Fozzie is invited to a party at Jay Leno’s house, but insists on taking a souvenir. Kermit asks Gonzo if his mother is on a South American cruise.
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So as we heard before the show had started, Kermit and Ms. Piggy are no longer together.
Scooter rushes into the room to tell Kermit that Piggy is a code red.
Everyone hides while Piggy storms the office. Code Green is when she’s calm, so there hasn’t been one of those to date.
Groban gets booked onto the show, and does a duet performance with Piggy, with romantic undertones arranged by Kermit.
Back on set, another bear, Bobo, is selling Girl Scout cookies on behalf of his daughter. Everyone’s too busy to buy them. He nearly got away with it, too, until Leno caught him stealing again during a subsequent visit to his house.
At worst they’re saying that this is a close copy of a close copy of the original, certainly not that it’s a complete inversion, revision or cancellation of Piggy’s characteristics.
There are a few choice bits of sage wisdom for living that everybody ought to heed: Never let your arms do all the work when you’re shooting hoops, never challenge a Sicilian when death is on the line, never eat ingredients you can’t pronounce, and never, for the love of god, ever make Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem go acoustic.
“No! It’s true, the quality of the show is prison sushi, but Piggy is so pleasant the rest of the day!”
Following a commercial break, The Electric Mayhem played a more mellow, acoustic-based song. Though it should be said that Leno offering Fozzie an opening act spot at an upcoming gig, given how ham-fisted and corny Fozzie’s jokes are, did not go unnoticed. He and Jay talk, and Jay wants him to open for him in Vegas.
And since I’m listing things that I found outright amusing this week, that screaming temp Muppet, who bought the cookies and then barked “I’m new and I don’t understand the politics around here!” before scarfing down the entire box was great.
Kermit comes in to the morning meeting and apologizes for the last show being bad. One Muppets suggested Josh Groban. The other Muppets thought that it was nice having a friendly Miss Piggy around.
Kermit tries to recast with Tom Bergeron, but in the final moments decides to keep Banks because he has the final say. It turns out Jay stole the candy dish from George Carlin, and he’s angry when he finds out Fozzie took it, and throws him out. There’s plenty of time yet for the show to fine tune this relationship to perfection… or to wander so far off the path that things really do go wrong.
Miss Piggy used to follow fashion fads, but now she’s become “the trend”. Groban retaliates by calling Kermit and insecure swamp rat. Josh Groban answered the door, wearing a robe. they had a face-off.
Kermit drives around the lot in his golf cart, and gets an idea about how to get the old Piggy back. He runs into Lawrence Fishburne who tells him that the show sucked. Is this because Piggy thinks she needs a fella for legitimacy? Bobo agrees that the band is always happy. Whether the roles are big or small (this week, Josh Groban “hogged” a lot of the spotlight as Miss Piggy’s new highly influential boyfriend), the series has a good handle on how to bring in stars and feature them in amusing ways.
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The episode ended with a missed connection between Lea Thompson and Kermit (one of the women on his list), interrupted by Gonzo. Leno came up to him and they hugged.
