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

[crackedscreen]

I'm mildly offended but it's something I can deal with.

By what, pray tell?

 

[vchimpanzee]

By what, pray tell?

I still can't get over the idea that the Muppets are supposed to be family-friendly.

By the way, I know now who has been getting Statler and Waldorf's good lines. Laurence Fishburne. They, however, are still not funny.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I just saw the Nielsen ratings for all viewers. This show is in a nose dive and it's taking "Fresh Off the Boat" with it.

 

[MarcB]

I know I lost interest in The Muppets after the 1st week. For me it's back to watching reruns of Chopped on Tuesdays.

 

[umfan]

Hopefully, 'Fresh Off The Boat' survives. It's a pretty decent show.

 

[vchimpanzee]

It is. It won't be on next week and neither will "The Muppets" due to Halloween programming, including a guaranteed hit as Charlie Brown gets a bag full of rocks for the 40th year.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Last week Statler was a lot funnier. Most of the episode was about him getting injured by Fozzie's T-shirt cannon.

The rest of the episode was about Miss Piggy partying with the crew and making them too tired to work the next day.

To me it was the best episode all season.

 

[mvcg66b3r]

PTC Pans Miss Piggy

Calling it Miss Piggy meets Joe Camel, the Parents Television Council is up in arms over the Muppets' new gig on ABC.

Based on their own content analysis, PTC says kids who watch the show--and Nielsen ratings show that over a million kids 2-11 are watching, PTC says--are exposed to adult-themed content every 3 minutes, 38 seconds, with Miss Piggy and Kermit doing the heavy lifting when it comes to sexual innuendo.

The series is a workplace comedy that arguably has more in common with The Office than the previous network primetime Muppet Show. But the Muppets as a troupe have always had a separate, edgier, sensibility than, say, the toddler-targeted Sesame Street bunch, though there was obviously crossover, notably Kermit.

But PTC suggests the show's references to sex and alcohol belie that characterization. And, "no matter how ‘edgy’ ABC or the show’s producers want to make The Muppets, kids still reasonably believe the show is for them," PTC says. It is warning parents about letting their kids watch, and urging producers to rethink the concept.

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/programming/ptc-pans-miss-piggy/145239

 

[vchimpanzee]

It doesn't seem any worse than the so-called family comedies already airing on ABC.