it all.
neutral · AI labelView post →#muppets Muppets used to film The Muppet Show (Jim Henson Era)
neutral · AI labelView post →like every 80's kid I watched my fair share of MASH but my fondest memories of Loretta Swit were on the Muppet Show singing "I Feel the Earth Move" & for her part in a movie called "S.O.B." that maybe 10 people have seen but it was one of my mom's faves & that makes me smile. Rest easy.
neutral · AI labelView post →Name your fav Jim Henson film, show, or character. This is a mean question. My favorite for all the above has to be the Muppet Show, though. Incidentally, Muppets take the Marvel Universe is a great comic.
neutral · AI labelView post →What the fuck is going on at Disney, by the way? They can't come up with a story for a Blade movie? They can't come up with a premise for THE MUPPET SHOW? Where the fuck is all that money going? You don't employ a single fucking person who can think creatively at all?
neutral · AI labelView post →The Muppets ARE the premise. "The Muppet Show" is the premise. That's it. All you need. That's like saying "We want to make a Godzilla movie but we don't know what Godzilla should do in it".
neutral · AI labelView post →Disney incomprehensibly can't figure out The Muppet Show but the past week we've had news about a new Point Break TV show and a new Hawaii Five-0 movie, Hollywood has got to get its priorities straight.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yellowbeard (1983). This felt a few rewrites short of really firing on all cylinders. But any movie with Graham Chapman loping about looking like Sweetums from The Muppet Show isn't all bad. And James Mason steals the whole thing as a hilariously dry Captain Bligh spoof.
neutral · AI labelView post →...all right, Muppet movie people, you have your assignment! (Or it can be a musical segment on new episodes of the Muppet Show, if they go forward with that.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Nonviolent protest can take many forms. Calling tiplines to fill them with garbage data is a fun and harmless way to waste their resources, but IMO, the Bee Movie script is overdone. I propose using the Muppet Show theme. It highlights exactly what we think of these muppets.
neutral · AI labelView post →Among some on the Muppet Show cast, suspicions have intensified that Dr. Honeydew has surrounded himself with too many advisers beholden to the “meep state”
neutral · AI labelView post →Before I let #LetterBoxdFriday slip by here's my #LastFourWatched 1. The Muppet Show 2. The Extinction of Fireflies 3. The Secret Path 4. eCupid #Movies #Films
neutral · AI labelView post →Name your fav Jim Henson film, show, or character. While The Dark Crystal is the biggest part of my childhood, without The Muppet Show, it likely wouldn’t have been made.
neutral · AI labelView post →Film: The Muppet Movie Show: The Muppet Show Character:
neutral · AI labelView post →"Deciding on a premise" it is The Muppet Show what are you talking about 😭 Get a guest star. Film a couple skits with puppets, at least one involving the guest star. Make a silly backstage plot. Done. The Muppets are never going to be Severance 💀
neutral · AI labelView post →If you watched Watership Down as a child, you were watching a film whose music was scored by a transwoman. Whose music also preceded Crossroads or the Muppet Show when shown on ITV. Angela Morley.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's time to start the riffing It's time to pick a fight It's time to mock a movie On the Muppet Show Tonight It's time to tease the actor Whose lines don't come out right It's time to suffer through it On the Muppet Show Tonight
neutral · AI labelView post →I absolutely love Love LOVE THE MUPPET SHOW. I’ve never made it through any Muppet movie because LEGS… 😕
positive · AI labelView post →THE MUPPET MOVIE THE MUPPET SHOW Bobo the Bear and Pepe always war for top slot.
neutral · AI labelView post →Film- The Muppet Movie Show- The Muppet Show Character- Dr. Teeth
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie: The Great Muppet Caper Show: The Muppet Show Character: Fozzie
neutral · AI labelView post →Name your fav Jim Henson film, show, or character It's a tie: Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street Kermit on The Muppet Show
neutral · AI labelView post →We remember... Kenny Baker - actor 24 August 1934 - 13 August 2016 Age 81 Though most famous for his film work, his TV credits include Dave Allen at Large The Muppet Show (as R2-D2) The Goodies The Adventure Game The Chronicles of Narnia Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie The Paradise Club Swiss Toni
neutral · AI labelView post →There's possibly a reboot/revival of THE MUPPET SHOW that will be filming a pilot in September Oh GOD, please let this actually happen #Muppets #Television #Nostalgia #Kermit #JimHenson #TheMuppetShow
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