I recently had one where the entire gang was participating in Bob Barker's soon to be final Price Is Right episode (don't we all wish?). Kermit and Guy Smiley of course co-hosted it with Bob, Doc announced, Sam the Eagle was director (which led to several moments of course where he ended up putting his head in his wings and remarking things along the lines of, "This show's educational and entertainment value has just gone right out the window."), the Electric Mayhem of course played all the music cues (Animal failing to stop playing when everyone else did), and Statler and Waldorf sat at the producers' table and did their usual bit with everybody.
The show itself ran a little different than it does actually, for instead of calling down 9 contestants over the course of the show, four distinct teams stayed in contestant's row the whole time; after they played the pricing game in question, they returned to contestant's row and continued from there. Specifically the teams were:
RED SPACE: Fozzie, Grover, Cookie, Gobo
BLUE SPACE: Gonzo, Oscar, Telly. Mokey
YELLOW SPACE: Piggy, Big Bird, Count, Red
GREEN SPACE: Scooter, Ernie, Bert, Wembley
(Boober, meanwhile, sat on top of the turntable with Robin for whatever reason and would make frequent comments throughout the show on how astronomical the odds against winning a game were, the possible dangers one might face playing a certain game that involved physical effort, and so on).
So the breakdown for this remarkable contest went as such:
Game 1: Golden Road. Red team won. Unfortunately, the first small prize offered was a pack of cookies. Cookie, of course, took care of them right away, and then, having not eaten before the show, proceeded to eat all the other prizes as they were revealed, podiums and all. The last was a large sailboat that he devoured in a minute and a half, prompting Bob to shake his head and tell Kermit, "Well Kermit, if nothing else, it looks like today we're setting a record for the quickest end to a pricing game in our long history. Shall we bring out the next item up for bids now while he's still digesting?"
Game 2: Plinko. Green team won. For the four small prizes, Wembley of course couldn't decide at all whether to choose the first or last number as the right one, sending Bert into convulsive fits. (BOB: I stand corrected from what I said earlier. Wembley, at this rate I'm going to have postpone retirement until you reach social security age yourself.). Eventually Scooter calmed everyone down and earned them the maximum 4 extra Plinko chips. On the top of the board, Ernie became too entranced by thunking the Plinko chips hard off the top pegs ("Listen there, Bert, that makes a nice medley there, don't you think?") and sending them flying all over the stage that Bert snapped and told him he'd drop the chips from now on. In turn he hit zero all five times. Fortunately, Wembley leaned over the edge to check that the last one had hit zero and fell down the board himself, landing in $1,000 and keeping them from leaving empty-handed (although Boober of course scolded him for being so reckless).
Game 3: Clock Game. Yellow Team won. The trouble began early here, since Big Bird started naming prices that only a 6 year old would assume to be right ("Uh, five dollars, Mr. Larker? Ten dollars, Mr. Parker?"). Twice, Bob had to stop the clock to tell our favorite canary to aim just a little HIGHER, much to the chagrin of the Count, who was having the time of his life counting down with the clock. Piggy tried to get back on track, but by then time was up and the thunder was flashing through the studios, prompting Bob to take cover behind the turntable ("I have no idea what's going on here, Guy; the weatherman said we'd have clear skies today.") To top it off, the Count than asked if he could have another 30 seconds to count down as a consulation prize. Bob wearily threw it to commercial.
SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN 1: The three teams that got on stage spun the big wheel. Inside, Rizzo and his fellow rats were still checking for possible deficiencies in the wheel, and thus spent the round running for their lives. In the end the yellow team won and advanced to the showcase round. First, though:
Game 4: Bump. Blue team won. A surprising turn since the game was retired in 1991 following Dian's sex scandal. But being a dream, of course, anything can happen. Told to either bump the cars to the left or right, Oscar instead shoves them all clean off the board. When asked by Bob why'd he'd want to do that, our favorite grouch retorts that since they're essentially causing a car crash, might as well wreck every one of them, which then leads to a heated argument with he and Mokey on whether things look good wrecked or intact and the natural beauty of each position, while Gonzo tries to get the audience's attention by juggling the broken cars. Bob shakes down several pills of aspirin and tells viewers, "Any more of this, and Kermit gets the whole show for my replacement."
Game 5: Race Game. Yellow team won. Big Bird volunteers to place the price tags next to the appropriate prizes. Only he can't quite adhere to the basic priniciple of Race Game ("Gordon always told me never to run across slippery surfaces, Mr. Sparker." (Bob downs some more aspirin)). This, it takes him twenty whole seconds to put them all down in the right place and runback to find he has two right. Red takes over duties, and completes it half the big canary's time, only to find there's only one right now. With the Count preoccupied counting down the game clock from 45 seconds, it's all in Piggy's arms, and she zooms down the row shoving the tags into place, runs full steam back toward the board, crashing right through as the Countdown reaching zero and the lightning thunders again...and we find she got all 4 right. "Good work on bring home the bacon, Piggy," Bob ignorantly congratulates her. "Bring home WHAT!!!???" Piggy roared, flattening him with another karate chop. Guy throws it to commericial.
GAME 6: One Away. Red team won. After first have to stop Grover from going into a big lecture on the fine meanings of higher and lower to any younger viewers in the crowd, his teammates set the price they want. To assist in making sure the horn indicating the amount of correct answes can be heard, Fozzie uses his Upgraded Air Horn, which in the four time he uses in this case shatter every pane of glass in the room. They end up with the wrong price after they've done their switching, but Cookie decides in spirit of good sportsmanship to each the board to prevent others from losing it too (Kermit: pleased don't tell me you'll wnat dessert after this, Cookie!? BURP!!!!!)
Second SHowcase showdown went the same as the first. Blue team won the right to face the yellow team for the Showcase round. I don't remember the prizes, but Gonzo's team bid $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00 on theres and Piggy $1 for theirs, given the chance Gonzo's team would be over, which they were spectacularly. Oscar took the moment to complain that they only show top-grade merchandise on the air, then took a bat and started smashing up the earnings around the whole stage. Bob wearliy begged the cameras to go out, foregoing his usual spiel (until Rowlf popped over and asked, "What about me?" The whole thing ended sweetly; they pulled back to the control room to show Jim Henson and Mark Goodson running the program and having the time of their lives.
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