Muppet Spring Break Week

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Enjoy this series of fan fics. This is the week that the high school I went to has spring break, so I will post a five-episode mini-series. I will try to post one epsode per day. Enjoy it.

Episode 1

Opening

[Note: This opening is basically used in every "episode". This is the only time I'll post what happens in it, though.]

Kermit: (appearing underneath the title card) It's Muppet Spring Break Week, featuring all of your favorite Muppets, even if some of us don't have anything to do!

(then the orchestra, consisitng of Floyd, Rowlf, Animal, Zot, Janice, Nigel, Lips, and Trumpet Girl, plays and then the Muppets sing a variation of The Muppet Show theme. A kickline of women includes Miss Piggy, Miss Mousey, Camilla, Annie Sue Pig, Vicki, Hilda, Mildred, Wanda, Spamela Hamderson, the solid foam drummer, and a few of the whatnot women from At the Dance, and the male kickline includes Slim Wilson, Zeke, George, Lew Zealand, Bunsen, Beaker, Dr. Phil van Neuter, Sam, blue frackle, green frackle, Link, and Flash. The closing shot features Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, Rizzo, Pepe, Clifford, The Newsman, the aliens from the Jonathan Winters episode, Angus McGonacle, Seymour, Lindbergh, and Dr. Teeth)

Introduction
Kermit goes on-stage at an amphitheater in a park, announcing that for Muppet Spring Break Week the Muppets will put on a show in the park every day during spring break, and the n he introduces a springy opening number.

Opening Number: Put Some Zing in Your Spring
Kermit and Piggy sing.

Statler and Waldorf
Statler and Waldorf watch the show from some benches behind the rest of the audience. Statler says that he can't figur eout anything better to do during spring break. Waldorf says that they could go to florida, and they get up and leave.

Introduction
Kermit mentions that since today is monday, he suspects that it'll be a manic monday.

Song: Manic Monday
Janice sings, backed by the res tof The Electric Mayhem and the female singers (from the Paul Simon and Tony Randall episodes).

Backstage
For this week, the backstage area is pretty much a few picnic tables with a roof above it (I'm not sure what it's called). Kermit and Scooter go over the list of what they need for thursdays big performance, and Gonzo tells Kermit that he has a very springy number to do. He bounches on a spring and sings The Sound of Music. Kermit doesn't think that'll work out very well.

Song: Monday, Monday
Floyd lead sings while the rest of the band performs.

Concession Area
Fozzie goes to the concession area to get some honey, served by the swedish chef. Fozzie eats his honey, and then Scooter tells Fozzie that he's on next.

Introduction
Kermit introduces Fozzie Bear.

Fozzie's Monologue
Fozzie tries to tell his jokes, but the honey has caused Fozzie's mouth to stick.

Backstage
Gonzo shows Rizzo his "springy" number, and keeps falling.

Muppet Labs Bunsen and Beaker test out the new Muppet Labs flower grower. Beaker points it to some flowers, making them grow. However, the flowers soon tie up Beaker.

Song: Take on Me
Flash sings, backe dby the othe rmember sof Solid Foam. At the end of the song, Animal pops up and shouts "SPRING BREAAAK!"

Backstage
Pepe criticizes Gonzo for his "springy" number, but Kermit decides to let Gonzo do his act. However, Animal show sup, shouts "SPRING BREAK", and breaks Gonzo's spring. Now Gonzo can't do his act.

Muppet News
The Newsman reports that it'll be sunny all week... And then it starts raining.

Introduction
Kermit tells the audience that a little rain never hurt anybody, "especially not us frogs". However, the audience keeps complaining about the rain (and the fact that it's monday), leading Kermit to introduce the closing number.

Closing Number: Rainy Days and Mondays
Holding an umbrella, Bean Bunny sings the closing number.

Goodnight
Kermit hopes to see the audience tomorrow, whether it rains or not.

 

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Here is episode 2. Now, although I mentioned what happens in the opening, this episode has a slightly different opening: It's the same, but there is a raining effect within the opening (similar to how Animaniacs epsiodes that were about christmas had it snowing in the opening).

Introduction
It is still raining from yesterday, but the show must go on, so kermit introduces Robin.

Opening Number: 'Till Tuesday
Robin sings and enjoys the rain.

Concession Area
The Swedish Chef puts out some pies. Several monsters appear and eat the concession.

Backstage
Miss Piggy actually refuses to go on in the rain. Kermit asks Clifford to perform his solo, but Clifford refuses to. kermit then asks Fozzie to go on, but Fozzie's mouth is still stuck shut from the honey he had yesterday. But Bunsen and Beaker are willing to go on.

Muppet Labs
Bunsen has invented a machine that can blow the rain away. Beaker turns it on, but it doens't work. Beaker sticks his head in the machine to inspect, but then Bunsen realizes that it's not plugged it, and Beaker gets blown away.

Backstage
Oscar the Grouch is enjoying the show because of the rain and cancled acts. Kermit asks Oscar to go on stage and sing. At first Oscar refuses, but then Kermit offers to pay him in trash.

Song: I'm Sad Because I'm Happy
Oscar sing shis song from Sesame Street.

Introduction
Kermit now introduces a sailor sketch with Pepe and Rizzo.

Sailor Sketch
Pepe is the ship captain and Rizzo is the first mate, sailing while it storms. Mad Monty, Clueless Morgan, and Polly Lobster all invade the ship, and Pepe sends his crew of clams, lobsters, and penguins to fight for him. Crazy Harry appears and blows up the whole ship set.

Backstage
As Crazy Harry laughs, Kermit tells Crazy Harry that he wasn't supposed to be in that sketch. Pepe asks if he can do another sailor sketch, but Kermit informs Pepe that the rest of spring break week is booked, with a big shakespearean tribute on thursday, an Electric Mayhem concert on Friday, and other important acts.

Lew Zealand
Lew Zealand performs his boomerang fish act, liking the fact that they are thrown in the rain.

backstage
Gonzo, Scooter, Annie Sue, Leon, Bobo, and Bean are all excited about doing the big closing number, but Kermit has to cancel it. He has a much more appropriate closing number for a rain-filled show.

Closing Number: Singing in the Rain
Kermit starts singing "Singing in the Rain", but ironically, it stops raining shortly after he starts. Kermit then switches to You Are My Sunshine, but then it starts raining again. Kermit switches back and fourth between Singing in the Rain and You are my Sunshine, but it keeps raining and stopping with whatever song is about the opposite. Finally, Kermit faints.

Goodnight
Kermit ends the show, but then it starts snowing. Kermit questions why it would snow in the springtime.

 

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Episode 3

Introduction
Kermit introduces Pepe in the opening number.

Opening Number: Mambo No. 5
Pepe sings, backed by a marching band consisting of Lips on trumpet, Trumpet Girl on trombone, Howard Tubman on tuba, Animal on marching drums, and Clifford on glockenspiel. Several bikini-clad women dance around with Pepe.

Audience
Sttaler and Waldorf are back, having been kicked out of their vacation destination. The two liked the opening number, but hope they get kicked out of here.

Backstage
Leon tells Pepe that he liked the number, and Fozzie reveals that his mouth is finally unstuck. However, Kermit has already recast Fozzie's part in the upcoming opera sketch to Lew Zealand.

Introduction
Kermit introduces Miss Piggy.

Song: I Hate This Part Right Here
Miss Piggy sings, backed by a pig band.

Audience
Statler says that he hates more than that part right here -- he hates all of the parts.

Introduction
Sam is pleased to introduce an opera sketch, but then Kermit interrupts him, saying that the opera sketch doesn't come until later.

Muppet Labs
Bunsen has invented the Spring Rake, a rake with a spring in it. The audience boos at the pun.

Backstage
Fozzie begs Kermit to let him go on, but Kermit says it's still too late. Fozzie begs Lew Zealand to drop out of the sketch, but he won't.

Audience Bean Bunny gives opinion cards to members of the audience. First he hands one to Fletcherbird, then he hands cards to Wayne and Wanda... Then he sees Statler and Waldorf, and decides not to bother with them.

Introduction
Sam now introducs the opera sketch... But it's still not time for it. Instead, it's time for Kermit's number.

Song: Bein' Green
Kermit sings Bein' Green.

Audience
Bean gives cards to some of the monstsers in the audience... But they eat the cards. "How cute", says Bean.

Backstage
Sam is impatient over the start of the opera sketch, and also excited about tomorrows shakespearean sketch. Kermit tells Sam that the sketch is definately haappening now.

Introduction Sam announces that "it's finally time for the opera sketch... Finally!"

Opera Sketch
I'm not too sure what all should happen. Miss Piggy and Janice appear as vikings, as do Sweetums and Timmy. Gonzo appears not in a opera outfit but a bathrobe. Lew Zealand appears as an operatic clown... But Fozzie interrupts as a clown cop, chasing Lew Zealand out of the sketch (backstage, Kermit and Sam comment that that's not in the script). Then Lubbock Lou and his Jughuggers appear in cowboy attire, singing"Ragtime Cowboy Joe". Sam runs on-stage and stops all this nonsense. However, Kermit informs Sam that the cowboy part was supposed to happen. Sam apologizes to the audience for ending the show that way, but Kermit says that the show isn't over yet, and he introduces "The Monster Surfing Party".

Closing Number: The Monster Surfing Party As wipe-out plays in the background, Sweetums, Doglion, and Timmy surf, with a chromo-key background (run by Digit). Several penguins and rats on surfboards invade the number, and the Mutations make a cameo. At the effects table, Digit has trouble with the background, and it soon changes to a winte rbackground, then a city background, and then the Muppet Central background. Finally, the chromo-key machine explodes on Digit.

Goodnight
Kermit closes the show, and Sam apologizes fr everything.

 

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Episode 4

Introduction
Kermit announces that the show will have a big shakespearian sketch, and then introduces Miss Piggy in the opening number.

Opening Number: Waterfalls
Miss Piggy sings, avoiding waterfalls that come from out of nowhere.

Audience
Elmo, Zoe, Abby Cadabby, telly, Baby Bear, Murray, and Ovejita are in the audience, enjoying the show.

Introduction
Kermit introduces Gonzo as a fortune teller.

Gonzo's Fortune-Telling Act
Gonzo is dressed as a fortune teller, sitting behind a table with a crystal ball. Gonzo asks a member of the audience to come up and get his or her fortune told. Elmo volunteers, and Gonzo predicts that a refridgerator will fall on Elmo. Sure enough, Elmo sees a refridgerator falling from the sky, and runs away in time... But the refridgerator falls on Gonzo.

Concession
Ernie orders a pizza, and Bert orders oatmeal. Grover comes to the stand to tell The Swedish Chef that it's time for his act, and Grover will take over. Mr. Johnson then comes by, sees Grover, and exclaims "Oh, no! Not you again!"

The Swedish Chef
The Swedish Chef bakes some cookies, but Cookie Monster keeps coming on-stage to take the cookies. Evebtually, the chef catches Cookie Monster, but Cookie eats the chefs hat.

Backstage
Big Bird congraduates Kermit on the spring break show, and asks if he can be on the show. Kermit says that there is an a ct perfect for Big Bird, but it doesn't come next.

Introduction
Kermit introduces the Penguins paintball battle.

Penguin Paintball Battle
Louis Kazagger provides live coverage of the game, where the penguins shoot each other with paintballs. Crazy Harry enters the stage, dressed as a penguin, and shoots them all with a cannon (shooting giant paintballs, not cannons).

Song: 1,2,3,4
Miss Piggy sings the feist song, backed by Sweetums, Doglion, Timmy, Mean Mama, and the Mutations.

Concession
Bruno takes Oscar to the concession area, where Oscar asks The Swedish Chef if he has any overcooked or spoiled foods.

Introduction
Kermit introduces a big dance number featuring the Muppets' own full-body characters.

Dance Number
The number begins with all of the monsters from the previous song, plus Big Bird, Mr. Snuffleupagus, Splurge, Thig, and Thog, then they all get solo dance appearances, as do Alice Snuffleupagus, Barkley, Sam the Robot, the trolls from the Jonathan Winters episode, and Bruno (with Oscar complaining about him taking Oscar on-stage).

Audience
Bert is disapointed that there are no pigeons in the show.

Backstage
Kermit tells Scooter to get everybody on-stage for the Shakespear-like sketch. Sam hopes it isn't as disapointing as yesterdays opera sketch. Grover runs backsatge to talk with Kermit, but Kermit has to introduce the sketch, and gets Pepe to talk to Grover instead.

Introduction
Kermit introduces the closing sketch, remisncient of a William Shakespear play.

Shakespear sketch
The setting is a medevil villiage. Fozzie, Rowlf, Johnny Fiama, Sal, Bobo, Seymour, and Rizzo are all interacting in a marketplace. Miss Piggy sticks her head out of the window and shouts at them to save her, even though she isn't in the sketch.

Backstage
Sam the Eagle is disapointed.

Shakespear sketch (continued)
Bobo puts a latter to the door, but is so heavy that he breaks the latter. Then Beauregard swings on a vine, only for the other end not to be tied to anything. Then Link and Strangepork run on-stage in space gear, chasing after the Koozebanians, the Martians, and the Extremes.

Audience
Bert says that Shakespear wouldn't write a play like that. Ernie says that this is better than typical Shakespear.

Shakespear sketch (continued)
Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem then appear as medevil musicians, performing eighteenth century music. Then Kermit runs on-stage, saying that the sketch is a mess. Crazy Harry runs on stage saying "Did somebody say a mess?" and starts an explosion, leaving another mess. Kermit just wants to end the show, and grover runs on-stage, leading the cast in a rendition of "This is the Song that Never Ends". It goes on long, including shots of the audience singing, characters singing from backstage and the concession area, and eventually a kick-line consisting of Roosevelt Franklin, his mother, Biff, Sully, Don Music, Herry Monster, Little Jerry, Big Jeffy, Guy Smiley, and Bip Bipodotta. Sam puts his head to his head in shame, and Oscar sarcastically and obnoxiously sings the line "And they'll continue singing it forever just because..." Eventually, Kermit talks in the middle of the song, saying that the song might not end for awhile, and announces that tomorrow's show will end with an Electric Mayhem concert. Then Kermit goes back to singing as the credits roll.

 

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Episode 5

Introduction
Kermit announces that it's friday, the last day of "Muppet Spring Break Week". Late rin the show will be a concert for The Electric Mayhem, but first, here's Rowlf.

Opening Number: I've Never Harmed an Onion
Rowlf sings a song that he's doen before.

Audience
In a side-view of Statler and Waldorf, the two old guys comment that while the show makes them cry more than onions, they do have great seats. Then the camera moves, revealing that they are sitting right behind Thig and Thog, and can't see over them.

The Swedish Chef
The Swedish Chef chops donuts and puts them into a blender, making a donut shake.

Backstage
Johnny Fiama asks Kermit if he can perform tonight, but the show is booked.

Song: 99 Red Balloons
Miss Piggy sings, while Beauregard keeps popping balloons.

Introduction
Kermit introduces the Electric Mayhem concert.

Song: Can You Picture That?
The band performs one of their best-known hits.

Audience
Waldorf asks Statler if he can picture that. Statler says not when he's behind a big monster.

Song: Rocket Man
Bunsen and Beaker dress Floyd up into a rocket suit as Floyd performs Rocket Man. Halfway through the song, Floyd blasts off into space.

Song: Somewhere Along the Line
With Floyd still in space, Janice sings a solo. After the song, Floyd falls onto the stage.

Backstage
Scooter tells Lips to get on-stage so he can play with the band in the next number.

Song: MacArthur Park
Dr. Teeth leads the band.

Backstage
Kermit thanks Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Rowlf, Rizzo, Pepe, and Link for all the work they've done this week.

Song: Rock the Boat
Dr. Teeth leads the band again.

Drum Solo
Dr. Teeth asks Animal to perform a solo. Zoot then decides to play a sax solo. Animal bites Zoot after this.

Closing Number: United We Stand
Before the sogn starts, Clifford asks if he can be a second bass player for the song. The band has a talk and then agrees. Lips says "Sure, we can always use another member, right?" The rest of the band just turns their heads. And then the song starts, wth the band eventually being joined by Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, Lew Zealand, Johnny Fiama, Sal, Rowlf, Seymour, Pepe, Digit, Sam, Robin, and Mildred.

Good-night
Kermit thanks the audience for coming to spring break week. And then he and Miss Piggy sing a reprise of "Put Some Zing in Your Pring" as the credits roll.

 

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I didn't mention this previously, but the first three episode closings were of the orchestra in the park. Episode 1 has it raining, episode 2 has it snowing, and episode 3 has normal weather.