The Muppet Show (TV Series)

Bernadette Peters (1977)

Richard Hunt: Scooter, Statler, Beaker, Janice, Bubba, Chicken, Grasshopper

Quotes 

• Waldorf : Wow! Wonderful! Wonderful! That Bernadette Peters is terrific!

  Statler : Well, I reserve judgment.

  Waldorf : 'Til when?

  Statler : 'Til the pig tells me what to say.

  [Miss Piggy appears behind them] 

  Miss Piggy : Bernadette Peters you can like.

  Statler : I loved her! I loved her!

  Miss Piggy : [suddenly angry]  It's the mouse you gotta hate!

  Statler : I hated her!

  Waldorf : Terrible mouse!

  Statler : That was rotten!

  Waldorf : Boo!

  Statler : Boo!

• Statler : Seriously, what did you think of Miss Mousey?

  Waldorf : I loved her.

  Statler : Me, too.

  Miss Piggy : [appearing behind them]  What!

  Statler , Waldorf : [startled]  No, we didn't!

  Miss Piggy : Thank you.

• Scooter : Bernadette Peters. Fifteen seconds to curtain Miss Peters.

  Bernadette Peters : Thanks Scooter. Oh, and thank the Swedish Chef for sending me this lovely... chicken... sandwich.

  Chicken : [an unplucked and alive chicken is between the bread]  Brawk!

  Bernadette Peters : Suddenly I'm not hungry.

• Sam The Eagle : [Sam has concluded telling the story of the Ant and The Grasshopper where the Ant got stepped on and the Grasshopper drove to Florida]  Wait Wait Wait Wait Wait that was not in the script. Someone changed it we'll have to do it again oh.

  [Sam puts head down on the book] 

  Statler : The Grasshopper drove to Florida.

  Waldorf : The Ant got stepped on.

  [They both laugh and Sam pops in to yell at them] 

  Sam The Eagle : [Angry]  Will you stop that?

  [Sam leaves] 

  Waldorf : Why are they picking on us tonight?