Wot, no "The Lion in Winter"?

Wait, of all the sketches on The Muppet Show it was that one that freaked out out, and not the infinitely worse "Hugga Wugga" one?

I'm using Firefox as well (40.0.2). THIS time, when responding to you, it's not autoplaying, so Heaven only knows what's going on. :P (The first two times I tried to load this page it started playing all three clips simultaneously, hence the all-caps freakout.)

TURN OFF THE FUCKING AUTOPLAY ON THE COMEDY CENTRAL CLIPS!

I can see where stippling would be tricky when the design has to be reproduced for newspaper (especially 1980 newsprint, which could be plenty smeary), but I think that first design would've made a hell of a book cover. Sadly, I'm not sure if it wouldn't have problems as a bookcover NOW due to the need to have good…