Florence Henderson guest-stars, and Kermit is annoyed by the show's pigs, particularly the affections of Miss Piggy.
Songs and Sketches
- The Bouncing Borsolino Brothers: The pigs try to form a pyramid.
- Talking Houses
- "Elusive Butterfly", sung by Florence Henderson.
- At The Dance
- Talk Spot: Kermit and Florence flirt, much to Miss Piggy's ire.
- UK Spot: "Cottleston Pie", sung by Rowlf the Dog.
- Panel Discussion: Were William Shakespeare's works actually written by Francis Bacon?
- Fozzie's Comedy Act: Fozzie does impressions.
- "Happy Together", sung by Florence and the Muppet monsters.
- Blackout: Sweetums falls for Florence.
- Kermit reports on the mating habits of Planet Koozebane's creatures. note
This episode has examples of
- Delegation Relay: When Kermit asks for someone to tell the Borsalino Brothers to knock it off, it starts a chain of Muppets yelling from one to another "Knock it off!" But then Kermit tells them to knock off the knockin' it off, which is repeated, until Kermit yells, "KNOCK IT OOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFF!!!!!"
- Early-Bird Cameo: One of the Bouncing Borsalinos is a prototype version of Dr. Strangepork.
- Floorboard Failure: When the Borsalino Brothers attempt a human pyramid (of pigs), the stage gives out just as the last one gets on.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Miss Piggy gets this way seeing Kermit and Florence getting cozy.
- Mythology Gag: This episode marks the debut of the Planet Koozebane. The Koozebanian Mating Ritual was initially done on a pilot for The Muppet Show called The Muppet Valentine Special, which featured Mia Farrow, and essentially contained many elements of what would become The Muppet Show.
- Shout-Out to Shakespeare:
- The topic of the panel sketch is whether Sir Francis Bacon was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. It gets immediately derailed when Piggy is offended because she thought they were talking about bacon.
- Piggy later paraphrases from Hamlet; includes a Call-Back to the aforementioned panel sketch.Piggy: Methinks the frog doth protest too much.
Kermit: Huh?
Piggy: That's Shakespeare.
Kermit: Sounds more like Bacon. From a ham.
Piggy: How would you like a pork chop? Hai-ya! [karate chops Kermit]
- Statler: I loved it!
Waldorf: So what? You also loved World War II.
