The Muppet Show (TV Series)

Beverly Sills (1979)

Jim Henson: Kermit the Frog, Waldorf, Link Hogthrob, Muppet Newsman

Quotes 

• Cow : We're angry because you're doing Pigoletto tonight.

  Goat , Otter : Yeah!

  Kermit the Frog : What's wrong with that?

  Cow : Well, there's an opera for us cows!

  Kermit the Frog : What's that?

  Cow : Madame Buttermilk.

  Goat , Otter : Yeah!

  Goat : Hey. There's one for us goats too.

  Kermit the Frog : Hmm?

  Goat : Goaterdämmerung.

  Cow , Otter : Yeah!

  Kermit the Frog : Watch your language.

• The Newsman : Muppet News Flash! Soprano Beverly Sills withdrew her announced plans to retire from the operatic stage. "I'll be singing opera until the cows come home," she said today in a...

  [suddenly, he gets startled by the sounds of a herd of mooing cows as they stampede through the newsroom and trample him] 

• Statler : [seeing Waldorf asleep]  Wake up!

  Waldorf : [waking up]  Huh? Who's the guest star tonight?

  Statler : Beverly Hills.

  Waldorf : Oh, I've been there before.

  [goes back to sleep] 

  Statler : Oh.

  [nods] 

• Scooter : Somebody outside was trying to break the combination lock on your bicycle! But I stopped 'em.

  Kermit the Frog : Oh, good. What did you do?

  Scooter : I told them the combination.

• Kermit the Frog : And now, ladies and gentlemen, we present a totally unknown and unrehearsed opera, Pigoletto, uh, sung to the music of La Traviata, and performed for you by the Muppetopolitan Opera Company. Ahem. Uh, it's all very strange, but the good thing about it is that it stars Miss Beverly Sills! Yaaay!