Muppets eating other Muppets



Ever since the early days of Sam and Friends and Muppet commercials, there has been a long tradition of Muppet characters eating each other.

In the "Inchworm" sketch, which Jim Henson performed on many variety shows in the 1960s, Kermit the Frog would sit on a wall, eating passing worms. A Muppet monster would drag Kermit off the wall and then re-appear making a chewing motion, creating the illusion that Kermit was eaten whole.

For later sketches, a "slit" in the second Muppet's mouth was made so the eaten Muppet could be pulled through and, if necessary, performed from inside the second Muppet after being "eaten".

Commercials

 * Wilkins Coffee: A whale eats Wontkins.


 * Southern Bell Telephone: Big V eats Mack.

The Ed Sullivan Show

 * "Rock n' Roll Monster": Sour Bird eats the dissolved monster.


 * "Glow Worm" sketch, 1966: Kermit eats two Muppet worms and Big V eats Kermit during the "Glow Worm" sketch.


 * I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face: Yorick attempts to eat Kermit.


 * "Music Hath Charms" sketch, 1967: The Piano eats Kermit.


 * "The Glutton" sketch, 1971: The Glutton eats a shrunken Glutton and then tries to eat Ed Sullivan.


 * "The Computer Dinner" sketch, 1967: The monster eats the Talking Machine.

Sesame Street

 * Cookie Monster tries to eat Guy Smiley in a bakery segment when he thinks that he is the thing Guy told him that's eatable and rhymes with "buy"
 * In Episode 0001 of Sesame Street, a yet unnamed Cookie Monster tries to eat Kermit (by his frog leg), after devouring the letter "W" in his lecture.
 * A cow nibbles on a Muppet stack of hay as they exit frame in Forgetful Jones' Oklahoma sketch.

The Muppet Show



 * Episode 103: Gorgon Heap eats Baskerville and Miss Piggy during the Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Disappearing Clues sketch.


 * Episode 114: A crocodile eats two frogs during the "Never Smile at a Crocodile" number, but later spits them out.


 * Episode 115: Behemoth (unseen) eats Kermit for "Veterinarian's Hospital".


 * Episode 116: Gorgon Heap eats Wayne during the "Some Enchanted Evening" number.


 * Episode 116: A gorilla presumably eats Dr. Bunsen Honeydew after his Gorilla Detector fails to alert him.


 * Episode 119: Behemoth eats Shakey Sanchez during the "Under My Skin" number.


 * Episode 119: Gorgon Heap eats Pierre LaCousse and almost eats Kermit during the "Panel Discussion."


 * Episode 119: TV viewer is eaten by his TV during "Muppet News Flash."


 * Episode 119: The Muppet Newsman is eaten by his desk during "Muppet News Flash".


 * Episode 204: Gorgon Heap eats Lenny the Lizard in a new version of the "Glow Worm" sketch.


 * Episode 205: Judy Collins: The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly swallowed a fly, a spider, a bird, a cat, a dog and assorted other shadow-puppet animals before she explodes.


 * Episode 210: Luncheon Counter Monster eats the entire machine in a new version of the "Monster & Machine" sketch.


 * Episode 221: The Automatic Wastebasket tries to eat Beaker in Muppet Labs


 * Episode 222: Monsters try to eat the singing Cheesecake at the end of "Cheesecake"


 * Episode 223: John Cleese's agent is eaten by Mean Mama in the first backstage scene.


 * Episode 223: The liquid Spooble is drunk by the Trumpet Fazoob during his interview.


 * Episode 316: A lunchbox eats a construction worker.


 * Episode 419: A shark tries to eat a lobster during the UK Spot "Boom-A-Raka-Sacky".


 * Episode 418: A Crocodile tries to eat a frog during "Disco Frog".


 * Episode 419: A Crocodile eats the Newsman when he says the name of the Egyptian Crocodile-God, Rezal-evad-gib.


 * Episode 515: Mean Mama swallows First Mate Piggy during "Pigs in Space". (Miss Piggy inexplicably shows up later during the episode to dance with Kermit)

Mentions

 * Episode 115: During the talk spot, Kermit tells Candice Bergen that last week, Sweetums ate the guest. (Although the audience was never shown the incident in the preceding episode.)


 * Episode 116: In the "Battle of Insults", Sweetums reveals that he ate his dog.

Muppets Tonight

 * Episode 102: Big Mean Carl eats Buffy on Swift Wits.


 * Episode 105: Big Mean Carl eats Winky on Swift Wits.


 * Episode 110: Big Mean Carl eats Magda on Swift Wits.


 * Episode 201: Big Mean Carl eats Bill the Bubble Guy.


 * Episode 202: The Bread Monster tries to eat Pepe and Seymour.


 * Episode 204: Big Mean Carl eats Rufus and Arthur Modell on Swift Wits.


 * Episode 206: Big Mean Carl eats Raymond J. Saluga the Porcupine.


 * Episode 206: Big Mean Carl eats Hopper on Swift Wits.


 * Episode 211: Big Mean Carl eats a frog in "Four Weddings and a Frog".


 * Episode 211: Big Mean Carl eats Alfonso D'Bruzzo.


 * Episode 212: Carla the Big Mean Mom eats a backstage crew member.

Mentions

 * Episode 101: Rizzo the Rat reveals that he ate the Dancing Cheeses.

Fraggle Rock

 * Boober and the Glob: A big pink glob eats Cotterpin and several other Doozers.

The Jim Henson Hour

 * Science Fiction: Jo Beth Garfdoohoo eats the judges of the alien beauty pagent.


 * Food: A lizard eats a bumblebee, then a snake eats a lizard, a hawk eats a snake, the hawk crashes into a tree and falls and gets eaten by a crocodile, who gets eaten by Luncheon Counter Monster, who gets eaten by Doglion.


 * Food: Animal eats a bee.


 * Food: Anthony and Fern eat the Screaming No-Nos.

Muppet Meeting Films

 * Coffee Break Machine: Luncheon Counter Monster eats the Compu-Coffee 2000.


 * Leo and the Monster: Luncheon Counter Monster threatens to eat Leo if he doesn't shorten his speech.


 * Think Bigger: Big Mean Carl eats Boo Monster.

Online videos

 * In the DXD "Do Not Touch" video, Kermit gets eaten by an alligator.


 * In the DXD starting video on Arbor Day, Luncheon Counter Monster eats a bunny.


 * Haunted Holidays: Big Mean Carl eats the Pink Frackle and Mo Frackle.


 * In the Muppet viral video "Habanera", the Swedish Chef ends the number by swallowing Beaker.


 * In the viral video "Bohemian Rhapsody", Big Mean Carl eats Rizzo and two other rats.


 * In the viral video "Stand By Me", Big Mean Carl eats several rabbits during the song.

Dinosaurs

 * "The Mighty Megalosaurus": Earl Sinclair almost eats Arthur Rizzic.


 * "The Howling": Roy Hess eats a live creature who can be seen while Roy eats with his mouth open, but spits it out.


 * "I Never Ate for My Father": The Swamp Monster eats Robbie Sinclair, some small creatures and later Earl.


 * "Endangered Species": B.P. Richfield eats the two Grapdelites.


 * "Fran Live": Robbie eats a live creature, but spits it out.


 * "Slave to Fashion": The Swamp Monster eats various dinosaurs on the "Totally Hidden Predator" TV show.


 * "Wilderness Weekend": The Swamp Monster tries to eat Earl, Robbie, Baby Sinclair, Roy, Sid Turtlepuss and Gus Spikeback.


 * "Getting to Know You": Baby eats Francois Poupon.


 * "Steroids to Heaven": Dolf and Robbie eat some of the Thornoids.


 * "Terrible Twos": The Swamp Monster eats Dr. Elliott Piaget.


 * "Into the Woods": The Swamp Monster eats a baby dinosaur in the "Your Solo Wilderness Ritual" video.

Mentions

 * "I Never Ate for My Father": A small creature in the woods says that he tried to get his son to be a carnivore, and ate him when his son didn't become one.
 * "Employee of the Month": Earl mentions that B.P. Richfield got where he is by eating his boss.


 * "A New Leaf": B.P. Richfield says that he ate a little boy for breakfast and was planning to eat that boy's sister for lunch.


 * "WESAYSO Knows Best": B.P. Richfeild says that he bit his nephew's head off.


 * "Hungry for Love": It's revealed that B.P. Richfield ate his daughter Wendy's last four boyfriends.

Miscellaneous

 * In The Frog Prince, Sweetums tries to eat Robin the Frog.
 * In Kermit's Swamp Years, Kermit almost eats Horace D'Fly, before spitting him out.
 * In From the Balcony Episode 24, The Blimp eats The Defroster.
 * In the Kokomo Music Video, a shark tries to eat an Inkspot.

Mentions

 * In Here Come the Muppets. Floyd Pepper says that Animal likes kids, and adds that he had two for breakfast.

Muppet/Human Consumption

 * The Muppet Show Episode 202: Behemoth tries to eat Zero in the opening; Zero tries to eat Sam; and Mean Mama tries to eat Zero during the closing.


 * Episode 224: Sweetums and Doglion try to eat Cloris Leachman during "Just in Time"