This already exists but the other way around and the Muppets are The Rock and Jack Black.
If you’re okay with them not being muppets, check out Dorkness Rising. Once they start playing, about 15 minutes in, the action bounces back between the players and the characters. It’s old but still works.
Dorkness Rising is their second movie, and it makes a lot of references and throwbacks to the first.
ok but hear me out.
this but the muppet babies.
Nanny DM: Animal? Make me a wisdom roll…
Animal: Nat 20! Nat 20! Yayayaya!
Kermit: Erm, Animal? You, uh, rolled a D12…
Animal: Nat 20! Yayayaya!
Kermit: Good grief…
I could have swore this was an actual episode.
actually just found out they kinda did it on the 2018 version (though it was more like larping less d&d) -> sir kermit the brave
This is brilliant ! I would watch it in a heartbeat.
It’s a yes from me. Hitting the golden button!
So Jumanji The Next Level movie?
Jack black is obnoxious but he really did nail the high school girl impression.
I hate Jack Black’s acting.
I completely agree with your opinion.
It also works in Tropic Thunder.
I personally loved his Bowser in Super Mario.
Bowser!
I knew there were three roles I didn’t mind but couldn’t remember the third, that’s the one.
On the flip side, I didn’t like Nacho Libre for the opposite reason, he felt too reserved.
Everyone else in the real world is human, everything else in the fantasy world is muppets.
Except Tim Curry.
Good lord this is brilliant !
I would. Honestly.
Maybe the first episode could be shot with the famous actors playing it up for the camera, and the rest of the campaign could be just a podcast with the Muppet voice actors and maybe slideshow illustrations for YouTube/Patreon?
I love the original idea, but there’s no way that would be sustainable for the art least hour a week content I feel most podcast subscribers would expect.
It’d be a great skit, but the gag would get old pretty quick for anything full-length.
It’d get old by the end of the skit.
I mean that kinda goes for every muppet movie…I’d still watch it
Do you’re saying we’d only get seven or eight seasons of it ?
Watch it? Hell, I’d crowdfund it if it wasn’t for the fact that Muppets are a Disney property. The House of the Mouse has more than enough cash to make this work.
FWIW, this format would work with a bunch of awkward teens at the game table.
You could also go the other way and re-release “Honor among Thieves” by constantly cutting away to the game table with hilarious die-rolls and the rest. Think: “Of Dice and Men”, or “Dorkness Rising”.
I for sure would. Ryan Reynolds as a Bard being played by Gonzo.
Gonzo is DM.
Fozzie = wise cracking Bard
Miss Piggy = Half-Oink Barbarian
Kermit = Elven Ranger
Animal = Wild magic Sorcerer
Rolf = paladin
I like Rolf, but i think Sam the Eagle would be better a better choice as an uptight paladin.
Agreed. Rolf can be a Druid.
Dr. Teeth: BBEG, trying to rule the realm with Electric Mayhem
But Animal is their drummer.
Shhhhhhhhhhh! He’s a sleeper agent…Turns on the rest of the party at the end!
Rizzo is obviously the rogue.
And Swedish Chef the local barkeep
Honeydew & Beaker run the apothecary shop
I think you’re trying to align the Muppets to what their personalities would be. Instead pick against type. Or as their off type. Gonzo has been the narrator in almost all the muppet versions of movies. So he’d be great at telling stories and winning over NPCs as a Bard.
Or how about Gonzo as the wizard who keeps getting KO’d in silly/pathetic ways, only he seems way too into it?
