The Best of The Muppet Show and Sesame Street

The Best of The Muppet Show and Sesame Street is a video series of compilations featuring clips from The Muppet Show and Sesame Street. It first started in October 2011. There are 13 compilations released and there are 2 bonus ones to make 15 in total.

Volumes

Volume 1
Segments from The Muppet Show
 * Witch Doctor with Marvin Suggs and his Muppaphone (Episode 304: Gilda Radner)


 * Muppet Labs: Elevator Shoes (Episode 301: Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge)


 * Pigs in Space: Outlines (Episode 307: Alice Cooper)


 * The Swedish Chef: Chocolate Moose (Episode 220: Petula Clark)


 * Kermit meets Mickey Moose and Ronald Duck (Episode 220: Petula Clark)


 * Gonzo practices fainting for Camilla (Episode 318: Leslie Uggams)
 * Gonzo visits Camilla's dressing room (Episode 318: Leslie Uggams)


 * Memory Lane with Gonzo (Episode 219: Peter Sellers)

Segments from Sesame Street
 * Kid jungle explorers find a wild letter C (EKA: Episode 3590)


 * Leaves form R and r (EKA: Episode 3110)


 * Milo Counting: 7 (EKA: Episode 3595)


 * I've got some (hair), I've got more, but I've got the most. (EKA: Episode 0915)


 * Ernie and Bert: Bert teaches Bernice how to play checkers (EKA: Episode 1227)


 * The floating kids form a triangle (EKA: Episode 3122)


 * Elmo's World: Pets (First: Episode 3918)


 * Volume notes
 * During the scene of Gonzo practicing his faint for Camilla, This sequence is shortened to remove Leslie Uggams, who appeared on-screen during this scene like in It's the Muppets!: Meet the Muppets! and the ending of Gonzo visiting Camilla's dressing when Gonzo opens the door and Camilla sneezing out of her room and landing in Muppet Labs was edited which was also like in It's the Muppets!: Meet the Muppets! because there was already a Muppet Labs sketch a few minutes ago.
 * Even though the Pigs in Space sketch is from the third season, the intro used in season two sketches is included like in the It's The Muppets volumes.

Volume 2
Segments from The Muppet Show
 * Mahna Mahna (Episode 101: Juliet Prowse)


 * In a Little Spanish Town with The Snerfs (Episode 113: Bruce Forsyth)


 * Muppet Labs: Gorilla Detector (Episode 116: Avery Schreiber)


 * Muppet Sports: Wig Racing (Episode 310: Marisa Berenson)


 * Pigs in Space: The Captain's Controls (Episode 209: Madeline Kahn)


 * The Swedish Chef: Spicy Sauce (Episode 115: Candice Bergen)


 * Money with Dr. Teeth (Episode 106: Jim Nabors)

Segments from Sesame Street
 * Pencil box I/i (EKA: Episode 3040)


 * Ornate Xs spin around in accompaniment to a song (EKA: Episode 3058)


 * Rubber Stamp #15 (EKA: Episode 2945)


 * Push! Push! Push! (EKA: Episode 3445)


 * Fat Cat (EKA: Episode 0536)


 * Elmo's World: Bananas (First: Episode 3858)

Volume 3
Segments from The Muppet Show
 * Halfway Down the Stairs (Episode 110: Harvey Korman)


 * Pigs in Space: Invisibility Pills (Episode 324: Cheryl Ladd)


 * Fozzie's Comedy Acts: Fozzie and Chuckie Time (Episode 207: Edgar Bergen)


 * Muppet Labs: Bunsonium (Episode 212: Bernadette Peters)


 * Veterinarian's Hospital: Bread (Episode 118: Phyllis Diller)


 * Muppet News Flash: Over-hand Refrigerator Throwing (Episode 313: Helen Reddy)


 * I Got Rhythm with Rowlf and Fozzie (Episode 420: Alan Arkin)

Segments from Sesame Street
 * Planet J/j (EKA: Episode 2849)


 * Soul O (EKA: Episode 3375)


 * Growing Numbers #20 (EKA: Episode 3038)


 * Ernie and Bert: Bert sees Ernie talk to an elephant while using a banana as a phone. Ernie explains to Bert that he is just pretending, but then he tells Bert that the elephant wants to talk to him (EKA: Episode 3899)


 * A face is assembled and becomes an abstract portrait (EKA: Episode 3320)


 * Elmo's World: Birds (EKA: Episode 3945)


 * Volume notes
 * Even though the Pigs in Space sketch is from the third season, the intro used in season two sketches is included like in the It's The Muppets volumes.

Volume 4
Segments from The Muppet Show
 * I Never Harmed an Onion with Rowlf (Episode 104: Ruth Buzzi)


 * Veterinarian's Hospital: Cluckitis (Episode 321: Roger Miller)


 * Pigs in Space: Snacko Waves (Episode 305: Pearl Bailey)


 * The Swedish Chef: Meatballs (Episode 102: Connie Stevens)


 * I Get Around with Miss Piggy and the Pigs (Episode 415: Anne Murray)


 * Muppet Labs: Edible Paperclips (Episode 305: Pearl Bailey)


 * Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear with Scooter and Fozzie (Episode 101: Juliet Prowse)

Segments from Sesame Street
 * The letter H appears in words on buildings (EKA: Episode 3368)


 * V in space (EKA: Episode 0560)


 * 5s are found in an icy environment (EKA: Episode 3300)


 * Cookie Monster and Ernie: Cuppycakes (EKA: Episode 0235)


 * Marshal Grover sees mirages of water in the dessert (EKA: Episode 2874)


 * Elmo's World: Water (EKA: Episode 3831)

Volume 5
Segments from The Muppet Show
 * Sweet Gingerbread Man with The Gingerbread Men (Episode 201: Don Knotts)


 * Veterinarian's Hospital: Shoe (Episode 212: Bernadette Peters)


 * Muppet News Flash: exploding news reporters (Episode 209: Madeline Kahn)


 * The Swedish Chef: Frog Legs (Episode 215: Lou Rawls)


 * Muppet Labs: Germ Enlarger (Episode 307: Alice Cooper)


 * Gonzo holds a piano on one hand while multiplying the number seven (Episode 301: Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge)


 * I'm Five with Robin (Episode 212: Bernadette Peters)

Segments from Sesame Street
 * G for go, girls, guitar, goldfish, goggles, gallop and gone (First: Episode 3269)


 * The letter S grows on a vine (EKA: Episode 3618)


 * The number 9 is spray painted on a truck in various forms of graffiti art (First: Episode 4023)


 * HEN/PEN/TEN/MEN (EKA: Episode 2558)


 * Jasper and Julius: I've lost my elbow! (EKA: Episode 0410)


 * Elmo's World: Bicycles (EKA: Episode 3969)

Volume 6
Segments from The Muppet Show
 * Wild Thing with Animal (Episode 222: Teresa Brewer)


 * Muppet News Flash: Mallard-itis (Episode 215: Lou Rawls)


 * Muppet Labs: Magnetic Carrots (Episode 202: Zero Mostel)


 * Pigs in Space: Chopped Liver Alien (Episode 224: Cloris Leachman)


 * You Light Up My Life with Lew Zealand and his fabulous singing fish (Episode 524: Roger Moore)


 * The Swedish Chef: Chicken in the Basket (Episode 311: Raquel Welch)


 * Pennsylvania 6-5000 with Bobby Benson's Baby Band (Episode 319: Elke Sommer)


 * Carbon Paper with Annie Sue (Episode 302: Leo Sayer)

Segments from Sesame Street
 * The letter L dances at the beach (EKA: Episode 3583)


 * Gordon's Voiceover 'T/t': Two caterpillars form T and t (EKA: Episode 2269)


 * Suzie Kabloozie: Judge #2 (EKA: Episode 3954)


 * Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures: Inventors (First: Episode 4185)


 * Something's missing ... is it a frog or a dog? (EKA: Episode 2486)


 * Martin P. Robinson narrates a cartoon about a green violinist (EKA: Episode 3974)


 * Elmo's World: Dogs (First: Episode 3152)

Volume 7
Segments from The Muppet Show
 * Oklahoma! with Fozzie (Episode 317: Spike Milligan)


 * Pigs in Space: Inspection (Episode 216: Cleo Laine)


 * Veterinarian's Hospital: Recording Room Sound Guy (Episode 313: Helen Reddy)


 * Bein' Green with Kermit (Episode 112: Peter Ustinov)


 * Tea for Two with Rowlf and Lew Zealand (Episode 314: Harry Belafonte)


 * Who? with Zelda Rose & her Singing Owl (Episode 203: Milton Berle)

Segments from Sesame Street
 * Speech Balloon: K - Key (EKA: Episode 0040)


 * Letter P Menu (EKA: Episode 3578)


 * Abstract count to 13 (EKA: Episode 2849)


 * Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures: Mountain Climbers


 * Elmo's World: Music (First: Episode 3824)

Volume 8
Segments from The Muppet Show
 * The Devil Went Down to Georgia (Episode 420: Alan Arkin)


 * Fozzie's Phrenology Act (Episode 216: Cleo Laine)


 * Muppet Labs: Fireproof Paper (Muppet Labs: Fireproof Paper)


 * Pigs in Space: Dissolvatron (Episode 314: Harry Belafonte)


 * Muppet News Flash: Sports Equipment (Episode 217: Julie Andrews)


 * Over the Rainbow with Robin (Episode 307: Alice Cooper)


 * Rag Mop (Episode 111: Lena Horne)

Segments from Sesame Street
 * D ... daring ... dazzling ... delightful ... dizzy ... dreaded ... dinosaur! (EKA: Episode 3434)


 * Dancing Petroglyphs: Y (EKA: Episode 3381)


 * Number creatures 18 (EKA: Episode 2639)


 * Ernie and Bert: Bert can't decide which hat to wear to the Pigeon Lovers' meeting (First: Episode 3973)


 * The word EGGS is shown, followed by eggs frying in a skillet (EKA: Episode 3045)


 * Elmo's World: Computers (First: Episode 3916)


 * Volume notes
 * Even though the Pigs in Space sketch is from the third season, the intro used in season two sketches is included like in the It's The Muppets volumes. And during the beginning of the sketch, the announcer said "When last we left the Swinetrek, Dr. Strangepork was on the verge of completing his mysterious experiment" it was dubbed at the beginning in the video because he only said "And now, time once again for PIGS… IN… SPACE!" in the episode that features the sketch.


 * The beginning of the Muppet Labs with Camilla falling in Muppet Labs was cut off and edited. The beginnings of the Muppet Labs sketches 4th and 5th episodes from the third season that features the laboratory window was included at the sketch begins.


 * During Fozzie's Phrenology Act, after he said "Tonight, because there is a certain someone special in the audience" a scene of his mom from the beginning of the episode that sketch appeared and he said hi to her before the sketch resumes like in It's the Muppets!: Meet the Muppets!

Volume 9
Segments from The Muppet Show
 * Octopus' Garden with Kermit, Robin, Miss Piggy and Animal (Episode 312: James Coco)


 * Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah with The Bun-Bun Brothers (Episode 420: Alan Arkin)


 * Muppet News Flash: Venus (Episode 417: Star Wars)


 * Veterinarian's Hospital: George the Janitor (Episode 117: Ben Vereen)


 * Stayin' Alive with Miss Piggy and The Pigs (Episode 313: Helen Reddy)


 * Muppet Labs: Exploding Clothes (Episode 118: Phyllis Diller)


 * The Swedish Chef: Doughnuts (Episode 114: Sandy Duncan)


 * Fozzie's Rollerskate Act (Episode 215: Lou Rawls)


 * I Go to Rio (Episode 424: Diana Ross)

Scenes from Muppet Movies
 * Gonzo holds onto balloons (The Muppet Movie)

Segments from Sesame Street
 * Cookie Monster sings about the U sound in the word "umbrella" (First: Episode 4191)


 * The Letter Z in various typefaces (EKA: Episode 2855)

demonstrate "zero dancer" (EKA: Episode 4014)
 * A man break-dances around the number 0, disappearing to


 * Honk Around the Clock with The Honkers (EKA: Episode 2492)


 * Ten masked dancers are counted (EKA: Episode 3079)


 * Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures: Mermaids (First: Episode 4205)


 * Jim Thurman sings Calcutta Joe (EKA: Episode 2492)


 * Various demonstrations of near and far in the backyard (EKA: Episode 3766)


 * Elmo's World: Singing (First: Episode 3851)


 * Volume notes
 * This is the first volume in the series to feature clips from the Muppet movies.


 * During Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, This sequence is shortened to remove Alan Arkin who appeared on-screen during this scene.

Volume 10
Segments from The Muppet Show
 * For What It's Worth with woodland animals (Episode 221: Bob Hope)


 * Lullaby of Broadway with Eskimo Pigs (Episode 304: Gilda Radner)


 * The Swedish Chef: Banana Split (Episode 312: James Coco)


 * Muppet Labs: Shrinking Pills (Episode 306: Jean Stapleton)


 * Muppet News Flash: Hotline (Episode 102: Connie Stevens)


 * Pigs in Space: Weight Problems (Episode 420: Alan Arkin)


 * Hawaiian War Chant (Episode 320: Sylvester Stallone)

Segments from Sesame Street
 * F-face: Various faces morph into each other (EKA: Episode 2916)


 * W for water, wind, wave and wet (EKA: Episode 3198)


 * Ornate 12s sail through the air (First: Episode 3274)


 * The Four Squares sing It's Hip To Be a Square (EKA: Episode 2615)


 * Ernie sings The Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree (EKA: Episode 2773)


 * Elmo's World: Books (First: Episode 3817)


 * Volume notes
 * Even though the Pigs in Space sketch is from the fourth season, the Pigs in Space intro from the second season is used here.


 * Despite the previous volume, Honk Around the Clock would've been released in this volume because it appears in some Sesame Street episodes that's sponsored by the number 12.

Volume 11
Segments from The Muppet Show
 * Borneo with Lubbock Lou and his Jughuggers (Episode 217: Julie Andrews)


 * The Swedish Chef: Lobsters (Episode 209: Madeline Kahn)


 * Bear on Patrol: Capturing an octopus (Episode 416: Jonathan Winters)


 * Muppet Labs: Milking Machine (Episode 418: Christopher Reeve)


 * Sea Chantey with Link Hogthrob, Fozzie Bear, Scooter, Gonzo,and Robin the Frog (Episode 220: Petula Clark)


 * Muppet News Flash: Remodeling of Muppet News Studio (Episode 309: Liberace)


 * Sam the Eagle talks about nudity (Episode 206: Nancy Walker)


 * When with Rowlf (Episode 219: Peter Sellers)


 * Muppera opera number (Episode 409: Beverly Sills)

Segments from Sesame Street
 * Sand B/b (EKA: Episode 2243)


 * E/e Gregorian chant (EKA: Episode 3300)


 * Monty counts 16 flowers by 2's in voiceover (First: Episode 4053)


 * Kermit's Lectures: Kermit tries to explain the difference between happy and sad,two emotions which Elmo displays while trying to get Kermit to play with him (EKA: Episode 2481)


 * Ernie and Bert: Ernie makes a few animal sounds and wants Bert to guess what sounds he is making. Bert just want to read his book and keeps guessing correctly by accident. Eventually, Ernie decides to agree to stop playing the game and leaves, but then a lion comes in and roars. Bert isn't paying attention and thinks that Ernie is making the animal sounds even though he promised not to (First: Episode 4046)
 * The word TOY is displayed, followed by a wind-up drum-playing panda (EKA: Episode 3067)


 * Abby's Flying Fairy School: Sleeping Blöggy (First: Episode 4200)


 * Elmo's World: Birthdays (First: Episode 3940)

Volume 12
Segments from The Muppet Show
 * Six String Orchestra with Scooter (Episode 417: Star Wars)


 * Gonzo's motorcycle act (Episode 315: Lesley Ann Warren)


 * Muppet News Flash: Beef falls dramatically (Episode 512: Melissa Manchester)


 * The Swedish Chef: champagne (Episode 523: Linda Ronstadt)


 * Muppet Labs: Teleporter (Episode 219: Peter Sellers)


 * Fozzie's Comedy Acts: Good Grief! The Comedian's a Bear! (Episode 110: Harvey Korman)


 * Chattanooga Choo-Choo (Episode 210: George Burns)


 * Two Lost Souls with Robin and Sweetums (Episode 223: John Cleese)

Scenes from Muppet Movies
 * Movin' Right Along with Kermit and Fozzie (The Muppet Movie)

Segments from Sesame Street
 * A piece of paper is folded into a chick (First: Episode 3967)


 * M for monkey, mouse and macaw (EKA: Episode 3807)


 * His Y, Her Y (EKA: Episode 4055)


 * Abby's Flying Fairy School: Call it Macaronisaurus (First: Episode 4207)


 * Ornate 19s fly through the air, and collections of 19 objects are found throughout a yard (EKA: Episode 3758)


 * I am dry, he is wet. (dog washing) (EKA: Episode 0309)


 * Lefty the Salesman/Ernie and Bert: Lefty wants to sell Ernie a painting of a tree, which he says is a picture of four elephants. Ernie doesn't see the four elephants, so Lefty offers to show him the elephants if Ernie will buy the picture for a nickel. Lefty points out the elephants, which are actually spaces in the tree's branches. Ernie shells out for the picture. Ernie wants to pull the same trick on Bert, but Bert notices the elephants right away (First: Episode 0278)


 * Elmo's World: Games (First: Episode 3967)


 * Volume notes
 * This volume contains 2 part of Gonzo's motorcycle act added together like in The Muppet Revue.


 * The ending of The Swedish Chef flying and landing in the Muppet newsroom from his own sketch was cut because there was a Muppet News Flash before this sketch started.

Volume 13
Segments from The Muppet Show
 * Another Opening, Another Show with Fozzie Bear, Link Hogthrob, Scooter, Lew Zealand, Gonzo and Rizzo the Rat (Episode 514: Mac Davis)


 * Pigs in Space: Electric Toaster (Episode 303: Roy Clark)


 * At the Dance (Episode 306: Jean Stapleton)


 * Muppet News Flash: Dancing Chicken (Episode 105: Rita Moreno)


 * Muppet Sports: Horseshoe Pitching (Episode 322: Roy Rogers & Dale Evans)


 * Muppet Labs: All-Purpose Tenderizer (Episode 108: Paul Williams)


 * The Swedish Chef: turtle soup (Episode 405: Victor Borge)


 * Baby Face with the Chickens (Episode 207: Edgar Bergen)


 * You and I and George with Rowlf (Episode 101: Juliet Prowse)


 * Do-Re-Mi with Kermit, Fozzie Bear, Scooter, Annie Sue, Beauregard, Robin the Frog and Dr. Salamander (Episode 310: Marisa Berenson)


 * Pig Calypso with Miss Piggy,the pigs and Kermit (Episode 221: Bob Hope)

Segments from Sesame Street
 * Wegman's dogs form a letter A (EKA: Episode 3307)


 * Jaws spoof with the letter R (EKA: Episode 3351)


 * Pinball Number Count #6 (EKA: Episode 1450)


 * Ernie and Bert: Ernie has a banana in his ear (part 1) (EKA: Episode 1152)


 * Ernie and Bert (again): Ernie has a banana in his ear (part 2) (EKA: Episode 1277)


 * The camera encounters STOP signs in many locations (EKA: Episode 3377)


 * Murray Has a Little Lamb: Gymnastic School (First: Episode 4165)


 * I Am Chicken (EKA: Episode 2995)


 * Which legs belong on the tiger? (EKA: Episode 3786)


 * Elmo's World: Skin (First: Episode 4096)


 * Volume notes
 * Even though the Pigs in Space sketch is from the third season, the intro used in season two sketches is included like in It's the Muppets!: More Muppets, Please!.