(That one line is a contender for my favorite part of the episode. Everything about it is just perfect.)

I guess we know who doesn't want a houseboat…

Brian is little Frank Cross' father in Scrooged.

Sounds like a tough choice. I'll let you sleep on it.

Yup.

Silent star Harold Lloyd was also a champion of film preservation, but
sadly he lost a good deal of his work to a studio fire in the 1940s.

Hey, that's that dude from Nirvarna!

It was a GJI! when I saw it on the home page earlier.

"That's it. We quit. We don't give a shit."

Oh, Uncle SWAMP!

tss yeah why dont they call her nancy clumsy or sumpthin

Not quite so.

He's a disgrace to the concept of politics.

Banas just did the voice; Jerry Nelson was actually in the Sweetums costume itself. Though Nelson himself did remark about the Canadian requirement in an interview with Tough Pigs.

Many episodes have some dark undertones, and some even wear it on their sleeves. "Marooned" (Red and Boober are trapped in a cave) and "Gone But Not Forgotten" (sorta Fraggle Rock's "Farewell, Mr. Hooper" episode) are two of the saddest examples I can think of.

Though Kermit did make a cameo in a new Elmo's World segment in the season 40 opener (2009).

[traps @avclub-c1c00f06971248828258e6aea6506129:disqus in big jar in basement]

Nice to see he didn't have any Pryor commitments after all…

Hoot Gibson was real.

Yeah, their old doesn't even keep its lawn well-groomed…