My eight year old daughter has discovered the Muppet Show on library video. She’s undecided between Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, The Swedish Chef or all the characters from Pigs in Space as the funniest characters ever.
I’m a Beaker / Gonzo fan myself.
And you?"
Are you looking for sketches or characters. When someone mentions the muppet show, my mind usually goes to Ketmit’s Lime in the Coconut sketch
And even though I’ve only seen via youtube and it’s probably not really appropriate for an 8 year old, this one is entertaining.
To Morrow, I’ve never harmed an onion, Wig Racing (this one mostly because there’s a joke in there that took me fifteen years to get), and newer, Beaker’s Ballad. I’ve always liked Beaker.
I must show those to my daughter.
She went to bed humming this one from Beaker and giggling madly.
I used to have a muppet VHS when I was around 6 that I watched a million times. The onion one and wig racing were on there and when I found them on Youtube a year ago (I’m 24) I still remembered all the words.
But yeah, for the longest time I didn’t get the “not shampoo, real poo” joke. I thought the joke was that he said “poo.” I didn’t connect the “sham” part until last year. Seriously, I was driving home and then it randomly hit me.
I can never forget The Banana Sketch (part 1 of 3). I didn’t get that there actually wasn’t one, and I kept hoping they’d say what it was.
But my absolute, all-time favorite (that I currently remember), was John Cleese’s closing number (starting at 4:24).
In the Navy - with Viking pigs.
I hope, hope, hope seasons 4 and 5 come out when the new Muppet Movie arrives later this year. The first 3 are good, but they are even better.
rolf the pianist and dr. teeth.
The running gag in a first season episode.
Open Sesame. I was not expecting THAT!
The one that made me laugh the hardest was “Good grief, the comedian’s a bear!”. Jim Henson and Frank Oz playing off each other hilariously. The expressions on Kermit’s face kill me.
I liked one episode where they were trying to keep Animal occupied, find him a hobby. Floyd the guitar player tells Kermit that Animal is bowling. Kermit says “Well, that doesn’t sound too bad” and Floyd replies with “I don’t know man, Animal bowls overhand.” This is just as a bowling ball comes whizzing through the air, with Animal shouting “Strike! Strike!”
The one I remember most is when the Swedish Chef was going to cook a lobster. A band of marauding lobster banditos rode in, shot the place up, threatened the chef, and rode off with the lobsterita.
Lew Zealand and his boomerang fish act.
“Where every night is Friday Night!”
I was coming in to say that one, too! It was just a one-time, no-dialog, single-joke sketch, but I damn near wet my pants.
Also most Statler and Waldorf.
The Rhyming Song.
Yet another Swedish Chef. His ingredients from this segment have made their way into our family’s culinary lexicon.