The Bible

Miss Piggy plans a religious wedding.

Smollet's eulogy for Sam Arrow.

The Bible refers to collections of Judaic and Christian scripture.

References

• In episode 103 of The Muppet Show, Fozzie Bear tells the following joke to Hilda: "I knew a minister once, who was so religious, when he read the Bible, he wore stain glasses."

• In The Muppet Show episode 310, a clergical pig arrives at Miss Piggy's dressing room with a Bible in preparation for a wedding later in the show.

• Philippians 2:12 is quoted in Jim Henson's documentary Youth '68.

• When Sam Arrow is assumed lost at sea in Muppet Treasure Island, Captain Abraham Smollett holds a eulogy for the crew's fallen comrade. Although he doesn't read from it, a Bible is present atop a chest accompanied by flowers and Arrow's hat.

• Later in the film, Long John Silver upbraids his crew for daring to desecrate "the Holy Scripture" by tearing a page from the Bible to give Silver the Black Spot.

• The film's accompanying documentary references Genesis when explaining the beginning of the script's origins. A narrator ominously announces, "In the beginning of Muppet creation" while an on-screen title is displayed against the dark backdrop from the film in which only Rizzo and the islander pigs' eyes can be seen, referencing the second line on Genesis in which the world was in darkness.

• In the final "Land of Gorch" sketch, which aired on Saturday Night Live on September 8, 1976, King Ploobis assures his troupe that they have been resurrected "as it was predicted and spoke of in the great book." Not the Bible, as Scred assumes, but Bil Baird's Book of Puppetry.

• The Dinosaurs episode "The Golden Child" featured the Book of the Dinosaurs, a sacred text patterned after the Bible.

• In The Muppet Show Comic Book: The Four Seasons #3, Miss Piggy wears an outfit made of leaves, representing the fall season. In the issue's title spread, she is seen offering an apple to Kermit, referencing Eve's temptation to Adam in Genesis.

See also

• God and the Devil
• Angels and demons
• Heaven and hell
• Noah
• The Ten Commandments
• Jesus Christ
• Mary