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Caveat Emptor: These episodes are not complete,
Like most children of the 70′s, I grew up loving The Muppet Show. Sitting down to watch the Muppets was a weekly ritual the whole family enjoyed. Everyone could enjoy their humor and the music. More than that though, the Muppets could be inspiring and touching at times as well. There really is no way to adequately express how wonderful the Muppets can be.
So why am I only giving this collection 3 star? Because despite the claim on the box of being “restored and remastered,” some of the episodes have been butchered. I saw the Vincent Price episode when it was originally shown, and it closed with Vincent and the Muppet monsters singing “You’ve Got a Friend.” It was, for me, one of the most enjoyable scenes in the series. The sequence was included in the Columbia House “Best of the Muppets” series, but it is excluded from this set. Likewise, the Jim Neighbors episode originally opened with Jim singing, “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” Re-runs on Nickelodeon included this sequence, but the sequence is missing from this set. I can only guess what is missing from the other episodes in the set.
Mind you, these omissions do not keep one from enjoying the set, especially children who did not see the series when it originally aired and do not realize that they are missing. And, I must admit, the screwy antics of the Swedish Chef and the weekly face offs between Fozzie Bear and Stadler and Waldorf still make me smile. Still, it is frustrating to read that the episodes have been “restored” when they clearly have not.
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|Incomplete But Pleasing,
I love this set but I think I should let everyone know that some of the episodes on this set have been edited. There are 6 songs & 2 news skits that are missing.
The missing songs are:
“Stormy Weather” (Joel Grey Episode)
Sung by Wayne and Wanda
“Gone With The Wind” (Jim Nabors Episode)
Sung by Jim Nabors
“The Danceros” (Jim Nabors Episode)
Sung by The Danceros; also cut backstage and intro
“All Of Me” (Paul Williams Episode)
Sung by Two Monsters; also cut intro
“Old Fashioned Way” (Charles Aznavour)
Sung by Charles Aznavour with Mildred; also cut intro
“You’ve Got A Friend” (Vincent Price Episode)
Sung by Vincent Price, Uncle Deadly and a chorus of Muppet Monsters; also cut intro
Also, the original pitch reel is missing it’s final scene w/Kermit. In the final scene missing from this set Kermit is standing infront of a CBS logo. He looks out and says ” What the hell was that ? “
The pilot episode on this set is not the original pilot as advertised. There were 2 pilot episodes. The original pilot was called ” The Muppet Valentine Show ” which aired in 1974. The pilot on this DVD set is the second pilot called ” The Muppet Show: Sex And Violence ” which aired a year later in 1975.
It’s too bad this is not a complete season set but for now, it’ll still do nicely.
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|Finally
Finally, the Muppet Show – 1st season is arriving. And this is their program:
Charles Aznavour
Song: “I Feel Pretty”
Song: “Dance the Old-Fashioned Way” – Charles
Sketch: Gonzo’s rock act (‘Art! (thunk!) Art! (thunk!)’)
Sketch: Vet’s Hospital
Sketch: French bread
Sketch: At the Dance
Backstage?: Charles & Kermit – use French to get women (Piggy)
Sketch: panel (Gonzo: ‘art and culture’, Kermit: ‘MA, PhD, RSVP, whatever’)
Song: “Inchworm” – Charles
Kaye Ballard
Song?: Hillbilly band
Song?: Floyd & the theme song
Song: “What Would You Say” – Kaye
Sketch: At the Dance
Backstage?: Kaye & Kermit talk
Sketch: Vendaface
Song: ? – Kaye
Candice Bergen
Song: “What Now My Love?” – Piggy
Song: “Put Another Log on the Fire” – Candice
Fozzie’s running wire/letter running gag
Panel: Travel
Kermit & Candice & photography
Swedish chef – spicy sauce
Song: “That Face” – Candice as model
Vet’s Hostpital
Song: “You’ve Got to Have Friends”. – Candice et. al.
Ruth Buzzi
Song: “Sunny?” – Fast # by Dr. Teeth
robot host replaces Kermit
At the Dance
Song: “Row, Row, Row” – Wayne & Wanda
Song: “You’re Just Too Good to be True” – Ruth & Sweetums
Ruth & Kermit talk
Fozzie
Ruth as an interrogated spy
Song: “Can’t Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd” – jug band
Phyllis Diller
Song: “Mississippi Mud”
Phyllis & Rowlf commiserate (‘it fell on me!’)
At the dance
Phyllis & Fozzie chat
Song: “Hugga-wugga”
Muppet Labs – exploding clothes
Vet’s Hospital – sick bread
Phyllis plays the sax
Sandy Duncan
Two bomb jokes
Song: Sandy does a drunken bar song & dance
Fozzie’s writer Gags Beasely (and the banana sketch)
At the Dance
Sandy cheers up Sweetums (and overdoes it with the next one)
Song: “Never Smile at a Crocodile”
Sandy & Fozzie tease Kermit about the banana sketch
Vet’s Hospital
Song: “Try to Remember the Kind of September” – Kermit & Sandy
Bruce Forsyth
(the only one I don’t have!)
Song: “Trudge-Trudge/Streaka-Streaka”
Joel Grey
Song: “Comedy Tonight”
At the Dance
Song: “Cabaret”? – Joel
Joel & Kermit
Song: “A Calafica” (sp?)
Fozzie’s topical jokes
Song: “Stormy Weather” – Wayne & Wanda
Song: “Razzle Dazzle” – Joel
Valerie Harper
Song: “Broadway Baby” – Valerie
Swedish chef – Japanese (?) cake
Statler courts Valerie
Rowlf poem
At the Dance
Song: “Gonna Find Her”
pinch/punch line
Wayne & Wanda
Valerie & the Clodhoppers.
Florence Henderson
Bouncing Borcelano Brothers
Song: “Bright Elusive Butterfly of Love” – Florence
At the Dance
Kermit & Florence & Piggy
Panel
Fozzie
Song: “So Happy Together” – Florence & monsters
Koozbanian Mating Ritual (‘blam! peep! peep! peep!’)
Lena Horne
The Ragmops
Song: “I Got a Name” – Lena
At the Dance
Lena & Kermit talk
Swedish chef: living spaghetti
Song: “” – Lena & Gonzo
Song: “Sing a Song” – Lena
Harvey Korman
Song: “Atom Bomb” – Dr. Teeth
Animal interview
Harvey – animal act
Panel: Meaning of Life
At the Dance
Kermit & Harvey talk
Vet’s Hospital
Wayne & Wanda
Fozzie
Song: “Halfway Down the Stairs” – Robin
Ethel Merman
Song: “Jabba” (slinkies & “whee” sound effect)
Ethel & the Muppets do a medley of her songs
Fozzie’s agent
Ethel & Animal (Ethel: ‘Eek!’; Animal: ‘Perfect pitch!’)
Ethel & Kermit talk
Richard Bradshaw – shadow puppets
Fozzie’s act (‘that Gonzo is so dumb – I told him there was water shortage and he suggested we dilute it!’)
Song: “There’s no Business Like Show Business”.
Rita Moreno
Rita – slapstick cafe
Vet’s Hospital (Fozzie)
phone running gag
Swedish chef – flapjacks
At the Dance
Marvin Suggs & the Muppetphones
panel – conversation a dying art?
Rita & Kermit talk
Wayne & Wanda
Fozzie
Song: Rita: “Fever”.
Mummenschanz
Song: Scooter & Floyd: “Mr. Bassman”
Gonzo romances Piggy (?)
Mummenschanz- notepad faces
library sketch – Blue Danube
Mummenschaz – crawlies
At the Dance
Kermit “talks” to the Mummenschanz
Song: Wayne & Wanda: “Paper Moon”…
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