This has been all over the damned place today, trending on Twitter, on Radio Exile (probably the best music blog on the ‘net), and your facebook news feed. It really is spectacular, a true return to showman form for the Muppets, the pinacle of showbusiness excellence for decades, so why no Scumbag Style as well. It’s also a decent justification for YouTube upgrading to 1080p. I dig how Pepe the King Prawn and the Swedish Chef have pivotal roles, and the ending scene is pretty funny.

What I don’t understand is the franchise’s continual reliance on Miss Piggy. Drop it, dude, she’s not funny. I’d like to see Kermit nailing Janice, the guitarist from Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. It would probably piss Floyd Pepper off, if he’s not too drugged out to notice, but he should have expected it. I mean, she’s always talking about walking around naked and doing nude photo shoots. Not to mention she went through, like, half of the band. Get that rash checked out, Zoot. That sore ain’t from playing sax. Those hippy chicks are all just whores anyway.

Though you wouldn’t know it from today’s fervor, the Muppet ‘net phenominon is not new. Meticulously outlined by Worlds As Myth, a blog that puts way more work into this stuff than my lazy ass cares to, the Muppets have continued the tradition of education and comedy their late founder imagined for them, in the digital age.