# Can you identify a Muppet Show sketch for me, please?

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**Created:** [May 16, 2017, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-a-muppet-show-sketch-for-me-please/786764 "2017-05-16T16:58:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-a-muppet-show-sketch-for-me-please/786764/1 "2017-05-16T16:58:52Z")

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The sketch is set to wordless music, and presents an eyeballed creature that looks like an elbow macaroni noodle doing a dance. Every now and then a smaller creature of the same race comes on and tries to dance with it. On two separate occasions, it’s stepped on and thrown offstage. On the third occasion, the smaller “mac noodle” synchronizes its dancing with the big one, and then at the climax of the song, it blows away the big one with a large toot from one of its ends, like an explosion or a gunshot.

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-a-muppet-show-sketch-for-me-please/786764/2 "2017-05-16T17:02:44Z")

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[Here’s the piece.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-kDtgtF9qU)

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**Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-a-muppet-show-sketch-for-me-please/786764/3 "2017-05-16T17:11:21Z")

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[Season one-Ep. 22](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_122:_Ethel_Merman)  
“Java”

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-a-muppet-show-sketch-for-me-please/786764/4 "2017-05-16T17:19:34Z")

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Yup, that’s it!