# Favorite Muppet Show moments **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 1, 2010, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-moments/523274 "2010-01-01T07:10:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-moments/523274/21 "2010-01-02T03:10:39Z")
[John Cleese](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyMCG0dWeQA) in flamenco sleeves… it’s hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-moments/523274/22 "2010-01-02T05:09:32Z")
> **["The Muppet Show" Roy Rogers and Dale Evans (TV Episode 1979) - Quotes - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0653188/quotes/)** > > Roy Rogers and Dale Evans: Directed by Peter Harris. With Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson. In honor of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans guest starring, the show takes on a Western theme Fozzie: Hey, Kermit, Kermit! This bunch of cows loves me. I’m a hit! Kermit: Not bunch, herd. Fozzie: Heard of what? Kermit: Herd of cows. Fozzie: Sure I heard of cows! Aah! Kermit: No, I mean the cow’s herd. Fozzie: Of course they heard. I was talking right to them. :smack: …oh yea, and the one with Orson Wells’ finger pointing ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-moments/523274/23 "2010-01-02T06:02:41Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > When I was in New York City a few months ago, I saw a 1981 documentary at the Paley Center for Media called _Of Muppets and Men_. My favorite part of the documentary was the [behind-the-scenes look at the In The Navy sketch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVYqaTdDA4U). It really shows you how much planning and choreography went into what just appears to be a silly puppet show. Quite impressive. (And see if you don’t end up trying to synchronize both your hands in opposite open-and-close to the words “In The Navy” after you see Louise Gold talk about how hard it is- I did, and I still can’t do it.) They ran that clip on TV many, many, years ago. The documentary it was a part of gave me a bit of appreciation for the way they did the set to make it work. My daughter made a language video which was set in a class with five kids, a teacher, and a muppet-like character as the sixth kid. (The puppeteers worked on the old Nick show Eureka’s Castle.) It was amazing to watch them work. Even when one of them used a hand instead of the puppet, it was pretty convincing, they kept in character so well. > [@](#): > > Season 4 is slated for a 2010 release. The fact that Disney has been able to release almost all of the series uncut is a testament to both their pride in the Muppets and their clout. I figured if anyone could get the last two seasons out, it would be the Mouse. ---
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> [@Barrett\_Bonden](#): > > [Peter Sellers](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSJc72OC7Dg) and Kermit (and some chickens). > > "Now is the winter of our discontent - " > > “Bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk!” [Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVw96wzmZC8) from the same episide. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-moments/523274/25 "2010-01-02T14:00:04Z")
> [@Mach Tuck](#): > > The Star Wars episode was the best. I was about 8 years old at the time, the perfect demographic to enjoy both the Muppets and SW. > > The reason given for the SW characters appearing on the show is that Chewbacca was kidnapped, and they’re searching for him. C3P0 shows Kermit a note from Chewbacca, which reads: > > “Help! I’m being held prisoner by a bunch of weird turkeys.” > > C3P0: It does rather sound like your show. > > Kermit (nodding ruefully): Yeah. It does. It always seemed to me that the Muppet Show was fastest half hour on TV but the Star Wars ep was among the best. ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/XMPdDa90pLY/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/XMPdDa90pLY?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/23Xxxp_fTHc/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/23Xxxp_fTHc?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
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[quote=“runner pat, post:7, topic:523274”] Harry Belafonte -[Turn the World Around](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2TZhruT-Xs)/quote] The entire Harry Belafonte episode was just pure gold. “Turn the World Around” was great, as was “The Banana Boat Song” (Fozzie: “Beauregard is going to get the the bananas. Trust me”. Belafonte: “That’s what you said the last time.”) and the Belafonte vs. Animal drum contest. Pure gold. [Banana Boat Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWiIgFnPZvU) [Drum contest.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaXCQ_wZidU) My favorite Muppet Show one liner: “Animal bowls overhand.” ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-moments/523274/27 "2010-01-02T16:35:27Z")
You can have a favorite? ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-moments/523274/28 "2010-01-02T17:26:05Z")
It is a terrible, terrible shame that this show only lasted for five seasons. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-moments/523274/29 "2010-01-02T19:33:53Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > It is a terrible, terrible shame that this show only lasted for five seasons. In addition, they were unable to revive it. I remember seeing [Muppets Tonight](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muppets_Tonight) and it barelyt lasted two years if memory serves. ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-moments/523274/30 "2010-01-04T00:03:02Z")
> [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](#): > > [Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVw96wzmZC8) from the same episide. I came in to mention that one. Earlier in the same episode, Sellers told Kermit, “I do not exist…There was a me, but I had it surgically removed.” Time magazine later quoted that line in their obituary of Sellers, as a comment on his career. I also have fond memories of Miss Piggy and Raquel Welch singing “I Enjoy Being a Girl” while destroying the set. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-moments/523274/31 "2010-01-04T01:05:47Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I really dig [Animal vs. Buddy Rich](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3zNANjJNio). Too bad Keith Moon didn’t live long enough to go on the show-now THAT’s a drum duel I’d pay to see! ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-moments/523274/32 "2010-01-04T02:07:52Z")
> [@ryobserver](#): > > I also have fond memories of Miss Piggy and Raquel Welch singing “I Enjoy Being a Girl” while destroying the set. That was Cheryl Ladd, not Raquel Welch. Oh, and she was awesome. ---
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I liked Debbie Harry singing “Call Me.” ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-moments/523274/34 "2010-01-04T02:42:31Z")
It’s all good. I love the secondary humor like the line from the Muppet Wizard of Oz “Somebody’s gonna get witch-slapped”. It’s great when multiple levels of humor are used on family oriented shows. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-moments/523274/35 "2010-01-04T04:02:53Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > It is a terrible, terrible shame that this show only lasted for five seasons. I don’t know about that. Nothing Henson did after that was nearly as successful, so it might have gone downhill. Plus, [according to wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppet_Show): > [@](#): > > …after five years and 120 episodes, it went off the air in 1981 because of Henson’s desire to move on to other projects and the sale of ATV’s Elstree studios. Maybe he realized he was getting stale. Maybe he was just tired of it, and that would’ve shown in the shows. In any case, we have over 100 **great** shows. That’s really rare. Old showbiz saying: “Always leave them wanting more.” > [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > In addition, they were unable to revive it. I remember seeing [Muppets Tonight](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muppets_Tonight) and it barelyt lasted two years if memory serves. The new show was done without Henson, who had died six years earlier. The REAL shame is that Henson died because he didn’t go to the doctor and get treated for something a routine course of antibiotics would’ve whacked in short order. ---
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> [@congodwarf](#): > > Favorite Muppet Show moments Other than “all of them?” I was working on a home theater and noticed that the architect had put Statler and Waldorf in a box at stage right. ---
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Five moments, really: [the telephone running gag from a first season episode](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LwMZHrRG0I). ---
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> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > The new show was done without Henson, who had died six years earlier. Still, I remember really liking the new show, and I wish it had been more successful. ---
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I’m fond of [Jabberwocky](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGCJFFxoHJ4). (Clearly the Mome Raths are the children of Miss Piggy and Kermit, visiting from the future.) Oh, and can’t forget [Hugga Wugga](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN5Mqr6tRlw). ---
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Jim Henson and Frank Oz at their peak: [“Good grief, the comedian’s a bear!”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b0Z8jXQq-4#t=1m21s) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-moments/523274.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-moments/523274.md?page=3)