Given Disney’s long history of smoothing out and jazzing up the quirky, potent, sometimes dark works of Lewis Carroll, J.M. Indeed, apart from a new character, a couple of bunnies, a talking shoe and a cameo appearance by Muppets who shall not be named, they are the only actors in this series not made of flesh and blood.Īs a cast of characters, only Uncle Walt’s original critters (the mice, the dogs, the ducks) are their peer in cultural penetration it makes corporate sense that Disney would eventually ingest them (minus, I am happy to say, the Sesame Street Muppets - Bert and Ernie and Oscar and Cookie Monster and Oscar and Elmo, et al). Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, created in the mid-’70s for “The Muppet Show.” They have made appearances in many subsequent projects, but this is the first time they’ve taken center stage. The story revolves around the Muppet house band, Dr. Like any company of contract players, they have been turned to better and worse uses, and here it is very much the former - like the best Muppet shows, a delight not only for children of all ages, but grown-ups of all ages as well. That great American acting company, the Muppets, returns once again to television in the 10-part series “The Muppets Mayhem,” premiering Wednesday on Disney+.
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