History Awesome / TheMuppetShow

* Buddy Rich vs. Animal: [[http://youtu.be/n_BmeBfV-O4 Drum Battle of the Century!]]

* Rudolph Nureyev's appearance. During the show's first season, they had a lot of trouble getting celebrities to appear on the show and often had to appeal to personal favors. Then Nureyev actually approached Henson and asked if he could appear, and suddenly made that job a whole lot easier. For himself, Rudolph really got to shine not only in ballet, but also paying tribute to Creator/FredAstaire with a superb tap song and dance number of "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails".

* In the "Put Another Log on the Fire" musical number, Candice Bergen plays a frontier wife whose husband keeps demanding that she do various chores while he just sits by the fire. Suddenly, she retaliates, swaps her clothes for a Women's Lib outfit and threatens him with a shotgun before shooting her way out the door.
* The man sized Muppet managing to punch Rita Moreno during a skit where she has been tormenting him non-stop and gets the last laugh by managing to literally kick her out of the bar they're in.

** Rita finally got the last laugh; she won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Variety or Musical Show for her stint with the Muppets, which made her only the third person in history (after Richard Rodgers and Helen Hayes) to achieve the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony).

* In the Lola Falanna episode, Gonzo prepares to leave the Muppet Show, and he is replaced by "Trevor the Gross," who immediately starts to hit on Camilla. Gonzo takes this in stride, until Trevor tries one of Gonzo's stunts. That's enough to make Gonzo want to stay. Of course it all goes horribly wrong, but Gonzo's artistic integrity will not be besmirched!

* When Bruce Forsyth does a comedy number, Statler and Waldorf typically try to heckle him, only to find out that he can even out-heckle them! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99g1LkglghY Bruce even helps Fozzie get some long overdue payback on their trolls in residence!]]

* The Beverly Sills episode has Kermit finally tire of Statler and Wardolf's heckling and tells them LetsSeeYouDoBetter. Rather unexpectedly, the two are actually eager to do so, quickly and systematically setting up a showy burlesque performance of "Take Ten Terrific Girls". Fozzie does get a small dose of payback by heckling their gags in the middle however.

* The whole episode with the ''StarWars'' characters, and Creator/MarkHamill, pure concentrated genre parody silliness at its best. Perhaps climaxed by [[http://youtu.be/vSe2FD9Vn1k?t=1m58s the one thing that can stagger the Mighty Chewbacca]].

* Ethel Merman outdoes Miss Piggy by belting a note capable of shattering glass.

-->''Miss Piggy:''' You can't fire me! I'm the star!

-->'''Kermit:''' ''*defiant*'' I will! I will! I will replace you!

** Rita finally got the last laugh; she won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Variety or Musical Show for her stint with the Muppets, which made her only the third person in history (after Creator/RichardRogers and Creator/HelenHayes) to achieve the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony).

* In the "Put Another Log on the Fire" musical number, Candice Bergen plays a frontier wife whose husband keeps demanding that she do various chores while he just sits by the fire. Suddenly, she swaps her clothes for a Women's Lib outfit and threatens him with a shotgun before shooting her way out the door.

* When Kermit found out Miss Piggy planted a false story about them getting married in Vegas, [[BewareTheNiceOnes Kermit snaps at Piggy, and fires her.]] (Guest star Loretta Swit briefly took over Piggy's roles on ''Veterinarian's Hospital'' and ''Pigs In Space''.) Yeah, [[StatusQuoIsGod Piggy gets rehired in the end]] but still, after five seasons of having to put up crap from Piggy and the other assorted madness behind the scenes, seeing him getting pissed and yelling at the top of the lungs was a sight to behold.

* Candice Bergen plays a frontier wife whose husband keeps demanding she do various chores while he just sits by the fire. Suddenly she swaps her clothes for a Women's Lib outfit and threatens him with a shotgun before shooting her way out the door.

* The Swedish Chef becomes the first muppet in history to ''block Miss Piggy's karate kick'' (admittedly with a pot lid for a shield, but still...)

* The whole episode with the ''StarWars'' characters, and MarkHamill, pure concentrated genre parody silliness at its best. Perhaps climaxed by [[http://youtu.be/vSe2FD9Vn1k?t=1m58s the one thing that can stagger the Mighty Chewbacca]].

* Alice Cooper's [[InsultBackfire perfect response to Sam accusing him of being a sick weirdo. "Thank you!"]], then tallying up with his finger "One for my side!"

* Christopher Reeve spends his entire guest appearance ducking Miss Piggy's advances and trying to get her to leave him alone, but true to form, she won't take "No" for an answer. When he finally gets her to take the message, she retorts with her usual angry karate chop.... Reeves just stands there and NoSells it. Well, the guy ''is'' friggin' ''Superman.''

* When Kermit found out Miss Piggy planted a false story about them getting married in Vegas, [[BewareTheNiceOnes Kermit snaps at Piggy, and fires her.]] (Guest star Loretta Swit briefly took over Piggy's roles on ''Veterinarian's Hospital'' and ''Pigs In Space''.) Yeah, Piggy gets rehired in the end but still, after five seasons of having to put up crap from Piggy and the other assorted madness behind the scenes, seeing him getting pissed and yelling at the top of the lungs was a sight to behold.

* Alice Cooper's perfect response to Sam accusing him of being a sick weirdo. "Thank you!", then tallying up with his finger "One for my side!"

* In the Connie Stevens episode, [[Series/SesameStreet Ernie and Bert]] guest star. Bert is nervous, Ernie tries to trick him into making a fool of himself. The result is Bert ''belting out'' "Some Enchanted Evening" and dancing with Connie Stevens. Seeing Ernie's reaction as his prank fails ''magnificently'' sells the whole thing. (Though he still gets one last dig at Bert in the end.) See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_aQ6a-Zis here.]]

* Shirley Bassey's GenreSavvy entrance into the theater, pulling an alligator out of her pocket.