History Headscratchers / TheMuppetShow

** [[Main/RuleOfFunny Because it's more funny that way]].

* In the episode with the "stars of ''StarWars''", how come Yoda never appeared? Frank Oz performed him as well as the Muppets!

** ''[[Film/TheMuppets The Muppets]]'' only brings up this question again with more complicated details: HUMANS can now enter the theater and they are now permitted to publicly watch the telethon! I suppose by the time the show ended, the building policies left with it.

** There never were humans on the Muppet Show- just ''very'' human-like muppets (if you look closely you can see the strings holding up Alice Cooper).

*** That was Harvey Korman, during his talk spot with Kermit, he answered Kermit's general upkeep question with "Well, I feel like the token minority..." and Kermit called in other muppets to put him in a giant chicken suit, which he got stuck in.

** Assuming that wasn't a one-time gag (which it most likely was), I figured she just put her heels inside the shoes that were made to fit humans, but that shoe was made to fit her hoof. However, the [[SpinoffBabies Muppet Babies]] Piggy had human-like feet, and I thought her puppet self did too (maybe she kicked someone with bare feet, in the Rudolph Nureyev steam-bath scene or something similar? I could be thinking of a different muppet, though, one of the extras or single-song guests, but I don't think so). In the same episode, the guest asked to dance with Miss Piggy, but since muppets are mostly ballet-impaired, they put a human-size pink boar muppet in Miss Piggy makeup, who had human-like feet if the ballet slippers were any indication. It very, ''very'' obviously wasn't Miss Piggy (I didn't even realize it was supposed to be a Miss Piggy standin and not just a comically awful crossdresser until watching the episode with commentary on DVD), but the humanlike feet ''might'' hold by analogy since it was supposed to look like her (albeit, comically unlike her).

* How tall would Animal be if he were actually standing up straight? I mean, you can see his knees on both sides of his drum set when he's sitting at it, and then his legs are roughly as tall as his bass... He must be the tallest muppet out there, not counting the human costumes...
** And not counting the Boss Men. Or the tall birds. Or Gonzo in Muppet Treasure Island after the scene with the rack. But while I hate to imply that WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies might be anywhere near a useful source of information, Animal is relatively human-shaped there, and he doesn't seem any taller than the average muppet (in fact, shorter than most) when going on his cross-screen rampages, so maybe he just sits with his legs up, and doesn't use the kickpedal?

* So, are Statler and Waldorf and the Swedish Chef muppets or humans? Some kind of hybrid?
** Muppets. Just particularly humanshaped ones. There are several that are [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Full-Bodied_Humanoids even more human than them]], but are still undoubtedly muppet.

* How old ''are'' Statler and Waldorf? They were at least in their 80's when The Muppet Show fist premeired and now, 30-40 years later, ''they're still alive!'' HOW??!?!?!?!!?
** The Muppets are essentially cartoon characters made of felt. For a cartoon, aging into the 100's is entirely plausible (Professor Farnsworth, who is 160 by the second season of ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'', and [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove Yzma]], who is so old that Kuzco jokes that she's living proof that dinosaurs roamed the Earth), so they may go by these rules too. Heck, Kermit's been the same age for roughly 60 years!

** One possible explination comes during [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/The_Muppets:_A_Celebration_of_30_Years The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years ]], where Harry the Hipster, a character from [[Series/SamAndFriends Sam and Friends]] asks how Kermit looked a lot better at the time then back during the orginal airing and Kermit replies "That's one of the advantages of being a Muppet" hinting that the Muppets are in some way imortal.

* Why did Stadler and Waldorf keep going to the show if they hated it so much?

** For the same reason they keep watching ''Series/MuppetsTonight!'' during that series - they have nothing better to do. And it's obvious they [[Main/SnarkBait take a great deal of enjoyment out of their heckling]], as well.

** It's a {{Lions and Tigers and Humans Oh My}} world. "Humans" and Muppets supposed to share one world together with no one finding the presence of other odd outside of {{Rule of Funny}}. Even to the point of having Benjamina Gunn (Ms. Piggy) flirt with Tim Curry's Long John Silver and the only objection coming from her ex-fiance (and it was from Benjamina being promiscuous, not showing interest in humans).

** {{Lions Tigers And Humans Oh My}}. "Humans" and Muppets supposed to share one world together with no one finding the presence of other odd outside of {{Rule of Funny}}. Even to the point of having Benjamina Gunn (Ms. Piggy) flirt with Tim Curry's Long John Silver and the only objection coming from her ex-fiance (and it was from Benjamina being promiscuous, not showing interest in humans).

** The Muppets are essentially cartoon characters made of felt. For a cartoon, aging into the 100's is entirely plausible (Professor Farnsworth, who is 160 by the second season of ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'', and [[Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove Yzma]], who is so old that Kuzco jokes that she's living proof that dinosaurs roamed the Earth), so they may go by these rules too. Heck, Kermit's been the same age for roughly 60 years!

*** When Rizzo takes them up to their room, Fozzy says, "Call room service..." and Rizzo immediately responds, "There's no food."

* It's been implied in several episodes that tickets to the Muppet Show are free. If that's the case, how can Kermit afford to keep paying his crew, staff, guest stars, and rent/utilities on the theater?

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** And not counting the Boss Men. Or the tall birds. Or Gonzo in Muppet Treasure Island after the scene with the rack. But while I hate to imply that MuppetBabies might be anywhere near a useful source of information, Animal is relatively human-shaped there, and he doesn't seem any taller than the average muppet (in fact, shorter than most) when going on his cross-screen rampages, so maybe he just sits with his legs up, and doesn't use the kickpedal?

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** Simple--they're younger than they look. That, or the Muppet timeline is collapsible, and everything we think we
knew took forty years actually happened over the course of ten or twenty.

** The Muppets are essentially cartoon characters made of felt. For a cartoon, aging into the 100's is entirely plausible (Professor Farnsworth, who is 160 by the second season of ''{{Futurama}}'', and [[Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove Yzma]], who is so old that Kuzco jokes that she's living proof that dinosaurs roamed the Earth), so they may go by these rules too. Heck, Kermit's been the same age for roughly 60 years!
*** Hm... Reasonable explantion...

** Simple--they're younger than they look. That, or the Muppet timeline is collapsible, and everything we think we knew took forty years actually happened over the course of ten or twenty.

** I'd say Muppets are a sort of fairytale/magical species, like elves or urban fae or munchkins: you only see the occasional human guest in Lothlorien, in a Fairyland polder in the real world, or in Oz, so it makes sense you would only see the occasional human guest in the polders of the Muppets (whether the Muppet Show theatre or Sesame Street).