...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Muppets Tonight
- 558 statements
- 108 feature instances
- 107 referencing feature instances
| Muppets Tonight | type |
TVTItem | |
| Muppets Tonight | label |
Muppets Tonight | |
| Muppets Tonight | page |
MuppetsTonight | |
| Muppets Tonight | comment |
Muppets Tonight is a TV series featuring The Muppets that originally ran from 1996 to 1998, initially as part of ABC's TGIF block. (A Channel Hop to Disney Channel followed.) An update of the premise of the late Jim Henson's Muppet Show, it features the Muppets producing a television variety show with the help (or otherwise) of the episode's guest star. Kermit the Frog was replaced as host by Clifford, a catfish-esque "humanoid" first seen on The Jim Henson Hour, but retains his role as producer. Pigs In Space, a recurring sketch from The Muppet Show, returned as Deep Dish Nine.The series introduced several new Muppets who went on to appear in subsequent productions such as Muppets from Space and the 2011 film, including lounge singer Johnny Fiama; Sal Manilla, Johnny's chimpanzee bodyguard; Bobo the Bear, the studio's security guard; voracious monster Big Mean Carl; Mad Scientist Dr. Phil van Neuter; and Pepe the King Prawn, the studio's elevator operator/commissary chef who was desperate to break into showbiz, okay. | |
| Muppets Tonight | fetched |
2024-04-04T10:37:26Z | |
| Muppets Tonight | parsed |
2024-04-04T10:37:26Z | |
| Muppets Tonight | processingComment |
Dropped link to BohemianRhapsody: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN | |
| Muppets Tonight | processingComment |
Dropped link to CallBack: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Muppets Tonight | processingComment |
Dropped link to ClipShow: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Muppets Tonight | processingComment |
Dropped link to FraggleRock: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Muppets Tonight | processingComment |
Dropped link to GarthBrooks: Not a Feature - IGNORE | |
| Muppets Tonight | processingComment |
Dropped link to TalkingHeads: Not a Feature - IGNORE | |
| Muppets Tonight | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheMuppetShow: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Muppets Tonight | processingComment |
Dropped link to ThisIsGoingToSuck: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN | |
| Muppets Tonight | processingUnknown |
ThisIsGoingToSuck | |
| Muppets Tonight | processingUnknown |
BohemianRhapsody | |
| Muppets Tonight | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_120d0e3f | type |
Adam Westing | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_120d0e3f | comment |
Adam Westing: Many of the guest stars, to a greater or lesser extent. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_120d0e3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_120d0e3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_120d0e3f | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_13033ce1 | type |
Incessant Chorus | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_13033ce1 | comment |
Incessant Chorus: In one episode, the characters keep mentioning Istanbul and Constantinople as though they were two different places, and every time they do, a band of rats dressed up as Turks pop up from nowhere to sing the penultimate verse of "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)". Another episode has a band of Muppets show up to sing "Whip It" every time someone says anything rhyming "whip it." The "Phenomena" sketch with Sandra Bullock. Now, what famous Muppet-performed song rhymes with "phenomena"? "Goodness gracious, my grape balls are on fire!" | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_13033ce1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_13033ce1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_13033ce1 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_149ff4b0 | type |
HilarityEnsues | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_149ff4b0 | comment |
On a Tales from the Vet segment, Dr. Van Neuter warns the guests not to overdo it on the eggnog at the Christmas party. Hilarity Ensues when he doesn't follow his own advice... | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_149ff4b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_149ff4b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_149ff4b0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_15b2cab3 | type |
Tempting Fate | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_15b2cab3 | comment |
Tempting Fate: In the episode featuring Dennis Quaid, Kermit leaves the studio in Clifford's hands, then comments, "It's not like bowling balls gonna come falling out of the sky the minute I leave." Genre Savvy Clifford expects this to happen, only other things end up going wrong. When Dennis is able to fix everything, Rizzo comments there weren't even any falling bowling balls. Cue everyone but Clifford sidestepping away as bowling balls pummel him. At the beginning of John Goodman's episode, he remarks that he's expecting a nice, relaxing evening on the show. Clifford promises him that nothing will stress him out at all...not two minutes later, John keeps Andy and Randy from electrocuting themselves, and they decide that they need to be his slave to thank him. They spend the rest of the episode generally making John's life a living hell. In the Heather Locklear episode: "Bunsen and Beaker can't screw up twice in the same episode." | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_15b2cab3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_15b2cab3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_15b2cab3 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_182f59f9 | type |
On One Condition | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_182f59f9 | comment |
On One Condition: Parodied in an episode in which Ed Grimly will inherit a "fortune" of "eighty-five dollars" (Canadian) provided that he is married to a beautiful woman. Miss Piggy happens to walk in the door at that point... (And it turns out that she has more money than that already on her.) One "Tubmans of Porksmith" (a British-only sketch) had Howard Tubman being offered a massive inheritance from his great-aunt if he loses a hundred pounds before noon on Tuesday the twelfth. Given that the telegram announcing this news arrives around 11:45 AM on Tuesday the twelfth, it doesn't end well (although his great-aunt somehow recovers from death, as she's incredibly stubborn). | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_182f59f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_182f59f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_182f59f9 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_1b65dfad | type |
The Cameo | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_1b65dfad | comment |
The Cameo: One episode was nothing but cameos, featuring the likes of Arsenio Hall, Kathy Ireland, Little Richard and Jay Leno. At the end of the John Goodman episode, he is seen relaxing on the set of Roseanne (or at least a very authentic looking replica). The Garth Brooks episode features a surprise appearance by Leonard Nimoy after the episode's Deep Dish Nine sketch. In regards to the Muppets: Floyd Pepper and George the Janitor made cameos in the first two episodes. The Swedish Chef, Zoot, Janice, Lew Zealand, Crazy Harry, Foo-Foo, Louis Kazagger, Pops and Bean Bunny appeared in the first episode. Zoot, Lew, Bean, and Louis would make more cameos in future episodes, and Lew appears during the theme song. Rowlf the Dog appeared during the closing number of the second episode, in which he uttered his first spoken dialogue since the death of Jim Henson ("Oh, yeah."). Mildred Huxtetter and Link Hogthrob appeared in the third episode, and in the theme song. The Newsman, Large Marvin and Begoony from Fraggle Rock, Annie Sue, Angus McGonagle, Chip from The Jim Henson Hour, the Gnu and Armstrong the Chicken Hawk from Jim Henson's Animal Show are in the audience. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_1b65dfad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_1b65dfad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_1b65dfad | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_1b73fd6c | type |
The Danza | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_1b73fd6c | comment |
The Danza: In-Universe example: In the "Bay of Pigswatch" segments, Spamela Hamderson plays the role of "Spamela". | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_1b73fd6c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_1b73fd6c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_1b73fd6c | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_1dea3034 | type |
Cool Shades | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_1dea3034 | comment |
Cool Shades: Averted. Unlike Clifford's other appearances, he was featured with eyes in this incarnation instead of his sunglasses. Kevin Clash was not pleased about it, to the point where he made clear he would not perform Clifford if the shades were ever removed again. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_1dea3034 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_1dea3034 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_1dea3034 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_1e4a1e0e | type |
I Owe You My Life | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_1e4a1e0e | comment |
I Owe You My Life: John Goodman saves Andy and Randy's life, so they dedicate themselves to being his slaves out of gratitude. Naturally, they only succeed in annoying him. They even follow him to the set of Roseanne afterwards. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_1e4a1e0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_1e4a1e0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_1e4a1e0e | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_21e5b9c7 | type |
Failed a Spot Check | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_21e5b9c7 | comment |
Failed a Spot Check: When Billy Crystal was the guest star, after the show begins, Billy decides he wants the closing number to be a big jazz number and knows a good jazz band. Unfortunatley, the band fails to show up. At the end, it's revealed why. In this same episode, Bobo the Bear was hired as security guard and he follows orders to only allow people in if their name is on the list, and clearly nobody thought to update the list so the band can get in. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_21e5b9c7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_21e5b9c7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_21e5b9c7 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_246989a4 | type |
Circling Vultures | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_246989a4 | comment |
Circling Vultures: A variation. In the Whoopi Goldberg episode, a vulture warns Miss Piggy she might be lunch after Andy and Randy get their car lost in a desert. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_246989a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_246989a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_246989a4 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_27a40541 | type |
Furry Confusion | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_27a40541 | comment |
Furry Confusion: Well, Muppet Confusion, but one episode involved a ventriloquist dummy coming to life...and this freaked the Muppets out. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_27a40541 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_27a40541 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_27a40541 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_29d26001 | type |
Spoiled Sweet | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_29d26001 | comment |
Spoiled Sweet: Howard Tubman of "The Tubmans of Porksmith" qualifies. As a member of "America's oldest and fattest family," he's extremely rich, but he's also a genuinely nice guy who's usually more concerned with dessert than flaunting his wealth. In one sketch, a pair of robbers breaks into the Porksmith Mansion, and Howard is perfectly willing to give them anything they want—to the point where he even wants them to stay for a cup of tea. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_29d26001 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_29d26001 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_29d26001 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_2c9e262 | type |
Catapult Nightmare | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_2c9e262 | comment |
Catapult Nightmare: After suffering from horrible injuries caused by Andy and Randy throughout his episode, John Goodman finds himself in the infirmary. When Andy and Randy appear to continue "helping" him, he starts screaming and panicking, then comes to in his actual hospital bed—he's still in traction, but the pigs appearing was a dream. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_2c9e262 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_2c9e262 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_2c9e262 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_2e39af52 | type |
Girlish Pigtails | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_2e39af52 | comment |
Girlish Pigtails: When Cindy Crawford plays herself as a teenager in a skit, she has her hair in twin pigtails to signify her youth. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_2e39af52 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_2e39af52 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_2e39af52 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_32da91b8 | type |
Out of Focus | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_32da91b8 | comment |
Out of Focus: Pretty much every Muppet performed by Frank Oz, thanks to Oz being too busy with other projects to perform them full-time. Piggy became a "special guest star" (such as in the Michelle Pfeiffer episode) while Fozzie, Sam and Animal were only used in the occasional skit or segment. Kermit too had a reduced role compared to his days on The Muppet Show, since he was no longer the host, but was instead the "producer" of the show. However, he still appeared in almost every episode and interacted a lot with the guest stars. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_32da91b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_32da91b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_32da91b8 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_37005c4a | type |
I Am Not Weasel | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_37005c4a | comment |
I Am Not Weasel: "I am not a shrimp, okay? I am a King Prawn!" | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_37005c4a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_37005c4a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_37005c4a | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_3a10b632 | type |
Playing Against Type | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_3a10b632 | comment |
Playing Against Type: In-Universe, where the monster of one sketch is played by Kermit in the Heather Locklear episode. The entire plot of the Garth Brooks episode was that Brooks didn't feel like performing Country/Western that night. By the time that Clifford finally convinced him to sing one of his own songs, he had already performed random bits of William Shakespeare, Tom Jones' "It's Not Unusual", "If I Were A Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof, and had been planning to participate in one of Gonzo's acts up until the moment he learned how painful the act was likely to be (the act consisted of flying upwards on jet packs, being stopped by bungee cords, and then recoiling back to Earth to crash into the unpadded studio floor). | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_3a10b632 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_3a10b632 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_3a10b632 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_3b0dcf44 | type |
Notzilla | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_3b0dcf44 | comment |
Notzilla: An episode featured Kermit as "Frogzilla". Giganticus, the "World's Largest Performing Artist" was slated for an appearance but according to Rizzo was beaten up by Super-Giganticus in Tokyo. Kermit filled in, wearing Giganticus' suit and singing "Once In a Lifetime", in an homage to Byrne's giant jacket top from Stop Making Sense. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_3b0dcf44 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_3b0dcf44 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_3b0dcf44 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_403ffe5c | type |
Spin-Off Babies | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_403ffe5c | comment |
Spin-Off Babies: A sketch in which two tapes of old network shows got tangled together, resulting in the creation of "Seinfeld Babies". | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_403ffe5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_403ffe5c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_403ffe5c | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_41744454 | type |
Spelling Song | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_41744454 | comment |
Spelling Song: In the Cindy Crawford episode, as part of a parody of The Mickey Mouse Club: | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_41744454 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_41744454 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_41744454 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_44989f6f | type |
"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_44989f6f | comment |
"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Or more like "could have avoid this scene". When Bobo becomes security guard, he doesn't let anybody in unless their name is on the list. Johnny Fiama and Sal arrive, Johny's name is not on the list and therefore Bobo does not let him in, leading to Sal angrily calling Bobo names before Bobo throws him out the door (stopping a taxi in the process). It's near the end of this fight that Johnny sees that he looked at the wrong date in his appointment book. If he'd gotten it right, this fight would not have happened. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_44989f6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_44989f6f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_44989f6f | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_45007296 | type |
Metaphorgotten | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_45007296 | comment |
Metaphorgotten: When Dr. Honeydew asks for help getting a makeover from Johnny Fiama. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_45007296 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_45007296 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_45007296 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_469e3e2f | type |
In-Universe | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_469e3e2f | comment |
In-Universe, where the monster of one sketch is played by Kermit in the Heather Locklear episode. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_469e3e2f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_469e3e2f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_469e3e2f | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_47bde34c | type |
Fashion-Shop Fashion Show | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_47bde34c | comment |
Fashion-Shop Fashion Show: Johnny Fiama and Sal take Bunsen on one of these, set to "Pretty Bunsen." | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_47bde34c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_47bde34c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_47bde34c | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_49f4768e | type |
Temporary Bulk Change | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_49f4768e | comment |
Temporary Bulk Change: Both Martin Short and Clifford become huge when they get a taste of Mama Fiama's pasta sauce—it's so delicious that they can't stop stuffing their faces. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_49f4768e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_49f4768e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_49f4768e | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_4a08416a | type |
Cupid's Arrow | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_4a08416a | comment |
Cupid's Arrow: When the guard, a grizzly-puppet named Bobo, sees a guest star Cindy Crawford, cupid appears to shoot an arrow at him...however, upon realizing that it was a bear he was supposed to shoot, he immediately exchanges his bow for a heavy crossbow, knowing that it'd take that much firepower to affect a bear. The kick from said crossbow launches him off the screen while he's in the middle of explaining it to the audience. Later on in the same episode, he accidentally shoots Sal, causing him to fall in love with Johnny Fiama. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_4a08416a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_4a08416a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_4a08416a | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_4f4602da | type |
They Changed It, Now It Sucks! | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_4f4602da | comment |
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: the Garth Brooks episode was an In-Universe version of this when Garth decided he didn't want to do Country music anymore and did other things like a Tom Jones impersonation, while everyone else wanted Garth to go back to the way he was, so he closed the show with "We Shall Be Free". | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_4f4602da | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_4f4602da | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_4f4602da | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_5bc2106 | type |
Your Costume Needs Work | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_5bc2106 | comment |
Your Costume Needs Work: Beaker does an uncanny Little Richard impression◊, actually a cameo of Little Richard himself, on which the show's host, Clifford, comments "Worst Little Richard impersonation ever!" | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_5bc2106 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_5bc2106 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_5bc2106 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_5fcedca | type |
Big Eater | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_5fcedca | comment |
Big Eater: Big Mean Carl, Bobo the Bear, Rizzo the Rat and Howard Tubman. Howard is particularly noticeable as he starred in a whole series of sketches—"The Tubmans of Porksmith"—about his massive appetite; one of them opened with him devouring an entire buffalo in a single sitting, and still being hungry afterward. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_5fcedca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_5fcedca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_5fcedca | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_6220d661 | type |
Loony Fan | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_6220d661 | comment |
Loony Fan: Gilbert Gottfried to Kermit in a season 2 episode. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_6220d661 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_6220d661 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_6220d661 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_66a4e100 | type |
Parody Names | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_66a4e100 | comment |
Parody Names: Spamela Hamderson and David Hoggselhoff, the stars of Bay Of Pigs Watch. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_66a4e100 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_66a4e100 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_66a4e100 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_67542e29 | type |
This Is Your Brain on Evil | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_67542e29 | comment |
This Is Your Brain on Evil: Played straight and inverted in the Heather Locklear episode, when she accidentally eats Bunsen Honeydew's mood meals. When she eats the chimichangas, she turns into a evil psychotic maniac. Eating the biscottis, however, turns her into the exact opposite: a goody two-shoes sweetheart. The only way to cure either of these symptoms is to hit her in the noggin with a fish. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_67542e29 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_67542e29 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_67542e29 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_7175cb16 | type |
Clark Kenting | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_7175cb16 | comment |
Clark Kenting: Parodied, with a skit that featured Bobo the Bear & Clifford in a Buddy Cop Show parody - Upon Clifford asking him about his sunglasses, Bobo stated he was working undercover, prompting Clifford to point that it was a Paper-Thin Disguise & it wouldn't work... Only for several people who knew Bobo to fail to recognize him. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_7175cb16 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_7175cb16 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_7175cb16 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_78a0f3ec | type |
Chaste Toons | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_78a0f3ec | comment |
Chaste Toons: Well, Muppets anyway. Miss Piggy mysteriously acquires two nephews, Andy and Randy, who made their debut in Muppet Classic Theater. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_78a0f3ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_78a0f3ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_78a0f3ec | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_79275aa2 | type |
Not on the List | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_79275aa2 | comment |
Not on the List: A Running Gag involving Bobo the bear as the security guard. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_79275aa2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_79275aa2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_79275aa2 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_7a560a7b | type |
The Trope Formerly Known as X | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_7a560a7b | comment |
The Trope Formerly Known as X: Milked for all it's worth with Prince's appearance. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_7a560a7b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_7a560a7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_7a560a7b | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_7bf35700 | type |
Shave and a Haircut | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_7bf35700 | comment |
Shave And A Haircut: The punchline to the "Phenomena" sketch: | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_7bf35700 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_7bf35700 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_7bf35700 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_86daf505 | type |
Parental Bonus | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_86daf505 | comment |
Parental Bonus: It's the Muppets. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_86daf505 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_86daf505 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_86daf505 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_8cbd311b | type |
Good Angel, Bad Angel | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_8cbd311b | comment |
Good Angel, Bad Angel: Seymour and Pepe pretending to be Jason Alexander's good and bad conscience in order to convince him to do an act with Gonzo. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_8cbd311b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_8cbd311b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_8cbd311b | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_8ec31c61 | type |
Game Show Goofballs | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_8ec31c61 | comment |
Game Show Goofballs: A short game show segment titled "Swift Wits" featured contestants who were given a simple secret word to guess or else Big Mean Carl would eat an animal. However, nearly all the contestants were too stupid to have even a remote chance of winning. Two insisted on one answer, one refused to answer at all because they had gotten his name wrong, one (a pair of twins) kept spouting off generic answers and not listening, and in the last sketch, even when the word was given, the contestant mistook it for a clue. By the fourth sketch, even the host was getting tired of having idiots on the show. Even when one contestant did win the game, Carl insisted on eating the animal and the contestant! | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_8ec31c61 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_8ec31c61 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_8ec31c61 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_90e2b7b4 | type |
Theme Twin Naming | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_90e2b7b4 | comment |
Theme Twin Naming: Andy and Randy | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_90e2b7b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_90e2b7b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_90e2b7b4 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_91e8bb36 | type |
Trivially Obvious | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_91e8bb36 | comment |
Trivially Obvious: "Muppets Tonight: the show critics everywhere are calling... 'Muppets Tonight'." | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_91e8bb36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_91e8bb36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_91e8bb36 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_92cca75b | type |
Ret-Gone | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_92cca75b | comment |
Ret-Gone: A bunch of new Muppets were introduced that took up a larger amount of screen time than the original ones, and were probably intended to be a "next-generation Muppet cast" to add to the originals. The majority of them have never appeared since. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_92cca75b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_92cca75b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_92cca75b | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_9331f162 | type |
Sad-Times Montage | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_9331f162 | comment |
In the Tony Bennett episode, Sal has his own Sad-Times Montage set to Bennett singing "Boulevard of Broken Dreams." He returns to the studio and finds Tony has been singing the song the entire time from his dressing room. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_9331f162 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_9331f162 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_9331f162 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_9c8701b5 | type |
A Day in the Limelight | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_9c8701b5 | comment |
A Day in the Limelight: The last episode centers around Johnny Fiama moving out of his mother's house and into the studio, while Sal tries to get Johnny to go back. The Andie MacDowell episode prominently focuses on Dr. Bunsen Honeydew going through his midlife crisis. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_9c8701b5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_9c8701b5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_9c8701b5 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_9dab0a6e | type |
Continuity Nod | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: Kermit introduces the guest star, as always. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_9dab0a6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_9dab0a6e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_9dab0a6e | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a18042f1 | type |
Left the Background Music On | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a18042f1 | comment |
Left the Background Music On: In the Tony Bennett episode, Sal has his own Sad-Times Montage set to Bennett singing "Boulevard of Broken Dreams." He returns to the studio and finds Tony has been singing the song the entire time from his dressing room. One sketch has Johnny plugging his new album "Johnny, We Hardly Heard Ya." He tries to sing the classic "Hooked on a Feeling," but Sal is over-eager on the "ooga-chakas," so he loses his place in the song. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a18042f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a18042f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_a18042f1 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a188ac4b | type |
Overly Long Gag | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a188ac4b | comment |
Overly Long Gag: The show suffered a lot from this in the earlier episodes, especially during "Tales From The Vet." | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a188ac4b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a188ac4b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_a188ac4b | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a1d3ebd7 | type |
Furry Reminder | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a1d3ebd7 | comment |
Furry Reminder: Or rather Muppet Reminder. In the first episode, Clifford introduces himself as "Your homey made of foamy." | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a1d3ebd7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a1d3ebd7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_a1d3ebd7 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a220d528 | type |
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a220d528 | comment |
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: At the start of the Whoopi Goldberg episode, Clifford is really optimistic about the show that night, and is cheerfully telling Kermit about the plans, until Bill the Bubble Guy walks past and adds, "What could possibly go wrong?" Cue Clifford's immediate paranoia and a phone call from Miss Piggy saying that she's flying back from a mall opening in Antarctica and might not make the closing number. Clifford says this at the start of the John Goodman episode, followed by Andy and Randy nearly electrocuting themselves. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a220d528 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a220d528 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_a220d528 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a2cc787 | type |
Externally Validated Prophecy | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a2cc787 | comment |
Externally Validated Prophecy: In the Cindy Crawford episode, Clifford shows footage supposedly of Crawford as a child talking about what she'd like to do when she grows up. Every one of the implausible ambitions young Cindy mentions is something she actually did do as an adult. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a2cc787 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a2cc787 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_a2cc787 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a39d6056 | type |
Nice to the Waiter | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a39d6056 | comment |
Nice to the Waiter: Howard Tubman of "The Tubmans of Porksmith" is always polite and kind to his butler Carter. Their relationship is closer to a pair of best friends than employer and employee; it helps that Carter is a Servile Snarker who isn't afraid to call Howard out for his gigantic appetite, and Howard in turn is able to take those comments in stride. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a39d6056 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a39d6056 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_a39d6056 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a4500ace | type |
Drop the Cow | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a4500ace | comment |
Drop the Cow: Clifford has a falling cow land on him in the Tony Bennett episode. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a4500ace | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a4500ace | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_a4500ace | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a8347b21 | type |
2-for-1 Show | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a8347b21 | comment |
2-for-1 Show | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a8347b21 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_a8347b21 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_a8347b21 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_ab8462f7 | type |
The Backstage Sketch | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_ab8462f7 | comment |
The Backstage Sketch: Much like The Muppet Show before it, many things would happen outside of the show proper. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_ab8462f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_ab8462f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_ab8462f7 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: It wouldn't be the Muppets without this. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_ad1db87c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_ad1db87c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_ad1db87c | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b3e3b9af | type |
Playing Cyrano | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b3e3b9af | comment |
Playing Cyrano: In the Cindy Crawford episode, mumbling security guard Bobo the Bear develops a crush on her, and Rizzo takes the Cyrano role of supplying him with appropriate dialog. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b3e3b9af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b3e3b9af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_b3e3b9af | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b4b006fb | type |
Pig Latin | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b4b006fb | comment |
Pig Latin: In the John Goodman episode: | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b4b006fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b4b006fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_b4b006fb | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: In one episode, a group of lobsters hold the station hostage and read their demands, mostly pertaining to the treatment of shellfish in society. However, one demand ends up being no more movies based on old TV shows. In another episode, Andie MacDowell, after a fling with Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, demands more dangerous adventures, such as sitting through a Pauly Shore movie. One episode has Jason Alexander attempting to play Hercule Poirot in a reenactment of Murder on the Orient Express, only for everyone to keep thinking he's Hercules. While he attempts to stay in character, what truly causes him to break is when Bunsen asks if he's going to fly backwards to turn back time. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b53077b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b53077b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_b53077b3 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: Again, Andy and Randy. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b58b4e3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b58b4e3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_b58b4e3c | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b5b4b077 | type |
The Ace | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b5b4b077 | comment |
The Ace: Dennis Quaid is portrayed as such in his guest appearance, making Clifford very jealous. Ends up being an inversion, as Dennis claims all his great feats were either lucky guesses or just bluffs. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b5b4b077 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b5b4b077 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_b5b4b077 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b6de94d1 | type |
Executive Meddling | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b6de94d1 | comment |
Executive Meddling: Done in-universe when Earnst Staveros Grouper buys the station. Among the irrational changes he makes is changing Kermit the Frog into Virgil the Monkey. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b6de94d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b6de94d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_b6de94d1 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b707726f | type |
Hypocritical Humor | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: The shows has tons of it, particularly mixed with Tempting Fate. On a Tales from the Vet segment, Dr. Van Neuter warns the guests not to overdo it on the eggnog at the Christmas party. Hilarity Ensues when he doesn't follow his own advice... From the Heather Locklear episode: | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b707726f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b707726f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_b707726f | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b7b0c10d | type |
Phone-Trace Race | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b7b0c10d | comment |
Phone-Trace Race: Happens in one episode where Andy and Randy trace the call... by methodically ripping the phone cable out of the walls. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b7b0c10d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b7b0c10d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_b7b0c10d | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b8e3f20a | type |
Demoted to Extra | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: Many older characters. Kermit not being the host is a common source of criticism. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b8e3f20a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_b8e3f20a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_b8e3f20a | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_bc6c6c90 | type |
Drop-In Character | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_bc6c6c90 | comment |
Drop-In Character: Both Polly Lobster and Clueless Morgan from Muppet Treasure Island appear on this show... for... some reason... | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_bc6c6c90 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_bc6c6c90 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_bc6c6c90 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_bee8baee | type |
Faint in Shock | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_bee8baee | comment |
Faint in Shock: Clifford faints early in the first episode when he's told he's going to get the job of hosting a show and he has to be ready in 30 seconds. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_bee8baee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_bee8baee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_bee8baee | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_bf828517 | type |
I Am Not Spock | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_bf828517 | comment |
I Am Not Spock: Pierce Brosnan is mistaken for 007 at the beginning of his episode.invoked | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_bf828517 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_bf828517 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_bf828517 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_c33ba0a8 | type |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_c33ba0a8 | comment |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: With a few exceptions, most notably Pepe the King Prawn, Bobo the Bear and Big Mean Carl, many of the new Muppet characters that debuted on this show either got Demoted to Extra or made no further appearances in Muppet productions after the series ended. Examples include Seymour, Bill the Bubble Guy, Zippity-Zap, Nigel the Director, Mr. Poodlepants and others. Johnny Fiama, Sal Minella and Dr. Phil van Neuter became core characters in post-Muppets Tonight Muppet productions for a few years, but fell victim to this trope after the mid-2000s, though Johnny and Sal made one final appearance in the "Bohemian Rhapsody" viral video in 2009. This is largely because Sal and van Neuter were performed by Brian Henson, who stopped performing on a regular basis when the Muppets were sold to Disney. note Johnny, Sal and Van Neuter would return in the 2021 special Muppets Haunted Mansion, with Brian returning to perform Sal. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_c33ba0a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_c33ba0a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_c33ba0a8 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_c660bc15 | type |
Fan Disservice | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_c660bc15 | comment |
Fan Disservice: Bunsen and Beaker... in bikinis in the "Cameo Show." Statler and Waldorf agree. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_c660bc15 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_c660bc15 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_c660bc15 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_cf4d770 | type |
Nightmare Fuel | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_cf4d770 | comment |
Nightmare Fuel: An In-Universe example starts off the Heather Locklear episode. Locklear enters the studio to find no one greeting her. Turns out, everyone (Clifford, Rizzo, Gonzo, etc.) is hiding in a closet, terrified of Locklear because of the actions of her character on Melrose Place. The Muppets begin panicking that she will blackmail them, start love triangles, and worse, frame them for murder and have them sent to the electric chair. Locklear has to assure them that she is nothing like her Melrose Place character. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_cf4d770 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_cf4d770 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_cf4d770 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_cf64a80d | type |
Hostile Show Takeover | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_cf64a80d | comment |
Hostile Show Takeover: In one episode, the lobsters from the "Rock Lobster" sketch take over the show. The day is saved by the guest star, Pierce Brosnan, who goes undercover as... James Prawn. In a gigantic lobster costume. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_cf64a80d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_cf64a80d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_cf64a80d | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_d0c8e54 | type |
Monkeys on a Typewriter | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_d0c8e54 | comment |
Monkeys on a Typewriter: In the Andie MacDowell episode, we learn that the show's scripters are actual Muppet monkeys, mindlessly pounding at typewriters going "Ook-ack-ook!". Once they come up with a satisfactory script, Kermit lets them go touch the monolith. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_d0c8e54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_d0c8e54 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_d0c8e54 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_d2c4c6f5 | type |
Hey, That's My Line! | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_d2c4c6f5 | comment |
Hey, That's My Line!: Said by Fozzie in "The Cameo Show" after the cow says, "Wakka wakka". | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_d2c4c6f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_d2c4c6f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_d2c4c6f5 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_d2fe0360 | type |
Earpiece Conversation | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_d2fe0360 | comment |
Earpiece Conversation: In the Cindy Crawford episode, mumbling security guard Bobo the Bear develops a crush on her. They hook him up an earpiece so that Rizzo the Rat can feed him the lines, but it comes to a bad end after Rizzo's nephews (coming home from the fair carrying balloons) walk in, leading Bobo to hear and repeat: "That's a nice set of balloons you've got. Maybe you'll let me play with them later." | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_d2fe0360 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_d2fe0360 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_d2fe0360 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_d308cbb0 | type |
Character Catchphrase | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_d308cbb0 | comment |
Character Catchphrase: Andy and Randy frequently exclaim "This job's too hard!!" Usually when anybody reaches step 2 of the very simple task they're putting before them. Clifford (when he's hosting and something inevitably sidetracks him): "anywho..." Bobo (as an inappropriately casual goodbye given whatever had just happened beforehand): "Have a good day sir." Big Mean Carl: "Hi, I'm Carl!" and "Thank you!" | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_d308cbb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_d308cbb0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_d308cbb0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_da0eeab5 | type |
Breakout Character | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_da0eeab5 | comment |
Breakout Character: Pepe the King Prawn. Other new characters this series introduced either faded or had minor roles later on, but Pepe has had a steady major presence ever since. Bobo the Bear and Big Mean Carl have also made repeated appearances since Muppets Tonight ended, but neither to the degree of prominence that Pepe has achieved. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_da0eeab5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_da0eeab5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_da0eeab5 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_db4266d3 | type |
Sleep Deprivation | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_db4266d3 | comment |
Sleep Deprivation: In the Billy Crystal episode, various animals sing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", making so much noise the lion can't get to sleep, and ends up chasing them away. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_db4266d3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_db4266d3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_db4266d3 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_dd891949 | type |
Who Writes This Crap?! | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_dd891949 | comment |
Who Writes This Crap?!: At the beginning of the "Hardy Pig Boys in the Mystery of the Zombie Queen of the Amazon Outer Space Bee Woman Case: Based on a novel by Jane Austen" sketch. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_dd891949 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_dd891949 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_dd891949 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_de9fd393 | type |
Piano Drop | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_de9fd393 | comment |
Piano Drop: Clifford gets a piano dropped on him in the Gary Cahuenga episode. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_de9fd393 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_de9fd393 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_de9fd393 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e18a3c59 | type |
Hilarious Outtakes | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e18a3c59 | comment |
Hilarious Outtakes: Some of the episodes have these during the closing credits. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e18a3c59 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e18a3c59 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_e18a3c59 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e2d457 | type |
The Ditz | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e2d457 | comment |
The Ditz: Andy and Randy may be just the two stupidest Muppets ever created, rivalling that of Fozzie Bear! | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e2d457 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e2d457 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_e2d457 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e303d198 | type |
Whole-Plot Reference | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e303d198 | comment |
Whole-Plot Reference: Sandra Bullock's episode has a "Mad Bomber" calling into the studio and warning the cast that if the ratings drop below 50%, the explosives he's packed into the place will go off—that's the basic plot of Speed (only it's a bus that needs to stay above 50 miles per hour). Sandra lampshades the trope and gets upset when no one seems to have seen the movie. It's later revealed as a Justified Trope in-universe—Sandra was the Mad Bomber in disguise, so it makes sense that she'd base her scheme on one of her own films. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e303d198 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e303d198 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_e303d198 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e34400ab | type |
Ambiguously Gay | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e34400ab | comment |
Ambiguously Gay: Dr. Phil Van Neuter. However, one episode revealed he was married to his assistant's sister. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e34400ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e34400ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_e34400ab | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e38d605 | type |
Big Guy, Little Guy | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e38d605 | comment |
Big Guy, Little Guy: Seymour the elephant and Pepe the prawn. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e38d605 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e38d605 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_e38d605 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e4f5affb | type |
The Chew Toy | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e4f5affb | comment |
The Chew Toy: Clifford is frequently the subject of the show's cartoonish slapstick. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e4f5affb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e4f5affb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_e4f5affb | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e5120d | type |
The Igor | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e5120d | comment |
The Igor: Mulch serves as the deformed assistant to Dr. Phil van Neuter, host of the Tales from the Vet segments. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e5120d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e5120d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_e5120d | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e5e6640b | type |
Flanderization | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e5e6640b | comment |
Flanderization: When Clifford became the host of the show, his attitude changed greatly. Whereas in his previous appearances, he was cool and laid-back, being the host made him uptight and irritable, essentially putting him in Kermit's shoes. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e5e6640b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e5e6640b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_e5e6640b | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e624f0e8 | type |
Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e624f0e8 | comment |
Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Johnny tries selling his new album "Johnny, We Hardly Heard Ya," he firmly reminds Sal that he certainly did not sell any previous records, muttering about "the IRS audit thing." | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e624f0e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e624f0e8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_e624f0e8 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e6c88e42 | type |
Old Shame | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e6c88e42 | comment |
Old Shame: In the first episode of the second season (guest-starring The Artist Formerly Known as Prince), during the "Tales from the Vet" sketch, Phil Van Neuter hits his head and goes to the nurse, asking Mulch to play Townhouse of Wax while he's gone. Instead, Mulch plays "Christmas Party '93", which featured the wrap party to a season of Tales from the Vet. In it, Phil asks his guests to go easy on the eggnog, advice Phil himself doesn't heed ("Eggy-noggy, eggy-noggy!"). In fact, one hour and twenty-five minutes after the party started, after a failed attempt at a karaoke of "Copacabana", he passes out from an eggnog overdose. When Phil returns and finds out what happened, he first denies ever being at the party in 1993, then tries to justify it by saying, "It was the eggnog decade; I was just trying to fit in!" Eventually, Phil tries to grab the videotape from Mulch, who escapes through the halls with it with Phil giving chase. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e6c88e42 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e6c88e42 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_e6c88e42 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e89ea07 | type |
Celebrity Power | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e89ea07 | comment |
Celebrity Power: Cindy Crawford was shown to have heat vision, because she's a supermodel. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e89ea07 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e89ea07 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_e89ea07 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e9e35e8f | type |
Exact Words | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e9e35e8f | comment |
Exact Words: When Bobo is hired as a security guard, he prevents Clifford from getting to his office because his orders (As given by Clifford) stated that if a person's name wasn't on the list, they weren't to be allowed in the building. Clifford countered by saying: If my name's not on your paycheck, you don't get paid. The first time Clifford and Rizzo get Garth Brooks to agree to do a country song, he sings "If I Were A Rich Man", which is a song from a musical about people living in the Russian countryside. Rizzo comments that Garth didn't mention which country. In Sandra Bullock's episode, she complains that the muffin basket left in her room only had one muffin in it. Rizzo points out that it has to—any more, and it would be a muffinS basket. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e9e35e8f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_e9e35e8f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_e9e35e8f | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_eb8ec7c8 | type |
Jerkass | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: Big Mean Carl. "Mean" is part of this guy's name. Many of his alter-egos (Carl the Big Mean Bunny, Carl the Big Mean Bagpipe-Eater, etc.) also serve as this. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_eb8ec7c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_eb8ec7c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_eb8ec7c8 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f10d3363 | type |
Distracted by the Sexy | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f10d3363 | comment |
Distracted by the Sexy: Half of every "Bay of Pigs Watch" sketch consisted of David Hoggselhoth ignoring whatever is going on at the beach to come up with an excuse to make out with Spamela Hamderson. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f10d3363 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f10d3363 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_f10d3363 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f1f987e9 | type |
Joke of the Butt | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f1f987e9 | comment |
Joke of the Butt: Pepe and Seymour dreamed of onscreen singing stardom, but it never came about, because their performances were terrible. They would always sing the same song, with slightly altered lyrics: | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f1f987e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f1f987e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_f1f987e9 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f329f2a2 | type |
Got Volunteered | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f329f2a2 | comment |
Got Volunteered: How Clifford got to be the host. Kermit asked for someone to host the new show and everyone ran out the door. Except Clifford, who was in the corner talking to his girlfriend on his cell phone. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f329f2a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f329f2a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_f329f2a2 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f360fc33 | type |
Dumbass Has a Point | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f360fc33 | comment |
Dumbass Has a Point: There instances of the slightly dim Bobo having rather perceptive knowledge of certain things. For example: | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f360fc33 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f360fc33 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_f360fc33 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f36c4f98 | type |
Easily Forgiven | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f36c4f98 | comment |
Easily Forgiven: The threat of a bomb that would go off if the ratings go under 50% turned out to be a false threat made up by Sandra Bullock in an attempt to keep the ratings up, due to her being worried that they would blame her if the show wasn't popular. The Muppets don't show any resentment for her, let her do whatever she wants (which includes a terrible act), and Clifford assures her she can come back to the show any time. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f36c4f98 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f36c4f98 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_f36c4f98 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f5a3e496 | type |
Suspiciously Similar Substitute | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f5a3e496 | comment |
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Bug Llewelyn, being one of Jacques Roach who first debuted in The Jim Henson Hour. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f5a3e496 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f5a3e496 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_f5a3e496 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f5b7b990 | type |
Verbal Backspace | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f5b7b990 | comment |
Verbal Backspace: John Goodman is fighting in a war with a bunch of rats: | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f5b7b990 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f5b7b990 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_f5b7b990 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f621e657 | type |
Hollywood Pudgy | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f621e657 | comment |
Hollywood Pudgy: A rather odd in-universe example. In Martin Short's episode, he gets a taste of Mama Fiama's delicious pasta sauce and eats so much that he balloons up. While Short was a slim guy to begin with and certainly looks convincing as bigger in his fat suit (complete with a large stomach and double chin), all of the characters act as if he's become monstrously obese; Clifford says he's "500 pounds" and others call him "two tons." It's used for jokes, but since he doesn't really appear as fat as they're making him out to be, it comes across as mean-spirited. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f621e657 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_f621e657 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_f621e657 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_fabef10f | type |
Don't Explain the Joke | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_fabef10f | comment |
Don't Explain the Joke: Seymour and Pepe's attempt at telling the "Elefino" joke, which is made even funnier by the diagrams and placards they use to explain it. The audience got it the first time, they don't think it's funny. Even Gonzo had to hold Rizzo back from yelling. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_fabef10f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_fabef10f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_fabef10f | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_fbd285b7 | type |
Comically Missing the Point | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_fbd285b7 | comment |
Comically Missing the Point: A majority of the Swift Wits contestants such as Nate Leakey, Buster & Colfax Bergman, Philo Zilfinger, Lester Tomwater, and Agnes Stonewick. Until Arthur Modell came along, all of the aforementioned characters got the answers to Snookie Blyer's questions wrong. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_fbd285b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_fbd285b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_fbd285b7 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_fc151e9d | type |
Department of Redundancy Department | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_fc151e9d | comment |
Department of Redundancy Department: In the Whoopi Goldberg episode, three Kermits end up singing "Once In A Lifetime" by the Talking Heads. They all go backstage and we see Clifford say, "Nice job, Kermit", and a Kermit responding "Thank you" all 3 times. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_fc151e9d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_fc151e9d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_fc151e9d | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_fea27091 | type |
Buffy Speak | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_fea27091 | comment |
Buffy Speak: In the John Goodman episode, Andy Pig refers to a door as "the get out thingy". | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_fea27091 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_fea27091 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_fea27091 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_ffad4e9f | type |
Shown Their Work | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_ffad4e9f | comment |
Shown Their Work: Larry King tries to pass security guard Bobo the Bear to become a guest on Muppets Tonight in the third episode by claiming that his show is broadcast in 220 countries. Bobo disputes this by proving to King that there are only 191 countries. Bobo was, in fact, correct; when the episode aired, there were 191 countries known to exist. | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_ffad4e9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_ffad4e9f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_ffad4e9f | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_name | type |
ItemName | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_name | comment |
||
| Muppets Tonight / int_name | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_name | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Muppets Tonight | hasFeature |
Muppets Tonight / int_name | |
| Muppets Tonight / int_name | itemName |
Muppets Tonight |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.