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Sam and Friends
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Sam and Friends was the first television show to feature The Muppets. It ran from May 9, 1955, to December 15, 1961 on WRC, NBC's owned-and-operated station in Washington, D.C. This was where Jim Henson invented the idea of using the camera's viewpoint to make a television show with puppets more than just a filmed puppet show: there was no need to hide the performers as long as they were out of camera range, enabling the puppets to be filmed just like live actors.The show was about an average man named Sam, who attempted to escape the harshness of reality with the help of bizarre, abstract creatures that he created based off of exaggerated parts of his life. Sam's friends included Yorick, Harry the Hipster, and a character named Kermit who would go on to bigger things. Sam, Yorick and Harry the Hipster would later cameo in the special The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years. | |
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Dropped link to Gunsmoke: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
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| Sam and Friends / int_1ba8eb64 | type |
Visual Pun | |
| Sam and Friends / int_1ba8eb64 | comment |
Visual Pun: In the "Visual Thinking" sketch, when Kermit says "I don't like jazz" a square appears around his head. | |
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Repeat After Me | |
| Sam and Friends / int_2d1c28b4 | comment |
Repeat After Me: One of the surviving episodes has a group of the Muppets acting out a Stan Freberg sketch in which a choir director (played by Kermit) is prompting the choir with the words for "I've Got You Under My Skin" and they follow along faithfully when he starts forgetting the words himself. | |
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Lethal Chef | |
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Lethal Chef: Omar attempts to make a salad that ends up being served on fire. | |
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End-of-Series Awareness | |
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End-of-Series Awareness: See Trash the Set. | |
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| Sam and Friends / int_3e848d5c | type |
Cast of Snowflakes | |
| Sam and Friends / int_3e848d5c | comment |
Cast of Snowflakes: It even includes a mannequin as the title character, unusually for the Muppets. | |
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Ambiguous Gender | |
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Ambiguous Gender: Icky Gunk is the only character with no confirmed gender. | |
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| Sam and Friends / int_476d2edb | type |
Snakes Are Sinister | |
| Sam and Friends / int_476d2edb | comment |
Snakes Are Sinister: Downplayed with Icky Gunk, who, while sinister, is still a heroic character. | |
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| Sam and Friends / int_4f4372e9 | type |
Early-Installment Weirdness | |
| Sam and Friends / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
Early-Installment Weirdness: This was the first appearance of Kermit the ... nondescript lizard thing. He didn't become a frog until some years after this show ended. Jim Henson wasn't fully comfortable voicing puppets yet, so many installments of the show, especially in the earlier years of its run, were segments lip-synced to novelty records. The main premise of the show was that Sam was the only real "person" in the cast, with the rest of his friends being figments of his imagination. | |
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| Sam and Friends / int_4fac5637 | type |
Protagonist and Friends | |
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Protagonist and Friends | |
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| Sam and Friends / int_4ff6f484 | type |
Trash the Set | |
| Sam and Friends / int_4ff6f484 | comment |
Trash the Set: In the final episode, Kermit and Harry blow up all the scenery and equipment since they won't need it anymore. | |
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Big Eater | |
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Big Eater: Yorick, who will eat almost anything, including his co-stars. | |
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| Sam and Friends / int_60c53080 | type |
Parody Assistance | |
| Sam and Friends / int_60c53080 | comment |
Parody Assistance: When Stan Freberg saw how Henson was having puppets lip-sync to his records on Sam and Friends, he not only gave full approval, he also cameoed in one episode to complain about them using his records (only for Kermit to whack him with a baseball bat). | |
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| Sam and Friends / int_71538259 | type |
Token Human | |
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Token Human: Sam was the only truly human character, although there were several abstract humanoids. | |
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Enforced Plug | |
| Sam and Friends / int_7f64efd5 | comment |
Enforced Plug: At the end of episodes a few of the characters would give an enthusiastic ad-read for that episode's sponsor, with one of the most common being Esskay Meats. | |
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World of Pun | |
| Sam and Friends / int_86eea0e5 | comment |
World of Pun: The episode "Powder-Burn". | |
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Parody Episode | |
| Sam and Friends / int_8e3f39b3 | comment |
Parody Episode: "Powder-Burn" is a parody of Gunsmoke. "Poison to Poison" is a parody of the Talk Show Person to Person. | |
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Talk Show | |
| Sam and Friends / int_b7396aae | comment |
"Poison to Poison" is a parody of the Talk Show Person to Person. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Yorick with his skull-like head is named after the Posthumous Character in Hamlet whose skull Hamlet monologues to. | |
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| Sam and Friends / int_da0eeab5 | type |
Breakout Character | |
| Sam and Friends / int_da0eeab5 | comment |
Breakout Character: Kermit, who eventually became the face of the Muppets franchise. | |
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Made from Real Girl Scouts | |
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Made from Real Girl Scouts: An interview with Alfred Hitchcock (Chicken Liver) has the director sitting on an armchair made out of real arms. | |
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