Five years after being sold to the Walt Disney Company, Muppet mania is looking to get its groove back.  After releasing the Muppet’s YouTube parody of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” about a week ago, the online audience has responded by viewing the bit with more than 8.8 million times.   With that strong response in such a short period of time, it seems the demand for Muppet puppet time is well overdue.  Below is the Queen parody.

Eleventh Hour has also learned to expand the Muppet franchise and reconnect more with its fans once again, a Muppet Twitter account and Facebook page has been created.  Also more online videos are also planned to be released in the near future including a Christmas rendition of “Carol of the Bells.”

All these promotional tactics are to geared to prepare fans for an upcoming Muppet movie.  Jason Segel (”How I Met Your Mother” and “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”) and his writing partner Nicholas Stoller have been assigned to writing the newest Muppet film, with plans that it will bring the Muppets back to their height of popularity during the late 1970s.  It will be interesting to see if Segel and Stoller can maintain the slapstick and absurd puppet humor of the original show.  Although I wasn’t around yet to see some of the original runs of The Muppet Show, Fozzie Bear was an influence of mine as a jokester, Wocka Wocka Wocka!

Matt Suttner does remember watching “Muppet Babies” religiously during Saturday morning cartoons as a kid.