Muppets Tonight : too good for you

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I really liked Muppets Tonight!

to the person who started this thread, it is weird that you say it had almost all of the "original" characters and 'some" new ones. you may have meant main characters, but in my opinion it seems like this show had too many new characters and too much screen time for them over the old ones. i liked most of the new characters, but if the other muppets do a new show, most of the new ones should start out being less major as lew Zeland or the newsman until the second or third season, and let the more well known characters (and older fan favorites) get more screen time first.

Fozzie only appeared every once in a while, and only appeared backstage once. Miss Piggy appeared alot in the first season but appeared less after that. scooter didn't appear at all. Rowlf only appeared in one episode (although he did have a line). as the slightly lesser known characters, sam the eagle normally only appeared in his own segment, The eagles nest, robin and dr. teeth didn't appear at all, sweetums only appeared in one episode, and really minor characters like lew zeland, beauregard and dr. strangepork only made cameo appearances.

There are also many characters who only appeared in the background. Some only appeared (as far as i can remember) t the beginning of the first episode. these characters include the swedish chef, janice and crazy harry.

The electric mayhem was also pointlessly replaced with a different band. dr. teeth and lips (the trumpet player from the muppet show's fifth season and the great muppet caper) didn't even appear on the show. now, you can say that this is because of the death of Jim henson (who performed dr. teeth) and richard hunt (who performed janice) at a time when the jim henson company was worried about recasting many of their characters, and because frank oz was not always there to perform animal (even if that was the case, animal was the only member to have lines on the show), and because zoot and lips didn't speak much. However, the newer band didn't really do much anyway. the muppets tonight band was only there to perform music. they played in the background, and the band members rarely spoke. i don't think this band even had an official name. as far as i know, only one member (jowls, the purple guy who whistled in the shows opening) was mentioned by name. If a muppet show is going to have a band that only plays background music, then just reuse the electric mayhem, and don't create and build new musicians.

Unlike the electric mayhem, the muppets tonight band never interracted with the other characters. On the muppet show and in the muppet movies, the band regularly interracted with characters outside of the band. Janice had a regular role in veterinarians hospital, floyd seemed to interract with other characters the most (and jerry nelson was still active at the time of muppets tonigh, and didn't have any major characters on this show, so floyd could have interracted with the cast), animal was and is still one of the top 7 most famous muppets, and most of the electric mayhem danced in at the dance.

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