The group pretty quickly agrees, but it turns out getting the band to focus long enough to actually complete the album is a Herculean task. Nora sets out to convince the Mayhem, who have amassed a legion of fans through decades of touring and various Muppets-related projects, to finally finish that album - their first. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem to a record deal for a single album, but the band never delivered it. It turns out that, 50 years ago, the label signed Dr. However, Nora makes a discovery that she thinks can put them back on the map. Its grumpy owner, a new Muppet character named Penny Waxman ( Leslie Carrrara-Rudolph) who once dated Crosby, Stills, and Nash ("Young was too old."), feels like they can't compete in the modern age. Junior music executive Nora ( Lilly Singh), the show's lead human character, dreams of becoming a big player in her industry, but the small record label she works for, a relic of the '70s, is about to close up shop. The setup for The Muppets Mayhem is a fairly simple one. Completely recapturing the magic from the Jim Henson era seems like a fool's errand at this point, but the Electric Mayhem still unequivocally rock on.
By the 10th and final episode, those early concerns have mostly faded, and you find yourself happy that Disney is able to find a way to put good, new Muppets stories out in the world. The show's incredibly catchy theme song starts to become permanently lodged in your brain. It devotes an entire episode to spoofing The Beatles: Get Back, Peter Jackson's beloved 2021 documentary.
The show starts off a little iffy - an immediate concern for any demographic old enough to consider Animal, Zoot, and the rest of the gang absolute icons - but it continuously picks up steam as it goes along.
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