James Coburn guest stars, and starts a friendship with Animal. Meanwhile, an octopus invades Statler and Waldorf's theater box.
Songs and Sketches
- "Temptation", performed by the Sargasso Bottom Rhythm Boys.
- "(They Long To) Be Close To You", sung by a Whatnot man.
- A Salute to the Roaring '20s, performed by Gonzo, James Coburn, and other Muppets.
- UK Spot: "Bird Walk", performed by Betsy Bird.
- Bear on Patrol: Patrol Bear arrests Banana Nose Maldonado.
- Salute to Japan, performed by James Coburn, Animal, geisha, and cowboys.
This episode has examples of
- Do Wrong, Right: When he sees Animal eating a chair, James demonstrates the right way to deal with aggression.James: Animal... Animal, come here. Listen, there's right ways and wrong ways to handle aggression.
Animal: Aggression?
James: Yeah. You don't want to bust a chair up like that.
Animal: Wha?
James: You want to bust it up like this!
[James grabs the chair and shatters it against the staircase post, then goes up to his dressing room.]
Animal: My kind of guy! Jimmy! Jimmy! Jimmy...! [follows him upstairs] - Shoe Phone: In The Teaser, Pops assumes that James Coburn is there to assassinate Kermit the Frog, and sarcastically asks if the bulge in James's pocket is just a pipe when the latter says that he's just there as a guest. James takes out the object to reveal that it is in fact just a pipe, telling Pops that he watches too many movies. Pops then tells Scooter to show James to his dressing room, and James tells him to make it snappy, firing a few warning shots with the pipe, which turns out to double as a gun.
- Tentacled Terror: The octopus that gets thrown into the box spends the episode harassing the old hecklers.
- [The octopus has both old men in his grip, tentacles covering their mouths.]
Octopus: More! More!
[The geezers let out muffled protests.]
