Episode 119: Vincent Price

The Muppet Show
Guest	Vincent Price
Production	October 19-21, 1976
Releases	Season One Best of the Muppet Show Monster Laughs...
(TRANSCRIPT)

"You've Got a Friend"

In honor of guest star Vincent Price, the show is filled with monsters, ghosts, vampires and spooky situations. A three-headed monster auditions for the show: "We sing!" "No, we dance!" "No, we tell jokes!"

Songs/Sketches

• Behemoth croons "Under My Skin" as he eats a terrified Shakey Sanchez.
• In the "House of Horror" sketch, Fozzie and Gonzo approach a spooky castle, haunted by Vincent and his servant, Uncle Deadly. After the sketch, a monster called Thudge McGerk appears in Statler and Waldorf's balcony, and scares Statler away.
• Wayne and Wanda: "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered". Wanda is literally bewitched and turns into Blue Frackle.
• Panel Discussion: Gourmet Dining. Gorgon Heap eats Pierre LaCousse, the French chef invited in this panel. Then, the glutton monster almost eats Kermit, with the assistance of a hungry Vincent Price.
• At the Dance. A bunch of ghouls fills the ballroom : a couple of ghosts, Dracula and his victim, Beautiful Day Monster surrounded by bats, Miss Kitty and a female Blue Frackle (who removes her head at the end of the sketch). George the Janitor and Mildred Huxtetter are the only “normal” dancers in this episode.
• UK Spot: Ghosts haunt the backstage, singing "I'm Looking Through You." Fozzie, wandering in the backstage, sees the three spirits and runs away, terrified.
• Talk Spot: Vincent teaches Kermit how to sprout fangs and to turn into a vampire frog.
• The Newsman reports that furniture is turning into monsters as a man watching at home is eaten by his living room.
• Blackout: Vincent and Sweetums
• Talking Houses: The Hospital
• Vincent, Uncle Deadly, two ghosts and some Muppet Monsters sing "You've Got a Friend."

Notes

• This is the first episode in which all of the sketches center around a common theme.
• The Newsman refers to Sheriff David Goelz in his broadcast. This is an obvious reference to performer Dave Goelz.
• In this episode, the audience, shown during the Talk Spot, includes only Muppet Monsters.
• For the first and last time, Hilda introduces a number, the "House of Horror sketch". At this occasion, she refers to her homeland, Transylvania.

Cast

Muppets:

Kermit the Frog, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Scooter, Statler and Waldorf, Behemoth, Shakey Sanchez, Tom, Dick, and Harry, Hilda, Uncle Deadly, Thudge McGerk, Sam the Eagle, Wayne, Wanda, Pierre LaCousse, Gorgon Heap, Frackles, Miss Kitty, Ghosts, Dracula, George the Janitor, Mildred Huxtetter, The Newsman, Muppet Furniture, Sweetums, The Houses, Whatnot, Dancers

Background Muppets:

Beautiful Day Monster, The Fazoobs, Mahna Mahna, Pig, Purple Heap, Green Heap, Droop, Flower-Eating Monster

Performers

Jim Henson as Kermit the Frog, Waldorf, The Newsman, Shakey Shanchez, and Green Frackle

Frank Oz as Fozzie Bear, Sam the Eagle, one of the Houses, George the Janitor, and Mildred

Jerry Nelson as Uncle Deadly, Tom, Thudge McGerk, Dracula, Dracula's dancing partner and Pierre LaCousse.

Richard Hunt as Scooter, Statler, Sweetums, Ghost, Wayne, Miss Kitty, and Behemoth

Dave Goelz as The Great Gonzo, Dick, Blue Frackle, and Gorgon Heap

John Lovelady as Harry and Ghost

Eren Ozker as Hilda, Wanda, Ghost, and one of the Houses

Edits

• The closing number, "You've Got a Friend," is cut on The Muppet Show: Season One DVD.
• On Nickelodeon, At the Dance was cut.
• When this episode was released on the 1994 video Monster Laughs with Vincent Price, "I'm Looking Through You," the Houses sketch, and the closing number, "You've Got a Friend," were all cut.
• On CTS, the UK spot I'm Looking Through You is cut.
• The end of the "House of Horrors" sketch was altered: the original punchline was, "On New Year's Eve, the Master turns into Guy Lombardo!" Since the show was primarily aimed at an American audience, "Guy Lombardo" was replaced with ATV (and Muppet Show) bandleader "Jack Parnell" when the UK master (which has been used on all home video releases of the episode) was prepared.

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