Teeth in the room with you - and also Bill has decades of relationships with all the other performers. Jeff and I really wanted to have Bill be a co-creator with us on the show because then you have Dr. Goldberg: The only parameters for Jeff and I were, “Will the performers sign off?” That was a newer approach. ![]() And it was just an interplay: “Hey, this is something we were thinking, what do you guys think?” that was really collaborative. But then when we started working, we had Bill, and we had access to the performers who had their ideas, as performers who have living with these characters for a long time. We had - not free rein, but because these characters were sort of known and there wasn’t too much known past that, we could develop it. Yorkes: It was definitely one of the draws for us as writers. So even that bit made the legal department very nervous because there had been a precedent of never using “Stairway to Heaven.” But we were happy that they let us still do the bit. That’s why we cut away the minute they open their mouths. And what’s really funny about that moment you talk about - which is the band wanting to sing “Stairway to Heaven,” is that, famously, there is a joke in Wayne’s World where Wayne starts to play “Stairway to Heaven,” and then a guy and points to a sign that says “No ‘Stairway to Heaven.’” He only played one note - and there was some kind of lawsuit where they had to pay for the song, even though he only played one note. Goldberg: We got every we actually wanted - and the good news is, have to pay for performance because our band is performing it. And it was part of our budget, so they knew going into it that a chunk of our budget for each episode was going to be for music.Īdam F. It serves our story here, it serves our characters and our emotions and what we want our audience to feel.” It’s another thing to licence it that was something I didn’t necessarily have to worry about - we have a music supervisor. And it’s easy as a writer to say, “It’s going to be this song. Jeff Yorkes: Deciding the songs was the fun and the easy part - you get to pick and choose from every song that’s existed, although we kept it to a certain era, certainly. What approach did you take, deciding what songs you wanted to be in there? Some is original, but there’s a lot of famous songs - you even have a fourth-wall break about a certain song being too expensive to licence. ![]() Chaos ensues, as does a lot of soul-searching - and plenty of groovy rocking out.Ĭheryl Eddy, Gizmodo: The Muppets Mayhem is about a band, so there’s tons of music in it. ![]() Teeth and is also an executive producer) all about The Muppets Mayhem, which follows the characters as they hit pause on their long-running tour and attempt to record their very first album. Goldberg (also an executive producer), Jeff Yorkes (co-executive producer), and Bill Barretta (he plays Dr. Teeth, Floyd, Zoot, Lips, Janice, and Animal. Instead, The Muppets Mayhem focuses on the members of the Electric Mayhem band - the house band on The Muppet Show, made up of beloved side characters Dr. The Muppets are back! But this time, it’s not the usual Muppets starring in a new Disney+ series.
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