Muppet Show Pitch

[kentaisawesome]

What is UP with Kermit's mom?!?!? She's dressed like a NUN for crying out loud!

[augias]

@kentaisawesome it's "Whistler's Mother". An iconic work of North American art...

[TeamRocketRockin]

Statler and Waldorf disliked this video.

[PanAndScanBuddy]

@TeamRocketRockin Holy shit, there are *only* two dislikes! I regret that I have only one upvote to give.

[MsChris929]

Ok

[aquagrl63]

One of the "freaky hippy" muppets is the one that looks like Jim Henson!

[bluenowait]

Anyone else laugh at the reaction to Turn-On?

[Pearliekitty]

Wow! Wish we had something this good on TV now!

[Kytseo]

/salutes the dude trying to sell the Muppet Show idea to whomever he's pitching it to, truly a man among muppets

[uranusking]

Now THAT'S a pitch!

[withcdoctor]

Whatever you're selling I'll take twenty.

[sonikku956]

We need a new version of the Muppet Show!

[sonoffinulanu]

Sometimes I wonder why anything but the Muppets even exists.

[Exccentrous1]

I would buy the fuck out of that show and put it on all of the TV.

[Locke217]

Most epic pitch ever. Then again, it's fitting for such an awesome show...

[rtuckerivey]

Where's Kermit's line

'What the hell was that about?"

[kentaisawesome]

@rtuckerivey This is the DVD version, cleaned up and ready to watch by Muppet fans all across the globe.

[addictedtothought89]

"we'll all get temperamental and hard to work with, but you wont care! Because we'll make a lot of money!" lmao how can you not say, "shut up and take my money!" after hearing that?!

[Aeshir2]

Was...was that Fred Willard?

[Treecko99]

Oh God it's JACK NICKLSON!

[RKStrikerJK5]

They rejected this?? How in love with failing were they?

[faolan1313]

the sad thing is this one wasn't even picked up..

[Psuedo3D]

looks too new to be authentic

[Madams1977]

@Psuedo3D It's called digital remastering.

[kentonagbone]

BOFFO!

[Chazzy17773]

This is Suck...It Supossed to have a cameo by Kermit!!

[thanksfor42fish]

Oscar the grouch disliked this

[CokeLiftFantaMan]

Does anyone have the version with kermits line at the end 'what the hell was that all about?'

[kentaisawesome]

@CokeLiftFantaMan I said already that the old one was deleted and restored.

[Nekorin]

SOLD!

[AntagonistGB]

This is fucking brilliant. I'd buy this show in a heartbeat.

[EvLoutonian]

Awesome!!!!  hahahaha

[socialjunsu]

I love how his hair goes from tidy to disarranged throughout the pitch.

[amystreasures]

lol

[WackdProductions]

How the fuck do you walk out of this NOT wanting to throw huge bags of money at Henson and George Schlatter and immediately televise any scrap of Muppets-related content you can find? You have to TRY not to like this pitch.

[sketchedblue]

who the hell disliked this?

[sketchedblue]

who the hell disliked this?

[twinklez1985]

don't he look like jerry springer lol

[TrashJack3000]

Genius. Absolutely genius. I don't think I know any better words to describe it.

[PapagenoJuan2]

Wow, ... Jim sure knew his audience :) lol

[samesdios]

Flawless, brilliant, tasteful, comedy. What entertainers are doing that today? No one. Change is in the air!

[OddballMattsVeeLog]

@samesdios hey man I couldnt help but notice the comment about the muppet show... Im actually heavily inspired by the muppet show and think u would like my show on my main channel oddballmatt this is my side channel

[TheGrapelettes]

best..pitch..EVER XDD even though just pitches jim henson could find a way to be funny, pure genius

[LeoMidori]

"Small children will love the cute, cuddly characters. Young people will love the fresh and innovative comedy. College kids and intellectual eggheads will love the underlying symbolism of everything. Freaky, long hair, dirty, cynical hippies will love our freaky, long hair, dirty cynical Muppets!"

Hell, I'd have bought it after a pitch like that. :D

[colleenboye]

I love that the Battle Hymn of the Republic is playing in the background.

[perfgeek]

I love this behind the scenes stuff soooo much. Still, to be "classic" Henson/Muppet doesn't it require something to explode?-)

[MrPixarGuy]

@perfgeek Well, it can also have to have someone getting out of hand, someone going crazy, or someoone going comepletly coo-koo and losing their minds. This has all of that!

[oddooddod]

That was so awesome. Holy shit.

[Lulubellwilley]

"College kids and intellectual eggheads will enjoy the underlying symbology of everything" lol

[lindasapsford]

i can't believe this was rejected it took a British network to pick this up

[tbcdymond]

*That* is how you do a network pitch. I'm glad this has seen the light of day on Youtube.

[Menamebephil]

GLORIOUS

[PapagenoJuan2]

Freaky long haired hippies .... Yes, Jim Henson was, in my view, the last great genius of my generation :))

[SilvermoonBlood]

made of win

[Rubberman202]

Who could reject a pitch like this?!

[misredkimmy]

So many life lessons learned with a simple program. I don't think you see basic teachings on shows today. Can you imagine the Muppet show today? How many people would pick apart the lesson, in order to feel offended in some way? I say let's put politically correct aside, and go back to teaching the simple truths. Do on to others, as you wish to be treated. Share with others. Make friendships no matter what the race, color, creed. The world was a better place with the Rainbow Connection.

[PhaedrusNYC]

"Muppets Hire Sally Struthers As Agent." WTFLOL

[Sammerkona]

This has been up almost 4 years and only 33,000 views? What's wrong with people, this is HISTORY!  Everyone should know what morons all the network bosses were for not picking this show up!

[oldbluescott]

Underlying symbolism? What is the hidden significance of the slinky people?

[Nettacki]

@oldbluescott uh, penises.

[XxEmG8185xX]

@oldbluescott So fat people can enjoy the show too. lmao. ironic huh?

[Serires2]

I prefer the original Kermit and CBS logo

[RazelG]

Best show pitch EVER!

[robin101pictures]

Ok, can someone please post kirmits closing line, "What the hell was that all about?'' PLEEEEEESE

[HazyChase20]

"What the hell was that all about", to quote Kermit. ;)

[diehounderdoggen]

"This show's gonna go places, and fast! I can really get behind it!"

"Behind? We should get in front of it."

"How come?"

"If we're lucky, It'll run us over before the premiere!"

DOH! HOHOHOHOHOHOHOH!

[MarshalToy]

Freaky, long-haired, dirty, cynical hippies.

[MegawackyMax]

What I truly love of this pitch is how the commentator starts building up, only to erupt in a brutal storm of awesomeness.

I really can't understand how this pitch got ditch'd. Haha, lame pun. Beat it, it's a comment on a Muppet video. =D

[CalamityJonesack]

"And we'll all get temperamental and hard to work with, but you won't care because we'll all make a lot of money!"

[heydigital]

This is the edited version, as I have seen the full version. The closing shot from pitch tape has Kermit enter to comment "What the hell was that all about?".

[StFidjnr]

@heydigital can you post that.

[heydigital]

I have the video, but when I took it in 2001, my digital camera did video only, no audio :(

[kristell9]

Please buy the show. Jim promises to cut back on the dope

[WackdProductions]

@KairuHakubi: Actually, nobody bought it--no one in America, at least. After Henson and Oz ran out of American networks, they sold it to the Brits, who syndicated it worldwide. Only then did American TV networks run it. A lot of people say that it's to bad it was so short, but what people don't realize that it's incredible that an American show that's exclusively in British syndication with no real home lasted as long as it did.

[ThePyroTF2]

There's nothing subtle about this bitch...er, pitch.

[TheFounders]

"The United States of America *needs* the Muppet Show!"

I agree 100%

[HCShannon]

@TheFounders Yeah, but nobody in the US wanted it. Fortunataly Lord Lew Grade in England gave them thier chance and syndicated to a million countires!

[themediashow]

"Like stove, sink, toilet -- no wait" :D man. my childhood was bruised by the one-two punch of moving to a new town around the time the Muppet Show was cancelled. it was like I suddenly lost *all* my friends. *cry*

Anyone who digs the historical angle of this should read Street Gang, the new book on the history of Sesame Street. v.v. cool, and not just because my great-grandpa's role in greenlighting kids' TV (albeit bad kids' TV) is mentioned on p. 36 ;)

[666thHeretic]

This pitch alone is better than half the stuff on TV right now. The Muppet Show was pure awesome, injected directly into your EYES.

[polarity345]

that an more my friend

[RKStrikerJK5]

@666thHeretic I... would put it at least better than 80% of TV nowadays.

[MrChenrezi]

@666thHeretic Clearly TV executives were as insane back then as they are now, because apparently this pitch got rejected by every major US TV studio...

[KairuHakubi]

I never once caught any of the incarnations of the muppet show, even the recent couple of 'em, nor had any idea when they were on, or THAT they were on, or what channel... because wherever they were, it must have been a really obscure channel with zero advertising... that's why it failed.. and that's .. extremely sad... cuz it's the best shiz on TV.

[suitablebonding]

Now THATS a sales pitch.

[muddbutts]

what the hell was that all about?

-kermit

[Doeney]

Why... why was... why was this rejected?

[ztslovebird]

Why can't ALL pitches be like this? The show's been off the air for about a decade (mostly because Jim Henson died, may he rest in peace), and I would SO buy this show and put the Muppets back on primetime and in the spotlight where they belong!

[doctorwhoobawooba]

Actually they stopped the show before Jim Henson died. Then they made other shows like The Jim Henson Hour and Fraggle Rock.

[ztslovebird]

Oh, right! I forgot about that. And Sesame Street was made before he died, a little after the Muppet Show started, but before the Muppet Show was cancelled.

[doctorwhoobawooba]

Actually Sesame Street originally started in 1969, and the muppet show started in 1975 and ran on until 1981, and jim died in 1990

[Pikachu4352]

@doctorwhoobawooba Actually it was 1976 when the muppet show debut.

[NecronomiPod]

How could anyone pass up a pitch like this?

[GroteB]

Maybe because they didn't get it?

[jellyhelm]

Incredible. So irreverent and goofy and spontaneous. I wonder about the CBS executives' reactions?

[TheGerkuman]

I love the college eggheads and intelectuals bit. Although, to be more specific we hated putting symbolism to everything, but had to do it. :D

[sligosky]

I love this, and it was the first I'd seen of it!

[RKStrikerJK5]

This was beyond brilliant.

[13thlemur]

I read this pitch was rejected by networks...

I don't see how it could be. It was truly awesome.

[SIMPFANN]

That is awesome! God bless Jim Henson.

[karynchaotic]

i DO love their freaky long-haired dirty cynical muppets.

[holymight27]

and God will look down on us, and smile on us and he will say, "Let them have a forty share!" LOL....that was very funny

[rogaldorn3]

...I would SO buy that show.

Seriously.

[GumbyBrainDoctor]

I would buy that show.

[MukashiOlin]

Best sales pitch EVER!

[CreepCrawler]

brilliant! I wonder if they had ANY idea it would became as popular and make as much money as they predicted in the pitch!

[dorourke105]

C'mon someone on this site has got to have the part where Kermit says "What the hell was that" anybody anybody bueller bueller.

[TenaciousGuy]

Can you possibly find the uncut version of this, with Kermit's line at the very end?

[girrrtacos]

What the hell was that? ;)

[thiatisall]

Holy shit. no wonder it got made.

[vickster304]

I guess that was about as commercial as Jim Henson ever got! LOL!

[Bathspud]

You mean, apart from the years and years he spent making nothing but commercials?

[DELIVEREE]

You forgot to tell us that this isn't complete. I want it to be complete with Kermit's appearance. |:|

[gatechmole]

This is as it appears on the Muppet Show Season 1 DVD set.

[sweetums74]

They cut out the final bit- Kermit comes on and says "What the hell was that?"

[gatechmole]

Wow. I would like to see that.

[alwaysan80sgal]

it's complete

[hydrotrippin]

No, it's not.