The Muppets (Disneycember)

(The Disneycember logo is shown, before showing posters of various Muppet movies and pictures of things about to be mentioned)

Doug (vo): Everybody knows the Muppets and everybody loves them. But after a few films that didn't do so great, suddenly, the Muppets became really unpopular. Okay, nobody hated them or anything, but they definitely weren't pulling in all the numbers. Once in a while, you see them on a commercial or two, but they weren't really in movies, or shows, or anything like that anymore.

(Trailer clips and stills from "The Muppets" (2011) are shown next)

Doug (vo): This is why the reboot movie, called "The Muppets", was such a big deal. Not only were they trying to get people interested again, but they threw as much time and effort into it as possible. We're talking big musical numbers, celebrities, emotional moments, new material mixed with old material, commercials and advertisements everywhere you went. And, thankfully, it paid off. Not just because it was really, really funny and creative, but because it was brilliantly and brutally honest about people's acceptance of the Muppets recently.

Story
Doug (vo): Two brothers named Walter and Gary, one of them kind of obviously adopted, are going on a vacation to Los Angeles, one of the reasons being that Walter's biggest dream is to become a Muppet. But he finds out that The Muppets Studio is about to be closed and bought up by an evil tycoon, so he rushes to get all the Muppets back together to put on a great big show to raise money to keep it around. The problem is, all the Muppets have gone their separate ways. Why? Well, because nobody cares about the Muppets anymore. Yeah, they're pretty harsh in hammering in how not popular they are. But Walter still believes in them, as does Gary...well, sort of. He really just wants a vacation with his girlfriend Mary, but also wants to help his brother out, and...yeah, you can see the obvious problem here. Will they be able to put on a show a raise enough money so that they won't lose the studio? Oh, what do you think? Well...actually, it doesn't turn out exactly how you think, but...in a way, it kind of does, but in some ways, it's really clever, and other ways, it's kind of a cop-out, but...okay, that's a whole another video.