My humble thoughts about the cancelation of the Muppets Mayhem TV series.

The Electric Mayhem Band: Animal, Dr. teeth, Janice, Floyd Pepper, and Zoot.

In my humble opinion as an obsessed Muppet fanatic, the Muppets Mayhem TV series was by far the best Muppet production to be made since the Muppet Show ended. No contest!!! I just loved, loved, loved this series! It captured the spirit of the Muppets perfectly!

It is far beyond incredibly stupid that Disney is refusing to produce a second season of this perfect, dream-come-true Muppet TV show. What a dumb-ass, lame-o, idiotic, stupefying, brain-numbing, nitwitted, boneheaded, imbecilic, muttonheaded, ignorant and moronic decision!!! Really, really, really dumb!!! So dumb one has to wonder if the folks calling the shots at Disney even give a s**t about the Muppets at all? 

How out of touch with your fan base to you have to be to cancel such an excellent TV series? This program is simply perfect!!! Everybody loves this show! I haven't heard any significant criticism about it. Not one peep! The show even won a 2023 Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's or Family Viewing Series. I don't know what standard the Disney folks are basing their concept of a successful TV show on, but they have clearly set the bar impossibly high to reach. This leaves me with only one conclusion... Disney executives are idiots!!! Total looooooooosers!!!! 

I find the cancelation of Muppets Mayhem concludes any speculation, we now know for certain that the Muppets are forever doomed in the hands of Disney. Sad but true Muppet fans! :(

-Mikey Artelle

Creator of Mikey's Muppet Memorabilia Museum and Muppet fan since 1973

...and there's also Lips who, if he were here, would probably add to the above something like... 

Muhhuh mubba a muff humma momo uh immle humm is mumble humma, eh humff!!!

Well said! You tell 'em Lips!

New Muppets Funko Pops!!!

It's been six years since the Funko toy company produced any Pop! figures based on the Muppets. The last one was the Superhero Kermit that was exclusively available at the Emerald City Comic Con in 2017, and limited to a production run of 3000. Today there are several of them listed on e-bay with an asking price of over $100 each. 

In late 2023 just in time for Christmas, Funko released a set of five characters from The Muppet Christmas Carol, including Kermit as Bob Cratchit with Robin as Tiny Tim, Miss Piggy as Mrs. Cratchit, Fozzie as Fozziwig, Gonzo as Charles Dickens with Rizzo, and a non-Muppet human character, Scrooge. There was also a two pack box set of Statler and Waldorf as the Marley Brothers. I'll add a photo of these shortly.

In early 2024 Funko released Baby Animal from the Muppets Mayhem TV series (above, top), and a Hot Topic excusive two pack set of Kermit and Constantine based on the movie Muppets Most Wanted. Curiously the movie title does not appear anywhere on the box. In any case, these are all very cool Muppet Funko Pop! figures which I could not pass up! 

A closer view of Baby Animal

Odd numbering for these new figures!

I'm very curious to know why Baby Animal was numbered 1492 as he's from a new series, Muppets Mayhem, so technically he should be number 1 from this series. However the better option would have been number 12, as Superhero Kermit was numbered 11 to continue the Muppets series. So it would have made sense for Baby Animal to be number 12 in the Muppets series. The Muppets Christmas Carol series should also have been numbered as part of the Muppets collection, but instead they were numbered as part of the Movies collection. That at least makes some sense unlike Baby Animal which seems to have been given a random number. Could it be a numbering error? 

Muppet Funko Pop! wish list!

It would be awesome if Funko released figures of the remaining Electric Mayhem band members as only Animal and Dr. Teeth were included in the original Muppets Funko Pops series. So if they made Floyd, Janice, Zoot and Lips we would have the whole band.

It would also be cool if they made Scooter, Rowlf, Bunsen, Beaker, a regular version of Statler and Waldorf, the Muppet Newsman, Sweetums, the Pigs in Space crew (Captain Link, Dr. Strangepork and Miss Piggy in their Pigs in Space outfits), Kermit in his reporter outfit, the Great Gonzo with Camilla the Chicken, Uncle Deadly with Pepe, and Pops with Gaffer the Cat (a Pop! of Pops!). That would be awesome, as it would bring the Muppets collection up to number 31 if we count Baby Animal as number 12!