Crystal Gayle guest stars, and the Prairie Dog Glee Club snatch up everything that isn't nailed down — including Kermit's collar!
Songs and Sketches
- "Swanee", sung by a collection of Muppets in Germany.
- "River Road", sung by Crystal Gayle.
- Pigs in Space: Dearth Nadir attacks the Swinetrek.
- UK Spot: "Hold Tight, Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama)", performed by Rowlf, Lew Zealand, and a collection of sea creatures.
- "Sixty Seconds Got Together", sung by the Gills Brothers.
- "The Best Things in Life Are Free", sung by the Prairie Dog Glee Club.
- Muppet Labs: Banana Sharpener
- "We Must Believe in Magic", sung by Crystal Gayle.
This episode has examples of
- Banana Peel: During the Muppet Labs sketch, Bunsen cites banana peels' slipperiness as one of their flaws. Beaker promptly demonstrates by slipping on a dropped peel.
- Bankruptcy Barrel: Statler and Walforf in The Stinger, after the prairie dogs steal all their clothes.
- Brown Bag Mask: Worn by Kermit when the Prairie Dogs steal his collar.
- Edible Ammunition: The "Banana Sharpener" turns bananas into throwing weapons.
- Fluffy Fashion Feathers: Crystal, on learning that the prairie dogs have stolen Kermit's collar, tries putting a feather boa around his neck as a substitute. It doesn't help.Kermit: Well, I don't know. I feel kind of dumb.
Crystal: No, not at all.
[The prairie dogs walk in and start giggling at Kermit.]
Prairie Dog #1: Boy, do you look dumb! - I Want My Mommy!: When Link Hogthrob and First Mate Piggy find out that the Swinetrek has been invaded by Dearth Nadir, Piggy asks Link what they're going to do.Link: What can we do? [into phone] Link's mommy wanted on the bridge!
- Karma Houdini: The prairie dogs never get any comeuppance for stealing everything.
- Knife Outline: Dr. Honeydew testing out the results of his "Banana Sharpener" by slingshotting the bananas at the wall Beaker is standing against results in this.
- Musicalis Interruptus: "The Best Things in Life Are Free" is cut short by Fozzie as Bear on Patrol, with the number then degrading into a full blown Bear on Patrol sketch.
- Our Nudity Is Different: Kermit is considered naked without his collar, even though it never covered much of anything.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Who is Dearth Nadir? Just look at that nose...
- The Runaway: Crystal sings that she's "running away down River Road." A conversation with an old woman she meets on the road changes her mind.Old Woman: You look like you're running away.
Crystal: Sure am.
Old Woman: Yeah. I ran away, in 1924.
Crystal: What happened?
Old Woman: Eh, I'm still running. I sleep on the hard ground every night. Haven't changed my socks since World War II. Last night, for dinner, I ate a fence post.
[Crystal turns around and starts back for home.] - Sticky Fingers: As Scooter notes, the Prairie Dogs must have pack rat blood in 'em. They steal everything, and by the end of the episode have stripped everyone down to their underclothes.
- Suddenly Speaking: Beaker finally speaks his first clear words in the Muppet Labs sketch: "Bye bye!"
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: First Mate Piggy's reaction when she realizes the identity of Dearth Nadir is to make a face at the audience, shake her head, and say, "Oh, good grief."
- Waldorf: [wearing a barrel] Well, so much for the prairie dogs.
Statler: [also wearing a barrel] Yeah, now we gotta worry about termites!
