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List Price: $39.99 | | Label: Walt Disney Video
Salesrank: 1351
Released: August 7, 2007 |
| Our Price: $27.98 |
| Used Price: $22.33 |
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MPAA Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
And now a show that needs no introduction, but here's one anyway... Go bonkers with Beaker, goofy with Gonzo and join the brave cast of "Pigs In Space" for one of the most revolutionary and acclaimed shows in the history of television. Garnering an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Program in its hilarious second season, THE MUPPET SHOW redefined prime time and showcased a host of outrageous guest stars, including Steve Martin, Peter Sellers, Elton John, Julie Andrews and more. Experience all 24 episodes from Season Two – digitally remastered and restored – in this special 4-disc DVD set. With hours of bonus features, including THE MUPPETS VALENTINE SPECIAL and rare archival footage, THE MUPPET SHOW is even better than you remember!
Description of The Muppet Show - Season Two:
Quick wit, slapstick comedy, excellent puppets and puppetry conceived by Jim Henson, an astounding array of guest stars, and a whole lot of backstage chaos made The Muppet Show a favorite family show for a whole generation in the mid to late 1970's and those same ingredients make it equally enjoyable for today's audiences. The 24 episodes of this second 1976 season of The Muppet Show represent the family variety show at its strongest, with familiar characters like host Kermit the Frog, his assistant Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy, Rolph the piano playing dog, and regular segments like "Pigs in Space," "Veterinarian's Hospital," "Swedish chef," and "At the Dance." Intermingled throughout are silliness, skits, and songs featuring an impressive roster of guest stars including entertainment greats like Judy Collins, Don Knotts, Bernadette Peters, Dom Deluise, George Burns, John Clese, and Bob Hope. The hilarious predicaments of the Muppets and their guest stars are absolutely timeless and the look back in time at the earlier careers of enduring stars like Steve Martin, Julie Andrews and Elton John is equally fascinating. Highlights of this second season are Kermit's emotional ballad "It's Not Easy Being Green," Judy Collins classic rendition of "Send in the Clowns," the two old men's curmudgeonly and witty criticism of every show, Miss Piggy's determined and amorous pursuit of Kermit, and the Swedish Chef's bumbling inability to catch up with the chicken. Bonus features include the rare 1974 Muppets Valentine Special featuring a young Mia Farrow and a host of virtually unknown Muppet characters including the enormous blue monster, Thog. Also included is Muppets' music video of "Keep Fishin'," and interview footage of "The Muppets on the Muppets." Whether reliving childhood evenings spent with family around the television or experiencing The Muppet Show for the first time, viewers of all ages will adore this second season. --Tami Horiuchi
The Muppet Show - Season Two Reviews:
Family Fun! 
2009-10-26 - It was wonderful to find this collection. My daughter (10) gets as much enjoyment from these as I do. I grew up with the muppets, and finding the entire 2nd season was wonderful.
And let's face it, would you rather watch The Muppets, or what passes for pre teen TV nowadays?
The Muppet Show Season 2
2009-10-21 - The season two was bought as a gift purchase for a birthday for my spouse. The entire season did seem to like a bit of what we had seen in seasons 1 and 3. For the most part, we've come to know and understand that season two apparently just the headway of season 3. We did like it, however, in some parts of the shows are a bit slow getting started. This is not to say it was worth adding to the collection.
Awesome... But one thing missing... 
2009-09-22 - The fact that you can now purchase many episodes of the Muppet Show is amazing. The quality is good and the special features are very interesting. If you have however seen the season 1 DVDs of the Muppet Show you will find that on season 2 they no longer have the Muppet Morsels (the Pop-Up Video style information you can play during each episode). If you are purchasing it solely for that, then you will be disappointed. But for everything else you will enjoy what you receive.
Laugh Out Loud
2009-09-13 - These are classic Jim Henson at his best. Any true Muppet show lover should have these. The stars are dated but the punch lines never get old.
It's Time to Meet the Muppets!
2009-09-07 - Kermit the Frog hosts and runs a vaudeville-style variety show in a rundown theater every week, presenting an insane array of performers to an equally insane crowd. A different celebrity guest star, the sole non-Muppet on the show, suffers through the experience each week as well, and the result is one of the most original and delightful programs ever to have hit television!
Season 2 of Jim Henson's 70's classic is a real treat for longtime Muppet fans. Beloved characters that are almost unrecognizable in season one finally come into their own. Miss Piggy is now unmistakably Miss Piggy, Janice is Janice, and so on... Some of the comedy is a little dated and overly corny, but much of it is still fantastic! Pigs in Space and Veterinarian's Hospital will have you in stitches. Man, I miss Rowlf being a main Muppet player like he was back on this show, don't you? The charming moments are all there too (Rowlf was always one of the best at that), and the second season has some outstanding guest stars on its roster! Disc One has Don Knotts, Zero Mostel, Milton Berle, Rich Little, Judy Collins, and Nancy Walker. Disc Two has Edgar Bergen, Steve Martin, Madeline Kahn, George Burns, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters, and Rudolf Nureyev. Disc Three has Elton John, Lou Rawls, Cleo Laine, Julie Andrews, Jaye P. Morgan, and Peter Sellers. And, finally, Disc 4 has Petula Clark, Bob Hope, Teresa Brewer, John Cleese, and Cloris Leachman.
All the guests are fabulous, though to point out a few things that stick in my memory: Milton Berle's episode was particularly enjoyable, and Elton John's was just incredible! Rich Little wasn't as good at impressions as I thought I remembered, though some were good. Seeing Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, and Mortimer Snerd with the Muppets was a delight! While Steve Martin is one of the funniest guys and best comedic actors out there, I was rather disappointed in his episode and didn't find his very bits funny (yeah, I was very surprised). Madeline Kahn was, of course, wonderful, and so were George Burns, Dom DeLuise, Peter Sellers, Don Knotts, Zero Mostel, Rudolph Nureyev, Cloris Leachman, John Cleese, and especially Julie Andrews! Bob Hope was another whom I was sad about because he is a fave of mine but didn't do much on his episode. The others don't stick in my mind as well because I wasn't as familiar with them (the more dated guests, I suppose), but another that was fantabulous was the always wonderful and lovely Bernadette Peters, who was also particularly smokin' hot in her last number (picture Bernadette Peters circa 1977 in pigtails, made up like Elly May Clampett).
This DVD set is excellent! Disney put out an excellent DVD set for a TV show? Yep. Where's the love for the Disney Afternoon shows, Disney? You didn't even finish any of those sets and only barely touched on the range of titles there. Oh well, I'll keep nagging them about that. Anyway, The quality of these uncut shows is very good, despite being over 30 years old, and we even get hosted menus throughout and bonus features on Disc 4! Three wonderful bonus features, to be specific. Remember that Weezer video that featured the Muppets back in 2002, "Keep Fishin'"? Well, that's on here! Good stuff, too. There's also a collection of new gag interviews with the Muppets called, "The Muppets on The Muppets". And finally, the most significant bonus feature here is "The Muppets Valentine Show". It's a 1974 ABC Special that was basically a pilot for a very different take on "The Muppet Show". It's set in a house, it would seem, (a boarding house perhaps?) and features a just not wacky enough cast of Muppet characters led by one writer named Wally. Kermit is just one of the gang, though he already is doing his Koozbane bits. The guest star is a pregnant Mia Farrow, and she's very sweet and Rosemary's Baby-ish, but the program itself, in my opinion, was pretty awful. Some describe it as similar to the Muppet show, just in a different setting. I didn't feel it very similar at all. Yeah, it was a human guest star with Muppets, Kermit was there and there were musical numbers, but I guess the dull characters and kids' morning show setting just put me off on the whole thing. It looked more like a pilot for Under the Umbrella Tree for me, except when they did the musical numbers that were all sort of imagined. Don't get me wrong though, I am thrilled that this special was included on the set. It is fascinating and just the kind of bonus features DVDs SHOULD have. I hope the Star Wars Holiday Special makes it as a bonus feature someday too! I enjoy that one a lot though, ha. Don't ask me why.
Anyway, to sum up, Disney did a great job here and the set is a must own, and I can't wait to get Season 3 and for the rest of the show to come out (with Muppets At Walt Disney World as a bonus feature on one, I hope)! Especially Season 4 with the Star Wars episode! Been dying for that one!
