600: Going Backstage With The Muppet Show
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
4.7 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
The Muppet Show returns with a one-off episode starring Sabrina Carpenter; Muppetry expert Adam Grosswirth returns to discuss it, including whether the new version nailed the original's vibe, what makes a good Muppet guest (and whether Sabrina's got the right stuff), and how we can't believe Dolly Parton never guested on the show (...so far). Later, we went Around The Dial with The Pete Davidson Show, Ugliest House In America, and Conspiracy Theories, and Adam hoped nobody would object to his first-season L.A. Law Canon brief. Impractical Jokers won, Grant Show lost, and we dropped Muppets into primetime shows for a mash-up Game Time. It's time to get things started on an all-new Extra Hot Great!
GUESTS
👤 Adam Grosswirth
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🐸 The Muppet Show (2026)
Around The Dial: 🗑️ The Pete Davidson Show
Around The Dial: 🏚️ The Ugliest House In America
Around The Dial: 🕵 Conspiracy Theories
The Canon: 🐂 L.A. Law S01.E17: Beef Jerky
Winner & Loser: 🃏 Impractical Jokers
Winner & Loser: ❤️🔥 Grant Show
Game Time: 🐷 The Muppet Shows
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
🎙️ Hear more Muppet analysis from Adam Grosswirth on the Muppeturgy podcast
🦋 Adam on Bluesky
🐀 Listen to Muppet Show writer Albertina Rizzo talk about the special on the Bananas Podcast
💄 Listen To Sassy Club
🛖 EHG 417 on The Ugliest House In America
🤪 Sarah's review of Conspiracy Theories at Best Evidence
📷 Photo: Disney+
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I can't believe they're doing the old show again. |
| 0:02.9 | Well, if it ain't broke. |
| 0:04.2 | No, they are broke. |
| 0:05.8 | That's why they're doing it. |
| 0:07.0 | This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 600 for the week of February 2nd, 2006. |
| 0:26.0 | I am Guy Who's Not Canon, David T. Cole, and I'm here with Armadillo and a Tutu, Sarah |
| 0:31.9 | D. Bunting. I'm not Canon either. Chicken backup singer Tara Arellano. |
| 0:36.0 | And best supporting actress, Adam Grossworth. |
| 0:40.2 | Olympia Dukakis. |
| 0:44.9 | Welcome to Extra Hot. |
| 0:50.3 | Great for another week. |
| 0:51.8 | Joining us, he is a theater professional, a podcaster, and a |
| 0:55.2 | semi-professional Muppetologist. You have heard him with us many times before. It's Adam Grossworth. |
| 1:00.8 | Adam. Adam! |
| 1:05.0 | We are, of course, here to talk about The Muppet Show's new special. The Muppet Show, a variety show |
| 1:10.6 | in which a human special guest, our hosts, amid a menagerie of Muppets Show's new special. The Muppet Show, a variety show in which a human special guest |
| 1:11.9 | are hosts amid a menagerie of Muppets, had a beloved run on primetime TV during your co-hosts |
| 1:17.6 | formative years. This September will mark the 50th anniversary of the show's series premiere. |
| 1:22.4 | So to celebrate, Seth Rogen has executive produced a special reviving the show. It drops on Disney Plus early in the morning of the day of this podcast episode's release. |
| 1:31.5 | It will also air tonight on ABC, The Old Fashioned Way. |
| 1:35.4 | Writers include Albertina Rizzo of American Auto, and I love that for you, |
| 1:39.6 | and Gabe Leidman of Brooklyn Nine-N-N-N-P-Five. |
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