149 - Muppets Most Wanted

The Muppathon has reached its international finale! MUPPETS MOST WANTED may be fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, but there’s a reason there hasn’t been a Muppet movie in the seven years since it landed in theaters, isn’t there? Listen to Alex & Julio as they wonder what hurt the final Muppet film the most: Ricky Gervais’ reputation or the lack of Jason Segel’s star power? Also, can anyone untangle the contradictory mess that is Muppets Continuity? And why does the franchise suddenly hate Rizzo?

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148 - The Happytime Murders

Let’s be real: the noir genre has been dead for decades. One of the main reasons why is that audiences refuse to embrace any imaginative reinventions of the old hard-boiled detective stories - regardless of their quality. Such was the fate of Brian Henson’s wonderfully subversive THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS, which committed the deadly sin of having puppets be sexual and deeply flawed in puritan America. Listen to Alex & Julio as they try to rescue Henson’s misunderstood masterpiece from obscurity in the latest installment of The Muppathon!

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147 - The Muppets Take Manhattan

The Muppathon continues as Kermit and his friends… graduate college??? Come on, now. How much can we let Jim Henson get away with just because it was The 80s? Listen to Alex & Julio as they discuss THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN - also known as “that 90-minute commercial for the Muppet Babies TV show”. Manipulative Broadway tunes! Outdated celebrity cameos! A disappointing embrace of marriage as an institution! It’s everything a Muppet fan inexplicably wants!

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146 - The Muppets' Wizard of Oz

The second stop in the Muppathon is the Muppet movie with the worst Tomatometer score: THE MUPPETS’ WIZARD OF OZ! But why were critics so hard on this reimagining of the classic story? Were they not able to appreciate the brilliance of Quentin Tarantino’s cameo? Was it too much for them to see Gonzo acknowledge his nipples? Did Ashanti make them realize how unhip they were? Listen to Alex & Julio as they defend this unfairly maligned trip down the yellow brick road!

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145 - The Muppet Movie

The Muppathon begins with the only appropriate start: the 1979 film that fooled critics into believing TV puppets deserved to be movie stars. And even if you haven’t seen THE MUPPET MOVIE, you’d be able to guess what happens in it because the franchise has been playing variations on this gimmicky type of road trip for decades. Listen to Alex & Julio as they try to figure out which outdated cameo is the most obscure, wonder about Gonzo’s infatuation with chickens, and overall remain unimpressed by Kermit’s alleged wisdom.

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