This is why I read A.V. Club, because otherwise I wouldn't have the slightest idea this was on.

It's like these cartoon franchises that they keep on reviving - they're all just tributes to the original creators and voice artists. And the bigger the money that's involved, the more likely it's going to be turned into crap.

It was like somehow they thought a terrible sitcom that no one would watch with live actors would suddenly be hilarious if acted out by Muppets.

The last Muppet to be a hit on commercial network prime time TV was Rowlf the Dog on the Jimmy Dean show.

They made Miss Piggy into possibly the worst character in the history of television.

Someone in the TZ review comments talked about how their elementary school teacher showed them "Long Distance Call", about the little kid whose dead grandmother tries to get him to join her on the other side by killing himself. That had to be the most awesome teacher ever.

"What is this, some kind of gag? Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to the vinyl record store to pick up some new grunge records."

This actually makes sense, since many episodes were staged on simple sets with no visual effects. It's about the writing and the acting.

It is exactly like College Bowl.

Sounds like the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour or the 1960s Honeymooners.

Although the Cruz amendment makes that impossible to sell with even a little plausibility.

Heller can stand up and oppose this monstrosity, and if he can't hold off a primary challenge from Sharron Angle or Michele Fiore or whoever they dredge up, so be it.

Heller goes where Sandoval does, and right now Sandoval's not impressed.

The story was over when Mike and Gloria moved out. Too bad Carroll O'Connor didn't realize that.

Judging by non-stop drubbing Trump gets on the British panel shows, he won't be going back to the UK anytime soon.

I recall going to the CliffsNotes on occasion if I was running short on time and reading the whole book would cause me to miss Barnaby Jones or something.

The Cosby plot sounds an awful lot like when Beaver based his Three Musketeers book report on a version he saw on TV, because the book was too boring and he waited until the last minute.

And Cruz is supposed to be "smart". Meanwhile, insurance industry leaders sent a letter to McConnell telling him in no uncertain terms what a disaster the Cruz plan would be.

Or Terrorist (Achmed T. D.).

I believe these were taped in April, so they didn't know they'd been canned yet.