Love and dynamite are in the air as I introduce 2 guests to an early pilot of what would eventually become The Muppet Show from 1974, guest-starring a pregnant Mia Farrow.  

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Brian Arnold (@phillyradiogeek, Me and You and a Blog Named Boo).  

Joey O. (@ImGonnaDJ24, Y-Not Radio, Words with Nerds).  

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1. The Muppets Valentine Show on YouTube.  

2. Muppet Wiki on The Muppets Valentine Show.  

3. Jim Henson’s Red Book entry about getting this pilot green-lit by some guy at ABC named “Mike” Eisner.  

4. We quickly touch on Crazy Harry’s original incarnation as “Crazy Donald” and then immediately drop it.  

5. Before Miss Piggy, Kermit loved Miss Mousey. Corporate foreshadowing!  

6. George the Janitor is simultaneously UHF’s Stanley Spadowski and WWE’s Perry Saturn.  

7. George and Mildred in The Muppet Show “At the Dance” sketch.  

8. Droop in the Cosby Show episode, Cliff’s Nightmare.  

9. The first appearance of Kermit the Frog riding a bicycle.  

10. “You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket.”  

11. Mia Farrow sings Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms, which I remember better from the recurring Looney Tunes musical bomb gag.  

12. The first time I remember hearing the word “sex.”  

13. Brian on The Candy Apple News Company.  

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“The Muppets Valentine Show” © 1974 The Jim Henson Company.  

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Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  
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