Tuesday, July 10, 2012

The Muppet Show: Season One

The Muppet Show: Season One
                What you can find unbelievable now, looking back at the success of The Muppets, is that it isn’t until about halfway through the second season that they really get people coming on that want to be guest stars, so much as they have people coming on as favors to them because they happen to know them for some other reason within showbiz.    This is most obvious when someone like Paul Williams gets to host an entire show, as he did the music for The Muppet Movie (and appeared on screen in a cameo) and little else that I can remember.
                A lot of these guest star names are what older people will tell you “are lost on the youth of today”, but I honestly just believe that some of them just flat out did not live out the test of time.   Sure, they may have been popular back then but I doubt they had any real staying power and thus have been forgotten by most today.
                Stand outs for guest hosts include Vincent Price (of course), Mummanshanz (SPELL CHECK), Twiggy and Florence Henderson.
                In the third episode of this season, Scooter introduces himself to Kermit as being the nephew of the theater owner.   Yet, we are introduced to Scooter before that with some sort of angle about his dog wanting to be in the show.    What’s going on there?
                You can still get to hear a lot of music, even with the band going on strike, and Jim Henson is also a Muppet as part of one of the bands that plays in a few episodes.     They also do the song “I’m My Own Grandpa”, which I know nothing about other than it being sung by Tom Arnold in the movie “The Stupids” (And apparently it was older than this show, since they used it here and a lot of The Muppet Show music was not original) 
                I really did enjoy this season because not caring about most of the guest stars made it feel really special when someone I  did care about was the guest host and it also gave me a chance to focus more on the Muppets themselves.    If you don’t like this season, don’t worry—season two gets better.

<Cross-posted on eeveet and Not Quite A Mop>

Monday, July 2, 2012

Mike and Molly Season One

Mike and Molly Season One
                This show feels like a spinoff or some other show, but I’m pretty sure that it isn’t.   Mike and Molly are an overweight couple who meet via Overeaters Anonymous and go through the steps of any relationship only with a lot of humor mixed in.
                I heard that people don’t like this show because they feel that the two main characters are not attractive.    Sure, they may not live up to Hollywood standards of attractive, and one could even argue that this show is just a way for Fat America to not feel so badly about themselves, but really, this show is a comedy first and foremost.    Aside from that, we also have them going to OA meetings still and diets are always in the background of this show, which I think is healthy. 
                To me, saying “I don’t like watching fat people make out” would be like saying “I don’t like watching black people make out”.   So if you can judge someone by their weight, then where do you draw the line and say it based on skin color, sexuality or whatever else that the PC police immediately get offended by?   Some people need to think before they speak out on such matters.   This show is a half hour comedy and it’s funny.   That’s all that should matter.  

Family Guy Volume Nine

Family Guy Volume Nine
                The only reason why I wanted to review Family Guy- which continues to be funny, but also do more and more things that The Simpsons have done- is because with this being their ninth volume, I’m wondering why anyone watches it on Fox any more when the DVDs are uncensored.    It’s just become so second nature to hear them say the f-word that I’m wondering what it’s like when people hear it edited and why they choose censorship over the art in its true format.    Okay, gotta go.   Peter’s farting again.