At last!

The Muppet Show‘s first season on DVD!

And it was about time too.

Jim Henson was a genius.

He was a visionary.

Sesame Street and the Muppets are two of his creations we are most familiar with. But he has done so much more, like Fraggle Rock, theDark Crystal and he is also the guy that told George Lucas that it was possible to have a puppet as a main character for his second Star Wars movie.

Anyway, enough history and back to serious matters.

At last we have the full-length version of all the episodes. What was shown here on television was a shorter version, the US version. The original show was aired in UK with an additional number every episode. So, even if you have seen all of the episodes aired here, you haven’t seen everything.

The beauty of the Muppets is their different characters and their strangeness. The thing is, it was weird when it first aired and it still is by today’s standards. Many times we get the reaction : “What were they thinking?” But thatis why it is still entertaining.

And the music, ah the music, real music, with real instruments. It always played an important part in the show. Always done with professionalism and the care of a genuine music lover. Marvellous and surprising, considering it was being done at a time when disco was at the peak of its second life and that the keyboard was replacing many instruments.

Too bad the recent Muppets’ Wizard of Oz wasn’t that good. Well you can’t win ’em all.

Be sure that you haven’t seen nor heard the last of the Muppets. Disney bought them In February 2004, and the marketing machine has been set in motion: the season 1 DVD, the Wizard of Oz film, Miss Piggy in Prada and everything around Kermit’s fiftieth anniversary.

Is it a good thing?

Only time will tell. Meawhile we can enjoy the DVD episodes.

And lon live the Electric Mayhem!!!

Gog