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( the Muppet Theater's Christmas " Spectacular Spectacular " opens with a number set at the " Moulin Scrooge ," which climaxes as Miss Piggy dons the role of Satine and performs " Santa Baby "), Cirque du Soleil ( feebly adapted by an apathetic choreographer as the " Cirque du So Lame "), A Beautiful Mind ( when Dr. Honeydew works out the money needed to save the theater's finances by doodling on a window, and, after listening to Beaker squeak, responds, " Why, thank you, Beaky, I think you have a beautiful mind, too "), For Dummies books ( Daniel is given a book called Performing Miracles for Dummies ), and the old Gift of the Magi comedy routine ( coming to a crashing halt in this film when one of the participants forgot to sell or buy anything ).
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Muppet and Christmas
In episode 106, Kermit identifies the name of the theater as The Benny Vandergast Memorial Theater, although by the time of It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, it is simply called " The Muppet Theater.
In a deleted scene from It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, Kermit reveals that J. P. has died and left the theater to the Muppets in his will.
No guest star ever appeared twice on The Muppet Show, although John Denver appeared both on the show and in two specials ( John Denver & the Muppets: A Christmas Together and John Denver & the Muppets: Rocky Mountain Holiday ).
Caine played a British con-man in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ( 1988 ), and Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol ( 1992 ).
A high point came when he played Ebenezer Scrooge in the critically acclaimed The Muppet Christmas Carol ( 1992 ).
He has sung in film roles as well, including for the musical film, The Muppet Christmas Carol.
" Oscar also appeared in the Jim Henson holiday special, A Muppet Family Christmas, when the Sesame Street Gang comes to the Grizzly Farm House for the holidays, in the film he befriends Rizzo the Rat ( whose name parodies that of the Midnight Cowboy character Ratso Rizzo ) who asks the Grouch if he could stay in his trash can for the night.
Films produced by current Disney subsidiary The Jim Henson Company have also aired on Disney Channel in the past, although most of them are not presently owned by Disney, including The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Buddy, The Muppet Movie, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets From Space, The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland.
One of his largest roles ever was in A Muppet Family Christmas, where he took all of his friends to his mother's farm for Christmas.
However, he returned to prominence when Eric Jacobson took over beginning with It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, in which Fozzie was the focus of a number of scenes.
Fozzie's mother Emily Bear ( performed by Jerry Nelson ) appeared in A Muppet Family Christmas special.
* The Muppet Christmas Carol-Fozziwig
* It's A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie ( TV )-himself
* A Muppet Family Christmas ( TV )-himself
* A character star, Art Carney ( 1918 – 2003 ) later appeared as Santa Claus in CBS ' December 1970 hour-long Muppet special, The Great Santa Claus Switch, and in ABC's December 1984 television film, The Night They Saved Christmas.
* Michael Caine in The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992
Ernie also narrated a Christmas pageant, Twas the Night Before Christmas, in A Muppet Family Christmas.
Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes, John C. McGinley and Neil Flynn reprised their roles as J. D., Elliot Reid, Carla Espinosa, Perry Cox and the Janitor to make a cameo appearances in the 2003 Muppets film It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, trying to reanimate Miss Piggy.
He originated the role of Fozzie Bear's mother in Series 2 of the Muppet Show and reprised the role over the years in such things as the special A Muppet Family Christmas, and The Muppets at Walt Disney World.
Muppet and with
The legal trademark on the term " Muppet " is currently held by The Muppets Studio, a wholly owned division of the Walt Disney Company, although Sesame Workshop and the Jim Henson Company continue to occasionally use the term on their characters with certain permissions from Disney.
In the 1970s and 80s, Ft. Lauderdale swimming champion Charkie Phillips revived water ballet on television with The Krofftettes in The Brady Bunch Hour ( 1976 – 77 ), NBC's The Big Show ( 1980 ), and then on screen with Miss Piggy in The Great Muppet Caper ( 1981 ).
The title card then lifted up to reveal the curtains, and the camera pulled back to reveal the Muppet orchestra with Crazy Harry playing a triangle.
Each episode ended with an extended instrumental performance of " The Muppet Show Theme " by the Muppet orchestra before Statler and Waldorf gave the last laugh of the night.
Although they were short on their telethon goal, the Muppets get the Muppet Theater and their trademark name back when Gonzo's head bowling act gives Tex Richman a head injury that ends with him laughing comically.
The Muppet Newman stated that Tex Richman's change of heart on this had nothing to do with head injury.
* Muppet Labs – Segments featuring the latest invention from Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, with his assistant, Beaker, getting the worst of its inevitable malfunction.
A third example, a cross-over with the Swedish Chef, has the Swedish Chef open and cause a wine bottle " explosion " ( if a bottle is shaken too much before opening it for the first time, fizz will shoot up and out of the bottle ) and flies through the air, classified as a UFO by the Muppet Newsman.
* The Muppet Revue ( titled Kermit and Fozzie's Favourite Moments in the UK )-Hosted by Kermit and Fozzie as they clean up the attic, with guest stars Linda Ronstadt, Paul Williams, Harry Belafonte, and Rita Moreno '.
* Muppet Treasures-Hosted by Kermit and Fozzie as they once again clean out the attic, with guest stars Zero Mostel, Loretta Lynn, Paul Simon, Peter Sellers, and Ethel Merman.
* Gonzo Presents Muppet Weird Stuff-Hosted by Gonzo and Camilla at Gonzo's trailer home, which Gonzo tries to pass off as a mansion, with guest stars John Cleese, Jean Stapleton, Dom DeLuise, Julie Andrews, Vincent Price, and Madeline Kahn.
* Fozzie's Muppet Scrapbook-Hosted by Fozzie in the attic as he looks through a scrapbook of his material from the show, with guest stars Raquel Welch, Beverly Sills, and Milton Berle.
* Muppet Moments-Once again hosted by Kermit and Fozzie as they clean the attic, with guest stars Pearl Bailey, Bernadette Peters, Andy Williams, Zero Mostel, and Liza Minnelli.
In 1994, Jim Henson Video released The Muppet Show: Monster Laughs with Vincent Price, featuring the episodes with Vincent Price and Alice Cooper.
Time-Life began marketing ' best of ' volumes of The Muppet Show for mail-order in 2001, with six initial volumes with 3 episodes on each VHS and DVD.
The Looney Tunes characters have had more success in the area of television, with appearances in several originally produced series, including Taz-Mania ( 1991, starring The Tasmanian Devil ), The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries ( 1995, starring Sylvester the cat, Tweety Bird and Granny ), Baby Looney Tunes ( 2002, which had a similar premise to Muppet Babies ), and Duck Dodgers ( 2003, starring Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Marvin the Martian ).
Miss Piggy of Jim Henson's Muppet Babies copied the hairdo with doughnuts in a Star Wars-centric episode of the series.
He guest-starred in the " Arabian Nights " episode of The Muppet Show with several Sesame Street characters.
Denver was also a guest star on The Muppet Show, the beginning of the lifelong friendship between Denver and Jim Henson that spawned two television specials with The Muppets.
He is also apprenticed at the Muppet workshop in New York City, and on the set of The Lord of the Rings films in New Zealand, in addition to working as a stilt-walker with a troupe in England.
* In the first season of The Muppet Show, Wayne and Wanda ( a recurring duet couple ) tried to sing the song, but as with most of their attempts to perform, it ends with slapstick violence.
Muppet and number
Though his main job was to be the show's comedian, he has had a number of other roles on The Muppet Show.
The Turn the World Around number on The Muppet Show.
He performed the lead vocals for many songs as Floyd of the Electric Mayhem, Little Jerry of Little Jerry and the Monotones, Slim Wilson of Lubbock Lou and his Jughuggers, and a number of Anything Muppet bands.
In one episode of The Muppet Show they started heckling the opening number before it even started.
He is perhaps best known for popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s including Three Dog Night's " An Old Fashioned Love Song ", Helen Reddy's " You and Me Against the World ", David Bowie's " Fill Your Heart ", and the Carpenters ' " We've Only Just Begun " and " Rainy Days and Mondays ", as well as his contributions to films such as " Evergreen " from A Star Is Born and " Rainbow Connection " from The Muppet Movie.
Although not every Muppet Babies episode was released on VHS, a number of them were released between 1993 – 95.
He would also perform Eliott Shag on Dog City, various characters in Muppet Time insertials, and he performed a number of characters — most notably Baby Sinclair, but also Howard Handupme — on Dinosaurs.
As a result, the original Piero Umiliani recording finally became a hit in the UK (# 8 in the UK charts in May 1977 ), where the Muppet Show soundtrack album featuring the Muppets ' version went to number one.
He seldom appeared in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie ( due to Jerry Nelson's illness at the time of filming ), portraying the Green Fairy in the " Moulin Scrooge " number.
The series was co-created by Kermit Love, original Muppet designer and builder for Jim Henson ; and Jim Martin, who later went on to work on a number of Henson-related projects.
In addition to television programming, ITC also produced several films – including Capricorn One, The Eagle Has Landed, The Boys from Brazil, The Return of the Pink Panther, The Last Unicorn, and a number of Jim Henson Company productions: The Dark Crystal and the first two Muppet films, The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper.
" This number has been referenced by Mel Gibson in What Women Want and by David Byrne in the live film of his band, Talking Heads, and was also parodied by Kermit the Frog in The Great Muppet Caper.
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