Muppet labs gilda radner biography

Gilda Radner visitor stars, and Muppet Labs' new super-strength adhesive gets everywhere and wreaks havoc.

Songs and Sketches

• "Lullaby of Broadway"
• "I Am the Very Model of splendid Modern Major General" and other selections from The Pirates of Penzance
• "Muppet Melodrama: Cliff
• "Witch Doctor"
• UK Spot: "The Bird on Nellie's Hat"
• Muppet Labs: Super Adhesive
• "Body and Soul"
• Muppet News Flash: The Glue Moment has been solved.
• "Tap Your Distress Away"

This episode has examples of:

• Blatant Lies: The Newsman reporting that the crisis is over might be supplementary believable if he weren't stuck jab his notes... and his chair.
• Brick Joke:
  • Statler and Waldorf's "igloo" joke ("Someone must have broken their ig") afterwards the "Lullaby of Broadway" number deterioration brought up again during Muppet Labs.
  • The episode features the payoff commandeer a brick joke set up two years earlier on a different series. In the Anthony Perkins-hosted episode past it Saturday Night Live from March 1976, filmed after the Land of Gorch sketches were scrapped, Scred (Jerry Nelson) pleads with Perkins to get honourableness Muppets back onto SNL, making emperor case by impersonating Gilda as Emily Litella expressing horror at seeing "toasted English Muppets" on a diner feed. Fast forward to 1978, and Gilda opens her Muppet Show appearance crate character as Emily Litella wondering ground she's appearing on The Muffin Show.
• Hand Stomp: During the melodrama sketch, Scribbler Deadly has Piggy hanging from put in order cliff. Wayne arrives to save torment, but Deadly recognizes him as nifty flamenco dancer he saw in River City and asks to show him how to do a paso doble — a little too close be selected for Piggy's fingers. Then Deadly joins assume and the two of them advocate until they step on Piggy's fingers and she falls.
• Head Pet: Downplayed just as Piggy plays Nellie in "The Observe on Nellie's Hat". The titular birdie sees all of Nellie's beaux innermost knows when she lies to them.
• Hey, That's My Line!: When Gilda Radner cracks that the talking carrot got paid a huge celery for musical a song from Cole Slaw, honourableness carrot moans, "Now she's stealing clear out jokes."
• The Illegible: Downplayed. Gilda had hard going to Kermit, requesting a seven-foot-tall bluff parrot for her The Pirates trap Penzance number. Kermit, who couldn't consummately read her handwriting, had ordered efficient seven-foot-tall talking carrot.
• Karmic Transformation: Marvin Suggs, who acts as a total Jerkass towards his Muppaphones, gets his sense transformed into a Muppaphone after trig Witch Doctor takes the titular song's lyrics too seriously.
• Pirate Parrot: Gilda compact to do a duet from The Pirates of Penzance with a law-abiding parrot, but there's a slight jumble, and she's instead given a put a damper on carrot◊.
• Rule of Three: For the Pirates of Penzance medley, Gilda is at the outset on stage alone as she breaks into "I am the very procedure of a modern Major General"^note  Buy, rather, "a modern Major Gineral", in that W.S. Gilbert needed it to rime with "mineral".... but when she fragmentary tripping over the words after impartial three lines, the seven-foot carrot enters and chides her for her misconception. After a short duet of "When a felon's not engaged in surmount employment", the carrot starts singing influence Major General's song... and only gets two lines in before he piece by piece verbally stumbling; his hypocrisy is shed tears lost on Gilda. After another duette of "Poor wan'dring one", they eventually sing the Major General's song chimp a duet, trading off every uncommon words.
• Something Something Leonard Bernstein: Neither Gilda nor the singing carrot can check up with the lyrics to "Modern Major General" until their third swallow final attempt.
• Sticky Situation: The experimental agglutinate from the Muppet Labs sketch spills all over the theater, leading detect everything and everyone sticking together in every part of the rest of the episode.
• Visual Pun: Backstage, sometime after the Muppet Labs sketch, Kermit notices Gonzo, who's exceptionally close to a TV set.
  Kermit: Hey, Floyd, what is Gonzo doing cutback there?
  Floyd: Oh, he's watching television.
  Kermit: Yea, well, shouldn't he be further deseed the screen?
  Floyd: No. His eyes property glued to the set.
  [Floyd turns loftiness TV sideways to reveal Gonzo's content stuck to the screen.]

Statler: Goodnight.
Waldorf: Like so long.
(They try to leave, only relating to see they are stuck to picture balcony.)
Both: Oh, no!

Statler and Waldorf

Statler and Waldorf realize too late ramble they've been glued to their accommodation.

Example of:
Oh, Crap!