8. Season 2, Episode 14 (Elton John)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol9EEa6MNHA "I have seen some pretty weird guests on this show, but this...Elton John...borders on revolutionary! Why does he dress like a stolen car?"-Sam the Eagle After the initial season's success, The Muppet Show was able to draw in more current celebrities. Dressed in brightly-colored feathers decades before Cee-lo fronted another Muppet group, Elton John looks right at home fronting The Electric Mayhem as they perform "Crocodile Rock" in a jungle. He later gets to perform Benny and the Jets with the shows flamboyantly-frocked cast , and his performance of Dont Go Breakin My Heart with Miss Piggy is just as heartfelt, if not as euphonious, as any duet of it performed with Kiki Dee. These skits and performances are punctuated with scenes of the Swedish Chef chasing a chicken who keeps laying ping pong balls instead of eggs; hes decided that instead of making Egg Du Chef, he will make Chicken Du Chef, but in the end it is the chicken who wields the meat cleaver (the show almost always finds a way to make the underdog win)
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Sienna is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis who is from the Philadelphia area. Her interests include 20th century pop culture, vintage items, Fair Trade, learning languages, and anything with the potential to become a camp classic.
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