# Favorite Muppet Show Sketch?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 15, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448 "2011-04-15T04:10:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/1 "2011-04-15T04:10:25Z")
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?"
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/2 "2011-04-15T04:23:14Z")
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
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wg_L0wGTyA)
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.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ-EJNz2AoE)
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/3 "2011-04-15T04:25:35Z")
[To Morrow](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEilPR1PXko), [I’ve never harmed an onion](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYA-zVxS6hw&feature=related), [Wig Racing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mlXXiocxeM) (this one mostly because there’s a joke in there that took me fifteen years to get), and newer, [Beaker’s Ballad](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAtBki0PsC0). I’ve always liked Beaker.
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### Author:  [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/4 "2011-04-15T04:38:58Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#):
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> [To Morrow](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEilPR1PXko), [I’ve never harmed an onion](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYA-zVxS6hw&feature=related), [Wig Racing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mlXXiocxeM) (this one mostly because there’s a joke in there that took me fifteen years to get), and newer, [Beaker’s Ballad](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAtBki0PsC0). I’ve always liked Beaker.
I must show those to my daughter.
She went to bed humming this [one from Beaker](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A&feature=related/url) and giggling madly.
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/5 "2011-04-15T04:44:14Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#):
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> I must show those to my daughter.
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> She went to bed humming this [one from Beaker](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A&feature=related/url) 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.
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### Author:  [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/6 "2011-04-15T04:58:28Z")
I can never forget [The Banana Sketch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbM7wK7gPdU&feature=related) (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).](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH4rxcePMYg)
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/7 "2011-04-15T07:10:13Z")
[In the Navy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTwq1_9VH68) - 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.
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### Author:  [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/8 "2011-04-15T07:28:08Z")
rolf the pianist and dr. teeth.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/9 "2011-04-15T09:44:26Z")
[Turn The World Around](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2TZhruT-Xs).
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/10 "2011-04-15T15:26:03Z")
The [running gag](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LwMZHrRG0I) in a first season episode.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/11 "2011-04-15T15:43:03Z")
[Open Sesame](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWFWlzOR5YI). I was not expecting THAT!
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/12 "2011-04-15T15:54:42Z")
The one that made me laugh the hardest was [“Good grief, the comedian’s a bear!”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XsUUKzx43I#t=1m20s). Jim Henson and Frank Oz playing off each other hilariously. The expressions on Kermit’s face kill me.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/13 "2011-04-15T16:07:35Z")
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!”
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/14 "2011-04-15T16:34:43Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/15 "2011-04-15T17:08:36Z")
[Lew Zealand](http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=66276&big=3x) and his boomerang fish act.
“Where every night is Friday Night!”
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/16 "2011-04-15T17:10:04Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#):
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> 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.
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.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/17 "2011-04-15T17:13:58Z")
[Jim Henson on the Muppet Show](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LefPThv8Zs)
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/18 "2011-04-15T20:54:16Z")
[Mahna mahna](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA90IlymdZ4).
Also most Statler and Waldorf.
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/19 "2011-04-15T21:43:28Z")
The Rhyming Song.
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### Author:  [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2011, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-muppet-show-sketch/578448/20 "2011-04-16T00:24:17Z")
Yet another [Swedish Chef](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsbY4YfT6Mg). His ingredients from this segment have made their way into our family’s culinary lexicon.
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