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  • Awesome! Viva Kenny Rogers!

  • In a nutshell .... On a warm summers evening, I met a man that played cards well, but he died at the table, and I won all of his money!

  • OK, seriously, who clicked "dislike"? I mean, I freaking hate country music just on principle, but that video was brilliant.

  • its sad how back then talking about drinks, or cigarettes or gambling on a kids sow was ok and kid were still inocent and knew those thing were not for them, and now, any of the above isny allowed on a kid show, and yet kids go out there drinking and smoking, it only prooves that the tv is not the problem is how the damn kids are raised

  • @DADIRUCSBO muppets was never a kids show. i have read enough quotes from jim henson to confirm that.

  • wait this was on the muppet show....the show i use to watch when i was like 7.........passing whiskey

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  • A música é ótima e os muppets... bom são os muppets!

  • i still like the origonal video

  • BOCELLI LOOKING LIKE

  • I love how this sketch has more than three times the hits of Rogers' original video XD

  • It's a miracle HU!!!

    Now everyone has to put their money where their mouth is and place their bets...

  • its a bit freaky

  • funny i like it

  • Ahhh, how times have changed. Muppets singing about gambling and drinking wouldn't even come close to flying today. Gotta love it!

  • @stlsprtsfan That is because, unfortunately, the world is too FUCKING POLITICALLY CORRECT!!

  • Still live by this...always have.

  • Damn! A Muppet sketch with drinking, smoking, gambling, and death!

  • i hate those ugly puppets

  • This is spectacular, I remember this episode!

  • This was the first version that I actually sat and listened to this song apart from knowing the chorus. So I thought should hear Kenny doing it by himself and I have to tell you this is the BEST version. Well done Jim Henson and the team.

  • Man, what a great era. I'm glad I was born in the early 80s. Able to grow up with quality television and still get to enjoy the new technology we have today to revisit the greats. Thank you YouTube... Once again, you have made me smile :)

  • Can you guess who isn't a muppet?

    If you know the answer... shout out!

  • can you even imagine if this was on a kids show today? there would be a riot! dumbasses.... this is genius!

  • Sadly, this would never appear on PBS these days due to the appearance of a cigarette and whiskey.

  • @austinguy23 Probably. Although Jim Henson always said that The Muppets was a show for adults that was also safe for children. As opposed to the other way around (which never results in quality of any kind).

  • Was anyone else severely creeped out by this? lol.

  • I don't get it.

  • @Tigerhawk78.. Today's kids programs are much worse.. The Muppetts were Awesome.

  • muppets just murdered this song

  • @Xeidasx Really? It's not all Kenny, but I think it is a good mix... and Kenny seem to enjoy himself. And this must have been late 70 / early 80's before he turned 70 overnight at the Island in the Stream concert so good to him in his last grasp of manhood.

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  • I liked it! soo funny

  • Congress, are you listening?

  • @martayers , you silly Americans and your silly congress..

  • @Extalana ?

  • @martayers Congress doesn't listen.

  • @martayers This is what we call "real world application"

  • funny as hell

  • 27 trolls are out of aces...

  • This has an almost Zen quality to it

  • Who is the voice of "The Gambler"? It sounds like Lefty's boss (Sesame Street).

  • @JGCooney

    Sounds like Jerry Nelson to me.

  • @matthewmelis It's Jerry. And JGCooney is right, too, since Jerry also performed Lefty's boss.

  • Gotta love cigarettes, whiskey, and gambling on a show geared towards children.

  • @Tigerhawk1978

    it was a different time

    it was televisions golden age!

  • i just wonder if the whiskey and cigarette props would fly today. I would like to believe yes... but never underestimate the narrow minds at the top with their fingers on the button.

  • And the secret to being happy is dont gamble and keep your money.

  • ONE OF MY BROTHERS JUST LOST $800.000.00 IN LAS VEGAS.WHAT A DUMBASS,HEY?

  • CHECK OUT MEL GIBSONS CLIP OF THE GAMBLER

  • Exelente el video de la cancion THE GAMBLER CON KENNY ROGERS Y THE MUPPET...Se sobraron...

  • wow the ghost did the carlton really well

  • Type in "the rock kenny rodgers wwe" to hear The Rock sing this

  • i still remember the first time i seen this as a kid, brillant stuff, but now ive watched it again im thinking ive worked out why i love wisky smoking gambeling and kenney rodgers!!

  • are people kidding? 26 dislikes! Seriously! The muppets were funny, I demand that a free to heir australian tv network puts these shows back on the heir again.

  • whoever said 'the gambler from the song was Kenny Rogers' was wrong. I say it was that crazy ass muppet!

  • I noticed the shrinking of the cigarette and also noticed that the Muppets hands are real hands. Jim Hensen was such a genius, over 20 years after his death I still miss him like crazy.

  • Thumbs up if you saw the Gambler puppeteer tear the cig in half and throw it on his lap. 1:34 watch closely.

  • one of the most amazing thing about the muppets is the fact that they do their own recordings of these songs rather then phoning it in using the original recordings.

  • This is a really great song but Kenny must have felt like a stupid fool singing to a bunch of puppets! Honestly, are they trying to be funny or something here?!? Those stupid puppets ruin one of the best songs ever!

  • @davep75 in fact no, they are not trying to be funny. Muppet show was intented for the whole family. The puppets and the puppeteering in fact pointed out the real meaning of this song in a way that no real actor could.

  • @davep75 I disagree, looked more like he was enjoying himself.

  • I remember watching this episode. Back then the Muppet show came on on Friday nights. Such a simple song and such a simple TV show, but both mean so much if you just stop and pause.

  • King David: I'm on the same boat.

  • The Muppet Show or Jersey Shore....hmmmm, lemme think a minute. I know I'll take the Muppet show 7 days a week and twice on Sunday. The Muppet show has more reality then Jersey Shore or any other tv show being aired today. This show had true class and integrity.

  • I was like 15 when I watched this video. I promised myself then to follow the gambler's advice. Today, more than freaking 30 years later, I am watching it again thinking "sorry gambler, there were a couple of times when I should have freaking walked away...."

  • @KingDavid5934 nevr saw this before but great advice just got to know when to take it aye

  • This might be the greatest thing I've ever seen.

  • @PissedPlayinPimp you mean lost their money cause of too much lose to a gambler ..

  • my dads mom loved kenny rogers and john denver who does not like both of them kenny rogers is the best so is john denver

  • Funny and beautiful, what a different era.... 

  • I think it's a credit to this show that I saw this segment as a small child many years ago, and yet I remember it almost shot-for-shot as an adult.

    Wonderful television!

  • mmmm  Kenny Rogers Chicken and that corn bread yummy

  • Ha, just realised that the muppett sitting to the left of kenny reminds me of someone i know

  • this is classic...Kenny kicks ass...so do the Muppets...love em both...and theres NOTHING disturbing about it...

  • A show like this could never be aired again those days are gone. I'm so glad i grew up in the 80's and got to watch this as a little kid . Glad to see it again.

  • Haaai, i'm Kenny Rogers!

  • my Dad let me stay up late to watch this with him one night..... i was up until 8pm that night.....lol..... i was also 5 1/2.....

  • Thumbs up if you remember watching this as a kid (I still remember kind of lamenting the gambler's death).

  • cuz every hands a winner every hands a loser, best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep...

  • Muppets were for adults!!!

    

  • Muppets were for adults!!!

  • I asked a kid friend of mine if he liked the muppets he replied "whats that?", i then asked if he ever watched looney tunes, same answer and i asked if he knew bugs bunny.....same answer. kids these days :(

  • I enjoy the Muppets, but that's got to be the most disturbing Muppets clip I've ever seen..

  • Yeah, it would be nice if RTV, MeTV, AntennaTV or even IonTV would rerun the Muppet Show!

  • @ValleyVikings2010 Boo !!its 24 people dint know how to play poker . !!

  • Winning !!!

  • That's great. I haven't seen this since I was 8 or 9 years old. Over 20 years ago. Ty

  • Kenny Rodgers, bottle of Whiskey, cigarette, and a dead muppet. TV was amazing back then!

  • LOVE Kenny Rogers!

  • This is whats wrong with the kids now....they dont have the things we did when we was growing up.....all the cartoons has either adult situations or like "unisex".......its really ashame

  • I miss the muppets ! 

  • Thumbs up if you want a network to put on the muppet reruns

  • @yunaeonsummoner The Hub seems like a good choice, since they're reairing Fraggle Rock on that channel.

  • KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE BOTTLE OF WHISKEY& THE CIGARETTE

    The cigarette gets shorter as though he is really smoking it cleverly done by the puppeteers. Truly masters of the craft. THUMBS UP IF YOU AGREE OR IF YOU CAUGHT IT AS I DID ,,,,,,THE MUPPET'S WERE GREAT!!!

  • @WEIRDTHINGSTOSTAREAT if you look even closer you notice he drops the big one and has a shorter one in hand.

  • @TheMeh1989 when

  • @WEIRDTHINGSTOSTAREAT Watch at time index 1:36, & you'll catch the hand of one of the puppeteers snap a piece of the cigarette off, to make it shorter.

  • @WEIRDTHINGSTOSTAREAT I watched and saw him thorw down one cig and then pick up a shorter one and smoke it.

  • ржачка cool

  • ржачка

  • this could be possibly be the best song and video in human history. 

  • this is about the wierdest ass video Ive ever seen. This theme on this show, who makes this stuff up.

  • @tautogg The Muppet show was a family show, not a children show.

  • My favorite song from the Muppet Show

  • @flix2view still

  • that brought me back! TV today just sucks b/c of PC BS! Passing a smoke, Drinkin wiskey, dancing the jig while a spiritnever see that on tv today.

  • Could this better any more wicked? I think not!

  • @Uaz31

    yea lol

  • @Torforso

    The reason we dont have kid shows like this anymore is BECAUSE of people like you who say "oh but JUST take away the drinking". They do that to everything over and over until we have the shows of today. Just take away this, Just take away that, etc.

  • @meitchyjj

    yup, they don't know which hands to keep.

  • damn why the f dont they make tv shows fore kids like this anymore? exept they could take away the drinking.

  • @Troforso The muppets wasn't meant for children, it was aimed at adults originally

  • @skinandblisters Muppet Show were aimed for both children and adults! i grew up with the show xD epic nostalgy.. u dont get good shows like this nowadays..only asian trashy cartoons..teletubbies etc..give us back The Muppet Show :D

  • @Troforso I don't think that drinking or smoking on tv makes any difference. Now, for example, cigarette ads are banned from the media, but still smoke companies make triollions of money!

  • @niva2gr ofcource it does, its logical. if a kid asosiate smoking as a good thing from watching things he likes on tv, it would add a positive stat on the view of smoking. Stuff we se on tv may deside how we behave in one way or another, unconsciously ofcource. What you are saying, is basicly that commercials doesnt work, i do not belive that. Yes they still make money but they also make less money than they would, i think. Also they make allot of money from U industry contrys.

  • Classic!

  • Hi I'm Kenny Rogers!!!!!

  • YEAA I REMEMBER THIS :)

  • those muppets are creepy

  • I want to see the muppets do a rendition of 'Coward of the County' :P

  • i would love to live at Sesame Street.

  • I am a pro at reversing curses- See Heidi Baker- you are under the spell of Michelle Martinez- Why am I different than you? It is not my first experience with a Jezebel..

  • huh... i just noticed that the gambler's voice reminds me of William S. Burroughs... eerie

  • Dead muppet.

  • the muppets introduced me to alot of great songs as well as actors! Thanks for posting this, its one of my favorites

  • This is really great. I love it so much. Have seen it in german tv. laughed a lot. Thx for posting.

  • I love that they use to be cigs, whiskey, and death in a children's show. Now, we just shield them from reality until they discover it for themselves.

  • Is it just me, or does it sound like Kenny Rogers poisoned that Muppet ?

    It drank the Whiskey, then "his face lost all expression", and "he fades off to sleep". Suspicious.

    But it died in its sleep, and as we learned, thats for the lucky ones. the more you know ....

  • I always thought 'The Gambler' was a hobo. And also the guy speaking in the song.

  • @gzu17 What window does a Hobo look out of? They were in a club car, even in the original version.

  • Wow, I remember this. Great to see it again. Thanks!

  • those muppets with real hands kinda creep me out lol.

  • this comes from my childhood when things were a lot more free, smokign drinking gamgling in a kids tv show, it was all possible because parrents learned their kids right from wrong and if u went over the border u get ur ass whopped by your dads belt, nowadays any idiot makes a kid and never raises it properly.. iam gonna risk sounding like a old fart but god darn them days were a lot better.

  • this was my uncles favourite song of kenny rogers

  • thats one ugly old ass muppet LOL

  • Okay! what year Is this on a Muppet show? Showing the Kids how a gambler Drinks Whiskey and smoke a Cig? Wow! America changes fast with all Hippocrites Christians telling Us wat to watch or wat to show on television...Miss those good days.

  • Muppets are Cool!!!!

  • great song!

  • And they complained about Katy Perry tits when this Muppet is asking for whiskey for advise and going on about gambling!!

  • @scotttavres that's the difference between the muppet show and sesame street my friend. Muppet Show was a prime time variety show, sesame street is a daytime kids educational show. That makes a big difference in what's appropriate. This is also about 30 years old...time changes opinions.

  • the muppets were awesome

    p.s. he looks like the guy whistler out of blade any1 else think so?

  • @darkdestiny661 the guy in blade was kris kristopherson

  • Daddy- I agree with Jesus- the word made flesh- who spoke into existence Hebrews Chapter4- Let Jesus kill those mother fuckers who did not ENTER HIS REST- WE GAVE BLUEPRINT 3 THE OLD COLLEGE TRY- NOW MICHELLE MARTINEZ HAS HER WISH- THEY CAN KEEP THEIR CURSED MONEY THAT JAYZ GAVE THEM- SEND THE MARK OF BEAST ALONG WITH THE USA TO HELL AT THE APPOINTED TIME

  • 22 people don't know whento fold them

  • Woah. This is the one thing from this show I always remember and I never knew nor remembered the details. Yikes! Now I know why it stuck with me. Ha ha.

  • Wow! These muppets are really amazing. The one talking has awesome expressions!! It totally fits the song.

  • Yes, you definitely can NEVER see alcohol drinking and cigarette smoking on a kid's show anymore. lol

  • Father- I have played my cards- now I drink my beer and wait for you to send the RED HORSE,, I remind you of our covenant of all saved.. I remind of our mission to defeat hell, death, and the grave... If that mission includes sending the red horse- do what you got to do...do what you got to do...

  • @EnterHisRest1 ... Red Horse is my favorite beer.

  • awesome!

  • Cute video!

    --------Ellen

  • THIS IS MUSIC BEATIFULL...THANK YOU ARTIST

    

  • I miss the Muppet Show terribly. I've shown it to my oh-so-hip teenage kids and they love it.

  • Muppets  rule

  • OK GLEE- HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT - PLAYER TO PLAYER- SO FAR YOUR ACTORS SUCK AND ARE UNCONVINCING

  • @BLUEPRINT3WON .....you mean like that crappy christian music you listen to?? Yikes!

  • i thought this show was for the grownups not for the kiddies

  • I grew up with the Muppets! I remember this episode!!! It was great!!! And for those who are offended... Ya gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away and know when to run!!!

  • the Muppets will never be the same with out Jim Henson... jim Henson son sucks.

  • creepy..

  • Kinda cool how the muppets showed so many different kinds of music on their shows.

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  • Whiskey and cigarettes are good for you. People that drink and smoke have a better dispostion that assface liberals.

  • Did you hear that kids? The best you can hope for is to die in your sleep.

  • ahhh, the good old days when muppets drank and smoke

  • whiskey and cigarettes on the muppets lol

  • Why'd they make the old gambler muppet look like Howard Cosell?

  • 21 people are parents that worry about their kids watching a drinking,smoking dead muppet

  • thats exactly what happens when you die

  • i love the muppets bring back the good old days. greats from germany

  • This particular segment of The Muppet Show redefined the term "breaking even" for me. I miss this show.

  • I loved the Muppets

  • THE MUPPET SH0W STARTED IN 1976. IN COLLEGE, MY NICKNAME WAS KENNY ROGERS BECAUSE I SANG IN THE SHOWER. I DEDICATE THIS SONG TO THE LOSER JAESON MA. READ PSALM 45. I GET ALL THE WOMEN. YOU LOSE.

  • Let me get this straight (I am of the Muppet Show era...): Whisky,