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".
This episode has examples of
- Actually Pretty Funny: Robin jokes that there's an opera for little frogs, Low-and-green. Kermit shoos him away, but concedes that he could audition for that if he crouched down.
- All Asians Wear Conical Straw Hats: 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.
- Appeal to Force: 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.
- Cue the Flying Pigs: The Newsman reports that Beverly Sills will continue to perform until "the cows come home"; he's then Trampled Underfoot by a stampeding herd.
- Glass-Shattering Sound: In The Teaser, Beverly breaks Scooter's glasses this way. Luckily, she has an arrangement with an optometrist.
- Rhetorical Question Blunder: 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.
- Shout-Out: The opera Pigoletto takes its name from Rigoletto.
- Swapped Roles: During the "Take Ten Terrific Girls" act, Statler and Waldorf tell jokes while Fozzie Bear heckles them from their balcony.
- (Waldorf is sleeping)
Statler: Wake up!
Waldorf: Huh?! Who's the guest star tonight?
Statler: Beverly Hills.
Waldorf: Eh. I've been there before. (goes back to sleep)
