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You knew it was going to happen at some point and it finally has — an Empire and The Muppets mashup, called The Muppet Empire, has hit the Internet in a video from Yahoo TV. The mashup takes you through the sounds of first season of Empire, perfectly matched up with scenes from the new Muppets series on ABC. Kermit becomes Lucious and — you guessed it — his sassy ex-girlfriend Miss Piggy is given the iconic one-liners of the formidable Cookie. As for the rest of the family, Pepe is Hakeem, Sam The Eagle is perfection as Andre, and I couldn’t help but laugh a little when I saw Fozzie Bear as Jamal.
Just like Empire, The Muppets mashup includes lots of boardroom scenes, lots of attitude from Miss Piggy/Cookie, and a giant brown bear — I have no idea who he is, but he gets locked into ‘jail’ with Kermit/Lucious. While Empire follows the Lyon family and the inner workings of Empire Entertainment, The Muppets on ABC shows the inner workings of the late-night talk show Up Late With Miss Piggy, so there’s actually more similarities between the series than you would think.
And as we all know, both Miss Piggy and Cookie Lyon are not to be messed with.
Watch the mashup video below: