Fozzie: Um, hello, everybodee.
Oscar: You stink! Go away!
Fozzie: But, but—I just got here.
Catherine: Oscar, I don’t think you’ve got any right to be talking about other people stinking. Speaking of stinks, did something die in there or are you just cooking again?
Oscar: Hey!
Fozzie: Hey—not bad.
Catherine: Now you try.
Fozzie: But I am not—
Oscar: Can it furball! Cough up some yuks or get off the stage!
Fozzie: (indignantly) Speaking of furballs and “yucks,” who does your hair?—a trash compactor?
Oscar: Hey! That was (looks at Catherine) That was pretty good, actually. (Slams down into trash can.)
Fozzie: (looking at Catherine hopefully) Do you think he’s gone?
Catherine: Knowing Oscar, he’s going for reinforcements. C’mon—let’s see your stuff. (Hears sounds of people coming in.) Oh, good—people are coming in.
Fozzie: (nervously) People?
Catherine: Um, well, you know, sortof. Hey Kermit! Hey Piggy! They must have seen the note. Hey Leyla!
Leyla: Hi! Hi Fozzie! Are you ready to do your routine?
Fozzie: Do I have a choice?
Leyla: Nope.
Fozzie: (meekly) Yes ma’am.
Leyla: (wonderingly) He called me ‘ma’am.
Wanda: Was that a joke?
Leyla: Watch it.
Fozzie: Um, why did the chicken cross the road?
Piggy: To get away from the comedian!
Kermit: Piggy—that wasn’t nice!
Piggy: I’m not supposed to be nice! I’m supposed to heckle.
Kermit: Oh, right. Um, hey Fozzie—you’re ugly and your mother dresses you funny! (sotto voce) I feel mean!
Fozzie: Ha! Shows what YOU know—my mother didn’t pick out this tie! I did!
(Unexpectedly, the audience laughs. Fozzie looks startled.) Um, I always like to get a new tie when I’m down in the dumps. (Kermit looks at Catherine. She shrugs, but before he can answer Piggy jumps back in.)
Piggy: So THAT’s where you get them!
Fozzie: (directly to Piggy) Oh—how nice to see you again, madam! I think you came to last year’s show. I never forget an outfit!
(Piggy sputters and the audience titters cautiously.)
Wanda: (poking Leyla) Go on—don’t just sit there!
Leyla: Oh, I can't possibly heckle Fozzie.
Wanda: You do it to him all the time in fanfic.
Leyla: True. Hey Fozzie!
Fozzie: Yes?
Leyla: Fozzie Wozzie was a bear, Fozzie Wozzie had no flare, so Fozzie Wozzie wasn't funny... wunny?
Fozzie: Funny wunny. Suddenly my routine isn’t looking so bad.
Ryan: That’s only because you’re not watching it! That last joke made me seasick!
Fozzie: (desperately) A man goes on a cruise and gets seasick every night. Finally after a week he asked the steward to bring his supper out to the rail. When the food is brought, he throws it over the side. “Why did you do that?” asked the steward. Said the man, “I got tired of being the middleman!
There is a mild surge of bemusement. Fozzie groans.
Fozzie: Um, what do you get when you cross a centipede with a chicken?
Kermit: (helpfully) Um, I don’t know, Fozzie. What DO you get?
Fozzie: I don’t know either, but everybody gets a drumstick!
Camilla clucks indignantly.
Fozzie: Oh—sorry, Camilla. I won’t do any more poultry humor.
Gonzo: Do any more? You haven’t done any YET!
Fozzie: Oh, whatever.
Gonzo: You called?
Fozzie: Um—what do you get when you cross a busy street with a bicycle?
Gonzo: Ooh—I know this one! Higher insurance premiums.
Fozzie: Run over!
Gonzo: Mine was funnier.
Kermit: Gonzo!
Gonzo: Well, it was!
Fozzie: Um, I kept taking out a librarian but I had to break things off!
Catherine: Why’d you have to break things off?
Fozzie: I got tired of checking her in and out!
Ed: You call that you’re A-material?
Count: More like his Z-material!
Oscar: (reappearing from trash can) Still here I see—I thought it was too quiet up here.
Fozzie: Oh, please—isn’t there one thing you like about my act?
Count: Aha! One! I’d call that ONE BAD act.
Ed: Well, I’d call a cab out of here!
Scooter (whispering to Sara): This is sortof awful. It’s like watching a train wreck.
Oscar: Only less entertaining.
Fozzie: (rallying just a little) Well, I’ll have you know some of these jokes are time-tested!
Ernie: (whispering) What’s he mean, Bert?
Bert: Um, I think he means they’re old, Ernie. This must be adult humor—I’m not getting any of these.
Gonzo: (leaning over to Bert): Trust me—it’s not you.
Uncle Deadly: I’m kindof liking this. I usually enjoy seeing people suffering.
Piggy: Do you mean us or him?
Uncle Deadly: Point taken, or porcine one.
Count: That’s One! One good point!
Fozzie: Oh yeah? Well, if you get any older I'll bury you guys in that box.
Count: Ah ha! Good, I can wisit my relatives.
Fozzie: (somewhat scared): R-r-relatives?
Ed: Yeah, his family's into land rights... The cemetary rights!
Count: And I can always dig up an uncle or aunt. Literally.
Fozzie: Um, wocka wocka wocka. Why did the farmer climb up on the pigpen to eat his supper?
Piggy: (warningly) Fozzie!
Fozzie: (gulping) Um, because he wanted to eat high on the hog.
Piggy: You are so toast.
Kermit: Run, Fozzie!
Fozzie: What?
Kermit: RUN! (waves arms about head)
Fozzie flees the room.
Catherine: Um, thanks for coming everyone. We’ll try this again some other time—if I can catch Fozzie before Piggy does.
Ed: Hmmm, hope our heckling didn't scare him too much.
Count: Vhat vas truly scary vas his act.
Ed; Mmm, I think I’ve figured out what's wrong with this place.
Count: Vhat?
Ed: The seats face the stage.
Catherine: (hurriedly) Um—thanks for coming everybody! I’ll let you know if we’re going to do this again.
Scooter: Take your time!
Gonzo: No rush, okay?
Oscar: Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!