Episode 304: Gilda Radner

The Muppet Show
Guest	Gilda Radner
Production	March 7-9, 1978
Premiere	December 1978
Releases	Best of the Muppet Show
(TRANSCRIPT)

Bunsen Honeydew tests Muppet Labs' new super-adhesive glue on Gilda, but the glue accidentally gets everywhere, and everything gets stuck together. Gilda sticks to Beaker, Kermit to Miss Piggy, and Rowlf's fingers to his piano. Gilda performs her final number, Tap Your Troubles Away -- still stuck to Beaker, her own forehead, and the back of the set.

Songs/Sketches

• Eskimo pigs sing "Lullaby of Broadway."
• Gilda sings "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General" and other selections from The Pirates of Penzance with a Seven-foot-tall Talking Carrot. (She asked for a parrot in a letter to Kermit but he couldn't read her handwriting.)
• "Muppet Melodrama" sketch, with Miss Piggy, Uncle Deadly & Wayne
• Marvin Suggs, with his Amazing Muppaphone, sings "Witch Doctor."
• UK Spot: The pigs sing "The Bird on Nellie's Hat”
• Muppet Labs: Super Adhesive
• Rowlf and Zoot play a song, but end up stuck to their instruments
• Muppet News Flash: The Glue Crisis has been solved.
• Gilda sings "Tap Your Troubles Away"

Cast

Muppets:

Kermit the Frog, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Beaker, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Scooter, Wayne, Uncle Deadly, Marvin Suggs, The Muppaphone, Seven-foot-tall Talking Carrot, Statler and Waldorf, Rowlf, Zoot, The Newsman, The Witch Doctor, Floyd Pepper, Dr. Julius Strangepork, Pigs, Winky Pinkerton, Walrus, Billy the Bear, Chicken, Canary

Background Muppets:

Nigel, Animal, The Singing Food

Performers

Jim Henson as Kermit the Frog, Rowlf, The Newsman, and Waldorf

Frank Oz as Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy, and Marvin Suggs

Jerry Nelson as Floyd pepper, Dr. Strangepork, Witch Doctor, Uncle Deadly, and Walrus

Richard Hunt as Scooter, Beaker, Wayne, Statler, Pigs, and Bear

Dave Goelz as Gonzo, Zoot, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Pig, and Penguin

Peter Friedman as Seven-foot-tall Talking Carrot

Louise Gold as Pigs

Notes

• The penguin in the "Lullaby of Broadway" number was built by Brian Henson.
• Jim Henson's quote on the "carrot/parrot" joke in the episode: "It's a terrible joke, but it's worthy of us"

Edits

• Nickelodeon cut and shortened several scenes for time. Among them were:

The backstage scene following the melodrama.

Floyd telling Kermit that Gonzo's eyes are glued to the television set.

• CTS cut the UK spot The Bird on Nellie's Hat.

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