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-->'''Kermit:''' ''(Unnerved while talking to Scooter)'' Uh, ask how much they want.

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-->'''Kermit:''' ''(Unnerved ''[unnerved while talking to Scooter)'' Scooter]'' [[OnSecondThought Uh, ask how much they want.]]
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* AppealToForce: When Scooter tells Kermit that the spear carriers in the ''Pigoletto'' number want more money, Kermit refuses. A second later, a couple of spears skewer Kermit's table.
-->'''Kermit:''' ''(Unnerved while talking to Scooter)'' Uh, ask how much they want.
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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Just before the opening number, Statler and Waldorf sarcastically ask Kermit if it's a Chinese gorilla dancing the ballet. Kermit promptly cancels the opening number, to the chagrin of the gorilla.
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* SwappedRoles: During the “Take Ten Terrific Girls” act, Statler and Waldorf tell jokes while Fozzie Bear heckles them from their balcony.

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* SwappedRoles: During the “Take "Take Ten Terrific Girls” Girls" act, Statler and Waldorf tell jokes while Fozzie Bear heckles them from their balcony.
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* SwappedRoles: During the “Take Ten Terrific Girls” act, Statler and Waldorf tell jokes while Fozzie Bear heckles them from their balcony.
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* ShoutOut: The opera ''Pigoletto'' takes its name from ''Theatre/{{Rigoletto}}''.

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* ShoutOut: The opera ''Pigoletto'' takes its name from ''Theatre/{{Rigoletto}}''.''Theatre/{{Rigoletto}}''.
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-->''(Waldorf is sleeping)''\\
'''Statler:''' Wake up!\\
'''Waldorf:''' Huh?! Who's the guest star tonight?\\
'''Statler:''' Beverly Hills.\\
'''Waldorf:''' Eh. [[ItCameFromBeverlyHills I've been there before]]. ''(goes back to sleep)''
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* AllAsiansWearConicalStrawHats: When Statler and Waldorf sarcastically ask if the opening number is a Chinese gorilla dancing ballet, Kermit calls backstage to cancel the opening number. A gorilla wearing a cone hat with a pink frill on top then comes onstage to yell at him in Chinese before leaving.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Robin jokes that there's an opera for little frogs, ''[[Theatre/{{Lohengrin}} Low-and-green]]''. Kermit shoos him away, but concedes that he could audition for that if he crouched down.
* CueTheFlyingPigs: The Newsman reports that Beverly Sills will continue to perform until "the cows come home"; he's then TrampledUnderfoot by a [[AnimalStampede stampeding herd]].



* ShoutOut: The opera ''Pigoletto'' takes its name from ''Rigoletto''.

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* ShoutOut: The opera ''Pigoletto'' takes its name from ''Rigoletto''.''Theatre/{{Rigoletto}}''.
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* GlassShatteringNote: In TheTeaser, Beverly breaks Scooter's glasses this way. Luckily, she has an arrangement with an optometrist.

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* GlassShatteringNote: GlassShatteringSound: In TheTeaser, Beverly breaks Scooter's glasses this way. Luckily, she has an arrangement with an optometrist.
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Beverly Sills sings on ''The Muppet Show'', and the pigs auditions for the opera ''Pigoletto'' in the finale.

!!Songs and Sketches

* "Take Ten Terrific Girls", sung by Statler and Waldorf.
* "When the Bloom is on the Sage", sung by Beverly Sills.
* Muppet News Flash: Beverly will be holding auditions until the cows come home.
* UK Spot: "Muppera", sung by The Fuzz Brothers.
* Muppet University: Sam the Eagle starts a lecture of microscopic organisms.
* ''Pigoletto:'' Beverly and the Pigs sing a medley of opera songs, "Sempre libera", "The Toreador Song", "Die Walkure", "La donna e mobile", and "God Bless America".

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* GlassShatteringNote: In TheTeaser, Beverly breaks Scooter's glasses this way. Luckily, she has an arrangement with an optometrist.
* ShoutOut: The opera ''Pigoletto'' takes its name from ''Rigoletto''.

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