X-rated Muppet flick The Happytime Murders will ruin your childhood

You may need to wash your eyeballs after seeing The Happytime Murders. Photo / Youtube

Remember childhood shows like The Muppets and Sesame Street?

Well now there's The Happytime Murders, but while the puppets in Melissa McCarthy's new film look just like your childhood heroes, they are shockingly x-rated and definitely for adults only.

The film is a murder-mystery in which McCarthy plays a cop who, along with her puppet partner, investigates the murders of the stars of a former hit TV show.

However, the newly released trailer has people mourning for their childhoods and wishing they could un-see the carnage as it features the iconic puppet characters snorting drugs, committing murder, working as prostitutes, swearing, gambling and engaging in obscene sex scenes.

I will never look at a #muppet the same again!! Help me unsee it!!!! #HappytimeMurders #reactionvideo #MovieTrailer https://t.co/5wDoMYHG7q

— Amanda Taylor (@geeklyamanda) May 18, 2018

I have seen the trailer for the Happytime Murders and I am now officially mentally scarred for life.

— Nathan Snyder (@ANateForFate) May 18, 2018

You can check out the trailer here, but fair warning: It includes explicit language and offensive material.

The Happytime Murders is directed by Brian Henson, son of the late Jim Henson, who invented The Muppets.

However, unlike Brian Henson's other films such as Muppet Treasure Island and The Muppet Christmas Carol, this R-rated film is not affiliated with the official Muppets brand.

While many seem excited to see the film, some have taken aim at it, saying it's simply "raunchy for the sake of being raunchy".

Just watched the redband trailer to #HappyTimeMurders and, maybe it's just me, but I didn't find a single bit of it funny nor clever. Just seems to be raunchy for the sake of being raunchy (especially the joke at the end).

— James Fagan (@InfinitySor625) May 18, 2018

Others have also compared it to Kiwi director Peter Jackson's Meet the Feebles, saying the new film has big shoes to fill.

I’m probably not the first to say this but #HappyTimeMurders can only remind me of one thing, and that is not Sesame Street. It’s Meet the Feebles.

— Forrest G Emerson @ Home (@StabbyGM) May 20, 2018

The Happytime Murders does look wild, yes, but let's not act like MEET THE FEEBLES didn't come out almost thirty years ago.

— Spencer Perry (@TheSpencerPerry) May 18, 2018

Along with McCarthy, the film co-stars Maya Rudolph, Joel McHale, and Elizabeth Banks.