The Muppets Premiere Recap With Spoilers

The show opens fairly dryly, but addresses the biggest issue head-on, with Kermit immediately mentioning Piggy as his ex.

A production meeting for Piggy’s late night talk show includes some one-off jokes, like one of the members of the band thinking the meeting was an AA moving. Some of the cuts from the initial promo were present in the meeting, too, though with slightly altered dialogue.

Everyone has a role in the production. Fozzie is the warm-up comedian, for instance. Piggy has a list of crazy demands, as Diva as usual, but Kermit doesn’t have it anymore. “If you take dating out of the equation, she’s just a lunatic,” he says after she demands her lilacs to smell more lilaccy and for the next night’s guest to be cut.

Piggy goes out on stage and – it cuts. The show isn’t about her show as much as it is the behind-the-scenes. Kermit sits in his office with Tom Bergeron, his replacement guest thanks to Piggy’s demands.

Fozzie heads out to his date. “This is my first date with a girl in a long time. When your online profile says passionate Bear looking for love, you get a lot of wrong responses. Well not wrong, just wrong for me.” At the dinner, the girl’s father is unhappy about him dating a bear. It’s some of the same stuff from the first promo, but again, slightly altered.

At the writer’s room, we meet Denise, the Marketing pig who Kermit is now dating. He says they met at a cross-promoting meeting, and “ended up cross-promoting.”

Back to Fozzie’s date, his girlfriend’s dad continues to be prejudiced against her dating a bear. He calls Piggy to get her approval to bring them to the show.

Kermit decides that they’re bringing in Elizabeth Banks despite Piggy’s demands, which he finds out is because of a botched Hunger Games audition. When he tells the crew at their production meeting, Banks shows up early, and he has Scooter take her on a studio tour. She shoves him out of the golf cart and heads herself back.

Imagine Dragons are the musical guests, and they ask Animal to come out on the road with them. “Too many women, too many towns,” he replies.

Piggy sees Elizabeth Banks on the set, and flips out at Kermit, and tells him it’s not because of the screen test, it’s because of Pitch Perfect 2. That is where they broke up – they went to see the movie, and Piggy wouldn’t pay attention to Kermit or even go in to see the movie, instead taking selfies with fans. That’s when he broke up with her, an unhappy memory for them both.

The tour of the set with Fozzie and his girlfriend (and her parents) is not going well. They leave, and she tells Fozzie it doesn’t matter, that she loves him anyway. He says that’s not enough and runs after the parents.

Kermit goes to confront Piggy now that he knows her reasoning. They somewhat make up, but she gets in the last word, making fun of his girlfriend and him.

A little bit of the actual show is shown, with Piggy interviewing Banks after all. Banks makes a joke at Piggy’s expense that she doesn’t appreciate much. Imagine Dragons plays, and Animal falls into the large drum.

One last dig at the show by Statler and Waldorf (who commented throughout) and that’s the end of the first episode of The Muppets, “Pig Girls Don’t Cry.”