🎄 Listen in as we gush over a 1977 Muppet Christmas special that probably doesn’t get the attention it deserves. 

🎙️ Emily Rowley drops in to marvel at Kermit riding a bicycle, watch a drum roll out a door too many times to count, and rock out to the Riverbottom Nightmare Band. Pa would’ve loved this podcast. 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

Muppet Wiki has the lowdown of all 5 cuts of this. 

The official outtake reel and the one with the drum roll. 

Of Muppets and Men: The Making of The Muppet Show. 

The Christmas Price Index. 

The “ass sliding” scene from “Rad.” 

Jerry Nelson and Louise Gold sing “When the River Meets the Sea” at Jim Henson’s memorial. 

The Can’t Wait for Christmas podcast on Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas. 

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“Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas” © 1977 The Jim Henson Company. 

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