Mac Davis guest stars, while an experimental copying machine accident duplicates Beaker by the dozens. Watch out, Dr. Honeydew!
Songs and Sketches
- "Another Opening, Another Show", sung by Fozzie, Gonzo, Link Hogthrob, Lew Zealand, and Rizzo
- "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me", sung by Mac Davis and Miss Piggy
- Muppet Labs: Copying Machine
- "It's Hard to Be Humble", sung by Mac Davis and Link Hogthrob
- UK Spot: "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", performed by Rowlf
- The Swedish Chef: Soup
- "Poor Boy Boogie", sung by Mac Davis
- Bear on Patrol: Outnumbered
- "I Believe in Music", sung by Mac Davis
This episode has examples of
- Blinded by the Light: Just before it's time for Muppet Labs, Beaker looks into the copier. A green light in it flashes, giving him Blank White Eyes and temporarily blinding him. While trying to feel his way around the backstage area, he falls into the machine.
- Credits Gag: The Beaker clones take over playing the credits in place of the band. They even replace Statler and Waldorf in their box!
- Funny Background Event: When the Beaker clones ambush the Swedish Chef while looking for Bunsen, one of them gets nosey and starts snooping around the kitchen, playing with the ingredients and pulling on the Chef's shirt, until the clone eventually opens the soup pot and finds Bunsen hiding inside.
- Me's a Crowd: After Beaker accidentally falls into a copier, it makes dozens of Beakers, who all decide to gang up on Dr. Honeydew as revenge for his thoughtlessness towards him.
- Musicalis Interruptus: Downplayed. Rowlf's rendition of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" is interrupted by Beauregard, who wants to mop the stage and then dust the piano. Rowlf, meanwhile, does his best to keep playing.[Beauregard begins mopping the stage.]
Rowlf: Beauregard, what are you doing?
Beauregard: Oh, I promised Kermit I would clean.
Rowlf: You can't clean out here!
Beauregard: Well, I'll clean back there, then.
[He picks up his mop and leaves, only to return moments later and spray the piano with aerosol duster.] - Oh, Crap!: Swedish Chef mumbles an "Ohh... oh, no" when a particularly curious Beaker clone discovers Dr. Honeydew hiding in his soup pot.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Dr. Honeydew eventually resorts to these to hide from the Beakers. First, he tries a hat, a trenchcoat, and a pair of Groucho Marx glasses, which works at first, but it doesn't take the Beakers long to figure him out (probably not helped by the fact that Dr. Honeydew tells Kermit who he is while they're around). The second time, he tries to disguise himself as one of the Beakers with another pair of prop glasses and a wig, which only works until Davis removes the glasses since he thought the disguise was suspicious.
- Stealth Insult: Davis gives Link Hogthrob several of these, saying that he's good at laying it on, agreeing when Link tells him that "good is not the word" when Davis says that he must be pretty good in the Bear on Patrol sketch, and dedicating him the song "It's Hard to Be Humble", which is essentially an ode to narcissism. Link takes all of the above as compliments and cheerfully sings along with the song.
- Tempting Fate: Fozzie, as Patrol Bear, arrests Beaker for making funny noises in public, but more and more Beakers keep showing up. He and Link (the Police Chief) make a run for it and hide in the jail cell.Link: Well, we're safe here.
Fozzie: That was quick thinking.
Link: Well, that's why I'm Sergeant.
[Link and Fozzie scream in panic as multiple Beakers pop up in the cell with them.]
- [Two Beakers are in Statler and Waldorf's theater box. They chatter in their language and laugh.]
