Original episodes ran from when I was 11 through when I was 16, but I didn’t really pick up on the subversive humor until the later years, when friends and I would watch and scream with laughter at the seemingly adult material. How chuffed we were when we determined (gasp!) this isn’t a kids show! It’s for grownups! And we get it!!
Who could forget Kermit, and Rowlf? Sam, Beaker, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem (Dr. Teeth on keyboards, Animal on the drums, Janice on guitar, Lips on the trumpet, Floyd on Bass, and Zoot on sax), the Swedish Chef “chickie en der baskie, two point!”, or Statler & Waldorf? Even Miss Piggy’s dog Foo-Foo (also the nickname of my Cocker Spaniel, Fritzi)? Or the continuing story of Veterinarian’s Hospital, and PIIIIGS IIIIN SPAAAACE!
It's time to play the music!
It's time to light the lights!
It's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight.
It's time to put on makeup!
It's time to dress up right!
It's time to raise the curtain on the Muppet Show tonight.
Why do we always come here?
I guess we'll never know.
It's like a kind of torture;
To have to watch the show!
And now let's get things started!
Why don't you get things started?
It's time to get things started!
On the most sensational!
Inspirational!
Celebrational!
Muppetational!
This is what we caaaaall the Muppet Shoooow!
I am so totally nostalgic for it.
p.s. - 1990 was particularly the suckage, what with losing both Jim Henson and Stevie Ray Vaughn. Dark Crystal, anyone?
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And ya gotta love Fraggle Rock!
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