# The Banana Sketch (Muppets) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2000, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banana-sketch-muppets/34926 "2000-09-28T21:06:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banana-sketch-muppets/34926/21 "2000-09-30T11:57:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KimKatt \* > \*\* > > The Muppet Show rocks. Someone needs to bring that back to television in re-runs, on the Comedy Channel or one of the kids’ channels or somewhere! \*\* Ody-sse-y! The Odyssey Channel! Every weekday! 5pm Central time! The Cooper episode oughtta turn up aroud Halloween, along with Vincent Price. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2000, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banana-sketch-muppets/34926/22 "2000-10-01T03:19:13Z")
> [@](#): > > Ody-sse-y! The Odyssey Channel! Every weekday! 5pm Central time! Um… I’m pretty certain that they don’t have that channel in my country… * * * Rigardu, kaj vi ekvidos. ---
**Author:** ![RalfCoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@RalfCoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RalfCoder)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banana-sketch-muppets/34926/23 "2000-10-02T15:55:52Z")
Cantera, are thinking of “Gags Beezely’s Banana Sketch”? It was supposedly the funniest act in show biz. Gags was the hero of Fozzie Bear and standup comedians everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banana-sketch-muppets/34926/24 "2000-10-02T16:09:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Juniper200 \* > \*\ ***KimKatt:** > I personally am in posession of that very episode. It ran on Odyssey sometime in the spring. I can _probably_ (depends on if my friend still knows how to hook vcr’s up properly) make a copy for you if you want. \*\* :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: Juniper, if you can do that you will be my hero for LIFE!!! I don’t get Odyssey in my town… now I’m really bummed. That’s it. I’m hijacking a sattelite so that I can watch The Muppet Show. ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banana-sketch-muppets/34926/25 "2000-10-02T16:09:20Z")
The whole point of “The Banana Sketch” was that they never got to it, and poor Gonzo would have to dejectedly sulk back to his dressing room and get out of his Carmen Maranda outfit. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banana-sketch-muppets/34926/26 "2000-10-02T16:21:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spiny Norman \* > \*\*Answer to Zette: > > Yup, I ride - although (of course) a Eurobike: 98 Duc 748. Fun! > > S. Norman \*\* Three words. I Love Those Bikes. (OK, it was 4) DAMN they’re fast! ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banana-sketch-muppets/34926/27 "2000-10-02T16:28:52Z")
**The Muppet Show?!** I love the Muppet Show!! Okay, everyone, sing along… “it’s time to put on makeup, it’s time to light the lights, it’s time to get things started on The Muppet Show tonight!..” ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banana-sketch-muppets/34926/28 "2000-10-02T18:18:49Z")
Females: It’s time to play the music It’s time to light the lights It’s time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight. Males: It’s time to put on makeup It’s time to dress up right It’s time to raise the curtain on the Muppet Show tonight. Kermit: To introduce our guest star That’s what I’m here to do So it really makes me happy To introduce to you \ Waldorf: Why do we always come here Statler: I guess we’ll never know Waldorf: It’s like a kind of torture both: To have to watch the show (brief interlude) Muppets: And now let’s get things started Audience: Why don’t you get things started Kermit: It’s time to get things started Muppets: on the most sensational inspirational celebrational Muppetational this is what we call the Muppet Show! (Gonzo blows his trumpet) Got that from a web site, but I think they have the order a little off. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banana-sketch-muppets/34926/29 "2000-10-02T22:30:27Z")
Looks like this week they’ve changed the times. _The Muppet Show_ is now on Odyssey at 5 PM Eastern, or 4 PM Central. Evidently, they had some _My Three Sons_ episodes to squeeze in. Grrr… If you want to see a listing of the shows and who’s hosting each day, [click here](http://www.odysseychannel.com/network/schedule/index.html). ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banana-sketch-muppets/34926/30 "2000-10-03T05:11:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KimKatt \* > \*\*Muppets: on the most sensational inspirational celebrational Muppetational > this is what we call the Muppet Show! > > (Gonzo blows his trumpet)\*\* And something different always happened when Gonzo\* blew his trumpet! Bubbles would come out of it, or there’d be a cork stuck in it, or something; it never blew right! \*Gonzo was my favorite character, no contest. Henson wasn’t often derivative, but Gonzo always reminded me of Klinger, from MASH: the nose, and the way they both just had their own schtick and no self-consciousness! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banana-sketch-muppets/34926.md?page=1)