They had a bit of a big drive ahead of them and it seemed to get wild as they were running out of time.

"Come on, you guys, hurry!" Jessica called out as she checked her CDE app on her phone where the Muppet Telethon was going to be broadcast on.

"You sure are hyped." Oddball smiled at Jessica.

"This is the most exciting thing ever!" Jessica smiled back.

"We can tell." Atticus smiled back.

"Hurry! The show starts in ten minutes!" Miss Piggy complained to the robotic driver. "Where did you learn to drive?"

"I feel sick..." Cherry groaned as she began to sweat and turn green in the face.

Atticus soon gave her a bucket. Cherry reached out and soon heaved into the bucket.

"Have some ginger ale when you get better." Thor offered.

"Thanks, Thor..." Cherry said softly, smiling about how sweet he was being to her.

"Don't mention it." Thor smiled.

"Hang on, everyone!" Kermit called out.


They kept driving, and soon, they parked to the theater and rushed inside to begin the live show.

"Come on, guys!" Kermit called to the others as they came backstage. "Okay, listen up, everybody! This is it! Five minutes to curtain!"

"Wahoo!" Oddball smiled.

"Kermit?" Walter called.

"Uh, listen, get ready for the opening number," Kermit told the others before looking to Walter. "Yes?"

"I need to talk to you about my act." Walter said to him.

"Don't worry, Walter; your act will be great, we just know it." Jessica assured him.

"Yeah, I'm sure you'll be great," Kermit added before flailing his arms. "Scooter, who's up first?!"

Walter groaned and sighed as he stared at the clock while the other Muppets rushed to get ready.

"Yeah, Scooter, who's on first?" Patch asked.

"Okay, first we have the opening theme." Scooter said.

"Of course, yeah." Kermit nodded to that.

"Then you come out and introduce Fozzie." Scooter then told Kermit.

"I'll go get to my seat." Jessica said.

"Break a leg, guys, break a leg!" Darla called out to the others.

"Which means good luck!" Oddball added.

"Hey, good job." Darla smiled to the young Dalmatian.

Oddball smiled back, feeling proud she knew what Darla meant. Veronica soon came over.

"TV Executive at 6:00!" Scooter yelped.

"The show is a disaster, Frog!" Veronica glared, grabbing Kermit by his arm.

Jessica saw that she and the others were the only ones that showed up.

"Where's the audience?" Veronica complained as she dragged Kermit out on stage. "I knew you guys weren't popular anymore. I should have trusted that chart. There's no one here!"

"Hello!" Darla called out.

"Hi!" A man called back.

"He's here." Darla smiled nervously.

"Why does everybody forget about Hobo Joe?" The man huffed to Veronica.

Jessica simply shrugged.

"Just a second... Scooter!" Kermit said.

"Uh, yeah, Chief?" Scooter replied.

"Scooter, did you hand out all those flyers?" Kermit asked.

"Of course," Scooter replied. "Every last one!"

Patch looked confused since there weren't any other people in the seats.

"Don't worry, we'll think of something!" Kermit reassured the others.

"You better." Veronica warned Kermit.

"Yoo-hoo, you've got an audience!" Hobo Joe called out. "What am I, invisible?"

"I better go check on Jack... Hopefully he's not too mad about being the host." Cherry told the others as she walked off, adjusting her black dress.

"I'm sure he's calm." Jessica said.

Cherry knocked on the door and poked her head into the dressing room. "Ahem... Fifteen seconds to curtain, Mr. Black."

"Ah! Where am I?" Jack yelped as he suddenly regained consciousness. "Why am I so fancy? What are you doing? You're ruining my look!"

"I think it's a good look for you to be honest." Cherry smirked innocently, and before he could saw anything, Cherry rushed out as she closed the door.

"GET BACK HERE, YOU LITTLE-" Jack snapped.

"I don't think I've seen him that angry..." Cherry said, leaning against the door to protect herself. "But at least it's not enrage..."

"You look so beautiful..." Thor said, a bit nervously to Cherry, looking away from her and had a flower for her.

"Okay, what is your deal?" Cherry asked, a bit annoyed.

Thor soon decided to ask her the question he had been wanting to ask her.

"Listen, I gotta go..." Cherry said as she walked off from him.

"Cherry, I love you!" Thor blurted out.

Cherry suddenly stopped and looked back. "W-What did you say...?" she asked.

"Y-You heard me." Thor gulped.

"Uh..." Cherry was a bit shocked herself at that confession.

"Alright, guys, it's about time for the show to start." Kermit said to them.

"We better get to our seats." Thor said.

"Um... Yeah..." Cherry blinked, not sure what to do or say as they soon went to sit down.


Everyone soon sat down in the audience, awaiting to be entertained.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your host, Kermit the Frog." An announcer signaled.

Kermit was a bit nervous as he hadn't done this in years.

"It's The Muppet Telethon, with our very special guest, Mr. Jack Black! Yay!" Kermit announced once he came out onto the spotlight and did rather well.

"That wasn't so bad." Jessica smiled as she lightly applauded as The Muppet Show began.

"You're right." Atticus smiled back.

The theme song soon began just like in the old days of The Muppet Show.

"I feel like I'm forgetting something..." Thor muttered to himself.


"Hello?" Phoebe called out as she wandered around the hotel room, looking for her brother. "Thornton?~" She began to look for her older brother before using her magic to teleport her to him.


Thor soon leaned back in his chair, but then yelped as his little sister appeared in his lap. "Dang it, I knew I was missing something." he then face-palmed.

"I'm tell Mom and Dad..." Phoebe glared.

"No! No, no, no," Thor smiled nervously before holding her out to the stage to distract her. "Look, Pheebs, it's the Muppets!"

Phoebe soon saw the Muppets preforming and she began to enjoy it.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Muppet Telethon," Kermit smiled after the theme song ended and he came on stage. "We have Muppets standing by to take your calls."

The Muppets nodded and waved as they were shown in the balcony seats, though one Muppet seemed to be ordering a pizza.

"Yes, uh, and, boy, do we have a wonderful show for you, with our special guest, Mr. Jack Black!" Kermit continued.

"Wahoo!" Jessica cheered.

Jack grunted and struggled as he was tied to a chair as a spotlight came down on him. "I'm being held captive by these weirdos!" He then cried out in panic.

Hobo Joe seemed to find that funny.

"Now you know how we've felt for the past 40 years!" Statler riffed before laughing with Waldorf.

"Somebody, anybody, please call the police," Jack begged as the camera turned on him. "This is real rope!"

"Man, this 3D is incredible!" Hobo Joe beamed.

Darla found this funny, even if Jack Black was tied up.

"This is real!" Jack cried out.

"Oh, and by the way, folks, we have plenty of room here in the audience, so if you'd like to come down and see the show live, come on down!" Kermit told the viewers once the camera switched to him.

'Please let people come in.' Oddball thought to herself.

"This might actually work... At least, I hope it does." Patch told himself.

The first act was Gonzo.

"Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves for the Great Gonzo's most amazing feat ever: Head Bowling!" Gonzo announced.

"What? No! I have not signed off on this!" Jack cried out as a bowling pin was placed on his head.

"Do it!" Darla cheered.

"Drumroll, please, and a one and a two and a three!" Gonzo called out as he got ready to swing the ball, but his arm kept going while Jack winced, fearing for the worst. "Uh-oh. Ahem! My fingers got stuck. All part of the act, folks. Uh, stay tuned."

This seemed to be funny to the audience. Kermit face-palmed, but he smiled to the laughter.

"Please, make this end! Please!" Jack begged as he felt tortured.


A family was shown actually enjoying this, thinking it was part of the show and decided to give the Muppets their money.


The Muppets at the phones fell asleep, but soon woke up once they heard the telephones ringing.

"Hello?" Sweetums asked once he answered the phone. "You wanna give us some money?! Um..."

"Say yes!" Sam the Eagle told him.

"Um, yes!" Sweetums then said. "We will take that money!"

"Uncle Patch, it's working!" Oddball cheered.

"Looks like people love seeing celebrities being tortured, thinking it's part of the show." Patch smiled.

"I know I like Celebrity Deathmatch." Cherry smirked.

Eventually, some more people started to come into the theater.

"Look, people are starting to come in." Darla smiled.

"Oh, yeah, tickets. Here we are. Tickets. Thank you," Hobo Joe said to a man, trying to get some money out of this. "$5 to show your seat. It's up there somewhere."

"We'll show you to your seats." Jessica told the people, referring to herself and the others other than Hobo Joe.

Hobo Joe pouted to that as he had been defeated.

"HELP!" Gonzo yelped as he couldn't get the bowling ball off.

"Okay, thank you, Gonzo. Thank you very much," Kermit said to Gonzo nervously before deciding to move on. "Ladies and gentlemen, we will see what happens with, uh, head bowling a little later in the show. Up next is our furry funny man, Mr. Fozzie Bear! Yay!"

The crowd applauded him.

"Oh, no..." Cherry groaned, sinking in her seat.

"Thank you, thank you, and thank you," Fozzie smiled to the audience. "Boy, did I go to a bad seafood place last night. The catch of the day was salmonella. Ah, wocka wocka!"

No one seemed to laugh at that joke.

"That joke's like 50 years old!" Jack complained.

This caused everyone to laugh at his complaint.

"So how 'bout those shopping centers, huh?" Fozzie continued. "You seen one, you seen a mall! Take it."

"Make it stop!" Jack begged which made the audience laugh even more.


Tex saw this on his televisions and wasn't happy. "What is happening?" The oil baron glared. "People are actually watching this? Deadly! Bring the car!"


Cherry shuddered slightly.

"You okay?" Thor asked.

"Just got a chill." Cherry told him.

"That can't be a good sign," Phoebe said. "That usually means something or someone evil is going to come and try something."

"Wow, you actually thought something through that had nothing to do with fairy princesses." Thor smirked to his sister.

Phoebe simply stuck her tongue out at him. Thor did the same, while looking a bit crude and silly when he did it. Cherry rolled her eyes to that.

"What am I gonna do? What am I gonna do? What am I gonna do?" Walter sighed to himself backstage.

"Walter, 60 seconds until you're on, Walter," Scooter told him as he entered the room. "Are you ready?"

"No. Guh! Yes, yes, yes..." Walter replied, trying too hard to hide his very noticeable anxiety.


Eventually, celebrities seemed to come into the theater.

This surprised Kermit very much. "Whoopi Goldberg? Selena Gomez? And... Uh, hi there." The frog greeted.

"Yeah, look, somebody said there might be a career opportunity here, and something about saving a theater." Whoopi replied.

"Yes, yes, of course, of course." Kermit nodded.

"I don't really know who you guys are," Selena Gomez said. "My agent just told me to show up."

"That's great." Kermit said.

"Why does that girl look so familiar?" Cherry muttered to herself about Selena Gomez.

"Are you one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?" Rico Rodriguez asked.

"Yes, I am, and let me show you how you can help." Kermit told him since he was a young kid.

Scooter and Walter were soon seen about to get on stage.

"And don't worry. It's just your one shot to go on live TV before millions of people to prove you have what it takes to become one of the Muppets," Scooter smiled to Walter. "Good luck."

Of course, with that kind of pressure, Walter felt very uneasy.

"Up next, folks, I am proud to present a brand-new act to the show," Kermit smiled to the audience. "Introducing Walter."

Walter seemed to nervous to even walk out on stage as he ran off the other directions.

"What's wrong with Walter?" Oddball asked.

"Oh, he must have stage fright." Jessica frowned.

"Oh, dear..." Oddball frowned back.

"Uh, it appears that, uh, Walter has, uh, uh, stepped out, so it's, uh... Well, it's back to the days of yore down at the old barbershop." Kermit nervously told the crowd as this wasn't going well for the new Muppet.

A new set was soon shown. Sam, Rowlf, Link, and Beaker began to sing like a stereotypical barbershop quartet. They all said hello, but Beaker sang 'Me-Me' which made everyone laugh and he seemed embarrassed.

"Oh, no, it's a barbershop quartet!" Jack complained.

"Took the words out of my mouth." Cherry smirked.

Thor chuckled as he overheard that.

"Get me out of here!" Jack cried out in dismay.

"This is so entertaining." Jessica smirked.

The barbershop quartet vocalized as they soon came to him to take care of him like a customer.

Jack grunted as he turned red in anger before pausing. "Wait a minute! What are you doing? Is that Nirvana? Stop it!"

The Muppets soon put shaving cream on his face.

"Looks like they're giving him a new look." Darla smirked playfully.

"Stop it! Stop!" Jack cried out. "You're ruining one of the greatest songs of all time! Careful around the ears!"

The audience kept laughing as they were having the time of their lives and eventually, more money was being added to the telethon.

"I wonder what they're going to do next?" Oddball smiled.

The Muppet barbers continued to work on Jack as they seemed to be changing him somehow.

"Ow, that was hot! Hey! What's going on here? Why is my body so big?" Jack cried out. "What'd you do to my voice? I sound like a chipmunk! Wait a second. Did you guys shrink my head?"

"Ladies and gentlemen, Jack Black!" Kermit smiled to the people.

Money continued to be brought in to the telethon.

"This is going great!" Darla beamed to the others.

"I know, this could be a bright new future for the Muppets!" Jessica smiled back.

"Nothing could possibly ruin this!" Oddball cheered.

"And now I am pleased and proud to present those princesses of poultry, Camilla and friends!" Kermit told the crowd before leaving the stage to show chickens on stage.

The song 'Forget You' soon began to play as the chickens clucked and preformed for the crowd. After the song, everyone applauded.

"Let's hear it for Camilla and her farmyard friends!" Kermit smiled after the applause.

"No, I... I don't know why I'm not hosting this." Neil Patrick Harris said as he helped on the telephones.

"We might actually raise enough money to rescue The Muppet Theater." Oddball smiled.

"So remember, folks, keep on calling and you'll help us reach our goal of $10,000,000 by midnight," Kermit told the crowd. "And if-"

Suddenly, the lights went out. Oddball whimpered and shivered as she didn't like the dark.

"Uh-oh..." Jessica frowned.

"Uncle Patch? Are you there?" Oddball asked.

"It's okay, Oddball, I'm right here." Patch soothed his niece.

"What happened to the lights?" Oddball frowned.

"Ladies and gentlemen, don't be alarmed," Kermit's voice soothed. "We will get this sorted out just as soon as we can. Scooter!"

"Hmm..." Cherry hummed and having night vision, she soon began to leave her seat and went to the stage to check this out since she could see in the dark while everyone else seemed to be blinded. She could also sense someone else's blood, telling her one thing.


"Well, that's that," Tex smirked as he was shown by the breaker box with an ax. "Nice try, Muppets!"

His minions then laughed along with him.

"Tex Richman!" Cherry glared. "I should have known!"

"Well, well, if it isn't Little Miss Duchess of Darkness?" Tex glared back. "I bet you're going to run off and rat me out to your little friends, aren't you?"

"Yes, yes, I am." Cherry smirked.

"I don't think so," Tex told her before calling out. "Bone!"

A strong and tall man soon came behind Cherry and grabbed her.

"Take out the trash." Tex demanded.

"ATTICUS! HELP!" Cherry screamed with a smirk.

Atticus looked around before cleaning the inside of his ear.

"HELP!" Cherry continued. "HEEEEEELL-"

There was soon tape slapped onto her mouth to shut her up. Atticus soon rushed outside after hearing his best friend the first time. The strong man soon carried Cherry over his shoulder to get rid of her. Cherry wasn't at all worried and soon looked over as Atticus was coming after them.

"Put her down!" Atticus glared once he saw what was happening.

Bone growled and looked towards Atticus.

"Ooh, you're in for it now!" Cherry smirked as she took the tape off and then winced. "Ooh! Ow! I think I'm bleeding..."

"No, you're just feeling what it feels like to have tape taken off skin." Atticus told her.

Bone snarled to both Cherry and Atticus as he grabbed them both and lifted them off the ground.

"You don't talk much, do you, Tiny?" Cherry asked.

Atticus soon grabbed Bone's grip and twisted his wrist. Bone grunted and growled before dropping them. Cherry grunted from the drop and glared up at Bone. Bone smirked as he soon put his foot on Cherry's head. Atticus soon tackled Bone before he could go any further.

"Heh... Not like I was scared he was actually going to crush my head or anything..." Cherry smiled sheepishly.

"So it was you." Atticus glared at Tex.

"Whatya know? Kids actually are useful in smarts..." Tex glared back. "I guess you two aren't as stupid as I figured."

"Why do you hate the Muppets?" Atticus asked.

"Like I'm going to tell the likes of you!" Tex glared at them.

"Take it easy, man, and maybe we'll go easy on ya." Cherry smirked with narrowed eyes.

"I've been wanting to know why you hate Muppets too." The bear next to him said.

"Quiet." Tex told him.

"Aw, come on, Boss, even we don't know!" The other Muppet added.

"You better tell us now." Atticus demanded.

"Oh, yeah? What if I don't want to?" Tex glared.

Cherry and Atticus glared back before looking to each other. Cherry then whispered an idea to Atticus, though he looked unsure about it due to his morals, he agreed to it.

Suddenly, Atticus dangled Tex by his ankle over the freeway from a tall building while Cherry sat beside him, giving a cold and dark gaze that could rival Batman's.

"Now what was your answer?" Atticus smirked.

"Get off of me!" Tex demanded.

"Oookay!" Atticus said before loosening his grip.

"That's not what I meant!" Tex snapped. "You little brats are dead!"

"You will be unless you tell us why you hate the Muppets." Cherry told him.

Atticus glared, loosening his grip again.

"Well, I've had a heartbreaking experience at my tenth birthday party..." Tex began.

"Oh, please..." Cherry rolled her eyes. "All of this for a birthday party?!"

"What happened at your tenth birthday party that would make you hate the Muppets?" Atticus asked him.

"It was going to be wonderful... Those Muppets were going to put on a show for me..." Tex smiled at first from childhood nostalgia. "Everyone was happy and laughing."

"Okay, sounds promising so far." Cherry said.

"So what happened?" Atticus asked.

"I... I couldn't laugh..." Tex frowned in dismay. "The guests then turned on me and began laughing at me instead! I... I don't understand how anybody can find those blasted Muppets funny!"

"Don't you have a funny bone?" Cherry asked.

"Yeah, everyone likes a good joke now and then." Atticus added.

"I told you my story, now put me back or I'll have your heads for this!" Tex glared.

"You heard him." Cherry shrugged.

Atticus shrugged back and soon pulled Tex back up. Tex soon stood up straight and brought out a gun and aimed it for them.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, you're gonna shoot us?!" Cherry asked. "I thought this was a kid's movie!"

"It is." Atticus told her.

Tex glared to them.

"You're really gonna shoot us?" Cherry glared back. "Well, go ahead, I dare you!"

Tex soon shot right at her.

"Cherry!" Atticus panicked.

Cherry seemed stunned for a moment after a puff of smoke and she soon shook her head and clenched her teeth to show that she caught the bullet in her teeth like in a dangerous magic trick.

"No way." Atticus smiled.

Cherry soon spit out the bullet with a glare. "I can't believe you would try to kill us for the sake of your own insanity!"

"I must agree." The sinister looking Muppet said.

"That is just sickening!" Cherry said. "Who do you think you are, Craig Ferguson?!"

"That is a bit low, Boss..." The bear Muppet had to agree.

"Well, you made me mad..." Tex firmly pouted.

Atticus soon ran at super-speed and tied up Tex.

"You can't do this to me!" Tex cried out before gulping once he looked down at the height. "Uh, could we get off the roof now though? I feel like I'm going to pass out."

"Hmm... Should we?" Atticus asked the others.

"Fraidy cat..." Cherry smirked before looking down and soon had a paler face than whenever Drell would come to visit. "It's just a building... That's... 500 feet in the air... Maybe we should go back to the Theater and help the Muppets in need, but keep him tied up."

"That's what I meant." Atticus said.

"Oh, thank goodness..." Cherry said before hugging him as she was afraid of falling.


Once they got back down, they saw the power coming back on.

"Hey, the power's back!" Atticus smiled.

"But how?" Cherry asked.

"There you guys are." Darla smiled.

"Darla, what happened?" Atticus asked his little sister. "How's the power back on?"

"Mary used something called a ten-gauge gator grip." Darla replied.

"That's great." Cherry said.

"Um, are you guys okay?" Darla asked.

"We're much better now." Cherry replied.

"That's great." Darla smiled.

"I'm glad you're safe." Atticus smiled back, giving her a one-armed hug.

They soon returned to their seats.