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There’s even the latest attempt to carve out an origin story for Animal, though I’ll always take Muppet Babies as canon there. Teeth - shockingly, it involves dentistry - and getting a sense of the pathos behind Janice’s easygoing attitude. Within the vast Muppet tapestry, there’s value in staking out enough real estate to get a backstory for Dr.

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Teeth, Matt Vogel’s Floyd, Peter Linz’s Lips, Dave Goelz’s Zoot, David Rudman’s Janice and Eric Jacobson’s Animal - and makes a pitch to help them update their sound for a new generation thanks to industry connections she doesn’t have.Ĭan Nora update the Mayhem for the 21st century without tearing the band apart, alienating their most devoted fan (Tahj Mowry’s Moog) or jeopardizing her relationship with her social media influencer sister (Saara Chaudry’s Hannah), all before a possibly evil app developer (Anders Holm’s JJ) buys and liquidates the record label?īecause the Mayhem offers a variety of internal personalities, from the manic Animal to the ultra-agreeable Janice and everything in-between, they aren’t wholly one-note, so to speak. She gets in touch with the band - Barretta’s Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem had a deal for an album that they never delivered. Going through old contracts, she’s shocked to discover that Dr. The conceit is that Nora (Lilly Singh) is an assistant at a low-level Hollywood record label, desperate to find an act she can nurture and break on her own. Goldberg, Jeff Yorkes and Bill Barretta, currently the performer behind Dr. And like HBO’s White House Plumbers, The Muppets Mayhem offers a reasonable amount of chaotic mirth, but it struggles to find a still point at the center around which to ground the madness. It’s a bit like telling the story of Watergate with E. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem better, they still feel like manic supporting players elevated to a starring platform for which they’re ill-suited. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem - both their general burnout zaniness and the classic rock jukebox musical possibilities they introduce - but even after spending 10 episodes getting to know Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem to leading band status.

Goldberg, Bill Barretta, Jeff Yorkesĭisney+’s new effort at Muppet-mining - a third, following Muppets Haunted Mansion and Muppets Now - is The Muppets Mayhem, a lightly amusing but topically questionable effort to elevate Dr. Cast: Lilly Singh, Tahj Mowry, Saara Chaudry, Anders Holm, Bill Barretta, Peter Linz, Eric Jacobson, Matt Vogel, David Rudman, Dave GoelzĬreators: Adam F.