Muppet Babies any one?

True, but that was always just a minor aspect of The Muppet Show, and something they only did at the beginning of the series; the last 'Gonzo digs Piggy' reference that I can remember outside of Muppet Babies was one line in The Muppet Movie.

The Gonzo/Piggy thing might have been OK if the MB writers had kept it in a minor key, but like Piggy's abrasiveness, they just overdid it. In short order it became tedious and grating.
 
I thought that Scooter was OK, except that he suffered from low self esteem and insecurity issues. On The Muppet Show, Scooter was a kid among adults, but on Muppet Babies, the entire central cast was kids, so that Scooter's primary characteristic had no way of distinguishing itself from the other 6 (I'm not counting his sister Skeeter, since she was created especially for the show). The shows' writers could have just made Scooter into a super brain who was just as straight laced as Skeeter was unlaced, but Muppet Babies already had it's resident genius character in the form of Bunsen Honeydew, so I guess it was felt that 2 over confident super brains would have been redundant.
 
I have always wondered something about MB---although I am okay with the characters' current voices, I wonder why they did not just settle on speeding up the voices of the Muppet Performers (Jim, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz, et al) rather than creating a whole new cast.

In any case, regarding the episode where Statler and Waldorf appear---I haven't seen the episode in a while, do their original performers (Jim Henson and Richard Hunt) provide the voices for this appearance?
 
Am I the only one who thought, they went a little too far with having Kermit's nephew "guest star" as a tadpole? The kid should not be alive.

Remember they did one Muppet tv special in which the muppets go to Gonzo's mothers house, and she shows them home movies of the muppets as babies, and quite conisidently it was just the baby muppets that were on the Muppet Babies? Did that special predate Muppet Babies.

BTW, which 80's muppet show was better? Muppet Babies or Fragile Rock? I liked the Muppet Babies, but I thought Fragile Rock was better.
 
I loved the Muppet Babies as a kid, I think it was on Nick for a couple years when I was really young, if it was not Nick then it wasa Disney related channel or something. A few favorite episodes of mine include the episode where they meet Miles and Maynard at the earths core as they try to find Fozzy's skate key, and the episode where Gonzo is harboring snacks given to him from Nanny from the rest of the group. These episodes I still have on an old VHS tape and sadly this may be the closest I ever get to a home release :sad:.
 
Logically, Scooter shouldn't be alive on Muppet Babies either, since on The Muppet Show he was a kid when the others were adults. For that matter, Animal wasn't actually younger than the other Muppets like they tried to pass him off as on MB; he was a feral, hippie wildman. And for that matter, how was it that Baby Bunsen has a baby assistant? Or are Bunsen and Beaker actually brothers? In fact, most babyfications fall apart if one tries to apply logic and chronological accuracy to them.
 
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