The Muppets (Germany)

Promotional image for the series' debut.

Stills of one of two promotional clips of the characters announcing their show's run on ProSieben.

Pro Sieben ad.

Pro Sieben ad.

The Muppets, without title translation, is the German dub of The Muppets. Dubbed in the spring of 2016, the series debuted on German network ProSieben on December 3, 2016.

Two different promotional clips of Kermit and Miss Piggy aired regularly on the family of networks during the month of December 2016, announcing the series' run on ProSieben in English (performed by Steve Whitmire and Eric Jacobson, respectively). As with the original US broadcasts, two half hour episodes were aired back to back.

The show featured two of the characters' original voice artists from Die Muppet Show, Christina Hoeltel as Scooter and Donald Arthur as Uncle Deadly (who died that September, a few months after recording).

As is common practice with Disney productions, a small amount of visual localization took place when adapting the series for German audiences, changing select on-screen text, as demonstrated with the following examples:

Voices

English Name	German Name	German Voice Actor
Kermit	Kermit der Frosch	Stefan Kaminski
Miss Piggy		Claus-Peter Damitz
Fozzie Bear	Fozzie Bär	Manuel Straube
Gonzo		Bernd Simon
Scooter		Christina Hoeltel
Rizzo the Rat	Rizzo die Ratte	Christian Weygand
Uncle Deadly	Onkel Tödlich	Donald Arthur
Animal	Das Tier	Hartmut Neugebauer
Beaker
Waldorf
The Swedish Chef	Der dänische Koch
Statler		Thomas Reiner
Pepe		Mike Carl
Sam the Eagle	Sam der Adler	Walter von Hauff
Dr. Bunsen Honeydew	Dr. Bunsenbrenner	Frank-Otto Schenk
The Newsman	Der Nachrichtensprecher
Dr. Teeth	Dr. Goldzahn	Thomas Amper
Howard Tubman	Howard Schinkenschmitz
Janice		Elisabeth von Koch
Floyd Pepper		Ekkehardt Belle
Zoot		Claus Brockmeyer
Lips		Gerhard Jilka
Bobo		Thomas Albus
Denise		Marieke Oeffinger
Yolanda		Carin C. Tietze
Chip		Tim Schwarzmaier
Sweetums		Manfred Erdmann
Rowlf the Dog	Rowlf der Hund	Thomas Wenke
Big Mean Carl	Carl	Gerd Meyer
Alynda		Sabine Bohlmann
Gloria Estefan (Pinguin)
Robin the Frog	Robin der Frosch	Patrick Roche
Debbie		Anke Kortemeier
Droop		Paul Sedlmeir
Foo-Foo		Bettina Zech

Episodes

German Episode Title	Additional Voice Actors	German Airdate
Folge 1: "Der verhasste Gast" ("The Hated Guest")		December 3, 2016
Folge 2: "Neue Besen kehren mies" ("New Brooms Sweep Badly")		December 3, 2016
Folge 3: "Der Bär ist los" ("The Bear Is on the Loose")		December 10, 2016
Folge 4: "Spaß mit Piggy" ("Fun With Piggy")		December 10, 2016
Folge 5: "Zickenterror" ("Bitch Terror")		December 17, 2016
Folge 6: "Der Ex-Faktor" ("The Ex-Factor")		December 17, 2016
Folge 7: "Bloß keinen Stress!" ("Don't Stress!")		December 24, 2016
Folge 8: "Verknallt in Chelsea" ("Crushing on Chelsea")		December 24, 2016
Folge 9: "Der große Gonzo" ("The Great Gonzo")		December 31, 2016
Folge 10: "Das Mindy-Problem" ("The Mindy-Problem")		December 31, 2016
Folge 11: "Nicht unser Ding, das Marketing?" ("Not Our Thing, the Marketing?")		January 7, 2017
Folge 12: "Zeigt her eure Schwänzchen!" ("Show Off Your Little Tails!")		January 7, 2017
Folge 13: "Schwein sucht Freund für's Leben" ("Pig Seeking Friend for Life")		January 14, 2017
Folge 14: "Lügen haben grüne Beine" ("Lies Have Green Legs")		January 14, 2017
Folge 15: "Die Sau ist raus!" ("The Pig Is Out!")		January 21, 2017
"Folge 16: Alles nur aus Liebe" ("All Out of Love")		January 21, 2017

See also

• Die Muppets (German dub of the 2011 film)

Sources

• The Muppets on Synchronkartei.de (German dub archive)

External links

• ProSieben page for the show