Lamont (dog)

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Lamont the Dog is the pet of Old Mother Hubbard from the nursery rhyme. One day, when Kermit the Frog of Sesame Street News pays a call, Lamont is hungering for a bone and has none because, just as the nursery rhyme predicts, the cupboard is bare. Mother Hubbard, getting her rhymes confused, brings him first a stone, and then a throne.

Up to this point in the sketch, Lamont has simply barked like any normal dog. Then, when his mistress brings him a red phone, the blue K-9 dials it and surprises us by talking into it with the voice of a proper British gentleman. He has posted a call to Long's Chinese Restaurant to have a meal delivered and even invites Kermit to join them.