The Muppet Show (2026)

Stream on Disney+

Runtime: 33 Minutes

Rated TV-PG

“I grew up watching you. My parents grew up watching you. Their parents grew up...”

It's time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights. It's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight! Everything is here: the music, lights, makeup, the costumes, the special guest stars, the variety acts, and, most importantly, all the Muppets! You’ll traverse the countryside with the Pigs in Wigs, blow things up with Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker, sing along with dancing chickens, and heckle the audience with Statler and Waldorf.

Themes:

Variety shows, Muppets, music, explosions, guest stars, parodies, theater, the audience, heckling, gags, and jokes.

Language:

Religious Exclamations - 2 (Both by Sabrina Carpenter)

Stuff to be aware of:

Alcohol - The first scene takes place in a bar with Muppets drinking unmarked cans and bottles. In “Pigs in Wigs” characters drink champagne.

Sexual - There is a skit in which Miss Piggie has two “lovers” and in one song, “turn me on” is said.

Sabrina Carpenter makes a joke about how she “loves a kink” and later talks about going on a date with a guy for a second time, a guy who she says is not single.

Other - Beaker loses his eyes, and he looks a bit creepy.

Overall:

Seeing It With Your Family

This is pretty safe. The few things mentioned above, your kids likely won’t pick up on. However, Sabrina Carpenter would not have been my first choice for a guest star. Children may want to listen to her music after watching, but you likely won’t want them to. In the first act of the show, Sabrina sings her hit song, Manchild. While the Muppets use the clean radio-edit version, if your children look up the wrong version on iTunes or YouTube, they will hear the F-word in the song. She tends to overly sexualize many of the things she is part of.

What I Thought

In a few words, this reboot of the original show is “sensational, inspirational, celebrational, and muppetational!”

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Muppet Show, where a frog, a pig diva, a comedian bear, a Great Gonzo, and so many other Muppets worked their way into our hearts. After Jim Henson’s passing in 1990, his son, Brian, produced a great reboot in 1996 for ABC titled Muppets Tonight. In 2020, Disney gave us Muppets Now, on Disney+, which was set up to be an internet-type show, but was very bad.

This show felt like the original, and in the short time frame, so many of the original Muppets showed up. While they don’t all get to perform and be in skits, they do all get to make appearances. I was super excited to see a few of the Pigs in Space!

What Seth Rogan and his crew have done here is taken the show back to its roots, and just adapted it to work in 2026. He understands what made the original show such a hit, and I hope we see more from this group. I smiled the entire time, and I may end up watching this one again just to spend time with my favorite puppets.