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The Muppet Show
Guest Starring	Teresa Brewer
Production Dates	July 12-14, 1977
Air Date	UK: December 2 1977 US: November 21 1977
Home Video	Season Two

Miss Piggy overhears Kermit tell Scooter that she's getting too fat to do her ballet number next week, so she decides to go on a diet. She breaks a scale weighing herself, and collapses after exercising with a TV show for a few minutes.

Contents 1 Songs/Sketches 2 Cast 3 Performers 4 Edits

Songs/Sketches

• Teresa sings "Cotton Fields."
• Pigs in Space: Out of Swill
• Animal, at his drum kit, sings a frantic "Wild Thing" until Janice and a pig come with nets and drag him away to a sanitarium.
• Gonzo's Act: Gonzo recites Shakespeare while hanging by his nose from a feather boa nine feet in the air, but after he gets a couple lines of The Merchant of Venice out, he sneezes and falls.
• At the Dance: Diet Jokes
• UK Spot: Dr. Teeth performs "Cheesecake" with some Muppet monsters.
• Muppet Labs: Electric Nose Warmer
• Scooter and some frogs sing "At the Hop."
• Teresa sings "Spinning Wheel" while being pushed on a swing by Sweetums.
• Teresa sings "Music Music Music."

Cast

Muppets:

Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Scooter, Statler and Waldorf, Animal, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Beaker, Sweetums, Dr. Teeth, Floyd Pepper, Janice, Link Hogthrob, Dr. Julius Strangepork, Crazy Harry, Whatnots, Pigs, Frogs, Cheesecake

Background Muppets:

Blue Hand, Trumpet Girl, Zoot, Frackles, Beautiful Day Monster, Miss Kitty

Performers

Jim Henson as Kermit the Frog, Link Hogthrob, Waldorf and Dancers

Frank Oz as Miss Piggy, Animal and Fozzie Bear

Jerry Nelson as Floyd Pepper, Dr. Julius Strangepork, Crazy Harry, Frog, Dancers and the Announcer

Richard Hunt as Scooter, Sweetums, Beaker, Statler and Pig Dancers

Dave Goelz as Gonzo, Zoot, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Swinetrek Crewmember and Dancers

Edits

• On CTS, the UK song Cheesecake is cut.

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