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Muppet Babies

Season 5 1988
TV-Y

  • 1988-09-10T04:00:00Z on CBS
  • 25m
  • 5h 25m (13 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Animation, Children
Muppet Babies was a very successful cartoon series in its own right. This show basically featured Jim Henson's famous Muppets as babies. Each episode, each of the Muppet Babies had adventures that their imaginations take them on. Often however, their imaginations would sometimes get the better of them, all for comic effect. The featured Muppets were Baby Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, Rowlf, Animal, Scooter, and a new character, Skeeter, Scooter's look-alike sister. Occasionally they had visits from Baby Bunsen and Beaker, and even Statler and Waldorf came to visit, and later we see a recurring appearance by a "baby" version of Bean Bunny from Tale of the Bunny Picnic. The moral glue that held these Muppets together was Nanny (voiced by Barbara Billingsley of Leave it to Beaver fame), a character whose body was only shown from the waist down and we all remember the green striped socks. The one thing that made the Muppet Babies memorable were not the Muppets themselves, but the

13 episodes

Season Premiere

1988-09-10T04:00:00Z

5x01 Muppets Not Included

Season Premiere

5x01 Muppets Not Included

  • 1988-09-10T04:00:00Z25m

The babies find a tea strainer of Nanny's, and do not know what it is. Each babie thinks of a different use for it.

1988-09-17T04:00:00Z

5x02 Beauty and the Schnoz

5x02 Beauty and the Schnoz

  • 1988-09-17T04:00:00Z25m

Piggy learns that ""beauty is in the eye of the beholder"", when she makes fun of Gonzo and it hurts his feelings.

The babies bulid Nanny a ""picture box"" with a fairy tale scene, and each babie pretends to be a character.

Rowlf hadn't disapeared - he'd just watched a scary movie the night before and had gone to see Nanny. The secret passage was actually an old dumbwaiter which Animal found and had been using to move between the attic, kichen and basement.

1988-10-08T04:00:00Z

5x05 Slipping Beauty

5x05 Slipping Beauty

  • 1988-10-08T04:00:00Z25m

Piggy gets the chicken pox, and tells the babies the story of Sleeping Beauty, through walkie-talkie.

1988-10-15T04:00:00Z

5x06 Muppet Baby Boom

5x06 Muppet Baby Boom

  • 1988-10-15T04:00:00Z25m

All the babies look foward to seeing Mrs. Mitchell's baby, which ends up being a kitten.

1988-10-22T04:00:00Z

5x07 Scooter By Any Other Name

Scooter's tired of being a nerd, so Gonzo convinces him to reinvent himself; first as a jet fighter pilot, then as a stand-up comic, then as a rock star, and finally as a superhero.

1988-10-29T04:00:00Z

5x08 He's a Wonderful Frog

5x08 He's a Wonderful Frog

  • 1988-10-29T04:00:00Z25m

The Babies think Kermit is moving away, so stage a ""This is Your Life"" spoof to try and convince him to stay.

1988-11-05T05:00:00Z

5x09 Elm Street Babies

5x09 Elm Street Babies

  • 1988-11-05T05:00:00Z25m

The babies describe their weird dreams to each other.

1988-11-12T05:00:00Z

5x10 Plan 8 from Outer Space

5x10 Plan 8 from Outer Space

  • 1988-11-12T05:00:00Z25m

The babies see a news bulletin about disapearing nannies. Gonzo says that aliens have been nannynapping them because they use green stripped socks to power their spaceships (and only nannies wear green stripped socks).

1988-11-19T05:00:00Z

5x11 Junkyard Muppets

5x11 Junkyard Muppets

  • 1988-11-19T05:00:00Z25m

The babies make things out of old junk, while Fozzie searches for his lost Teddy.

When the air-conditioner breaks down, Scooter and Piggy travel to find a place that is more cool.

Season Finale

1988-12-03T05:00:00Z

5x13 Bug-Busting Babies

Season Finale

5x13 Bug-Busting Babies

  • 1988-12-03T05:00:00Z25m

The babies hunt for the bug in Scooter's computer in a parody of Ghostbusters.

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