Tonight's special guest star is none other than the star of TV's Wonder Woman (1975) herself, Lynda Carter! This inspires Scooter and some of the other Muppets to take a correspondence course on "How to Be a Superhero".
Skits and songs:
- Song: "A Little Help From My Friends" — Janice
- Backstage with Kermit, Scooter, and Fozzie
- Dressing Room with Lynda Carter, Kermit and Sam
- Song: "The Rubberband Man" — Lynda Carter and The Rubber Band Men
- Backstage with Kermit, Scooter, Gonzo, Link, Fozzie, and Lew Zealand
- Sketch: Muppet News Flash — "Rezal-evad-gib"
- Dressing Room with Lynda Carter, Beauregard, and the Newsman.
- Song: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" — Floyd
- Backstage with Kermit, Sam, and Rizzo
- Sketch: "Wonder Pig" with Miss Piggy, Annie Sue, Link, and Dr. Strangepork.
- Backstage with Lynda Carter and Miss Piggy
- Song: "The Whiffenpoof Song" — Sheep and a wolf
- Backstage with Kermit and the "Super Goofs"
- Song: "Orange Colored Sky" — Lynda Carter, Scooter, Fozzie, Lew Zealand, Link, Rizzo, and Gonzo
This episode provides the example of:
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In the "Wonder Pig" sketch, Annie Sue has gone into shock, making clucking sounds, because she had caught sight of a giant (and real) chicken. Miss Piggy changes to Wonder Pig, grows to giant size, and shoos it away.Miss Piggy: Beat it, you dumb cluck!
- Correlation/Causation Gag: Lew Zealand is studying a chapter on X-Ray Vision from the course's instruction manual, Invincibility Made Easy. He thinks he's learned the art of seeing through doors when Fozzie, who wants to learn the art of swinging from building to building on a rope, is practicing by swinging across the room, breaking down one of the dressing-room doors.Lew Zealand: Pick a closed door. Yeah. Uh, stare at it for several seconds, and suddenly the door will seem to vanish and you'll see inside the room. Oh, gotcha.
[He stares at the door of a dressing room. Moments later, Fozzie swings across the room, breaking down the door.]
Lew Zealand: I can see the room! I have x-ray vision! - False Teeth Tomfoolery: In the opening Couch Gag, after Gonzo blows a high note on his trumpet, his teeth are shown to be stuck to the mouthpiece.Gonzo: What an embarrassment!
- Faux-To Guide: The course's instruction manual, Invincibility Made Easy, fails miserably at teaching Gonzo, Link, Fozzie, and Lew Zealand how to fly through the power of belief.
- Mugging the Monster: During "The Whiffenpoof Song", the wolf keeps kidnapping sheep. When he gets to the last ram, the ram turns into "Super-Sheep" and blasts the wolf with a ray gun.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: The Newsman reports that the temple of an ancient Egyptian crocodile god named Rezal-evad-gib (the name of which he actually says twice for emphasis) has been discovered, and that said god will "wreak a terrible vengeance" upon anyone entering the tomb or even saying his name aloud. In the middle of saying how ridiculous the story is, he is immediately attacked by the crocodile god. In the next scene, Beauregard runs up to Lynda's dressing room and tries to warn her not to say the the crocodile's name. He can't remember it, but he says it's right on the tip of his tongue. She looks at the tip of his tongue and starts to say the name out loud, to his horror—but before she can finish, the Newsman runs in, says it again, and is attacked by the crocodile a second time.[Beauregard and Lynda are staring in horror at the spot where the Newsman had been standing a moment ago.]
Beauregard: Yuck!
Lynda: Blech!
Beauregard: That could have been you! - Reading Ahead in the Script: In the opening scene, Lynda pre-empts Scooter when he comes to tell her that it's twenty seconds to curtain. He thinks that she can read his mind, but she reveals that she's just reading from the script. Scooter tries to claim that the show is all ad-libbed, but Lynda proves him wrong by reading what he's saying out loud as he's saying it.
- Superhero Episode: In honor of Carter's appearance on the show, Scooter and a few other Muppets take a correspondence course on "How to Be a Superhero". Miss Piggy also does a Wonder Pig sketch.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: At the climax of the superhero subplot, Scooter is reading a chapter of Invincibility Made Easy that teaches about learning how to fly. After stating that all they need to do is believe that they can fly, Scooter encourages Gonzo, Link, Fozzie, and Lew Zealand to "step off the ladder and float to the ceiling". Cue all four Muppets falling flat on the ground.
- Take That!: In-Universe, where at the end of the "Wonder Pig" sketch, Miss Piggy tells Lynda Carter to eat her heart out.
- You're Insane!: Kermit says this after noticing Fozzie, who's in a cheap superhero costume, reading aloud from his copy of the manual.Fozzie: Uh, let's see. "Lesson Two. Deflecting bullets with the magic gold bracelets." Oh, hi, Kermit. Whatcha doin'?
Kermit: Oh, just noticing that this season has produced a bumper crop of nuts.
- Waldorf: [noticing Statler wearing a superhero costume with a dollar sign] Good grief! You've turned into...
Statler: Money Man! [flexes his arms]
