Playhouse Muppet Videos

[Frogster]

I'm getting Rock Music today. I hope i like it!

 

[minor muppetz]

it's been a long time since I have seen these, but my favorites are Muppet Weird Stuff and The Muppet revue. the only other ones I have seen are Rock Music and Muppet Moments.

I would lie to know something about the packaging. were they sold in clamshell packaging? I saw these at a video store a long time ago, where all videos had clamshell packaging even if the videos weren't clamshell when sold in normal stores, but on the inside of the front covers (or back of the covers), there was some kind of fact mentioned. Also, this video store had two copies of Rock Music With The Muppets. the bakc cover ofone opy had a description of the show and three pictures, while the other one had pictures of all the guests. what is the deal here?

 

[That Announcer]

I would lie to know something about the packaging. were they sold in clamshell packaging? I saw these at a video store a long time ago, where all videos had clamshell packaging even if the videos weren't clamshell when sold in normal stores.

No, I don't think they were clamshell. If you can think of those hard plastic VHS cases with a lip that extends just around the outside of the tape, that's how I've seen one at my local video store.

 

[Stulz]

Playhouse boxes

Since these were release many video stores have cut the packaged to fit into clamshells or put a protective plastic case around the package.

When originally released these tapes came in a package that was the same size as regular VHS tapes, but you could open a flap on the other side of the cover and read about the video, see images of the guest featured on that tape, and read little known trvia about certain charaters.

Funny thing is that most of the trivia contradicted either things said on the show/ movies or what we know to be fact.

 

[minor muppetz]

the muppet revue

I am going to try to make a list of sketches on these videos. I have only seen four of them, and I haven't seen these in a long time, but I do know some of the contents of the ones I haven't seen

here is whats on The Muppet Revue (the order is the best that I can remember):
song: happy feet
song: hawian war chant
muppet news: beef is falling sharply
song: blue bayou (with linda ronstadt)
the swedish chef: lobsters
song: I get around
song: mahna mahna
muppet labs: gorillia detector
song: memory lane
muppet news: television news reporters are blowing up
song: moonlight monata (is the spelling correct? this is the part of the julie andrews episode where Rowlf plays the piano and a moon appears in the background)
song: lady of spain
song: For What it's Worth
song: staying alive
bear on patrol: assulting an officer
song: turn the world round (with harry belefonte)
the swedish chef: chicken in the basket
backstage clips from the Lynda carter episode where the muppets try to become super heros (where lew Zeland studies x-ray vision and the muppets learn how to fly)
wonderpig
the swedish chef: meatballs
song: a sad song (with Paul Williams)
sams speech on nudity
pigs in space: weight problems
muppet news: the newsmans head turns into a duck
some song with penguins on a boat
song: being green (the one from the Peter Sellers episode)
gonzos motorcycle act
song: pensylvania 6-5000
song: hound dog
song: fever (with Rita Moreno)

I am sorry if I am forgeting anything.

 

[minor muppetz]

facts

could anybody please tell me what info was listed on the inside flaps? I can't even remember what was written on the inside flaps of the ones I have seen.

was it common for videos to have these kinds of flaps back when the videos were released?

 

[minor muppetz]

rock music with the muppets

here are the contents of Rock Music With The Muppets, in the order that i can remember best:
song: call me (with debbie harry)
song: it's in his kiss (with linda ronstadt)
song: don't blame the dynamite
song: boogie woogie music (with ben vereen)
a drum solo by animal (from the Dom Deluise episode)
song: rock around the clock
song: car wash blues
floyd and zoot on a bench: "can you tell me how to get to carnegie hall?"
song: welcome to my nightmare (with alice cooper)
song: blue song (or "how can you be...?") (with helen reddy)
floyd and zoot on bench: "there's an old lady sleeping up here"
song: who put the bomp (in the bomp-sha-bomp-sha-bomp)
song: a foggy day
song: when I need you (with leo sayer)
floyd and zoot on bench: "crosstown busses run all night?"
song: one way or another (with debbie harry)
floyd and zoot on bench: "b-flat"
song: you're no good
song: you make me feel like dancing (with leo sayer)
song: wild thing
dressing room: leo sayer meets animal
song: i feel the earth move (with Lorretta Switt)
song: mr. bassman
song: yakity yak
song: disco frog
song: loves me like a rock (with paul simon)
song: rockin' robin
song: schools out for summer (with alice cooper)

 

[minor muppetz]

muppet weird stuff

from the best of my memory, here is the order of what's included in Gonzo presents Muppet Weird Stuff:
song: all of me
gonzo catches a cannonball with his bare hand
dressing room: john cleese stretches gonzo
song: hugga wugga
muppet labs: exploding clothes
kermit interviews the koozebanian phoob
song: i'm just wild about harry (with Jean Stapleton)
scene with birds from the nancy walker episode
gonzo auditions his dancing cheese
song: I Feel Pretty
Dom Deluise on another planet
gonzo wrestles a brick blindfolded
song: i've got you under my skin
kermit and julie andrews try to have a conversation
Gonzos dancing chicken
song: won't somebody dance with me
song: you do something to me
jaborwocky
song: you've got a friend
gonzo eats a tire
gonzo hangs by his nose on a feather boa
gonzo on balloons (clip from the muppet movie)
gonzo holds a piano and multiplies by seven
gonzo gets a taxi (clip from the great muppet caper)
gonzo conducts and battles a clam
gonzo water skis (clip from the muppets take manhattan)
gonzos catepult act
song: the wishing song (with madeline kahn)
the koozebanian mating ritual
weird opera number (the u.k. spot from the beverly sills episode)

 

[minor muppetz]

muppet moments

here is what I can remember from muppet moments, in the order that I can remember. I feel like there is a muppet news sketch that I can't remember the details of.

song: baby face
song: when my baby smiles at me i'm going to rio
inchworm (the act with lenny the lizard eating a worm, not either of the songs)
the swedish chef: japaneese cake
muppet news: results of the national sheep dog trials
song: summertime (with pearl bailey)
pigs in space: miss piggy doesn't believe that link pulled a certain lever
song: just one person (with bernedette peters)
the swedish chef: spicey sauce
sams fable: the ant and the grasshopper
song: sing (with leena horne)
song: sax and violence
the swedish chef: chicken egg (which turns out to be a bomb)
rowlf plays piano (and the bust of beethoven reacts)
song: night and day
sam talks to zero mostel
veterinarians hospital: shoe
song; two of a kind (with jubilee time added into the middle) (with andy williams)
muppet news: the remodeling of the muppet news studio
song: feelings
song: it was a very good year
muppet sports: wig racing
liza minelli and kermti sing in liza minellis dressing room (i can't remember the title of this song)
muppet labs: bunsonium
song: java

 

[minor muppetz]

the rest

i was just reading the first post again and realized that the first person was asking for the contents of three of these videos, not all. oops.

however, even though I haven't seen the others, I will list what I do know is on them, based on what I have heard online and what clips are shown in the preview found at the end of the videos. other people can fill in information.

The kermit And Miss Piggy Story:
song: ukelele lady
veterinarians hospital: lorretta switt replaces nurse piggy
backstage clips: tony randall turns miss piggy into a statue
song; mad about the frog
song: i enjoy being a girl (with cheryl ladd)
song: lydia the tattoed lady
kermit and miss piggys wedding (from the merrissa berensen episode, not a clip from the muppets take manhattan)
song: i'm a woman (with raquel welch)
song: temptation
(and although I don't know for sure, I wouldn't be surprised if a Pigs In Space sketchw as included)

childrens songs and stories with the muppets:
song: friendship
song; lonely goatherd (with julie andrews)
alice in wonderland clips (from the brooke shields episode)
song: somewhere over the rainbow
the kings breakfast (with twiggy)
song: inchworm (with charles aznavour)
song: you and i and george
song: i'm my own grampaw
song; grandmas feather bed (with john denver)
song: octopuses garden
song: i don't know why she swallowed a fly (with julie collins)

muppet treasures:
song: in the navy
the swedish chef: flapjacks
a pigs in space skit (i don't know which one)
song: saborough fair (with paul simon)
song: act natually
peter sellers as a doctor
bear on patrol: octopus
something with buddy rich (not sure which segment)
song: theres no buisness like show buisness

country music with the muppets:
song: boogie in the barnyard
song: rocky top (with roy clark)
song: does your chewing gum lose it's flavor on the bedpost overnight?
song: sally was a good old gal (with johnny cash)
somethign with crystal gayle
something with lorretta lynne
song: life gets tedius
number with mac davis and miss piggy as a mermaid
a chicken western
mac davis and a room full of beakers
the martiand and the mccoys
song: somebody stole my gal
song; inch by inch (with john denver)
song: ghost riders in the sky (with johnny cash)
backstage clips: cluckitis
song: you can't rollerskate in a buffalo herd
song: happy trails (with roy rogers and dale evans)

fozzies muppet scrapbook:
song: limbo
backstage clips: fozzie the magician
something with beverly sills
pigs in space: fozzie as first mate piggy
song: yokohoma
song: confide in me (with raquel welch)
song: top banana (with milton berle)

rowlfs rhapsodies with the muppets:
mississippi mud
ragg mopp
last train home (with george burns)
you're feets too big
cottlesone pie
something with peter sellers
english country garden
in a little swedish town
chagganooga choo-choo
yes, we have no bananas (the one with marvin suggs)
something with merrissa berensen
fur elise
ramblin guy (with steve martin)
witch doctor

I also know that the following clips appear on one of these videos:
the pigs take over the show
miss piggy meets robot kermit
muppet sports: horshoe pitching
cocanut