1 00:00:08,389 --> 00:00:09,790 Hi, I'm Brian Henson. 2 00:00:10,270 --> 00:00:14,690 The Muppet Show was originally shot in Elstree, just north of London. 3 00:00:14,970 --> 00:00:17,130 And it was a wonderful process to watch. 4 00:00:17,950 --> 00:00:22,010 You walk out of these dingy London streets and then you go inside the 5 00:00:22,130 --> 00:00:25,170 There's brightly colored, crazy, frenetic energy. 6 00:00:26,620 --> 00:00:31,600 The way the show was shot, though, is it took three frantic days to shoot each 7 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,360 episode. One thing that was amazing is the audience, for some reason, always 8 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,700 thought that the show was shot live, which always astounded me, because if 9 00:00:38,700 --> 00:00:41,140 watch The Muppet Show, every shot is a special effect. 10 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:45,140 There's a little trick going on everywhere, and it took a lot of time 11 00:00:45,140 --> 00:00:46,700 of effort to sort of pull that together. 12 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,740 Of course, the real audience for The Muppet Show, as you see in the show, is 13 00:00:51,740 --> 00:00:52,399 bunch of... 14 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:56,480 Muppet monsters and various creatures because we always knew they would laugh 15 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:00,480 the right times The monsters in the audience particularly enjoyed this show 16 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:01,820 I hope you do too. Enjoy 17 00:01:01,820 --> 00:01:08,720 Linda Carter Linda 18 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:14,220 Carter. I know I know scoots. It's 20 seconds to curtain You can read my mind. 19 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,380 I'm not reading your mind. 20 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:17,860 I'm reading my script 21 00:01:19,180 --> 00:01:23,360 Oh, no, no. Kermit wouldn't allow a script on this show. Everything we say 22 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:24,360 here is ad lib. 23 00:01:28,260 --> 00:01:31,940 It's the Muppet Show with our very special guest star, Linda Carter. 24 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:58,640 Don't start? We haven't left yet! 25 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:03,480 It's time to get things started on the most sensational, inspirational, 26 00:02:03,980 --> 00:02:05,120 celebrational... 27 00:02:28,750 --> 00:02:32,350 for you tonight, because our very special guest is that lovely star of 28 00:02:32,350 --> 00:02:34,570 television's Wonder Woman, Miss Linda Carter! 29 00:02:35,990 --> 00:02:40,330 Yes! But right now, let's get the show started with... Excuse me, excuse me. 30 00:02:41,270 --> 00:02:43,830 You forgot to mention the sketch I am in. 31 00:02:44,290 --> 00:02:46,830 I didn't forget, I just didn't think it was important. 32 00:02:49,230 --> 00:02:50,290 You didn't? 33 00:02:50,510 --> 00:02:52,390 It's important, but not that important. 34 00:02:52,710 --> 00:02:55,550 I mean, it's not like it was a matter of life and death. 35 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:57,820 You're sure about that? 36 00:02:59,420 --> 00:03:03,240 Ladies and gentlemen, later on in the show, our own Miss Piggy here will be 37 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,800 portraying a brand new character, Wonder Pig. 38 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:08,960 Wonder Pig? 39 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:11,660 Thank you, Jimmy. 40 00:03:12,260 --> 00:03:13,260 You're welcome. 41 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:14,940 Isn't it great to be alive? 42 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:21,020 Which reminds me of our opening number, ladies and gentlemen. How long has it 43 00:03:21,020 --> 00:03:23,840 been since you watched a good old -fashioned human sacrifice? 44 00:03:54,190 --> 00:03:55,190 in Vietnam. 45 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:44,640 What would you do if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on me? 46 00:04:46,300 --> 00:04:52,680 Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song And I'll try not to sing out of key 47 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:59,400 Oh, I get high with a little help from my friends I get high with a little 48 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:06,220 help from my friends Gonna try with a little help from my friends Do you 49 00:05:06,220 --> 00:05:07,220 need... 50 00:05:11,270 --> 00:05:13,010 Somebody to love. 51 00:05:13,410 --> 00:05:16,350 Could it be anybody? 52 00:05:17,870 --> 00:05:24,450 I need anybody to love. Really? I get by with a little help from my 53 00:05:24,450 --> 00:05:28,990 friends. I'm gonna try a little help from my friends. 54 00:05:29,490 --> 00:05:32,890 Take you by with a little help from my friends. 55 00:05:33,370 --> 00:05:39,070 Yes, I get by with a little help from my, with a little help from my friends. 56 00:05:44,460 --> 00:05:46,540 I think I just lost my lunch. 57 00:05:48,700 --> 00:05:49,140 You 58 00:05:49,140 --> 00:06:00,820 think 59 00:06:00,820 --> 00:06:03,760 the lobsters would share some of their popcorn with us? No chance. 60 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:05,180 They're too shellfish. 61 00:06:15,630 --> 00:06:16,529 Correspondence course? 62 00:06:16,530 --> 00:06:17,670 Your correspondence course? 63 00:06:18,030 --> 00:06:19,670 How to be a superhero. 64 00:06:20,970 --> 00:06:25,610 Yeah, it comes complete with a helmet, a cape, a red shirt, and an instruction 65 00:06:25,610 --> 00:06:28,650 book called Invincibility Made Easy. 66 00:06:29,510 --> 00:06:32,810 I don't believe that. I'm doing it because Wonder Woman's on our show. 67 00:06:33,150 --> 00:06:36,550 No, no, no. Linda Carter is on our show. She's not going to play Wonder Woman 68 00:06:36,550 --> 00:06:39,990 tonight. Well, that's just as well. There'll be plenty of superheroes 69 00:06:41,090 --> 00:06:42,130 What do you mean, plenty? 70 00:06:42,410 --> 00:06:44,070 Well, everybody's taking the course. 71 00:06:48,590 --> 00:06:52,610 Lesson two, deflecting bullets with their magic gold bracelets. 72 00:06:54,170 --> 00:06:55,710 Hi, Kermit. What are you doing? 73 00:06:56,050 --> 00:06:59,550 Just noticing that this season has produced a bumper crop of nuts. 74 00:07:02,070 --> 00:07:06,410 Sam, you know that human sacrifice number at the top of the show? Oh, yes. 75 00:07:06,730 --> 00:07:11,110 Well, is that kind of thing going to be going on throughout this entire show? 76 00:07:11,450 --> 00:07:13,470 Oh, Miss Carter, I'm afraid so. 77 00:07:14,930 --> 00:07:16,790 Good, because I loved it. 78 00:07:17,870 --> 00:07:19,270 Linda, your number is next. 79 00:07:19,490 --> 00:07:20,490 Thanks, Kermit. 80 00:07:21,390 --> 00:07:22,750 Congratulations. For what? 81 00:07:23,050 --> 00:07:25,030 You are the next human to be sacrificed. 82 00:07:27,470 --> 00:07:31,570 Listen, Linda, you know, about this number you're about to do, well, none of 83 00:07:31,570 --> 00:07:32,950 band has rehearsed this number. 84 00:07:33,190 --> 00:07:34,530 Well, that's okay. I brought my own band. 85 00:07:34,890 --> 00:07:37,430 Oh, says the frog feeling control slipping through his fingers? 86 00:07:38,810 --> 00:07:42,810 Don't worry about it, Kermit. This is one terrific band. 87 00:07:43,290 --> 00:07:45,790 Oh, what kind of band is it? Oh, it's a rubber band. 88 00:07:49,260 --> 00:07:52,720 me down my walking cane. Hand me down my hat. 89 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:57,660 Hurry now and don't be late because we ain't got time to chat. 90 00:07:58,260 --> 00:08:02,720 You and me, we're going out to catch the latest sound. 91 00:08:04,140 --> 00:08:07,820 Guaranteed to blow your mind so high you won't come down. 92 00:08:08,700 --> 00:08:12,180 Hey y 'all, prepare yourself for the rubber band. 93 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:17,180 Man, you never heard it sound like the rubber band. 94 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,240 And the rubber band stopped again. 95 00:08:50,380 --> 00:08:52,800 and play at a club outside of town. 96 00:08:53,020 --> 00:08:57,720 I was so surprised there was heaven inside for the sound these cats put 97 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:04,120 When I saw this short band cat switch a band between his toes, hey, I laughed so 98 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:07,680 hard because the band got down and it finally reached its low. 99 00:09:08,580 --> 00:09:13,160 Hey, y 'all, prepare yourself for the rubber band, man. 100 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:18,060 You never heard the sound like the rubber band, man. 101 00:10:02,350 --> 00:10:04,930 Well, make him into a tire and drive him to Pittsburgh. 102 00:10:07,070 --> 00:10:08,070 Okay, 103 00:10:08,990 --> 00:10:10,310 hey, that was wonderful, Linda. 104 00:10:10,570 --> 00:10:11,650 Thank you very much. 105 00:10:13,270 --> 00:10:16,270 Oh, look at this. The apprentice superheroes are still at it. 106 00:10:16,650 --> 00:10:20,090 Boy, this invincibility made easy is some kind of crazy book. 107 00:10:21,130 --> 00:10:26,030 Chapter 4, Vanishing. To vanish, it requires several minutes of hard work to 108 00:10:26,030 --> 00:10:27,030 achieve. 109 00:10:30,570 --> 00:10:37,250 Vending steel bars is simple if you have a pure heart and clean thoughts. 110 00:10:38,450 --> 00:10:39,450 Let's see. 111 00:10:39,650 --> 00:10:44,790 Swinging from building to building on a rope should be practiced perhaps by 112 00:10:44,790 --> 00:10:46,370 starting swinging across a room. 113 00:10:47,670 --> 00:10:48,790 Ah, right. 114 00:10:50,270 --> 00:10:53,990 Then, of course, there's Lou Zealand. He's practicing x -ray vision. 115 00:10:55,630 --> 00:10:58,150 Pick a closed door. 116 00:11:00,330 --> 00:11:06,870 stare at it for several seconds, and suddenly the door will seem to 117 00:11:06,870 --> 00:11:11,170 vanish and you'll see inside the room. Oh, gotcha! 118 00:11:15,090 --> 00:11:19,350 I can see a room! 119 00:11:19,810 --> 00:11:21,790 I have a great vision! 120 00:11:24,930 --> 00:11:26,910 Here's a Muppet News flag. 121 00:11:27,250 --> 00:11:28,570 Dateline Egypt. 122 00:11:28,970 --> 00:11:33,730 Archaeologists today discovered an ancient tomb more than 5 ,000 years old 123 00:11:33,730 --> 00:11:34,730 the Nile Valley. 124 00:11:34,990 --> 00:11:40,490 An inscription over the tomb warned that the crocodile god Rezal -Evad -Gib, 125 00:11:40,590 --> 00:11:46,850 that's Rezal -Evad -Gib, would wreak a terrible vengeance on anyone who entered 126 00:11:46,850 --> 00:11:49,150 the tomb or even pronounced his name aloud. 127 00:11:49,830 --> 00:11:52,430 That's a ridiculous story. I don't know... 128 00:12:00,590 --> 00:12:06,770 you about something no no time for the nicey nicies something terrible just 129 00:12:06,770 --> 00:12:10,890 happened to the newsman downstairs you're kidding what well they sent me up 130 00:12:10,890 --> 00:12:16,590 to tell you not to say this very dangerous word oh okay what's the word 131 00:12:16,590 --> 00:12:21,250 it's uh oh no i forgot it 132 00:12:22,610 --> 00:12:27,310 But whatever you do, don't say it. Now, how can I not say a word if you don't 133 00:12:27,310 --> 00:12:29,010 know what it is and you can't remember it, huh? 134 00:12:29,310 --> 00:12:31,190 I mean, it could be anything. It could be pencil. 135 00:12:33,430 --> 00:12:34,970 No, I guess that wasn't it. 136 00:12:35,270 --> 00:12:38,650 Well, it could be shoehorn, hairbrush, powder puff. 137 00:12:39,670 --> 00:12:42,490 Don't be careful. Stop it. You might say it by accident. 138 00:12:42,910 --> 00:12:43,910 Oh. 139 00:12:44,190 --> 00:12:45,330 Okay, now listen, Beau. 140 00:12:45,770 --> 00:12:49,530 Why don't you try to remember? Try very, very, very hard, okay? 141 00:12:50,110 --> 00:12:52,790 You mean think? Think, right. That's hard. 142 00:12:53,510 --> 00:12:55,510 Okay. Okay, come on. 143 00:12:58,250 --> 00:12:59,250 That's no use. 144 00:12:59,450 --> 00:13:01,270 It's right on the tip of my tongue. 145 00:13:01,730 --> 00:13:06,170 It is right on the tip of your tongue. It says, wait, wait, hold still. Re 146 00:13:06,170 --> 00:13:09,030 -Zell. E -Vell. 147 00:13:10,210 --> 00:13:13,850 I bet you thought they were going to say Re -Zell, E -Vell. 148 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:23,600 That could have been you. 149 00:13:31,420 --> 00:13:38,180 I look at you all See the love there 150 00:13:38,180 --> 00:13:43,460 that's sleeping While my guitar gently 151 00:13:43,460 --> 00:13:50,220 weeps I look at the floor And I 152 00:13:50,220 --> 00:13:52,940 see it needs sweeping Sleeping. 153 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:53,720 How? 154 00:14:55,780 --> 00:14:57,440 Disgusting. Get away. 155 00:14:58,760 --> 00:14:59,760 Sam. 156 00:15:00,100 --> 00:15:01,260 Hey, Sam. What? 157 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:04,640 What are you doing? I am censoring this show. 158 00:15:05,460 --> 00:15:07,320 Well, what are you writing down there? 159 00:15:08,140 --> 00:15:12,360 Already I have 14 disgusting items that have occurred on this show. 160 00:15:12,980 --> 00:15:14,120 Well, like what? 161 00:15:14,740 --> 00:15:16,420 Well, first of all, there's one here. 162 00:15:16,820 --> 00:15:21,080 A possible romantic liaison between a frog and a pig. 163 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:25,400 Well, I guess I'm not very happy about that one myself. 164 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:28,140 But what do you do with this? 165 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,000 I send it to a very important person. 166 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:32,920 Who? 167 00:15:33,260 --> 00:15:34,260 None of your business. 168 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:39,700 That's what I mean. What is that? Is that a chicken? That's a chicken. And a 169 00:15:39,700 --> 00:15:42,920 penguin? What is this? What is this? 170 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:44,740 Well, that's a rat. 171 00:15:45,020 --> 00:15:46,560 A rat? 172 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,780 What is a rat doing in a legitimate theater? 173 00:15:52,170 --> 00:15:54,570 I sent him out to buy me a chocolate milkshake, actually. 174 00:15:57,030 --> 00:15:59,730 You let a rat touch your food? 175 00:16:00,610 --> 00:16:04,190 Well, sure, Sam. That's the kind of place it is. You know, the chickens 176 00:16:04,370 --> 00:16:09,270 the pig sings, and the rat goes out and gets me some food. All right, all right, 177 00:16:09,310 --> 00:16:09,909 all right. 178 00:16:09,910 --> 00:16:12,830 That's it. I want this rat out of the theater. Wait, I'll do it. 179 00:16:13,330 --> 00:16:14,450 Rat! Rat! 180 00:16:14,710 --> 00:16:15,730 I'm talking to you. 181 00:16:16,130 --> 00:16:18,110 I'm making a citizen's rat arrest. 182 00:16:19,970 --> 00:16:20,970 Out! 183 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:26,680 It was a command decision. 184 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:31,280 But Sam, you can't just send those rats out. I mean, they perform a very useful 185 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,980 function. They gather all the trash and garbage around the theater and take it 186 00:16:34,980 --> 00:16:36,020 out in the alley and dump it. 187 00:16:36,380 --> 00:16:37,620 Okay, guys, do it. 188 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:38,960 What? 189 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:59,760 So here is a story of sheer terror when civilization is threatened by one of the 190 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:04,400 most frightening creatures ever to roam the earth. Who can save us? Ladies and 191 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:08,520 gentlemen, our own Miss Piggy, starring as Wonder Pig. 192 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:10,760 Wonder Pig. 193 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:18,040 A word of caution. There are scenes in this story which may not be suitable for 194 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:19,040 adults. 195 00:17:42,120 --> 00:17:44,080 Oh, Doctor, at last you've come. 196 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:18,620 Do you keep any chickens on the ranch? 197 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:22,900 Has she had any cacciatore? 198 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:35,720 The chickens are getting so big on this show. 199 00:21:17,450 --> 00:21:19,870 It's like a job for super sheep. 200 00:21:56,010 --> 00:22:00,810 can fly as long as he believes that he can stand at the very top of a tall 201 00:25:14,250 --> 00:25:17,590 Thank you very much, because this has definitely been one of the worst 202 00:25:17,590 --> 00:25:24,310 experiences I have... No, I'm just kidding you. I have had a fabulous 203 00:25:24,310 --> 00:25:28,270 time. Great. As a matter of fact, I think that we came through this with 204 00:25:28,270 --> 00:25:32,150 colors, don't you? Oh, more than that. We got through it with flying Muppets. 205 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:22,820 You've turned into Money Man!