Recommended video: Muppet Show: Planet Koozebane
On this #SomethingElseSunday, we’re celebrating 70 years of the Muppets! From the Palisades Toys Muppets line, it’s Koozebanian Mama!
The long-nosed Female Koozebanian creature made her debut performing the “Galley-oh-hoop-hoop” mating ritual in 1974 on The Muppets Valentine Show, which served as the first pilot for The Muppet Show series. During the show’s seventh episode in 1976, a re-recorded version of the sketch aired to a much larger audience who tuned in for that night’s guest, Florence Henderson.
Though the character showed up in the opening “The Muppet Show Theme” for seasons 2-5, and had brief cameos in a handful of Muppet Show episodes and films, she never had a significant role, so her inclusion with the Kermit action figure in his reporter outfit dubbed “Koozebane Kermit” is still an interesting choice.
In addition to Kermit in his trench coat and a microphone like the one seen in the episode (but not on Sesame Street), the set also includes a male and a child Koozebanian creature, a base with some Koozebane landscape elements, and a pair of creatures known as Merdlidops.
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