The Muppet Show (TV Series)

Peter Sellers (1978)

Jim Henson: Kermit the Frog, Rowlf, Link Hogthtrob, Gypsy

Quotes 

• [Sellers is standing in his dressing room, alone, wearing pantaloons, a corset, boxing gloves, and a viking helmet with horns and braids while practicing a monologue] 

  Peter Sellers : Tell John Brown, we are ready to receive him...

  [Kermit enters] 

  Kermit : Peter, uh, what is this?

  Peter Sellers : It was to have been, my dear Kermit, it was to have been a grand impersonation of her late Majesty, Queen Victoria, whilst on vacation at Bognor Regis, in the year 1888.

  Kermit : But, but, uh, what went wrong?

  Peter Sellers : I couldn't remember what she looked like.

• Fozzie Bear : Kermit! Kermit! Oh no, the next act just cancelled!

  Kermit : What? But that was a terrific act! Prunella and her Prancing Poultry.

  Kermit : Yeah, I know, yeah, Kermit, about that poultry, you see, yesterday...

  [removes his hat] 

  Kermit : ... duck-hunting season began

• Kermit : [suddenly runs in]  Aha! So THAT'S what's been going on around here all night! You've been zapping people in and out of my theatre ...

  Dr. Bunsen Honeydew : Mr. Kermit, please, I'm in the middle of a scientific demonstration...

  Kermit : Yeah, well, I'm in the middle of a nervous breakdown!