Everybody in television has to start at the bottom, even the Muppets.

Jim Henson's Muppets got their big break in the 1950s as two spokesmuppets for the Wilkins Coffee Company in a series of eight-second commercials featuring the most ballsy commercial concept of all time: buy Wilkins Coffee or we will shoot you in the face.

I'd like to see Billy Mays take on that concept.

Back in February I mentioned that Muppet News Flash was saying that the second season of The Muppet Show would be available by this summer. Well, that's no longer true. However, the same site is now reporting that Disney has put the set back on the release list, and that we will definitely be seeing it by this fall. As far as an exact date, well, we don't know that just yet. I'm a huge Muppet fan but I've still yet to purchase the first season DVD. Instead, I've been keeping myself busy with the "best of" DVDs put out by Time-Life. In addition, Muppet News Flash reports that a "complete series" disc of the short-lived Muppets Tonight series may follow the release of the fifth season. That, however, is just rumor at the moment.