Cavemen Story:Toothbrush (1978)

[TotallySpiesFan]

I know it featured Ernie and Sherlock Hemlock and I know it took place in the cave, but:

1) What happens in this sketch?

2) How is it?

3) If there's ending music in there, how did it go?

Three questions please.

 

[MuppetDude]

1) What happens in this sketch?
Caveman King Ernie has dingy teeth (despite the fact that we never see them) and asks the royal smart person (Sherlock) to invent a toothbrush. Sherlock ends up inventing several different brushes before inventing the right one, but a saber-tooth tiger snatches it away. ("Mmm, makes my mouth fell all fresh and minty!")

2) How is it?
It's pretty good; it's funny, and uses the core Muppeteers. (Henson, Oz, Hunt, and Nelson are four of them.)

3) If there's ending music in there, how did it go?
There's two versions of music; one was the standard "Caveman music" used with the sketches, and at the end it used some quick piano music (sort of like "chase music").

I think it's in one of the season 25 episodes (the one with "Hans, the Ugly Duckling").

 

[ssetta]

It is in episode #3144.

 

[FshyFshyFshy]

I remember this episode and it was one of my favorites...but wasn't there also another caveman skit with Ernie? I keep remembering something about squeezing an orange for juice into a glass...could someone help jog my memory as to the details on that one?

Sorry...I just found my answer in a thread below...

 

[mikebennidict]

there were a few of them made. the one you're referring to is Ernie's thirsty and wants something to drink. Sherlock finds this orange and somehow they sqeeze it and juice/ orange juice of couse came out of it.

 

[FshyFshyFshy]

yep...it's one of my all time Ernie favorites!!