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- While the Star Wars characters search for Chewbacca around the theatre, Luke's cousin, Mark Hamill, offers to perform over the objections of the Gershwin gargling guest star, Angus McGonagle.
- Elton John performs four of his biggest hit songs of the '70's like, "Crocodile Rock", "Bennie and the Jets", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", and, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", with Miss Piggy filling in for Kiki Dee.
- While Fozzie tries to make the show scripted, Harry Belafonte brings an international sound to the musical performances.
- In honor of guest star Vincent Price, the show is filled with monsters, ghosts, vampires and spooky sketches. Meanwhile, a three-headed monster tries to audition for Kermit.
- Danny Kaye finds his gig on the show rather discouraging considering Statler and Waldorf are sitting outside rather than see the guest star.
- When not performing, Alice Cooper is doing some devilry backstage looking for souls to purchase.
- There's no show today, almost; the theater is turned into a dance marathon hosted by Gonzo.
- Peter Sellers appears as a wild gypsy, a strange doctor, and forms a band against drinking in this very comical and rare performance by the master of disguise himself.
- Bunsen Honeydew causes problems when he invents an all powerful glue that causes everyone and everything to stick to each other. Gilda has to improvise when forced to sing with a nine foot tall talking carrot.
- Several Muppets don costumes and try to learn how to become superheroes themselves with disastrous results, but Piggy herself impressively performs as "Wonder Pig" in honor of this episode's guest star.
- When Gene Kelly was first booked for the show he said to the writers that he didn't just want to do 'Singin' in the Rain'. The writers turned Gene's request into a running gag for the show, and much to Kermit's dismay, Gene Kelly insists on just passively watching the Muppets do their "thing" from the wings of the stage. But of course, the Muppets get their way in the end, and Gene performs a few numbers while backstage with Kermit and the gang, including the song 'Singin' in the Rain'.
- On stage, guest star Rita Moreno battles several Muppets including Animal who backs on drums in her closing number "Fever". Backstage, Fozzie answers a string of rather unusual (and very funny) phone calls.
- To Kermit's concern, and Gonzo's delight, a real live cow winds up backstage.
- Much to Steve Martin's initial displeasure, Kermit cancels the regular show and holds private auditions for new acts.
- Gonzo falls in love with Madeline Kahn after she compliments him backstage.
- Kermit tries to talk everyone into going camping in the swamp.
- Kermit and special guest Linda Ronstadt have mutual crushes on each other. Miss Piggy discovers this and makes it her goal to keep Kermit away from Linda.
- Kermit has hired several spies for Roger Moore's closing number, but Moore wants to do a wholesome song instead. The spies disguise themselves as fluffy animals in order to get him.
- Miss Piggy comes up with various schemes to impress Kermit.
- Robin the Frog feels sad that nobody notices him. Miss Piggy gets jealous when Kermit does a duet with Miss Mousey.
- When Berle comes to guest-star on the show, Fozzie is too shy to meet his idol.
- With the Muppets performing only Paul Simon's songs for this show, Gonzo is inspired to emulate the musician's musical ways.
- Statler and Waldorf accept the dare from Kermit to run the Muppet Show themselves and find it a chaotic challenge.
- Guest star Glenda Jackson becomes a pirate and hijacks the Muppet Theater as her ship.
- Miss Piggy asks Andy Williams to sing "Love Story" for her and Kermit, who have just become engaged. Unfortunately, Kermit hasn't heard about the engagement yet. The rumor slips out, and soon everyone thinks Kermit and Piggy are getting married. Meanwhile, the backstage cast puts up with a group of cheese hanging around backstage and trying to avoid the rats.
- Statler and Waldorf rate the show like Olympic judges. First, they give Kermit a two. Then, they give the opening a three, but the audience demands they bring it down to a zero. All of the Muppets get low scores (though Fozzie's "One" is a compliment by them), and Gonzo even gets a minus six. The Muppets think it's just a tough audience, but Diana Ross gets tens every time which gives her high scores.
- When Dudley Moore brings his own robot to perform the show's music arrangements, the idled Electric Mayhem band won't stand for it.
- Tony Randall is causing accidental trouble with a book of spells, especially when he turns Miss Piggy to stone.
- Beaker makes several copies of himself and throws the show into chaos as they continually all chase Dr. Bunsen Honeydew around for revenge.
- Thanks to Gonzo, the Muppet Theater's electrical system is damaged, throwing the show into continual power failures.
- Raquel Welch performs a prehistoric dance routine with a giant spider and performs with Miss Piggy, singing 'I Am Woman (W-O...P-I-G)".
- With the regular theater being fumigated, Kermit and the gang have to stage the show at an active train station.
- While Kenny Rogers is dealing with Arab oilers in his dressing room, Kermit gets the worst of a painful series of accidents during the show.
- The entire roof of the Muppet Theater has to be taken to the shop for repairs, exposing the show to all sorts of inclement weather.
- The Muppet Show is broadcast on radio station WHOG which leads to havoc in the muppet theater.
- The Muppet Theatre gets ahold of a supply of real gold for props, but it is protected by a violently paranoid security guard.
- Teen actor Brooke Shields stars in the Muppets' version of Alice in Wonderland.
- Kermit is pressured into allowing Scooter to do a musical number with Muppy the dog. Guest star Juliet Prowse dances to a Scott Joplin melody.
- Kermit becomes jealous when Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Hilda and Scooter rave about Peter Ustinov who later admits that he's jealous of Kermit saying that he's always wanted to be a frog.
- When Fozzie overhears Hilda, Kermit, and Scooter talking about getting rid of "that bear" he thinks they're talking about him when in actual truth it's Gonzo's teddy bear that is being badmouthed. Meanwhile, Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie make a guest appearance in a musical number with Connie Stevens.
- Fozzie becomes an honorary hip dude when Floyd approves of his suggestion of playing Lullaby of Birdland on the show.
- Reporter Fleet Scribbler is covering the Muppet Show with his obviously hostile biased writing.
- When Sam the Eagle finally recognizes the guest star, Rudolf Nureyev, he is horrified at the silliness the ballet dancer is eager to perform with the gang.
- Statler and Waldorf decide to watch TV in their box, instead of watching the show. Meanwhile, Kermit can't make payroll ($27.14), but Muppet Theatre owner J. P. Grosse says he'll give him the money if he puts "good old-fashioned entertainment" back in the show -- meaning lady wrestlers.
- The Muppets find they have accommodate Bob Hope's hectic volunteer schedule.
- Gonzo holds auditions for a chicken act while Rich Little guest stars on the show.
- Inspired by Edgar Bergen and his companion characters, Fozzie decides to try his hand at ventriloquism.
- The Muppet Theater has an outbreak of cluckitis, that causes sufferers to turn into chickens.
- Fozzie heard that Roy Clark was going to bring Country to the show and sent all of the stagehands out to the country. Matters are complicated even more when a fire breaks out backstage and Fozzie tries to keep it a secret from Kermit.
- Gonzo the Great receives an offer from a film studio in Bombay, and makes plans to quit the show. Miss Piggy, feeling jealous, asks Gonzo to keep her in mind when he talks to the producers. While singing "I Did It My Way" before he leaves, Gonzo breaks down in tears. The film deal falls through when the producers thought that they were hiring Gonzo the Mediocre, but when Gonzo returns to the theatre, he has to face his replacement, Trevor the Gross.
- Private eye Kermit must solve a series of murders in the Muppet Theatre.
- Piggy is determined to perform with Christopher Reeve, who is playing up the Superman references such as a telephone booth near his dressing room for costume changes, his Kryptonian strength, and invulnerability.
- Miss Piggy attempts to handle a group of babies left at Muppet Theatre.
- Kermit is plagued by a night of backstage crises. A group of skiers get hurt during the opening number, and after Kermit says that the theater will cover their medical costs, Scooter forgets to cash the check. The Teeterini Family are angry that their teeter board won't fit on the stage. The Swedish Chef prepares spring chicken, and the bouncing chicken drives Kermit crazy. And let's not even talk about the blindfolded, hang-gliding yodelers.
- With the intended guest star declining to appear, a messenger boy, Chris Langham, is hastily recruited to substitute.
- James Coburn tries to encourage Animal to embrace serenity through Zen Buddhism, but it proves a hopeless task.
- Kermit cancels Miss Piggy's song for fear of overshadowing guest star Lena Horne. At least that's Piggy thinks, until finds out the real reason for being cut: he didn't want her to look foolish following Lena. Sometimes, the truth can hurt and not just for Piggy...Kermit, too.
- Fozzie brings a string of deliveries to Kermit which results in some real lousy gags driving the poor frog crazy.
- Fozzie gets stuck in a trick cabinet owned by Marvel the Magician (who is in Toledo) and is left perform his act while in and have two pig stagehands tip the box over so Fozzie can take a bow. In the end, Fozzie escapes thanks to Crazy Harry who is having a good time setting off other explosions.
- Fozzie's agent, Irving Bizarre, arrives at the theater to negotiate Fozzie's contract with Kermit who ends up offering Fozzie ten times as much money - despite the fact the bear made nothing before.
- Scooter talks Fozzie in doing "The Telephone Pole Bit" and Fozzie practices dutifully until he finds out what the bit is really all about.
- A mix-up results in a moose who sounds like John Wayne hanging around backstage.
- The gang tries their best to force John to perform with them, but he drags his feet at every opportunity.
- Miss Piggy casts herself and Kermit in a wedding sketch whose intentions might be less fictional than Kermit realizes.
- Kermit accidentally introduces Lesley as Lesley and Warren, a famous knife throwing act, while Gonzo tries to perfect his jump from the stage and into the box to land safely between Statler and Waldorf.
- Gonzo has his first date with Camilla the Chicken. Special guest Big Bird meets some of the cast while wandering around the theater.
- Kermit must contend with a bunch of Sylvester Stallone groupies who've accessed the backstage.
- In honor of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans guest starring, the show takes on a Western theme
- Kermit puts up with various problems in the theater: Animal eats Gonzo's trained Mexican jumping beans, which make him jump whenever someone says "Arriba", he gets a strange sandwich from Gladys, and he has to put up with Miss Piggy's temper when Annie Sue is chosen over her in the melodrama sketch. On top of all this, Jean Stapleton announces who she'd like as her partner for the closing number partner: Crazy Harry.
- Despite Kermit's disapproval, the first Muppet Awards are given out with Phyllis George presenting.
- Singer Beverly Sills is slated to lead an opera called Pigoletto, leading to many of the Muppet cast's pigs to audition for a role, including Miss Piggy who desires a lead part.
- Miss Piggy finally pushes Kermit too far, leading to the frog firing and replacing her with Loretta Swit.
- In honor of vaudeville-influenced guest star Wally Boag, the Muppets salute vaudeville, with a balloon animal act, a bagpipe player and a hypnotist. Wally performs acts he made famous at the Golden Horseshoe Revue at Disneyland, including the Pecos Bill teeth-spitting sketch.
- The Muppets decide to do something "entirely different" on their show and feature puppets.
- Robin's Frog Scout troop visits the show, getting in everyone's way backstage. They ask Debbie for help earning their punk merit badges, and she teaches them how to do the pogo.
- Kermit begins to worry that guest star Harvey Korman isn't having a great time because he complains of being the "token person" on the show with all the dogs, frogs, pigs and chickens as well as the fear of hoof-and-mouth disease. So the rest of the Muppets come up with a solution: dress Harvey in a chicken suit.
- In an effort to make Kermit jealous, Miss Piggy instructs Scooter to tell him that guest star Avery Schreiber is smitten with her. But when Kermit finds out it was all a trick, Piggy karate-chops everybody in her path.
- Aging wardrobe woman Hilda tries to make herself look younger by putting on a wig, some makeup and even some "very tight foundation garments."
- Kermit is skeptical when everyone backstage is terrorized by "the Phantom of the Muppet Show" aka Uncle Deadly, a monster-actor who performed in the theater years ago, got panned by the critics, and vowed never to perform there again, and not to let anyone else perform either warning the Muppets "Leave or be doomed!"
- While the experimental mime troupe performs onstage, Miss Piggy must deal backstage with the advances of a recently smitten Gonzo.
- As Fozzie tries to finalize his roller skating routine, the rest of the acts have to come on stage sooner than scheduled, leading to some Muppetastic chaos.
- When Kermit cancels her ballet number because she's too heavy, Miss Piggy struggles to lose weight.
- Instead of participating in Muppet Labs this week, Beaker helps Beauregard backstage with various tasks.
- Miss Piggy becomes increasingly jealous as Kermit appears to give a young pig performer attention.
- The Muppets have to keep the noise down during a noise inspection to avoid being shut down while Dizzy Gillespie guest stars.
- The show is plagued by the Prairie Dog Glee Club who not only sing, but steal everything not nailed down.
- Fozzie performs the famous "Banana Sketch" by Gags Beasley which everyone (including guest Sandy Duncan) has heard of. Everybody, except for Kermit.
- Impressed with guest star Valerie Harper's beauty, Statler and Waldorf argue over who will go backstage to meet her so they decide to flip for her. Statler wins and sets off to woo her with an African berry bush...which George the Janitor accidentally waters left to grow at a very fast rate.
- The Muppet Theater is plagued by pig-related problems with The Bouncing Borcellino Brothers flubbing their opening act and Miss Piggy throwing herself at an uninterested Kermit, then later gets jealous at guest star Florence Henderson who she thinks is gonna steal her frog away.
- Jaye P. Morgan has difficulty adjusting to the show's wacky ways, especially all the explosions.
- Judy Collins sings classic folk songs, including Send In The Clowns and I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. Kermit must deal with Scooter's uncle, J.P. Grosse, the theater's owner, who is inspecting it for his plans to tear it down
- Kermit is off sick with the flu so Fozzie must manage the show. Things do not go so well for the bear and he is afraid Kermit may fire him.
- 1976–198130mTV-G7.4 (167)TV EpisodeGladys and the Swedish Chef provide service at the canteen as Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge guest star.
- Guest star John Coco tries to add "razzle dazzle" to The Muppet Show.
- The Muppet Theater's incompetent new janitor and craftsman, Beauregard, is causing chaos both on and backstage.
- Fozzie asks for feedback from Kermit in order to aid in his self improvement. The bust of Beethoven provides running commentary on the antics in the theatre.
- The cast of The Muppet Show believe that the night's performance is cursed.
- Inspired by magician Doug Henning, Fozzie tries his hand at magic and causes a rabbit infestation.
- Miss Piggy buys a cute new pair of shoes, but they're too small, and she can't walk in them. She wants to take them back, but Kermit compliments them, so she has to keep wearing them.
- The Muppet Show goes to the dogs when Miss Piggy asks 'da-da' Kermie to babysit Foo-Foo, her precious, pampered pooch. But with his flippers full hosting the show, Kermit entrusts Foo-Foo to Scooter who foists him on Fozzie who gives him to Gonzo who finally passes the fluffy puppy to Floyd unleashing sheer comedic chaos.
- Miss Piggy takes over the show in order to celebrate Kermit's birthday.
- Kermit introduces Miss Piggy to the guest star, Jean-Pierre Rampal, in order to give her the opportunity to speak French with someone. The trouble is that Piggy doesn't actually speak French.
- Fozzie hatches a plan to get even with Statler and Waldorf when he does his act. But the bear becomes crushed when he gets replaced with guest Bruce Forsyth.
- Scooter's uncle, J.P. Grosse sends a mechanical wind-up TV show host that resembles Kermit in every way. Soon, the duplicate starts harassing Kermit and flirts with Miss Piggy.
- Fozzie tries to hijack the show as his mother is in the Audience. Cleo Laine does a Scat number with Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem Orchestra. Guest Puppeteer Bruce Schwartz performs with Cleo Laine "If" by Bread.
- The Muppet players decide that instead of the regular Muppet Show, they'll be doing a remake of Robin Hood staring Lynn Redgrave as the lovely Maid Marian and Miss Piggy as the infamous Sister Tuck.
- Kermit pushes an unwilling Floyd Pepper to take on the role of a knight in a jousting scene with Gonzo as the Black Knight.
- Inspired by the American pantomime duo Shields and Yarnell, Fozzie Bear works on a mime act, including "Bear walking against the wind". Kermit suggests that Fozzie find a more original act, so Fozzie tries out "Bear feeding spaghetti to an elephant" and "Bear going to a drive-in movie with a porcupine".
- With Arlo Guthrie as guest, Kermit promises a more family-style show for the performers and audience.
- Fozzie takes on a new act - jokes on any subject - which drives everybody crazy. When he takes the stage, he asks for any word. Naturally, Statler & Waldorf call his bluff by yelling out "Amoeba!"
- Scooter's skateboarding kick is causing havoc throughout the show.
- Embarrassed at the "square" music that he and the others have to play each week on the show, Floyd announces that the band is quitting.
- Beauregard misinterprets his orders to get rid of Rizzo and the rats so completely that they plot to take over the show.
- A young kid named Scooter applies for a job as a gofer. When, Kermit tells him he looks nothing like a gopher, Scooter explains that he'll go-fer coffee and sandwiches among other things he'll go-fer. Kermit says he doesn't have the money pay him, but then Scooter lets in that his uncle owns the theater.
- When he's unable to get a spot on the show, Gonzo asks Scooter to be his manager. Scooter thinks Gonzo should do a rock act by banging a large rock with a mallet. Later, Gonzo tries female impersonation in a dress and a blonde wig. But Scooter gives up managing when Gonzo eats his contract.
- The pigs seize control of the Muppet Show and forcibly replace the other cast members with pig versions.
- Dr. Honeydew's Hyde potion keeps being left out and causes various people who drink it to become rampaging monsters.
- The Muppets put on an Arabian Nights themed show with Marty Feldman as Scheherazade.
- The Muppet Show celebrates its international success with a global theme with the great Goon comedian, Spike Milligan.
- Liberace plans for his concert, "A Tribute to the Birds".