'The Muppets' Slammed as 'Perverted' and 'Ruined' by One Million Moms Advocacy Group

[mvcg66b3r]

“The Muppets” received a warm welcome back from social media users after its premiere on Tuesday, but One Million Moms are outraged by the “perverted” nature of ABC’s revival.

The conservative family values group has posted a petition complaining that the new primetime show featuring Kermit, Miss Piggy and the rest of Jim Henson‘s creations is “aimed at a mature, modern audience and addresses subjects not suitable for family viewing.

http://www.thewrap.com/the-muppets-are-perverted-and-ruined-according-to-one-million-moms/

 

[MarcB]

As I posted on my Facebook page yesterday - kids won't understand the sexual innuendo. (I watched and I didn't notice any). Remember the characters on Sponge Bob Square Pants live in a place called "Bikini Bottom." And people my age (33) will remember another Nickelodeon cartoon called Rocko's Modern Life that was full of innuendo. There was a restaurant called "The Chokey Chicken". Rocko's neighbors were "Mr. and Mrs. Bighead." The super hero was "Really Really Big Man." There was the woman who had the voice of a man. The one that would say "How dare you!". The cow was being raised by a family of wolves. And the name of the mother in the wolf family's name was "Virginia Wolf."

 

[vchimpanzee]

I agree that The Muppets should be G-rated.

Of course, the interspecies relationships never seemed family-friendly to me. I tried to just ignore that.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I should mention I recorded the show but won't watch until the weekend. I enjoyed reading actual newspapers during the summer so much I can't give it up. Only when there are too many shows recorded to keep from losing anything will I cut down reading even further.

 

[Don CT]

http://www.thewrap.com/the-muppets-are-perverted-and-ruined-according-to-one-million-moms/

Usually endorsements like this are a ratings boost.

 

[purpledevil]

Of course, the interspecies relationships never seemed family-friendly to me. I tried to just ignore that.

I got a hearty laugh out of that one...

...until it dawned on me that you are actually serious. Well, let me just say, you're on to something there. Why on earth is Miss Piggy even bothering with that stupid frog Kermit, when Gonzo could split her in two with that honker of his? Or better yet, just have her hold a cookie between her legs and let Cookie Monster handle the rest.

"Pig-gy!!!! Omm..nom, nom, nom..."

When an episode of the Muppets like that hits the screen, let me know. Until then, good grief find a better way to consume your time than fretting over a frog and a pig hand puppet having "interspecies relationships". I shudder to think how you would handle true adversity such as a mortgage, living expenses, health and welfare of loved ones, or even where the next meal is coming from, when you've run out of money and can't even scrape up enough coinage to buy a cup o' soup. Until then, the 1 millions moms and you need to find better ways to consume your time. Holy Toledo! (R.I.P. Milo)

 

[Don CT]

I agree that The Muppets should be G-rated.

Of course, the interspecies relationships never seemed family-friendly to me. I tried to just ignore that.

The original muppets on SNL were anything but G rated. I don't think Hensen's original idea was to market to children.

 

[umfan]

I doubt this revival will last long. Adults are interested and parents aren't going to let kids watch PG-13 or R rated Muppets.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I got a hearty laugh out of that one...

...until it dawned on me that you are actually serious. Well, let me just say, you're on to something there. Why on earth is Miss Piggy even bothering with that stupid frog Kermit, when Gonzo could split her in two with that honker of his? Or better yet, just have her hold a cookie between her legs and let Cookie Monster handle the rest.

"Pig-gy!!!! Omm..nom, nom, nom..."

When an episode of the Muppets like that hits the screen, let me know. Until then, good grief find a better way to consume your time than fretting over a frog and a pig hand puppet having "interspecies relationships". I shudder to think how you would handle true adversity such as a mortgage, living expenses, health and welfare of loved ones, or even where the next meal is coming from, when you've run out of money and can't even scrape up enough coinage to buy a cup o' soup. Until then, the 1 millions moms and you need to find better ways to consume your time. Holy Toledo! (R.I.P. Milo)

As ,long as it doesn't go as far as you've described, I can pretend they're platonic.

I've never spent time fretting over the relationship, though. It just always bothered me but I never thought much about it.

 

[vchimpanzee]

The original muppets on SNL were anything but G rated. I don't think Hensen's original idea was to market to children.

I only became aware of that when they did prime-time classic episodes last season. I always thought of them as "Sesame Street" characters.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I doubt this revival will last long. Adults are interested and parents aren't going to let kids watch PG-13 or R rated Muppets.

Don't you mean aren't interested?

If this isn't going to do well, they really shouldn't have made it a lead-in to an already successful show.

 

[mississippi fan]

You want to see something similar to the Muppets, Peter Jackson did a movie called 'The Fleebles', the most perverse group of Muppet like ripe offs you ever saw. Pretty darn funny!

 

[mvcg66b3r]

You want to see something similar to the Muppets, Peter Jackson did a movie called 'The Fleebles', the most perverse group of Muppet like ripe offs you ever saw. Pretty darn funny!

It's called Meet the Feebles, released in 1989.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097858/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Feebles

 

[rocknrollnightmare]

I doubt this revival will last long. Adults are interested and parents aren't going to let kids watch PG-13 or R rated Muppets.

I think so too. Though the complainers are wrong in thinking anything animated or a puppet has to be for kids only , that is is dumb. And if you are a parent letting a kid watching any animated or puppet thing without checking the ratings that is dumb as well. So good that they bring attention to it anyway, since , let's face it there are dumb and lazy parents out there that will let a kid watch whatever.

The only ones really interested in Muppets these days are adults being nostalgic anyway. I doubt the creators really had kids in mind for the show and wanted to update the Muppets to make them "edgy" for the "grownups" That joke will hopefully get old quick, for me it was old as soon as I heard of this dumb show

 

[JeffM]

I only became aware of that when they did prime-time classic episodes last season. I always thought of them as "Sesame Street" characters.

Jim Henson and his Muppets go waaay back further than Sesame Street, let alone SNL. They appeared countless times on the Ed Sullivan show in the 60's, and before then Rowlf the dog was a regular on the Jimmy Dean show. Henson's career started in Washington, DC-area kiddie TV in the 50's, and went from there into commercials with a satirical Stan Freberg-like approach.

 

[umfan]

Yes, vchimp, I meant to write 'aren't'. I have no problem with the Muppets. Henson was a creative genius. I just think this application of them is ill conceived and not likely to succeed.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Jim Henson and his Muppets go waaay back further than Sesame Street, let alone SNL. They appeared countless times on the Ed Sullivan show in the 60's, and before then Rowlf the dog was a regular on the Jimmy Dean show. Henson's career started in Washington, DC-area kiddie TV in the 50's, and went from there into commercials with a satirical Stan Freberg-like approach.

I new Jim Henson went back as far as some commercials in the 50s, like one where a cannon was used on someone who disagreed and then was pointed at us.

Now that I have seen it, I don't see anything so offensive. Sam the Eagle criticizes certain things and having him on my side makes me feel better. In general, he's overdoing it. As for Fozzie's human girlfriend, her father disapproving helped the situation.

I don't really think about the interspecies relationships. It kind of bothers me, but then the father seems narrow-minded and I realize here it's really no different than the movie "Guess Who" I saw over the weekend where Bernie Mac was black and his future son-in-law played by Ashton Kutcher was white.

 

[crackedscreen]

I doubt this revival will last long. Adults are interested and parents aren't going to let kids watch PG-13 or R rated Muppets.

How about actually sampling the show before making ridiculous assumptions? There's nothing "PG-13" or "R" rated about this incarnation of the Muppets. It's still a family friendly show with modern sensibilities. It's rated TV-PG, the same PG rating the recent Muppets films have received. If you're still offended by it, then you must be Mario 500.

 

[vchimpanzee]

How about actually sampling the show before making ridiculous assumptions? There's nothing "PG-13" or "R" rated about this incarnation of the Muppets. It's still a family friendly show with modern sensibilities. It's rated TV-PG, the same PG rating the recent Muppets films have received. If you're still offended by it, then you must be Mario 500.

I'm mildly offended but it's something I can deal with. It is still essentially family-friendly and certainly not like "Life in Pieces" or even "Modern Family".

What I can't deal with is Staler and Waldorf. They had better writers on the other show and in the movies. They are not funny here.

 

[Mario500]

How about actually sampling the show before making ridiculous assumptions? There's nothing "PG-13" or "R" rated about this incarnation of the Muppets. It's still a family friendly show with modern sensibilities. It's rated TV-PG, the same PG rating the recent Muppets films have received. If you're still offended by it, then you must be Mario 500.

I was not umfan and I was never offended by the new TV program about the Muppets. I actually like it.