The Gills Brothers

PERFORMER	various
DEBUT	1978

The Gills Brothers are a quartet of fish singers featured several times on The Muppet Show.

The Gills Brothers debuted in episode 312 as musicians in a fish band playing "Octopus' Garden." They sang songs for quartet in episode 402 and episode 424, accompanied the Fish Singer in episode 413, and sang the backups for Lew Zealand's rendition of "Goodnight Sardine" in episode 521.

They are a parody of the Mills Brothers, and are performed by Jim Henson, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, and Steve Whitmire.

The puppets were often seen as background characters on The Ghost of Faffner Hall. Notably, three of them appeared as "The Gargles" in "Delighting in Sounds."

One of their numbers was choreographed by Dave Goelz.

Filmography

• The Muppet Show
  • Episode 312: James Coco ("Octopus' Garden")
  • Episode 402: Crystal Gayle ("Sixty Seconds Got Together")
  • Episode 413: Dizzy Gillespie ("Blue Fish Blues")
  • Episode 424: Diana Ross ("Aunty Chovy")
  • Episode 506: Brooke Shields
  • Episode 521: Johnny Cash ("Goodnight Sardine")
• The Muppet Movie ("Rainbow Connection" Finale)
• The Ghost of Faffner Hall
  • Episode 102: Delighting in Sounds (as The Gargles)
  • Episode 105: The Voice Is an Instrument
  • Episode 106: Reacting to Sounds
  • Episode 109: Notation: The Sign That Gets the Sound
  • Episode 112: The Power of Music
• The Jim Henson Hour
  • Episode 112: Food (as Dave Carp Five drummer)