MUPPETS, CIRCA 2016: 'FULL-FRONTAL NUDITY'
Modern-day ad paints beloved characters in 'adult' light
Cheryl Chumley
A new ABC advertisement for the decades-old, kid-friendly, parent-approved Muppets has put the puppets in what one commentator has described as an “adult” light, promoting the childhood show as a network television event “with full-frontal nudity.”
The promotion is a bit odd, given one signature Muppet, Kermit the Frog, has always appeared absent clothing – but without fanfare. Todd Starnes of Fox News opined: “I suspect [the ad's] going to shock a lot of moms and dads when they discover that the family-friendly Muppets of the 1970s are no more.”
Starnes saw the ad when he emerged from a city train station beneath the Fox News Corner of the World and read, with interest, ABC’s newest poster: “Finally. A network TV show with full-frontal nudity,” alongside an image of Kermit holding a green drink, with a towel wrapped about his neck.
And Kermit reported says in a promotional video for the show: “It’s sort of an adult Muppet show.”
The Daily Mail notes the new Muppets will cover topics like sex, drugs and “interspecies relationships.” One source said to that paper: “No subject is off limits. Everyone remembers the classic Jim Henson Muppet Show of the 1970s and 1980s, but this new show is aimed firmly at a mature, modern audience and addresses subjects that would have been taboo in the past.”
For example, one show has Fozzie Bear in a relationship with a human, and the woman’s father broaches the scenario of the couple’s children.
“Where will they go to the bathroom – in the woods?” the father asks.
And Fozzie’s reply: “That is an offensive stereotype.”
Starnes guessed if the show proved successful, other similarly childish characters would make the move to the adult world. too.
“I could foresee a made-for-television drama about Wile E. Coyote serving hard time for the attempted murder of Road Runner,” he wrote, in Fox News. “Or how about a reality series based on Daffy Ducky’s time in a mental institution? And Lifetime should be all over the heart-pounding miniseries, ‘I Married a Rabbit: The Elmer Fudd Story.’”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/muppets-circa-2016-full-frontal-nudity/#xk5ozwE8BxKO4Hw7.99My comments: And so American Culture continues it's downward Spiral in to COMPLETE DEPRAVITY.
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