Bowling



Bowling is a sport in which the player attempts to knock down pins set up at the end of an alley.

The Muppet Show

 * Animal takes up bowling in episode 221. Unfortunately for the cast, he uses the backstage area as his alley and several Muppets are targeted (due to Animal's overhand style of throwing).


 * The Muppet News Flash delivered in episode 217 states a plane carrying sports equipment had to eject portions of its cargo. Items include 10,000 ping pong balls and one bowling ball (which knocks out the Newsman).


 * Leo Sayer points out in the cold open of his episode that his dressing room is so quiet "you can hear a pin drop." Several bowling pins fall from above, cause by a pair of bowling monsters, who call it a strike.


 * As passengers interrupt Miss Piggy's performance of "All Alone" in episode 308, she finally karate chops them all. The sound of pins falling is used as they topple over. Elsewhere in the episode, Kermit wonders aloud how Gonzo ever talked him into performing the show from a train station. Gonzo replies the bowling alley was occupied with a tournament.


 * The coveted Fred Award is merely a modified bowling trophy.

Sesame Street

 * In an Ernie and Bert sketch, Ernie prepares for his nighttime bath with increasingly absurd items, culminating with Bert's bowling ball (in case someone needs to borrow it). Sure enough, Ernie's ridiculous predictions come true, including an Anything Muppet man stopping by to borrow a bowl for his tournament.


 * Michael Christensen and Paul Binder appear on the show to set up Oscar's personal bowling alley, but they end up juggling the pins instead.


 * An animated Sesame Street insert by Michael Sporn stars a singing bowling ball, who boasts about knocking down all ten pins.


 * Among the attendees mentioned in Sally Cruikshank's animated song "Ooh What a Fabulous Party" is a "bowling pin heiress" (a woman with a bowling pin for a head).


 * Biff spends episode 3217 with a bowling ball stuck on his hand following a round at the alley. After Dr. Edwynn performs a "bowlectimy," he gets it stuck on his finger. Later, Biff and his wife Celeste celebrate his freedom with a round of bowling, only to have a ball get stuck on Celeste's hand.


 * The WASA spaceship Wiggleprise includes a bowling alley for the five very brave, very smart, very cute little worm astronauts.


 * Elmo learns how to practice bowling in episode 4156.


 * In a Super Grover 2.0 sketch, he attempts to find a ball a cactus is able to play with. He retrieves a bowling ball, which they find is too heavy to catch (with Grover feeling "bowled over" when trying to catch it). In a season 45 edition of the segment, he attempts to find a suitable set of bowling pins some aquatic creatures can use to bowl underwater.

Other

 * While pitching The Jim Henson Hour, Jim suggests one possible episode could be a story about an enchanted bowling ball.


 * In episode 207 of Muppets Tonight, Kermit leaves the KMUP premises and jokes that without his supervision, bowling balls would fall from the sky. Instead, the studio monitors immediately fail. Dennis Quaid is able to fix them, which leaves Clifford to be pummeled by bowling balls from above.