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Episode 219: Peter Sellers

The Muppet Show
Guest Starring	Peter Sellers
Production Dates	December 1977
Home Video	Season Two Best of the Muppet Show The Muppet Show Sampler

Kermit goes crazy with the madness of the show, made even worse with Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker inventing a teleportation device which they use to pop in and out around him and teleporting things such as a lit bomb into Peter Sellers' dressing room. After trying to calm himself down by singing "Bein' Green" onstage, he confronts Bunsen on the teleporter, but gets whisked to Africa where he and Beaker are attacked by a gorilla.

1 Songs/Sketches
2 Notes
3 Edits
4 Cast
5 Performers

Songs/SketchesEdit

"A Gypsy's Violin": Peter plays Boris, a demented Gypsy violin player.
Rowlf plays "When."
Guest Star's Dressing Room: Peter recites a soliloquy from Shakespeare's Richard the Third, whilst -- and at the same time -- playing tuned chickens.
UK Spot: Rowlf accompanies Gonzo on "Memory Lane."
Peter plays Doctor De Ericlever, a crazed German masseur who ties Link in a knot.
Kermit sings "Bein' Green" when Prunella and Her Prancing Poultry have to cancel on account of the start of duck hunting season.
Muppet Labs: Teleporter
"Cigarettes and Whiskey": Peter plays a bass-drum beating temperance preacher, backed by members of Lubbock Lou and his Jughuggers, Dr. Julius Strangepork, and George the Janitor.

NotesEdit

Jerry Nelson performed Strangepork in the closing number, but he had a different voice than usual.

Three of the songs featured in this episode were written by the same person, entertainment personality and parodist Abe Burrows. They are: the opening number, A Gypsy's Violin, the second number, Rowlf's rendition of When, and the UK Spot, Memory Lane.

One of Peter Sellers' most famous quotes can be attributed to this episode: "There is no me, I do not exist. There used to be a me... but I had it surgically removed."

Unusual for a second season episode, Miss Piggy doesn't make an appearance.

The talk spot from this episode can be seen in The Muppets.

EditsEdit

Nickelodeon: The second backstage scene, Kermit's reaction to the exploding bomb, most of Kermit's introduction to the UK Spot, "Memory Lane", part of the last backstage scene (with Link walking backstage and Beaker suddenly appearing), and the last part of Fozzie's introduction to the closing number.