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Muppet Time

Muppet Time interstitials ran on Nickelodeon when the network began airing reruns of The Muppet Show in 1994. The segments were roughly two minutes in length, and added ostensibly "educational" content to the program for the kids' network.

Each segment was introduced by Robin announcing, "Wow, it's Muppet Time!" as a Muppet alarm clock would dance wildly while ticking, and then it would break down as its alarm goes off.

Some recurring situations on Muppet Time include the Frog Scouts, Icky No-No, Do Re Mi Monster, and The Two Little Pigs. Robin was the only major Muppet character to appear in these segments, in both the introduction and in the Frog Scouts segments.

These segments were written by Jim Lewis and Craig Shemin. ^[1]

Later in the decade, the segments appeared on Family Channel in Canada, who was airing repeats of Muppets Tonight at the time.

1 Sketches
2 Sources
3 See also

Sketches

Picture	Summary	Description
Alien Opera
	Alien Opera	A host describes an opera, starring members of The Extremes. The opera involves an alien grandmother buying an ice cream cone for her grandson, which falls onto the ground after another alien bumps into him. The grandson is upset, until he learns that his father owns the ice cream shop.
Do Re Mi Monster
	Baseball	Do Re Mi Monster plays Baseball with Milton, one of his friends, who gets annoyed when Do Re Mi Monster keeps singing. Eventually, by the time Do Re Mi Monster has song about everything, the baseball starts singing "Play Ball", so Milton and Do Re Mi Monster end up joining in.
Frog Scouts
	String	The frog scouts get out the supplies that they brought. One of them brought some string, which at first doesn't seem to be as useful as what the other scouts brought.
	Billy Bunny joins the Frog Scouts
	Tambourine	A frog with a tambourine wants to join the frog scouts. The frog scouts at first didn't think he should join since he doesn't have good supplies as they do. However, they give him a chance and the tambourine comes in handy when they want to hop to the beat on their hike.
	Selling Cookies	It is the annual Frog Scout Cookie Sell, where each frog scouts have to sell three boxes of cookies. However, they all work against each other that none of them sold any cookies. They learn to work together by singing about them selling cookies and they eventually sold all their boxes to a bear.
Icky No-No
	Spaghetti	Icky No-No sings to Milton about all the funny things spaghetti can be used for, but all Milton wants is to eat his spaghetti.
Scary Mary
	Brother	Scary Mary thinks that she can scare anybody, and attempts to scare her brother Milton, however, Milton isn't fooled by any of the disguises, until Scary Mary's cat pretends to be a ghost and scares both of them away.
	Cat	Scary Mary brags about being the best scarer in the world, and she demonstrates on her cat Frecklehead.
The Two Little Pigs
	We Did It Ourselves!	The Two Little Pigs sing about how they picked out their clothes and got dressed for school on their own.
	Play	The Two Little Pigs put on a play for their mother, in which one of the pigs plays the Big Bad Wolf.
Undercover Rover
	Penguins	This time Undercover Rover disguises himself as a penguin to discover how they keep themselves warm.