The Bible

Miss Piggy plans a religious wedding.

Smollet's eulogy for Sam Arrow.

Bible action figure.

Fozzie's Bear-ly Funny Fridays 4 - Religious

Fozzie's Bear-ly Funny Fridays

Satan approaches Piggy.

Eve's temptation of Adam.

The Bible most commonly refers to collections of Judaic and Christian scripture.

References

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

• 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." Fozzie told the joke again 39 years later in a "Fozzie's Bear-ly Funny Fridays" video posted to YouTube and Facebook on June 5th, 2015.

• Miss Piggy quotes 1 Corinthians 15:55 in The Muppet Show episode 111, "Death, where is thy sting?"

• 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.

• While reading the script for John Denver & the Muppets: A Christmas Together, Kermit recites, "a Christmas message from all of us to all of you: peace on Earth, goodwill toward men." Piggy stops to object about the omission of women from the statement. Denver's defense is that they took it from the Bible. Piggy counters, "the Bible is filled with women. This one begat that one and that one begat the other one... from all the begating that went on, it's quite obvious there was a great deal of goodwill toward women."

• The July 22, 1982 Muppets comic strip places Piggy and Kermit in an analogue to the Garden of Eden where a snake offers Piggy an apple in reference to Satan's temptation of Eve in Genesis.

• Statler paraphrases "Matthew, Chapter 5" in the March 10, 1983 strip, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."

• After Captain Vegetable skips the cabbage and cucumber to slurp down a glass of milk in Sesame Street Episode 1858, he paraphrases "Matthew" chapter 4, verse 4: "After all, man cannot live by crunchy vegetables alone."

• In the Sesame Street book Grover Learns to Read, a "Bible Stories for Children" book is seen in the background of the library.

• Amanda says her "cup runneth over" with love for this boat in a sketch with Ernie, quoting the King James translation of Psalm 23:5.

• Doc says his invention that will encourage his garden to grow radishes the size of pumpkins in the Fraggle Rock episode "The Finger of Light" will be like the Garden of Eden.

• When Samuel 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.

• The Sam Arrow Action Figure released by Palisades Toys in 2003 included a Bible as an accessory. The book opened up to a hollow space into which a secret buried treasure map could be hidden.

• 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 Gortch" 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 the Frog, referencing Eve's temptation to Adam in Genesis.

• The Beefeater Vicar in Muppets Most Wanted presides over Kermit Constantine and Miss Piggy's wedding at the Tower of London with a copy of the Bible.

• In The Muppets episode "Hostile Makeover," Piggy, in a fit of rage, complains about having thin-tipped Sharpie markers. She angrily comments she needs them to sign autographs, not write the Bible on a grain of rice.

• Adam and Eve appear in a creation story from the Shalom Sesame episode "Shabbat Shalom, Grover!".

• The Dinosaurs episode "Switched at Birth" features a wise dinosaur named Solomon the Great who proposes cutting a baby in half to settle a dispute, like his Old Testament namesake.

• After Cookie Monster wishes Big Bird luck with taking a lie detector test in a 2019 Vanity Fair video, he says, "The truth will set you free," a verse from John 8:32. Big Bird replies, "I don't know what that means, but alright."

• In the Farscape episode "They've Got a Secret," while walking down one of Moya's halls with Aeryn Sun, John Crichton says he'll never get used to walking inside a living ship. Aeryn asks Crichton if he has anything similar in his culture, to which Chricton responds, "Well, Jonah and the whale. But no, no contemporary parallels. Except for the horse and rider."

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See also

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