UK Spots (Muppets Tonight)

Due to Muppets Tonight being broadcast in the United Kingdom over the BBC (which does not have commercials), every episode of the series lasted two minutes longer than the United States version (similar to The Muppet Show). These extra segments have been referred to as "UK spots," though they have also been seen in Canada when the series was aired on The Family Channel.

When the series was originally broadcast, one viewer wrote to the listings magazine Radio Times complaining that many of the sketches were incomprehensible to a UK audience. Ironically, the example she gave was one of the UK spots.

Individual Skits

• Polly Lobster and Clueless Morgan have jobs as bartenders. Each segment is seen through the eyes of Mr. Callahan, who doesn't speak. In one segment, Mr. Callahan enters the bar as Polly sings "If ya want my body and ya think I'm sexy ..." then perks up and notices a change in Callahan's appearance. Then he calls Clueless over to the scene, where he makes a few wisecracks about himself and his life. Polly, annoyed with Clueless's jokes, tells him to sing a song, which is interrupted in a different way each time.

The segments are a reference to the Joe the Bartender scenes from The Jackie Gleason Show, in which Gleason and a character named Crazy Guggenheim would chat with whoever was around, then sing a song. Guggenheim, a drunk, wound sing in a beautiful melodic voice that contrasted with his personality -- just as Clueless would, despite his dimwitted persona.

• Swift Wits, a game show in which all the contestants get all the answers wrong, thus sealing the fate of a cute furry animal, which is immediately consumed by Carl the Big Mean Bunny

• Fairyland PD: Clifford and Bobo are detectives solving nursery rhyme cases.

• The Tubmans of Porksmith follows the life and times of Howard Tubman, an obese food-loving pig, and his butler, Carter.