The Muppet Show - Sam the Eagle vs. Spike Milligan

[NameNotAlreadyTaken2]

"I didn't know you were Lithuanian."

[Keimori12]

"ggggaahhh! GAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!! ... It's shockproof!"

[kiki3510]

Sam: Where did that come from?! Sam: IT COMES FROM HONG KONG. xD

[DakariKingMykan]

Leave the stage?! You didn't think I was gonna take it with me, do you?

[newagemisfit]

I remember Spike telling of the time when he was in India as a young boy and his British Army NCO father had caught him in the toilet doing what teenage boys do most. A reflective Spike told how his dad had shouted: "Stop that...You'll have thin children!"

[grimlockfire]

sir leave the stage

leave the stage u don think i was going to take it with me do u

so funny

[JeffZHigs1]

Everyjoke is great! I love the ending, the heckler, "Anyone can drop their pants!"

(Drops pants)

"I didn't know you were lithuanian"

[MrNinjaFish]

That has to be canned laughter - surely no one in that audience wasn't admitted to hospital afterwards!

[madasilver18]

@MrNinjaFish There's no actual audience. It's all staged to be like a live show, but it's not really a live show. Although, they did have people wanting to get tickets for it when it first aired. It's pretty creative, actually.

[ZNKChannel]

I love how Sam says "Wwwwhhhat?!" at 0:38. & how he says "What? What?! What say you?!" & he throws the paper on him.

[Solidfact]

Spike Milligan. Without a doubt one of the best and zaniest comedians of all (and I do mean all) time. Bravo, Mr. Milligan, and SHUT UP, ECKLES!!!

[genesisrock43]

"Where's that pencil? 2B or not 2B? that is the question." Now that is Britain summed up in a line!

[schizoidboy]

the scary thing is that Spike Milligan had his flag facing the right way whereas Sam the Eagle's flag wasn't.

[JohnnyTheWolfLupino]

I had no idea Spike Milligan had been on the Muppet show, glad I found this clip!

[UTD111]

Erm...the Union Jack isn't the flag of "England" - it's the flag of Great Britain...

[p3rs0nan0ngrata]

@UTD111

That's the point; Sam is actually quite ignorant and aloof.

[jamesetaylor89]

@UTD111 actually if your going to be like that the Union Jack is only called that when it is on a ship or Tower Bridge in London. The Union Flag is the flag of the United Kingdom, Great Britain does not have a flag as it includes all the channel islands which have their own authorities.

Any way, Spike was a genius along with Peter Sellers & Harry Secombe in the Goon Show and even if his humour was not understood by everyone it paved the way for others such as the Pythons (life of brian cammeo)

[realgungho]

I miss you Spike.

[dharmaseed]

Sam was in trouble the minute he referred to Spike as a 'proper English gentleman'.

[p717]

The Muppet show was produced by Brits. Americans producers wouldn't "take the chance". So, thanks to the British, we have one of the best Kids shows ever, and thanks to the American hatred for it's own innovators, we only got to see the show in the US because it was cheap (i e profitable) to syndicate something that someone else had put the money up to create.

[captainessklutz]

Sam: I thought, sir, to drink tea properly, the English extend the pinkie.

Spike: Indeed. The pinkie, the greenie, the brownie, the bluey, and the reddie. Ready? GO!

Sam: Leave the stage!

Spike: Leave the stage? You don't think I was going to take it with me, do you?

Awesome!

[jurcia]

dammit, the last few seconds are so premonitious.

Wait for the lithuanian eurovision entry 2010. "surprise"

[sega616]

"Where did that come from!?!"

"It comes from Hong Kong"

How Ironic XDDD

[HELLO2YOU3]

That man for all his demons

He was a genius

[NJburbsSeeker]

So well done and funny. As I said before he was sillier than the Muppets in this one.

[Katzi]

This was my FAVORITE episode! (May Spike R.I.P & have the angels laughing!!!)

[spiked1002]

In all fairness, congrats to the Henson people for booking Spike. Not to many would in the US. Not in Prime time. John Stamos and Tony Danza should be sentenced to 25 years of Hard 'Q' Series. Or perhaps make them light a German match on a British beach.

[cookmoore]

he's a very Proper Englishman!

[filthmonger171]

he is the father of comedy. he inspired monty python and wrote hundreds of sketches

[NJburbsSeeker]

The whole Python crew thought of him as a god. Just a funny funny guy.

[raptormaster666]

Best line ever

Sam: You are not speaking the queen's english.

Spike: Why should I, she never speaks any of mine...there goes a knighthood.

This guy's timing is impeccable.

[doctorgsja]

very Groucho Marx!

[Hawkpelt34]

Sam: Then show it!

Spike: Show it?

Sam: Yes!

*Pants dropped* Lol!

[TheEmikodo]

England underwear lol

[drsdino]

Spike Milligan-317, Sam the Eagle-0.

[TheEmikodo]

Why would you say that?

[drsdino]

It's the seventeenth episode of the third season, and Sam is doing very badly (As ussual.) at reasoning with Spike.

[TheEmikodo]

Sam sounds embarrassed

[fivebearrugs]

I had never seen any of Spike's work before The Muppet Show, so I don't "get" any of the humour...what would be some classic Spike material for me to watch?

[soeffingwhat]

Just look him up, particularly look up 'Spike Milligan I told you I was ill' which was a tribute made for him by some famous British Celebrities including Terry Jones and Michael Palin from Monty Python (if you know who they are?)

[fivebearrugs]

I actually did see a small bit of that on YouTube a few weeks ago. I noticed Dame Cleo Laine was mentioned at the end (she was on season 2 of The Muppet Show). The part I liked was where they read Spike a letter from Prince Charles and he replies with, "That groveling bastard!" :)

And I sure know who the Pythons are :)

[killicomaine]

Q8 was the best comedy show ever made

[berylminnie]

The absolute classic Spike was on radio. Try and download The Goons radio shows.

[Tristan129]

Makes me wonder aswell.

[TheEmikodo]

What do U think of Sam's embarressment when Spike showed his own England Underwear?

[stephen53847]

I alwasy suspected Spike dressed to the left!

[Shadowhawk28]

Statler: "I didn't know you were Lithawanian?" what did he mean by that?

[TheSoulMan8]

probably that waldorf has the lituainian flag on his boxers

[TheGreatMapleLeaf]

"Lithuanian", actually.

[UltraPrimus]

Spike was Wearing Uinion Jack Breifs E.g. He's British, so when Waldorf Llituainian Breifs, He's lituainian, Get it Now?

[Shadowhawk28]

I get it...

[TheEmikodo]

Like underwear?

[ShanaFH]

Spike is one of the coolest people came to MS XDDDDD

[NJburbsSeeker]

I never saw these with Spike...very funny stuff

[justinmebane]

Actually Spike was never an offical British citizen, he was Irish. Bit of useless trivia for you.

[MrOhara77]

Not that it mattered, I think Spike took more pot shots at the Irish than he did at the British.

[toydog16r]

Love the lines:

Sam the eagle: Sir, you are not speaking queens english.

Spike Milligan: Why? She never speaks mine... there goes the knighthood>

And The end repartee with Kermit

Spike: I hope I havent offended any people.

Kermit: No, you certainly didnt offend me, I thought it was great

Spike: Good cause heres your part. Spike milligan and the muppets... great idea :D

[toydog16r]

class humour here!

[Scooterpiety]

I thought so too! :)