The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones on The Muppet Show

The Rolling Stones are a British Rock N' Roll band active since 1962. Among its most famous members are Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

Songs

• "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)"
  • The Muppets Mayhem, "Fortunate Son"

References

• During an At the Dance segment on episode 117 of The Muppet Show, a slightly different group of the same name comes rolling through.

• A record single of the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" was used as a prop in a Sesame Street sketch set at a lost and found. (First: Episode 1374) The original script called for a Beatles record, and in the final cut, the Anything Muppet kid accidentally calls it a "Beatle record" when listing all of his lost items to the clerk.

• The band was also parodied on Sesame Street as The Cobblestones, who also did a parody of their song "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" as "(I Can't Get No) Co-Operation" (which itself included a musical reference to "Ruby Tuesday," another of their songs.) In addition, the lead Muppet of the band, Mick Swagger, was a parody of the Rolling Stones' lead singer Mick Jagger.

• Big Bird's songs in Episode 2938 of Sesame Street reference the band's song "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" by ending with variations on the phrase "it's just rock a rock, but I like it fine."

• "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is sung in the 2016 Parque Plaza Sésamo show "Concierto Rock."

• In Sesame Street Presents the 80s, Prairie Dawn asks Cookie Monster to turn on Grover's iPod by saying "Start me up, Cookie!". This is a reference to the Rolling Stones song, "Start Me Up."

• When Elmo and Tango appear as Wayne and Garth from Wayne's World in the "Better with You" video, one of the posters in their basement is for the "Rolling Bones."

• In The Muppets Mayhem episode "The Times They Are A-Changin'," Janice claims to be the person who has kept the Stones together all these years.