"The Best of The Muppets from The Muppet Show"

[MartyMuppets]

Those are all very excellent minor muppetz.
And it was nice of you to include Happy Wanderer in the pigs program. I'm sure Dil will love that.
Actually I like the name you gave it. The Happy Wanderers plural sounds like a very appropriate title for that sketch doesn't it?

 

[Dil]

Say, Minor Muppetz, there are three Veterinarian's Hospital sketches on the Rowlf DVD. Two were from Season One, as the other is in Season Two.

Those two have a lot-different-voiced Janice, even though the other one have Janice speaking like we know today.

 

[minor muppetz]

Here are a few additions for the Scooter volume:

Scooter:
Mr. Bassman
Scooter suggests to Fozzie that they do The Telephone Pole Bit
There's a New Sound
Backstage scenes from the Anne Murray episode
Jaborwocky
Six String Orchestra
Scooter announces that he is managing The Great Gonzo
Guest Star Song
Fozzie finds out what the telephone pole bit is
The Telephone Pole Bit
Scooter tells Kermit that he is having Gonzo go onstage in drag
On His Doorstep Last Night
Scooter asks Kermit to help bring a piao into Elton John's dressing room
Benny and the Jets
I'm Gonna Finish on Top
Scooter tells kermit that he is no longer managing Gonzo
Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear

 

[minor muppetz]

Say, Minor Muppetz, there are three Veterinarian's Hospital sketches on the Rowlf DVD. Two were from Season One, as the other is in Season Two.

Those two have a lot-different-voiced Janice, even though the other one have Janice speaking like we know today.

Actually, I listed four. two from season 1, two from season 2. I wanted to include segments that seemed best for a Rowlf DVD. On that DVD, I also did not want to include any sketches that had anything to do with sketches from earlier in the episodes that those sketches were from (like when the creature from The Windmills of Your Mind was the patient), or sketches that had anything to do with the plot (like when Kermit was the patient, or when beauregard was the patient). Many of the veterinarians Hospital skits did, however, have to do with other parts of the episodes, especially in the later seasons.

yeah, it might be unfair to have had four Veterinarian's Hospital skits on the Rowlf volume, but only one on the Miss Piggy volume, and none on the Electric Mayhem volume.

 

[minor muppetz]

Let's list some volumes representing the five performers who worked on the show every season:

Jim Henson:
Lydia the tattooed Lady
The Cat Came Back
Sonny Boy
Pachalafica
Veterinarian's Hospital: Kermit
Mahna Mahna
Money
Bein' Green (from Peter Ustinov episode)
Muppet News: Mallard-itis
The Comedian's a Bear!
Show me a Rose
Time in a Bottle
Ukelelee Lady
The Swedish Chef: Doughnuts
Kermit interviews the Koozebanian Spooble
The Varsity Drag
Pigs in Space: The Captains Controlls
Happy Feet

Frank Oz:
Sweet Gingerbread Man
I've Got Rhythym
What Now My Love?
Kermit interviews Animal
Lady of Spain
Statler and Waldorf convicne Fozzie that he's one of the greatest straight men in the buisness
Veterinarian's Hospital: George
A Foggy Day
Sam talks about ecology
The Rhyming Song
Pigs in Space: Dummo Rays
Bear on Patrol: Car Prisioner
The Boy in the Gallery

Jerry Nelson:
Sunny
The Windmills of Your Mind
Pigs in Space: Dissolvatron
Vendaface: Two Customers
The Houses: Ghosts in the Attic
A Muppet Melodrama (from the Gilda Radner episode)
Gonna Find Her
Borneo
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
I'm Berlington Bertie
You Light Up My Life
Three Little Fishies
Veterinarian's Hospital: Three-Legged Creature
Muppet Sports: Wig racing
Chanson D'Amour
Halfway Down the Stairs

Richard Hunt:
Rockin' Robin
There's a New Sound
Catch a Falling Star
Vendaface: Statler
Two Lost Souls
Feelings
Veterinarian's Hospital: Rabbits
I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends
Six String Orchestra
Wayne and Wanda: Trees
Under my Skin
Muppet Labs: Fireproof paper
Simon Smith and his amazing dancing bear

Dave Goelz:
Macho Macho Man
Muppet Labs: Gorillia Detector
Sax and Violence
Veterinarian's Hospital: Beauregard
Gonzo wrestles a brick
Honeysuckle Rose
Muppet Labs: Hair-Growing Tonic
Beauregard plays Oh Suzanna
Memory Lane

 

[Dil]

Are you sure?
You've posted "All of Me" in "Strangest Moments".

I mean wasn't "All of Me" cut in the "Season One" DVD?
Disney couldn't put "All of Me" on the "Strangest Moments". Never Ever EVER

 

[minor muppetz]

Are you sure?
You've posted "All of Me" in "Strangest Moments".

I mean wasn't "All of Me" cut in the "Season One" DVD?
Disney couldn't put "All of Me" on the "Strangest Moments". Never Ever EVER

Well, that segment was included in the 1985 compilation video Gonzo Presents Muppet Weird Stuff.

 

[TheJimHensonHour]

Well, that segment was included in the 1985 compilation video Gonzo Presents Muppet Weird Stuff.

I love those playhouse videos!

 

[minor muppetz]

You know, untill I saw this thread it didn't occur to me that the 30th anniversary of The Muppet Show was this year. I wonder if Disney will promote it, or at least put a 30th anniversary logo on the second season DVD. Since Disney doesn't normall pass up opportunities to celebrate an anniversary, I am surprised by the lack of Muppet anniversaries. Disey didn't celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Muppet Movie in 2004 (though Disney ahd just gotten The Muppets, so they might not have been able to plan it out well), although Disney did celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Muppets, it didn't seem like a very big celebration (of course, Disney was also celebrating the 50th anniversary of Disneyland). Heck, Disney could also celebrate the tenth anniversary of Muppets Tonight (though it has been hinted that Muppets Tonight will come to DVD after all five seasosn of The Muppet Show come out, but having it out sooner for an anniversary would be just as good) and Muppet Treasure Island (Disney should have waited a year to re-release this on DVD, rather than release it during the muppets 50th anniversary. Maybe it would have had more features than the first DVD release if released during the mvoie's anniversary).

Disney could also re-relase the Playhouse videos as part of an anniversary. I'm not sure whether playhouse actually owns the distribution rights, nor do I know if the legal clearances have expired since the release of the videos (if Disney doesn't have to go back and get legal music clearances again, then we could see All of Me and You've Got a Friend on DVD).

After thinking about this anniversary, I decided to write my own anniversary special in the Fan Fiction section. Nobody has commented on it yet. I would like some feedback. I thought of an idea for an anniversary special back in 2002, during the 25th anniversay, though my 30th anniversary script is a lot different (this one takes place during a show while my older idea just had the characters at the theater thinking of past moments).

Maybe I should start a thread for 30th anniversary merchandise ideas. If I had thought about the 30th anniversary, I would have posted some fictional news on April Fools Day about a line of 30th anniversary merchandice.

 

[minor muppetz]

Well, I started a thread for ideas for 30th anniversary product ideas.

Anyway, I also thought that I'd list two more ideas for compilation DVDs.

The first idea would have skits that haven't been included on any compilation videos of any kind. I've read the contents for all of the videos, so if there is something I've listed that's already been on a compilation video, it's a mistake.

Contents:
Comedy Tonight
Fozzie practices for his monologue, at Kermit's annoyance
The Houses: My brother is interested in medicine
Muppet Labs: Hair-Growing Tonic
The Swedish Chef: Fishie Chowder
Waiting at the Church
Love ya to Death
Fozzie practices for his monologue while Hilda looks for her glasses
Muppet News: Hotline
Veterinarian's Hospital: Baskerville
everybody gives Fozzie the silent treatment
Poision Ivy
Wayne and Wanda: Paper Moon
Pigs in Space: Meteor Shower
There's a New Sound
The Boy in the Gallery
Fozzie's jokes on any subject
Show Me a Rose

And here are the contents for one that I call "Muppet All-Stars":
Another Opening Another Show
Waiting at the Church
Muppet News: News Flash
Bear on Patrol: Car Prisioner
Six String Orchestra
Gonzo balances a piano
Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song
Muppet Labs: Bunsonium
*** Willow
Rockin' Robin
The Swedish Chef: Lobsters
Pigs in Space: Dirth Nadir
Danny Boy
Friendship
The Rhyming Song