True, true.  But I would have liked to see the writers try to make a "Fozzie's Mom and Bill the Bubble Guy" sketch work.

But why didn't Fozzie's mom show up after Muppet Christmas Carol? Like Floyd's absence from Muppets Tonight, it seems like a missed opportunity to give Jerry Nelson stuff to do in the 90s.

That ranking seems accurate.  As much as its an hour-long commercial for Disney World, it's also really funny. And it includes the surprisingly effective pairing of Miss Piggy and Beauregard.

@PugsMalone:disqus And it could still include Muppets, because Ed Koch is in The Muppets Take Manhattan and Michael Bloomberg is in A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa!  Woo-hoo!

And then there's the early drafts of The Muppet Movie, which include a series of cameos by Henry Kissinger, which of course didn't make it to the final film.  I don't know if he turned them down, or if they just never even bothered to ask.

Rudolf Nureyev requested that the studio floor be covered with Coca-Cola for his dance number with the big pig.  Apparently it helped his dancing if the floor was sticky.

Last year, Cee Lo Green performed "Forget You" at the Grammys with a band consisting of Henson Company puppets, and his costume was directly inspired by Elton John's from the "Crocodile Rock" number:

The Minnie Mouse version didn't end with Minnie frantically kissing Elton John's chest hair, so yes, you are correct.

"GO, POPEYE'S!  GET DOWN MY ESOPHAGUS, POPEYE'S!"

I've heard that before, but I've always been suspicious. Does he ever once eat fried chicken in the movie?  Or did that come from Doyle's counterpart in the original book?

I saw this at a free outdoor screening once, and there was a guy behind me who kept yelling, "YEAH, POPEYE! GO, POPEYE! GET 'EM, POPEYE!" throughout this entire scene.  It was weird because, while it's a very exciting scene and you root for Hackman to catch the bad guy, cheering like that would generally work better…

So you had an InteractiveVision?  Was there much replay value to those things?  It's a pretty ambitious technology, even if it was flawed.

Every time I hear "Ain't She Sweet," I think of Dom DeLuise playing ukulele for a monster.  The Koozebane sketch is pretty great… I can remember seeing that as a very young kid and being amazed at the hand gag.  Merdlidop!

I actually find that pretty hilarious.  I always wonder if the puppeteer playing the bosomy woman was trying to make Jerry Nelson laugh… Who was that, anyway?  Dave Goelz, maybe?

Church's.  Gotta love it.

That's a good observation… The Muppet Show was supposed to be funny, for the most part, so it helped to have guest stars who were actually good at being funny, whether they were particularly talented in other areas or not.

Whoops, I just checked the Muppet Wiki, and it turns out it was Cheryl Henson, not Heather, who built those lobsters.  I apologize for the confusion.

Geoff Peterson is one of the best TV personalities on the air right now. I hope he never gets a better offer to be somebody else's robot skeleton sidekick, or to host his own robot skeleton show.

It's great that she had the career she did, but I've always thought she would have been a bigger star if she had been around in the 30s and 40s… She would have been huge during the golden age of musical comedy.

Muppet Show writer Joe Bailey pitched the lobster banditos bit several times, but it was rejected by Jim Henson, until his daughter Heather Henson happened to be present at a creative session… She loved it and offered to build the lobster puppets, so it made it on the show.  Which is a great thing, because it…