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The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence (1975) (TV)
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"Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the end of sex and violence on television!"Plot Keywords:
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(Credited cast) | Jim Henson | ... | Nigel / George Washington / Swedish Chef / Dr. Teeth / Kermit the Frog / Youknow Bird / Heap / Ernie / Girl / Hudson (voice) |
 | Frank Oz | ... | Animal / Sam / Theodore Roosevelt / Forcryingoutloud Bird / Ruler / Heap / Bert / Pig / George the Janitor (voice) |
 | Jerry Nelson | ... | Sgt. Floyd Pepper / Thomas Jefferson / Dancers / Announcer / Statler / Whaddayasay Bird / Melg / Envy / Pencil / Gluttony / Gene Shalit / Dr. Nauga / Sloth (voice) |
| Richard Hunt | ... | Crazy Harry / Ohboy Bird / Pig / Lust (voice) |
| Dave Goelz | ... | Averice / Zoot / Righton Bird / Brewsters (voice) |
| Fran Brill | ... | Receptionist / Janice / Ohreally Bird / Leafy Green Vegetables / Miss Piggy / Dancer (voice) |
| John Lovelady | ... | Abraham Lincoln / Vanity (voice) |
| Rollin Krewson | ... | Additional Muppets (voice) |
| Caroly Wilcox | ... | Additional Muppets (voice) |
| Jane Henson | ... | Additional Muppets (voice) (as Jane Henson) |
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Sam The Eagle: Do we want an eighth deadly sin for the pageant?Nigel: Which one?
Sam The Eagle: [Into phone] Who's your eight?
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Sam The Eagle: Wearing funny pants to a funeral.
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I caught this when it first aired (I think) in the summer of 1975. Viewers today seem to look at this pilot as a misfire, with its odd set pieces and the low-key Nigel as host. (Nigel would later be the conductor on "The Muppet Show.") Me, I loved it and I still do. It used "Airplane" style humor years before "Airplane". Keep your eye on the clocks in the backstage office and see what I mean. Anticipating another gimmick popular today, it rewards viewers who sit through the credits with a surprise or two. And it was deliberately aimed at adults, with a bizarre "Seven Deadly Sins" pageant.
Henson and company would learn from this show. The really weird sketches would remain, but almost always as musical numbers, and the show would be tied together as a revue hosted by the more versatile Kermit.
But I'll always cherish the incredible 1/2 hour of joyful senselessness this show represented. Aside from some holiday and fairy tale themed TV specials, the Muppets had never had a full production like this, and this time their were no rules. So we got rubber-limbed wrestlers, birds squawking pickup lines, Mount Rushmore spouting knock-knock jokes, and so on. Heck, some of the characters, like the Swedish Chef and the complaining Stadler and Waldorf, would turn out to be pretty popular.