Yeah, I still think that one is pretty wonderful.  The anthropomorphic bell chorus playing "Carol of the Bells" with the one goofy bell who loses his mallet cracks me up every time.

Remember the last season, when Dame Edna joined the cast?  And she was playing a female character and was actually credited as "Dame Edna?"  That was weird.

Yep, that was me.  On the other online forum where we talk about Muppets.  Because we're awesome like that.

So it's close enough to Frank Oznowicz to be intentional!  Or intentionalwitski.

I've never been to a travel agent, but if I ever do, you can bet I'll keep asking, "Got anything cheaper?"

And the Telephone Pole's name is "Frank Oznowicz" — Frank Oz's full name!

There was a story in the news about two years ago about a mother in Oregon who had checked out the first season DVDs of The Muppet Show from her local library, and was shocked and scandalized by the Koozebanian mating ritual sketch.  She demanded that they take it out of the "Kids & Family" section.  And yeah, it's…

That's from The Jim Henson Hour in 1989.  Here you go:
http://youtu.be/a3rYGnpCyzo…

Out loud, I hope.

But what about the time he got drunk on eggnog on Muppets Tonight? Wasn't that hilarious? "Egg-noggy, eggy-noggy, eggy-noggy!"

I saw that years before I saw the Bergman movies, which made it somewhat difficult to take them seriously when I did.

Florence Henderson's Butterfly song: Most boring Muppet Show moment ever?

It's a Very Merry Happy Muppet Funtime Christmas did a lot of things wrong, but at least the characters were playing themselves, and acting like themselves.  It's much harder to sit through The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, where Ashanti is the lead, or the Letters to Santa special, where Gonzo sits around being sad the…

A grown-up version of Skeeter showed up in the recent Muppet Show Comic Book series.  I think there was an explanation for where she'd been, but I don't remember what it was.

I guess the presence of the Babies and the absence of a villain does imply a kid-targeted Muppets Take Manhattan, but somehow the tone of it always felt more adult to me… Maybe it's just a different, 80s-er era of comedy.

That is, in fact, Madeline Kahn alongside Telly Savalas there.  She also guest-starred on The Muppet Show, where she was wooed by Gonzo but ultimately shut him down.

As I recall, it took around four hours to beat the whole game, and the ending (SPOILER ALERT!) is just a shot of the monsters punching a map of the United States. Possibly a bigger ripoff of an ending than Contra telling you "You've just saved the planet — CONSIDER yourself a hero!"

Are we to assume that the Talking Houses are actually on the stage at the Muppet Theater during those sketches?  If so, are they, in fact, miniature houses?  Or are they normal-sized houses somewhere outside the theater?  But if that were the case, how can the audience be laughing at them?

Who am I to judge another man's tastes?

Ah, yes, one of the sexiest guest stars ever to appear on The Muppet Show.