Some Enchanted Evening

Music by	Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by	Oscar Hammerstein II
Date	1949
Source	South Pacific (musical)
Publisher	Williamson Music Co.

Gorgon Heap eats Wayne during the song "Some Enchanted Evening" while Wanda protests.

Bert sings "Some Enchanted Evening" with Connie Stevens

"Some Enchanted Evening," the popular standard from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, is a song about love at first sight. It has been performed and referenced by the Muppets on several occasions.

The Ed Sullivan Show

• referenced during the "Octopus' Garden" sketch on the March 1, 1970 appearance. The Octopus that keeps interrupting the song with bad puns tells the following knock-knock joke:

Octopus: Knock knock.

Clam: Who's there?

Octopus: Salmon.

Clam: Salmon who?

Octopus: "Salmon-chanted evening..."

This sketch is included on the Muppets Magic from the Ed Sullivan Show DVD.

The Muppet Show

• Performed by Bert in episode 102. In a special guest appearance, Sesame Street's Ernie stands by as his buddy Bert romantically serenades Connie Stevens while decked out in a top hat and tails.

• Performed by Wayne on episode 116. Wayne doesn't even get through the first verse of the song before Gorgon Heap appears and eats him. A shocked Wanda screams at Gorgon, telling him that "He said 'meet', not 'Eat!'" This sketch appears in the 19895 Playhouse Video compilation Rowlf's Rhapsodies with the Muppets.

• Referenced in The Muppet Show Comic Book as the title of the second issue of The Treasure of Peg-Leg Wilson: "You May Meet a Stranger."

Play-Along Video

• Referenced on Hey, You're as Funny as Fozzie Bear. A comedy bit similar to the one from The Ed Sullivan Show features the punchline "Sam and Janet Evening" instead of "Salmon-chanted evening."

Sesame Street

• Parodied as "Some Enchanted Lunchtime" in the early 1990s by two Anything Muppet kids performed by Kevin Clash and Louise Gold.