Read our lips: We consider ourselves to be fans of this episode! We’d be dummies not to enjoy something that gives us labor organizing, two chicken numbers, some extremely 70s styling, Fozzie at his most vulnerable, and even cameos from Uncle Deadly and Droop! https://muppeturgy.com/episodes/edgar-bergen

Here’s our Nancy Walker episode, I guess. This one isn’t exactly a bounty, but it does have Sweetums dancing, some decent puns, Fozzie and Scooter being adorable, a naked eagle, and a guest star who’s clearly game for anything. Quick! Pick up your podcast player and cover your mouth while you listen! https://muppeturgy.com/episodes/nancy-w-alker

Just in time for Halloween, unhinge your jaw and send in the most seventies clowns that ever seventiesed. We had a good time this week and we hope you will too, as we talk about folk bullshit, Stephen Sondheim, canonical throuples, Link Hogthrob’s chest hair, and of course, folk bullshit. https://muppeturgy.com/episodes/judy-collins

We didn’t get the best impression of the 70s from this episode, and some people even say it’s the worst Muppet Show episode of all time. But we won’t count our chickens before they’re hatched on that front. We will, however, get into all the ways we hated Rich Little…and maybe a couple of things we liked? https://muppeturgy.com/episodes/rich-little

Are you not entertain…ered?! This was a weird one: creepy clowns (no, not those creepy clowns yet, another one), the same song twice that we didn’t like the first time, and a sometimes challenging guest. But then there’s Fozzie at his most joyful, the very first Pigs in Space, and a very cute owl. We guess that MAKES UP for it. https://muppeturgy.com/episodes/milton-berle

It’s a booooooooooooo-nus episode about the new Disney+ special, Muppets Haunted Mansion! Join your grim grinning hosts as we try to make sense of our feelings about this very strange mix of Disney Parks commercial, classic Muppet bits, highly specific references that may or may not be jokes aimed directly at the venn diagram of our interests, and…Gonzo confronting his mortality in deeply upsetting ways? You know, for kids! https://muppeturgy.com/episodes/haunted-mansion

Balancing all the elements in a Muppet Show episode is tricky. Some might say it’s as shaky as King Henry the VIII…wait, what? This wasn’t any of our favorite episode but it did have its high points, like Muppy being adorable, and the first appearance of Beaker! Plus our own very special guest star, Ben Liebert! https://muppeturgy.com/episodes/zero-mostel

We’re back! It’s season two and The Muppet Show is starting to take the form we all remember. 15 seconds to curtain! The arches! Gonzo’s trumpet! Beaker! (Next week.) Uh…nightmare gingerbread people? Horrifying music hall numbers? Deeply stressful mental breakdowns? Hey look, a puppy! Aw, a tribble/fizzgig thing! We’re gonna be okay. Let’s pour one out for Mildred, George, Wayne, and Wanda, and welcome TV legend Don Knotts for season two of The Muppet Show — YAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY! (A thing Kermit doesn’t actually say yet.) https://muppeturgy.com/episodes/don-knotts

This episode is super late! We weren’t abducted by Swiss mimes, nor did they put us off this project entirely, we just had some scheduling issues. And now we’re back and super excited to bring you this extra dose of pedantry and fish puns. This episode is packed with 70s nightmare fuel (but you know, for kids!), plus Gonzo is horny for Piggy, Scooter is horny for Floyd, Statler is horny for Waldorf, and we all have some feelings about microscopic water bears. Listen and learn! GIFs and more tardigrade facts at https://muppeturgy.com/episodes/mummenschanz

And now that we’re back…we’re taking a little break before season 2. So make sure to subscribe so you get the next episode as soon as it drops!

We’re not gonna lie: we’re tired this week, and we wonder if the Muppet People were too as they got to the end of this season in 1976. This episode should work. It has a classic backstage plot and a game guest star. But like one of Vend-A-Face’s customers, the parts don’t quite come together and it’s all a little…one note. https://muppeturgy.com/episodes/kaye-ballard