The Muppets Valentine Show

<p><strong>Bonus Episode:</strong> Love and dynamite are in the air as I introduce 2 guests to 1974’s “The Muppets Valentine Show,” an early pilot of what would eventually become The Muppet Show, guest-starring a pregnant Mia Farrow.</p> <h4>On This Episode</h4> <ol> <li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), your typewriter-bound host wearing sunglasses indoors whom you’ll never see again.</li> <li><strong>Brian Arnold</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/phillyradiogeek">@phillyradiogeek</a>) from <a href="http://meandyouandablognamedboo.blogspot.com/">Me and You and a Blog Named Boo</a>.</li> <li><strong>Joey O.</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/imgonnadj24">@ImGonnaDJ24</a>) from <a href="http://ynotradio.net/">Y-Not Radio</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Words_W_Nerds">Words with Nerds</a>.</li> </ol> <hr /> <h4>About the Special</h4> <ul> <li><a href="http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/The_Muppets_Valentine_Show">Muppet Wiki’s entry on The Muppets Valentine Show</a>.</li> <li>It’s on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sglin_5oClM">YouTube</a>.</li> </ul> <hr /> <h4>Topics and Tangents</h4> <ol> <li><a href="https://www.henson.com/jimsredbook/2014/04/461973">Jim Henson’s Red Book entry</a> about getting this pilot green-lit by some guy at ABC named Mike Eisner. (Yep, that one.)</li> <li>Hey, fellow kids, remember typewriters?</li> <li>We quickly touch on Crazy Harry’s original incarnation as “Crazy Donald” and then immediately drop it.</li> <li>Before Miss Piggy, Kermit loved Miss Mousey. Corporate foreshadowing!</li> <li>George the Janitor is simultaneously UHF’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNid0POX7ek">Stanley Spadowski</a> and WWE’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huGfljEq19E">Perry Saturn</a>.</li> <li>George and Mildred took a back seat after this pilot, but were regular partners on The Muppet Show’s “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onMCplAJruc">At the Dance</a>” sketch.</li> <li>The morose Muppet