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These brief Muppet Show sketches, which may or may not have had a proper name on the show, took place in front of a backdrop that had a fountain painted on it. These skits featured a guest star and some Muppets. They lasted throughout the first season.
Individual Sketches
Zoot's Question
- Zoot has a question for Juliet Prowse: "What's red, long, fuzzy and has one eye?" Juliet doesn't know - neither does Zoot - but it's a Muppet Monster that she's wearing as a boa.
- Figures of Speech (Episode 103)
- Joel Grey has gotten a new car and offers to take Gonzo for a "spin", but Gonzo takes him literally.
- Break a Leg (Episode 106)
- Jim Nabors wishes Animal luck by telling him to "break a leg".
- Sweetums Falls for Florence (Episode 107)
- Sweetums literally falls for Florence Henderson.
Jim Nabors and Animal
- The Tallest Person on the Show (Episode 108)
- Paul Williams explains that one reason he agreed to be a guest star is that it gives him the chance to be the tallest person on the show. Sweetums, Thog, and one of the Mutations prove him wrong.
- Chicken March (Episode 110)
- T.R. the Rooster leads the Muppet chickens, and a chicken-suit-clad Harvey Korman, in a march.
- The Lost Key (Episode 111)
- Lena Horne tries to ask Animal where her key is, until he uses a mallet to smash her foot.
- A Big Charge (Episode 117)
- Ben Vereen gets sent flying onto the rafters by Crazy Harry's explosion.
- Pocket Camera (Episode 118)
- Phyllis Diller has her own pocket camera. When Gonzo asks what pictures she took, they were of pockets.
- Need a Hand? (Episode 119)
- Vincent Price has to carry a load of wardrobe. Sweetums offers to give him a hand.
- Mouse in My Dressing Room (Episode 122)
- Ethel Merman tells Hilda about a mouse in her dressing room, and wonders whether she's on a show or in a zoo... then she meets Animal.
