Muppet Show S1 P3 - Original Pilot

[im9ice]

kermit was not in it bullshit!

[DerEchteBold]

@im9ice

He is!

(part1 at 8:20 - "at the dance")

[SuperSaiyanUnicorns]

4:07-4:35 Lust goes both ways!

[sirMAXX77]

man i could watch a 2 hour pilot of this stuff. guess why there is more episodes.

[10piano14]

What language are the subtitles in the Swedish Chef scenes?

[darthmeyers074]

What's with showing the puppeteers at the end? If I seen this back when I was a kid it'd be like finding out Santa wasn't real. Devastating.

[hstrzina]

rowlf jimmy dean show

[NaiTaiDai]

Think the reason Sam became so uptight is because of what happened during the credits of the pilot?

[Cmil619]

6:06 : They must have each other in a "sleeper-hold". :-D

[Billa1122]

Love Sloth at the end!

[futuremadonna6]

Gribozigy... best made up word EVER (:

[futuremadonna6]

Rowlf looks soooooooooooooooooo weird

[Sylkebeach]

To Miss Piggy's Reaction to Voice:Sueaky.

[ilikeyoutubing]

i love the clocks in the office ! :L

[razorramone63139]

5:41 Rowlf!

[HSRunnerFan09]

Well, the pilot was interesting, but I'm so glad they didn't have it in this style. Kermit makes a better host than Nigel. But, the bit at the end where it zooms out was cool. Watch the muppeteers do their thing...

[madcapromanian]

I'm glad they changed the format of the show to what it was in 1976. This style is a bit flat, especially with Waldorf and Statler.

I do like the Pig movie though.

[goldjemowns]

4:42-4:55 xD

[NaiTaiDai]

Was the inside of that male pig's mouth a pale green or was it me?

[Williamsfan]

What does Rowlf say as he's dancing?

Something about Jimmy Dean?

[MistareFusion]

"I used to be with Jimmy Dean, but nobody remembers me anymore." It's a reference to Rowlf's start as the sidekick to the titular character on The Jimmy Dean Show, the character's first big break back in the 1960s.

[Williamsfan]

Ahhh....

Many thanks.

[justapathy]

who spotted borat??

[DaxFlamesAnnie]

hahahahahhhahahaa omg. just shows how amazing muppets are XD

[Mootkun]

Woah. Seeing the puppeteers is weird.

[DalekFe]

hmmm...i always thought sloth was meant to be homosexuality.

[Fledrmaus]

I actually saw this when it first aired! I remember I was babysitting the kids next door, and they thought it was just funny puppets, but I was thinking "Seven Deadly Sins Pageant? Whoa..." Good to see it again after all these years, although now it doesn't seem that funny. At the time, though, this was really very original. TV puppets until then had been Topo Gigio and Kukla, Fran and Ollie. This was something really different.

[setheurovision94]

This was one of the two pre-Muppet Show pilot. Unsurprisingly, neither made syndication. However, CBS eventually agreed to give Henson a shot at a show. This pilot, however, just... isn't funny. It's not structured, either, and is just completely unfunny. Thank goodness the Muppet Show came along, but it's a wonder it did after this...

[Vinya]

I didn't think a couple of the segments were too bad...the Mt. Rushmore ones were pretty good with George Washington

[diamonddog13]

It isn't structured, but I think it was supposed to follow a stream of consciousness structure, similar to Monty Python's Flying Circus and Laugh-In. In fact, there is another clip on You Tube showing the Muppets pitch to CBS that mentions George Schlatter as being invloved (the producer of Laugh-In) but I don't think he was ultimately involved in the Muppets series.

[setheurovision94]

A really strange discovery. How could this rather awkward, mostly unfunny special turn into the amazingly funny and entertaining Muppet Show? It's like two separate universes, with only the muppets in common; certainly not spirit.

[MordecaiSewerDragon]

OMG! Thank you DrJuliusStrangepork!

Rolph: I was with jimmy Dean but nobody remembers me any more! lol I do! lol but only in books and Trivial Pursuit answers. lol

Has anyone noticed the Beethoven statue even has costume changes?

Nigel looks like he could be Scooters uncle ...on his mothers side.

OH! ...and the Jim Henson muppet playing the banjo at the end!

So cool to see! Thanks again Doc.

[headshot1971]

Thank you. I never saw the 1st show.

[vovoneni]

Dr Julius"videos are underfull !

[Resnullia]

I'm not sure I like the whole...breaking the fourth wall bit at the very end. You're not supposed to see the puppeteers!

[Patroo9000]

Is that Rowlf at 05:41

[FLPman]

YES!.. he even made a self depriciating comment of being a has been.. and this was pre muppet show.. Rowlf is a classic

[DRUMMERMAN77]

leafy green veggies is one of my deadly sins

[ljks1]

01:40 is the original miss piggy. Her real name is Miss Lee Pigathius.

[sally1112]

Who was teh first guest star??

[ljks1]

there was no guest star on tis episode. But in the first episode with a guest star, the first guest star was Juliet Prowse.

[boblifegoeson1234]

This is an intresting pilot but it doesn't have much of my favrioute characters Fozzie Bear Rowlf

[ReevaInari]

The pig that was sharpening the knives looks like he had a green tongue.

The president pig is Hoggy Marsh, Piggy's first agent.

[s1xsh00t3r]

strangepork and link as a human in a pig movie huh?

[lightening816]

Was the camera man supposed to let everyone see the muppeteers?

[ska124174]

where?

[ska124174]

oh...

at the end.

yeah definetly

[jedieco23]

that end is the best!

[Shadowhawk28]

cool, was this unaired?

[LaDracul]

No, it aired only once on ABC, but rerun on the Odyssey Channel in the '90s.

[mrtelevision]

It aired on ABC on March 19, 1975.

[Shadowhawk28]

I wasn't around in 1975.

[auntbecky]

Geez, this was a lot edgier and more "adult" than the series. I think i like it better.

[Quidam]

Me too. They should bring this stuff back!