Best of The Muppet Show - Volume 5: Steve Martin/Carol Burnett/Gilda Radner

Pros: Comedy, music, episodes that break the format...

Cons: Extras are scarce as Animal's manners...

The Bottom Line: A perfect balance of guest stars and Muppets in three hilarious episodes.

Review: Columbia/Tri-Star is still ever-so-slowly trickling out releases of The Muppet Show on DVD. So slow that it pains me. Time-Life released these same DVDs in a series of 15, giving us 45 of the 120 episodes from The Muppet Show’s five-year run. ...

Pros: The laughter has never died down.

Cons: Violence against puppets.

The Bottom Line: I would rather raise my kids on The Muppets than say, The Smurfs. At least The Muppets were real.

Review: Every memory I remember as a kid I can trace back to The Muppets. As an adult not much has changed. Sure, there were countless years where I traversed through episodes of The Teenage Mutant Turtles, Duck Tales, The Transformers, repeats of Bugs ...