In an attempt to make Miss Piggy happy, Kermit sets her up with Josh Groban who fills her head with ideas on how to make Up Late with Miss Piggy better. Meanwhile, Fozzie is invited to a party at Jay Leno’s house and everyone is annoyed that Bobo is selling cookies for his daughter’s troop.

If you were offended by the first episode of this new show starring the Muppets, then you’ll probably want to stop reading this review right now, and move on. You won’t like this episode any better, which is a shame, as The Muppets has quickly become a favorite show of mine, not afraid to push the envelope and tarnish their image.

The episode is full of the Muppets making themselves look like fools, but at the same time lampooning genres, tropes, and whole shows in this The Office/The Larry Sanders Show mash-up series.

Most of the show keeps digging into Miss Piggy, something that started in the first episode. Some felt the show had a mean spirit due to that, but the Muppets has always had digs at Piggy, it’s just as adults we actually get it and notice it. She’s generally not been likeable and portrayed as a diva, and this series continues that. The solution to get her to be happy, the team decides dating is the answer, and after some really funny scenes, the settle on Josh Groban, who has no issue poking fun at himself. I’m sure many will be irritated with the plotline, and many will call it sexist, to those I ask them to seriously go back and examine Kermit and Piggy’s relationship in past series/movies and not tell me there’s massive issues/red flags there. This show plays off of what has come before, and is doing so in an adult way. In my first review I stated the show is geared more for adults and teens, and the second episode continues that path. Its tone is similar to many of the ABC comedies currently on the air.

Throughout the episode is an ongoing gag concerning Bobo and his attempt to sell cookies for his daughter. The concept of attempting to be sold cookies by coworkers is something we can all relate to, and The Muppets takes it to an extreme, bringing it up over and over. It ends with a joke that’ll probably be over littler kids’ heads, but I thought to be funny and a solid punchline.

The Muppets are back, and they’re not afraid to pull punches in a series that’s one of my favorite debuts this fall. The series has a subversive quality about it, much like classic Muppets have always had. It’s become must watch TV for me, and TV that I can watch over and over, and still find entertaining and something new to laugh at.

Overall Rating: 8.5