September 23, 2015
Watch Out Miss Piggy, One Million Moms Want You Off the Air
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Now they're coming after the Muppets? When will these harpies ever stop?
One Million Moms (1MM), the self-appointed harridans of media morality, who represent their 76,000 followers and the anti-gay hate group American Family Association, launched their latest campaign. And who is in the hot seat now? None other than Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.
Their latest rant reads:
1MM suspects there are going to be a lot of shocked moms and dads when they discover that the family-friendly Muppets of the 1970s are no more. It appears that no subject is off limits. ABC's new "Muppet Show," airing on Tuesday evenings at 8:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. CT, is not what Jim Henson imagined and created. The new show is aimed at a mature, modern audience and addresses subjects not suitable for family viewing.
"It's sort of an adult Muppet show," Kermit the Frog said during a promotional video for the show. One ad read, "Finally, a network TV show with full frontal nudity." Technically, the advertisement is correct - seeing how Kermit doesn't wear pants.
The mature version of "The Muppets" will cover a range of topics from sex to drugs. Miss Piggy came out as a pro-choice feminist during an MSNBC interview. The puppet characters loved by kids in the 1970s and 1980s and beyond are now weighing in on abortion and promiscuity.
ABC hopes children watch the show and predict they would enjoy some of the humor, but 1MM would disagree. It is not the show it once was. ABC has ruined "The Muppets." How many parents want to explain the punchline of sexually charged jokes to young children?
Many parents unknowingly will let their children watch an episode only to find out its perverted nature too late, unless they are alerted ahead of time. 1MM and others need to get the word out to families to avoid this program at all costs.
Meanwhile, parents will have to explain to confused children that the program they once were allowed to watch is no longer a nice show. This would have been completely unnecessary if ABC had made the program follow its original family-friendly design.
One Million Moms are encouraging their less than 100K followers to contact ABC and encourage them to drop all plans to air the Muppets. The likelihood of ABC caving to their demands, however, are slim to none. In the past, 1MM has launched campaigns against ABC and it's parent company Disney with no success.
"The Muppets" launch on ABC Tuesday September 22 at 8 p.m.
