Why wasn't that hyperlinked?

Ho hum.

http://www.muppetcentral.com

>Why wasn't that hyperlinked?

I think you need to include the "http://" bit.

>http://www.muppetcentral.com

QED.

>Why wasn't that hyperlinked?

I think you need to include the "http://" bit.

>http://www.muppetcentral.com

QED.

Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers both did Muppets Shows. I remember as a kid the standard went way down hill when they started guesting Americans I'd never heard off.

Wasn't Chris Langham a special guest once? That must have confused everybody, Brit or American.

Chris Langham was a writer for the fifth season.

rOD.

Speaking as an American, I recall the weirdest part was that they'd show the Peter Sellers one here but not the Spike Milligan one.

You want to be disgusted by "Edit News," check out the recent [U.S.] Nickelodeon edits of the Muppet Shows ... they replace the theme song, cut scads of stuff, only show certain eps ever ... blabbity blah blah blah. The original version of the Muppet Babies theme song I remember as a kid also doesn't play on repeats [the bridge in which the characters introduce themselves being deleted -- I have this on tape somewhere] ...

I'm embarrassed for knowing this now.

I wasn't confused by Chris Langham on The Muppet Show. I just thought 'Hello - it's him off of Not The Nine O''Clock News'.

I'd love to see it again. I'm pretty sure he was in a solo sketch playing a time machine inventor. About halfway through he pushed a button, then did the entire script thus far backwards (i.e. each word in reverse order, ending with 'Hello').

The Muppets did a visually literal cover-version of 'Ying Tong Song' in one show - an elderly Muppet in bed (being tucked in when he was 93!) with a painting of an opera singer on the wall behind him recreating the operatic intrusions,

>I'd love to see it again. I'm pretty sure he was in a solo sketch playing a time machine inventor. About halfway through he pushed a button, then did the entire script thus far backwards (i.e. each word in reverse order, ending with 'Hello').

I don't know about on the muppets, but he definitely had the routine, he does it to start his spot on the "Fundamental Frolics" video you've just reminded me I own. From memory, it goes something like:

"Hello, this is what I'm working on at the moment, it's a time travel device. All I have to do is press this little button and I go travelling literally backwards through time. <click> Time through backwards literally travelling go I..."

Marvellous. My memory's intact then. The Muppet sketch must have been a longer version though. I remember being very impressed at his verbal twists and told my teacher as much the following Monday. She said that was very nice, dear.

>Speaking as an American, I recall the weirdest part was that they'd show the Peter Sellers one here but not the Spike Milligan one.

And we had to sit through all the ones with people like Linda Lavin (apparently a sitcom star), Wally Boag (a loon whose only apparent talent was for spitting out false teeth) and Dom DeLuise! It's a disgrace.