Chef doesn't get paid enough to take this børk from Piggy.
The Great Muppet Cook-Off is the seventh episode in Season 2 of Muppet Babies (2018).
Feeling overshadowed by the new kid, Chef, Miss Piggy starts a cooking competition to see who's really top chef.
Tropes:
- Adaptational Intelligence: In The Muppet Show, the Swedish Chef was barely coherent and every type of Lethal Chef you could imagine. Here, he's a Supreme Chef (at worst, he needs some redirection to make a proper meal), and while he's still babbling in Mock Swedish, it's much more understandable compared to his adult counterpart.
- An Aesop: Following a recipe is very important when cooking.
- Alliterative Name: Summer mentions a relative named Pepper Penguin.
- Cooking Duel: When the babies like the Swedish Chef's cookies better than Piggy's, a jealous Piggy challenges Chef to a cook-off. In the cook-off, Piggy and Chef are tasked with making three dishes; macaroni and cheese, a meatball pizza, and a cake. Chef's cooking partner is Animal, and Piggy's is Summer. Chef wins every round because he and Animal follow the recipes, while Piggy's impatience and refusal to follow the recipes despite Summer's warnings result in her losing each round.
- Expressive Accessory: In this episode, Miss Nanny's leggings have cupcakes on them, to go with the cooking theme.
- Eyes Out of Sight: The younger version of the Swedish Chef has bangs that cover his eyes, since he's too young to have his signature unibrow and mustache.
- I've Heard of That — What Is It?: Fozzie thinks Piggy's idea for a cook-off is great, then asks what a cook-off is.
- Lethal Chef: Due to her insistence on not following the recipes, Piggy's food is comically terrible, including uncooked macaroni with a giant block of cheese, meatball pizza without the pizza and covered in way too much pepper, and a cake that literally explodes.
- Medium Blending: The demonstrative videos showing what the kids have to cook are in live-action, while the show itself is in CGI.
- Mood Whiplash: The final round has a constant back-and-forth between Chef and Animal gently making a cake, and Piggy wildly massacreing something that vaguely resembles a cake.
- Repeating So the Audience Can Hear: Gonzo frequently translates and repeats the Chef's mock-Swedish for the other kids to understand.
- Rule of Three: Piggy and The Swedish Chef are tasked with making three dishes; macaroni and cheese, a meatball pizza, and a cake.
- Pepper Sneeze: The excessive pepper in Piggy's meatballs makes everyone sneeze.
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Piggy, a girl, has a pink kitchen, while Chef, a boy, has a blue kitchen.
- Wingding Eyes: Tasting Chef's pizza makes Gonzo's eyes turn into emojis.
