The Muppet Show is back and Sabrina Carpenter is the guest star

There have been few attempts at a Muppets reboot over the last 40 years, but none of the shows — like Muppets Tonight from the ’90s or The Muppets from the 2010s — really recaptured the zany, put-on-a-show mayhem of the original The Muppet Show, which aired from 1974 – 1981. But Seth Rogen and director Alex Timbers had the good idea, for The Muppet Show‘s 50th anniversary, to just bring back the Vaudeville-inspired original instead of reinventing Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo and the rest of the gang for our social media age.

“We are so excited to be back where it all started, and then ended, and then is maybe starting again…depending on how tonight goes,” Kermit tells the audience, introducing this currently one-off special that debuts February 4 on Disney+. Sabrina Carpenter (who goes toe-to-toe with Piggy) is the episode’s official guest — the first since Shirley Bassey 34 years ago — but there are also appearances from Rogen and Maya Rudolph, plus skits with Gonzo, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew & Beaker, Rowlf the dog, geriatric hecklers Statler & Waldorf, house band Dr Teeth & The Electric Mayhem and more.

You can watch the trailer for The Muppet Show below, and let’s hope that it does go well and we get more episodes.

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