About this podcast
Sasha, Peter and Evan are your guides to the royalty-free world of Shakespeare and the copyrighted world of the Muppets. Each episode they and their guests cast two of the greatest works of drama with some of the silliest guys ever to be made out of felt.
It’s time to meet the Muppets at Shakespeare’s globe tonight!
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 55 episodes
- 6: Hamlet · 41 min · Season 2 Episode 6It's the end of the season! Sasha brings us a Muppet-filled Hamlet and special guest Ellen walks us through Taming of the Shrew. Plus we talk about what we learned. Follow us on…
- 5: Much Ado About Nothing · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 5Get ready for a particularly unhinged episode as the team reacts to Evan's spirited take on Much Ado About Nothing and special guest Kenjiro's thoughtful casting for Julius…
- 4: Richard III · 43 min · Season 2 Episode 4It's a new month and that means it's time for new Muppet castings. This week Peter is bringing you his take on Richard III with the surprising invention of a brand new Muppet…
- 3: Romeo & Juliet · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 3This week we start out strong with special guest Zach Barr muppet-casting (and adding a musical number to) Winter's Tale. Then Evan brings us a casting of Romeo and Juliet with…
- 2: The Tempest · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 2It's time for the Tempest! Peter takes us across storm tossed seas and to the shores of a Muppet (treasure) island, but first special guest Al brings us a Muppet Macbeth that…
- 1: A Midsummer Night's Dream · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 1On this inaugural episode of Much Ado About Muppets, Sasha guides Peter and Evan through their muppet-filled, but controversial take on A Midsummer Night's Dream. But first…
- Teaser: Much Ado About Muppets · 1 min · Season 4“All the worlds a stage… and sometimes the crown weighs rather heavy on this little froggy head.” Welcome to Much Ado About Muppets! Each week Peter, Sasha, and Evan will take…
- 24: Season Finale · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 24Evan and Sasha celebrate the end of the season with an award show. Tune in to find out which was the best and worst of the Sherlocks, Watsons and rivals and which Sherlock media…
- 23: Enola Holmes 2 · 1 h 21 min · Season 1 Episode 23Sasha and Evan wrap up the season with Enola Holmes 2, a bit of campy historical fiction where “all the important parts” are true? instagram.com/_bakerstreetregulars Hosted on…
- Casebook 22: Sherlock Drag Race Season 2 · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 22We’ve been renewed for a second season… of Sherlock Drag Race that is! Sasha guides Evan through another round of the Drag Race simulator with new contestants like Enola Holmes…
- 22: Enola Holmes · 1 h 26 min · Season 1 Episode 22Sasha and Evan enter the 2020’s with Netflix’s Enola Holmes, a surprisingly good film, where the main character talks to the camera like it’s an episode of Dora the Explorer…
- 21: Young Sherlock Holmes · 1 h 29 min · Season 1 Episode 21Evan and Sasha are re-joined by Peter to discuss the 1985 film Young Sherlock Holmes and discover why a film made by Steven Spielberg, Chris Columbus and Barry Levinson is…
- Casebook 21: Elementary, Dear Data · 1 h 3 min · Season 1 Episode 21Sasha and Evan are joined by Star Trek aficionado Peter to discuss the TNG episode Elementary, Dear Data AI! Space Racism! A sympathetic Moriarty!…
- Casebook 20: Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 20Eyes and Brains! Evan and Sasha cozy up to the tv for some Saturday morning cartoons, specifically Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, a fairly loose adaptation of the Doyle…
- 20: Mr. Holmes · 1 h 2 min · Season 1 Episode 20Sasha and Evan discuss 2015’s Mr. Holmes, where Ian McKellan plays the aging detective in retirement. This film is like a parody of artsy british movies featuring: Wistfulness!…
- 19: Elementary (part 2) · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 19Evan, and Ellen wrap up their discussion of the first season finale of Elementary (with a brief diversion into Macedonian politics) before Sasha joins them to rate the show…
- 19: Elementary (part 1) · 1 h 9 min · Season 1 Episode 19Evan, Sasha and special guest Ellen discuss the penultimate two episodes of the first season of Elementary, the American answer to BBC Sherlock by way of crime procedural. We'll…
- Casebook 18: Wishbone · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 18Sasha and Evan are joined by Ellen to discuss the 90’s TV series Wishbone where a dog imagines himself into literary classics, and specifically it’s adaptations of Scandal in…
- 18: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) · 1 h 38 min · Season 1 Episode 18Emily rejoins Evan and Sasha to wade into the gayest Sherlock Holmes film ever made, a film which bizarrely wants to be a war-era spy thriller despite being set in 1891. Emily’s…
- Casebook 17: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 17Affairs! A secret Baby! Opium! Ghosts? Sasha and Evan explore an episode of the Australian TV show, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries all about backstage drama at an opera company…
