Movie Mania: "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
"Food Fight" Muppisode
"The Good, the Bad, and the Grover"
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood. It is the third in Leone's "Dollars Trilogy" (begun with A Fistful of Dollars) featuring "The Man With No Name".
References[]
- A celebrity lookalike of Eastwood, dressed as The Man With No Name, appears as a member of The Billy Crystal Band in Muppets Tonight episode 103.
- The film was spoofed with a "Movie Mania" interstitial made for the Odyssey Channel, featuring Kermit, Rizzo, and Pepe.
- In the Farscape episode "PK Tech Girl," John Crichton mentions the film while talking about a Clint Eastwood poster he had in his bedroom.
- Acorrding to his biography on Muppets.go.com, Clifford's favorite movie is The Good, The Bad and the Funky.
- In the extended version of the "Food Fight" Muppisode, an insult contest is illustrated with a title card depicting Gordon Ramsay, Statler and Waldorf as "The Good, the Bad, and the Grumpy."
- An episode of the 2018 Muppet Babies series was titled "The Good the Bad and the Froggy."
- One of the books in a May 24, 2024, Sesame Street in Communities social media post about reading is called "The Good, the Bad, and the Grover." (Facebook | Instagram)
Connections[]
- Román Ariznavarreta played a bounty hunter
- Ricardo Palacios played the bartender