Ever since the early days of Sam and Friends and Muppet commercials, there has been a long tradition of Muppet characters eating each other.

In the "Inchworm" sketch, which Jim Henson performed on many variety shows in the 1960s, Kermit the Frog would sit on a wall, eating passing worms. A Muppet monster would drag Kermit off the wall and then re-appear making a chewing motion, creating the illusion that Kermit was eaten whole.

For later sketches, a "slit" in the second Muppet's mouth was made so the eaten Muppet could be pulled through and, if necessary, performed from inside the second Muppet after being "eaten".

Commercials

• Wilkins Coffee: A whale eats Wontkins.
• Southern Bell Telephone: Big V eats Mack.

The Ed Sullivan Show

• "Rock n' Roll Monster": Sour Bird eats the dissolved monster.
• "Glow Worm" sketch, 1966: Kermit eats two Muppet worms and Big V eats Kermit.
• I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face: Yorick attempts to eat Kermit.
• "Music Hath Charms" sketch, 1967: The Piano eats Kermit.
• "The Computer Dinner" sketch, 1967: The monster eats the Talking Machine.
• "The Glutton" sketch, 1971: The Glutton eats a shrunken Glutton and then tries to eat Ed Sullivan.

IBM Meeting Films

• Coffee Break Machine: The monster eats the Coffee Machine.

• Kermit's Stepping Stones to Success: Beautiful Day Monster threatens to eat Kermit if he doesn't shorten his speech.

Sesame Street

• Cookie Monster tries to eat Guy Smiley in a bakery segment when he thinks that he is the thing Guy told him that's eatable and rhymes with "buy"
• In Episode 0001 of Sesame Street, a yet unnamed Cookie Monster tries to eat Kermit (by his frog leg), after devouring the letter "W" in his lecture.
• A cow nibbles on a Muppet stack of hay as they exit the frame in Forgetful Jones' Oklahoma sketch.

The Muppet Show

• Episode 103: Gorgon Heap eats Baskerville and Miss Piggy during the Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Disappearing Clues sketch.

• Episode 114: A crocodile eats two frogs during the "Never Smile at a Crocodile" number, but later spits them out.

• Episode 115: Behemoth (unseen) eats Kermit for "Veterinarian's Hospital". (He had a frog in his throat.)

• Episode 116: Gorgon Heap eats Wayne during the "Some Enchanted Evening" number.

• Episode 116: A gorilla presumably eats Dr. Bunsen Honeydew after his Gorilla Detector fails to alert him.

• Episode 119: Behemoth eats Shakey Sanchez during the "Under My Skin" number.

• Episode 119: Gorgon Heap eats Pierre LaCousse and almost eats Kermit during the "Panel Discussion."

• Episode 119: TV viewer is eaten by his TV during "Muppet News Flash."

• Episode 119: The Muppet Newsman is eaten by his desk during "Muppet News Flash".

• Episode 204: Gorgon Heap eats Lenny the Lizard in a new version of the "Glow Worm" sketch.

• Episode 205: Judy Collins: The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly swallowed a fly, a spider, a bird, a cat, a dog and assorted other shadow-puppet animals before she explodes.

• Episode 210: Luncheon Counter Monster eats the entire machine in a new version of the "Monster & Machine" sketch.

• Episode 221: The Automatic Wastebasket tries to eat Beaker in Muppet Labs

• Episode 222: Monsters try to eat the singing Cheesecake at the end of "Cheesecake"

• Episode 223: John Cleese's agent is eaten by Mean Mama in the first backstage scene.

• Episode 223: The liquid Spooble is drunk by the Trumpet Fazoob during his interview.

• Episode 316: A lunchbox eats a construction worker.

• Episode 419: A shark tries to eat a lobster during the UK Spot "Boom-A-Raka-Sacky".

• Episode 418: A Crocodile tries to eat a frog during "Disco Frog".

• Episode 419: A Crocodile eats the Newsman when he says the name of the Egyptian Crocodile-God, Rezal-evad-gib.

• Episode 515: Mean Mama swallows First Mate Piggy during "Pigs in Space".

Mentions

• Episode 115: During the talk spot, Kermit tells Candice Bergen that last week, Sweetums ate the guest. (Although the audience was never shown the incident in the preceding episode.)

• Episode 116: In the "Battle of Insults", Sweetums reveals that he ate his dog.

Muppets Tonight

• Episode 102: Big Mean Carl eats Buffy on Swift Wits.

• Episode 105: Big Mean Carl eats Winky on Swift Wits.

• Episode 110: Big Mean Carl eats Magda on Swift Wits.

• Episode 201: Big Mean Carl eats Bill the Bubble Guy.

• Episode 202: The Bread Monster tries to eat Pepe and Seymour.

• Episode 204: Big Mean Carl eats Rufus and Arthur Modell on Swift Wits.

• Episode 206: Big Mean Carl eats Raymond J. Saluga the Porcupine.

• Episode 206: Big Mean Carl eats Hopper on Swift Wits.

• Episode 211: Big Mean Carl eats a frog in "Four Weddings and a Frog".

• Episode 211: Big Mean Carl eats Alfonso D'Bruzzo.

• Episode 212: Carla the Big Mean Mom eats a backstage crew member.

Mentions

• Episode 101: Rizzo the Rat reveals that he ate the Dancing Cheeses.

Fraggle Rock

• Boober and the Glob: A big pink glob eats Cotterpin and several other Doozers.

The Jim Henson Hour

• Science Fiction: Jo Beth Garfdoohoo eats the judges of the alien beauty pagent.

• Food: A lizard eats a bumblebee, then a snake eats a lizard, a hawk eats a snake, the hawk crashes into a tree and falls and gets eaten by a crocodile, who gets eaten by Luncheon Counter Monster, who gets eaten by Doglion.

• Food: Animal eats a bee.

• Food: Anthony and Fern eat the Screaming No-Nos.

Muppet Meeting Films

• Coffee Break Machine: Luncheon Counter Monster eats the Compu-Coffee 2000.

• Leo and the Monster: Luncheon Counter Monster threatens to eat Leo if he doesn't shorten his speech.

• Think Bigger: Big Mean Carl eats Boo Monster.

Online videos

• In the DXD "Do Not Touch" video, Kermit gets eaten by an alligator.

• In the DXD starting video on Arbor Day, Luncheon Counter Monster eats a bunny.

• Haunted Holidays: Big Mean Carl eats the Pink Frackle and Mo Frackle.

• In the Muppet viral video "Habanera", the Swedish Chef ends the number by swallowing Beaker.

• In the viral video "Bohemian Rhapsody", Big Mean Carl eats Rizzo and two other rats.

• In the viral video "Stand By Me", Big Mean Carl eats several rabbits during the song.

Dinosaurs

• "The Mighty Megalosaurus": Earl Sinclair almost eats Arthur Rizzic.

• "The Howling": Roy Hess eats a live creature who can be seen while Roy eats with his mouth open. Roy finally spits it out

• "I Never Ate for My Father": A swamp monster eats Robbie Sinclair, some small creatures and later Earl.

• "Endangered Species": B.P. Richfield eats the two Grapdelites.

• "Fran Live": Robbie eats a live creature but spits it out.

• "Slave to Fashion": The Predator eats various dinosaurs on the "Totally Hidden Predator" TV show.

• "Wilderness Weekend": The swamp monster tries to eat Earl, Robbie, Baby Sinclair, Roy, Sid Turtlepuss and Gus Spikeback.

• "Getting to Know You": Baby eats Francois Poupon.

• "Steroids to Heaven": Dolf and Robbie eat some of the Thornoids.

• "Terrible Twos": The Predator eats Dr. Elliott Piaget.

• "Into the Woods": The Predator monster eats a baby dinosaur in the "Your Solo Wilderness Ritual" video.

Mentions

• "I Never Ate for My Father": A small creature in the woods says that he tried to get his son to be a carnivore, and ate him when he refused.
• "Employee of the Month": Earl mentions that B.P. Richfield got where he is by eating *his* boss.

• "A New Leaf": B.P. Richfield says that he ate a little boy for breakfast and was planning to eat the boy's sister for lunch.

• "WESAYSO Knows Best": B.P. Richfield says that he bit his nephew's head off.

• "Hungry for Love": It's revealed that B.P. Richfield ate his daughter Wendy's last four boyfriends.

Miscellaneous

• In The Frog Prince, Sweetums tries to eat Robin the Frog.
• In Kermit's Swamp Years, Kermit almost eats Horace D'Fly, before spitting him out.
• In From the Balcony Episode 24, The Blimp eats The Defroster.
• In the Kokomo Music Video, a shark tries to eat an Inkspot.
• In one of several group shots seen in TV spots for The Muppets, Pepe is shown in Behemoth's mouth.
• During the credits of the "All I Need Is Love" music video, Big Mean Carl eats a rabbit.

Mentions

• In Here Come the Muppets, Floyd Pepper says that Animal likes kids, and adds that he had two for breakfast.

Muppet/Human Consumption

• The Muppet Show Episode 202: Behemoth tries to eat Zero in the opening; Zero tries to eat Sam; and Mean Mama tries to eat Zero during the closing.

• Episode 214: Kermit chides the crocodiles for attempting to eat Elton John after the opening number.

• Episode 224: Sweetums and Doglion try to eat Cloris Leachman during "Just in Time"

• In a TV spot for The Muppets, Behemoth has eaten Jason Segel, whose hand is reach up out of the monster's throat.
• In the "All I Need Is Love" music video, Big Mean Carl tries to eat Cee Lo Green.

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