Buzz Watch: The Muppets Are Set For A (New Media) Come-Back?

Authored by Jay Baage on July 7, 2008 - 12:04pm.

In case you managed to stay away from the computer on your 4th of July weekend you might have missed Sam the Eagle present an Internet-exclusive musical salute to America featuring his fellow Muppets. Between 1976 and 1981, long before Shrek and fancy animation came along, Jim Henson and his team produced The Muppet Show on television and it truly was kids entertainment that grown-ups could enjoy too. The great content and funny characters are timeless (the clip embedded above has had over a quarter million views since it was posted two weeks ago). Still, reruns of The Muppet Show haven't been shown on air since 2001. In 2005 the Muppets launched the award-winning webisodes Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony. According to a Wikipedia entry, there is talk of another revival of The Muppets, with FOX being the initial serious contender. We'll see how much truth there is to those discussions soon (the clip above was posted by "Sam the Eagle" and not much more information about who created it was available because, as Sam states: "... as a citizen of this great nation, I am not required to give any further information to any weirdoes who may be reading this." Wouldn't it would be cool to see The Muppets revived, even if it was just on the Internet? They've been gone for far too long! Oh, by the way, here is a good Muppet mash-up from Funny or Die, this one is more for adults than kids though (!):

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Published in DMW Daily, July 7, 2008

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About the muppet shows

Submitted by m.vutler (not verified) on July 9, 2008 - 7:22am.

I likes these shows most as my child watch this show and when i first watched this a feel really non-sense about.Further i liked it specially Kermit who make all non sense and makes laugh.I suggest all who reads this to once in life watch this show and it will really helps to remove tension and stress. m.vutler