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
Gorgon Heap eating Wayne
Gorgon Heap about to eat Lenny
Behemoth tries to eat Zero
Behemoth eats Shakey Sanchez
- 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.


