Scooter books his long time TV crush, Chelsea Handler, who really heats things up both on ‘Up Late’ and in Scooter’s personal life. Meanwhile, Fozzie wants to take it to the next level with Becky but when Kermit and Denise go on a double date with them, Kermit discovers that Becky might have a few skeletons in her closet.

The Muppets keeps the focus to two plot lines in this episode, and neither is all that great.

The story between Kermit and Fozzy is all sorts of odd. I think part of my issue is actress Riki Lindhome who plays Fozzy’s girlfriend Becky. She’s the second to be cast, after another actress was in the role in the teaser videos released this summer. The chemistry between Lindhome and Fozzy just isn’t there and because of that, I don’t really care about their relationship. The story is something we can all relate to, and its use of pub quizzes feels a little dated (yes I know people still pack the events), it all together feels very mediocre comedy show.

What has potential is the Scooter/Chelsea Handler story. There too chemistry feels like an issue with Handler delivering her lines with what feels like little emotion, almost phoning it in. What should have been funny falls really flat, and really awkward in how not funny it was. It’s still nice to see Scooter getting some focus by the series.

The episode just lacked the laughter we usually see and there definitely was a lack of “I can’t believe they said that” moments which are often my favorite moments. As a whole, a very ho-hum episode.

Overall Rating: 6.8