Muppets Eating Other Muppets
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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".
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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 during the "Glow Worm" sketch.
- I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face: Yorick attempts to eat Kermit.
- "Music Hath Charms" sketch, 1967: A piano eats Kermit.
- "The Glutton" sketch, 1971: The Glutton eats a shunken Glutton and then tries to eat Ed Sullivan.
- "The Computer Dinner" sketch, 1967: The monster eats the Talking Machine.
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.
The Muppet Show
- Episode 103: Gorgon Heap eats Baskerville and Miss Piggy during the Sherlock Holmes 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".
- Episode 116: Gorgon Heap eats Wayne during the "Some Enchanted Evening" number.
- 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 202: Behemoth tries to eat Zero in the opening.
- Episode 202: Zero tries to eat Sam and Mean Mama tries to eat Zero during the closing.
- 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 exploded.
- 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 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 224: Sweetums and Doglion try to eat Cloris Leachman during "Just in Time"
- 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: Candice Bergen: During the talk spot, Kermit tells Candice Bergen that last week, Sweetums ate the guest.
Muppets Tonight
- Various episodes: Big Mean Carl eats a number of characters.
Mentions
- Episode 101: Michelle Pfeiffer: Rizzo the Rat reveals that he ate the singing 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.
From the Balcony
- Episode 24: The Blimp eats The Defroster.
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.
Kokomo Music Video
- A shark tries to eat an Inkspot.
Dinosaurs
- Episode 101: The Mighty Megalosaurus: Earl Sinclair almost eats Arthur Rizzic.
- Episode 105: The Howling: Roy Hess eats a live creature who can be seen while Roy eats with his mouth open, but spits it out.
- Episode 203: I Never Ate for My Father: The Swamp Monster eats Robbie Sinclair, some small creatures and later Earl.
- Episode 205: Endangered Species: B.P. Richfield eats the two Grapdelites.
- Episode 214: Fran Live: Robbie eats a live creature, but spits it out.
- Episode 222: Slave to Fashion: The Swamp Monster eats various dinosaurs on the "Totally Hidden Predator" TV show.
- Episode 310: Wilderness Weekend: The Swamp Monster tries to eat Earl, Robbie, Baby Sinclair, Roy, Sid Turtlepuss and Gus Spikeback.
- Episode 313: Getting to Know You: Baby eats Francois Poupon.
- Episode 316: Steroids to Heaven: Dolf and Robbie eat some of the Thornoids.
- Episode 413: Into the Woods: The Swamp Monster eats a baby dinosaur in the "Your Solo Wilderness Ritual" video.
Mentions
- Episode 203: 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 his son didn't become one.
- Episode 217: A New Leaf: B.P. Richfield says that he ate a little boy for breakfast and was planning to eat that boy's sister for lunch.
- Episode 224: WESAYSO Knows Best: B.P. Richfeild says that he bit his nephews head off.
- Episode 308: Hungry for Love: It's revealed that B.P. Richfield ate his daughter Wendy's last four boyfriends.
Here Come the Muppets
Mentions
- Floyd Pepper says that Animal likes kids, and adds that he had two for breakfast.
