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Tollana was the planet the Tollans relocated to after the cataclysms of Tollan forced them to leave. It originally lacked a Stargate, though the Tollan were able to build one with the help of the Nox. The Tollans quickly constructed cities on the planet together with advanced defenses to protect them. Eventually, the Goa’uld Tanith, in the service of Anubis, was able to modify the shields on his ship to protect him from the Tollans’ ion cannons and forced them to do the bidding of his master. After Tanith’s plan was foiled due to the intervention of SG-1, Tanith decimated the planet, killing most of the Tollans. (Read more…)

As Sesame Street began to make record albums that featured songs from the show, they also released 45 RPM singles from those albums. The first series of Columbia and Warner Brothers albums led to a similar series of 45s, which were packaged as book and record sets, with pictures and drawings either taken from or similar to the albums, and lyrics to the songs. Some of these titles were also packaged into boxed sets, with cover artwork similar to the album covers.

Some of the songs, such as “Rubber Duckie” and “Sing“, proved to be so popular with adults, that they were also released as adult “pop” singles. These records were produced between 1970 and 1973. The “Rubber Duckie” single was so popular that it reached number 16 on Billboard’s “Hot 100 Singles” chart in 1970.

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Fozzie Bear is The Muppet Show’s resident comedian. He’s an orange, fuzzy Muppet bear who tells bad jokes, usually punctuated with his catchphrase, “Wocka wocka wocka!” Fozzie is also best friends with Kermit, although they occasionally have differences of opinion.

During the first season of The Muppet Show, Fozzie’s monologues usually consisted of Fozzie telling simple setup/punchline jokes, while being heckled by Statler and Waldorf. After the first season, most of his monologues relied on gimmicks, such as ventriloquism or telling jokes on roller skates. Fozzie also told a joke during the opening sequence of every episode during the first season. (more…)

The Anything People were introduced in the first episode of Sesame Street in a sketch involving Gordon. An Anything Muppet appeared without any facial features, and Gordon introduced her as an Anything Person and proceeded to give her and four other Anything Muppets who appeared in sequence eyes, noses, and hair to form a family.

During the first seasons of Sesame Street, they were known as “The Anything People” who could be anything they wanted. Usually the live actors, like Bob, would turn them into different characters. This concept was abandoned after a few seasons, although every once in a while an Anything Muppet character would take off his nose or lose his mustache. (more >>>)

Jim Henson (September 24, 1936 - May 16, 1990) was the creator of the Muppets and was the performer behind many of the troupe’s most famous characters, including Kermit the Frog. Henson’s earliest foray into television puppetry occurred as a high school senior, in 1954, with The Junior Morning Show, performing Pierre the French Rat and other creations with friend Russell Wall.
In 1955, while a college student at the University of Maryland, he devised a puppet show called Sam and Friends for a local TV station. The shows aired live twice a day after the news, and often involved the puppets lip-synching to a comedy or novelty record. Henson’s co-puppeteer was the woman who would later become his wife, Jane Nebel. The two would wed in 1959. Out of the cast of characters created for this series, only Kermit would remain with Jim Henson for later productions.

Jim Henson made several important innovations in terms of how puppets were used on TV. The first is that he did away with tiny one-hand puppets whose heads only bobbed when they talked, preferring instead to use puppets with moving mouths and often real hands. more…

Gonzo, formally known as “The Great Gonzo” or “Gonzo the Great,” is The Muppet Show’s daredevil performance artist. He’s an odd looking, unclassifiable alien creature, with blue fur, bug eyes and a long crooked nose. He takes pride in his uniqueness, and he enjoys everything that he does — no matter how painful or ill-advised it may be.

Jerry Juhl came up with the original idea for the character; Jack Burns came up with his name.

In episode 210 of The Muppet Show, Gonzo explains that his mother died before he was born, and left a note to his father regarding Gonzo’s name. (However this is contradicted in the Jason Alexander episode of Muppets Tonight, when Gonzo claims his mother liked his unique college interpretation of Death of a Salesman.)

As an infant, like many of the Muppets, he was under the care of Nanny (as seen in Muppet Babies). Looking at home videos of himself as a baby, Gonzo has said, “What a handsome little devil I was!”

According to the Muppet Kids book series, Gonzo was later raised by his grandmother and his aunt. Gonzo’s grandmother is, of course, the same species as Gonzo, as is Gonzo’s Aunt Grace. Grace’s young son Gander (Gonzo’s cousin) is also shown. Grandma, Gonzo, Grace and Gander all live together in a ramshackle house in the suburbs.

Gonzo, along with his chicken girlfriend Camilla, became a traveling plumber. He met Kermit and Fozzie and joined them in their quest for Hollywood. read more…

Pigs in Space is a recurring sketch from The Muppet Show, featuring the exploits of Captain Link Hogthrob, First Mate Piggy, and Dr. Julius Strangepork leading a crew of pigs aboard the Swinetrek. The sketch, in concept, is essentially a parody of Star Trek, Lost in Space and other space operas of the 1960s and 70s.

Pigs in Space first appeared on The Muppet Show during the second season. The recurring sketch became a popular part of the series, appearing in 31 episodes over four seasons. During the sketch’s first year, Pigs in Space began with an introduction featuring the crew’s commanding roster. Each introduction, narrated by Jerry Nelson as the Announcer, used several different humorous adjectives to describe the characters by name. This was dropped starting with the third season.

The popularity of Pigs in Space won the sketch a spot on the second Muppet Show cast album released in 1978. The script for the skit used in episode 205 was re-recorded in the studio by the performers. That same year, the events of the sketch from episode 209 were translated to the pages of The Muppet Show Book, as illustrated by Tudor Banus. A Pigs in Space sketch was also included in It’s The Muppet Show!.

The height of pop-culture awareness for the crew of the Swinetrek occurred in 1981. more…