He also made brief cameos in The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years and episode 107 of The Jim Henson Hour. Sweetums and Robin decorating the Christmas tree in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie.įollowing The Muppet Movie, Sweetums made a brief appearance in The Great Muppet Caper, popping out of a manhole in the opening " Hey a Movie!" production number. Sweetums walk-around at Walt Disney World's "Disney's Stars and Motor Cars Parade". Sweetums speaks at an appearance at Barnes & Noble. He finally catches up with them at the end of the movie, bursting through the screen and joining his friends in Hollywood. He follows Kermit's trail for the rest of the movie, at one point tracking them through the Bogen County Fair and scaring away the Beauty Pageant contestants. Sweetums runs off, and Kermit thinks that he's not interested - but, in fact, he's gone to get his carpet bag, and he's disappointed to find that the Muppets have driven off without him. Grateful, Kermit asks Sweetums if he wants to join them on the trip to Hollywood. Sweetums takes a shine to the Muppets and helps them swindle the swindler, swatting a fly over a price tag and changing the price from $1195 to $11.95. When Kermit and his friends first meet Sweetums, he's working as a jack (the job, not the name) for Mad Man Mooney, a shady used car dealer who treats the ogre badly.
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Sweetums had a featured part in The Muppet Movie his quest to reach Hollywood parallels the Muppets' journey. Sweetums in the "Hey a Movie!" number, from The Great Muppet Caper. Sweetums with the Miss Bogen County Beauty Pageant contestants.
Sweetums and Mad Man Mooney in The Muppet Movie. Sweetums appeared with his mommy in The Muppet Show Comic Book Comic-Con preview. He appeared again with Robin in episode 223, singing " Two Lost Souls." The huge monster and the tiny frog make an amusing contrast and have occasionally appeared together in merchandise, including a PVC figure from Walt Disney World, the Muppet Show Colorforms, and the 1982 book Two for the Show.
In episode 223, he performed a few bars of Wagnerian opera as the Muppets tried to force John Cleese to sing " The Impossible Dream." (Sweetums is cut off, but he grumbles, "You would've loved my cadenza.") He sang " Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" with Ruth Buzzi in episode 104, and " They Can't Take That Away From Me" with Nancy Walker in episode 206. Sweetums was not featured often on the show but made some memorable appearances. The shaggy beast appeared at the beginning of each show from season 2 onwards, during the opening bars of " The Muppet Show Theme." In 1976, Sweetums joined the cast of The Muppet Show. Sweetums returned to the Muppet cast in 1975, singing a duet of " That Old Black Magic" with Cher on her self-titled variety show. Sweetums and Robin sing "Two Lost Souls." Sweetums reappears at the conclusion of the story, in the crowd of Peasants singing the praises of the new queen. The monster collapses, unconscious, and the frogs get away. Furious, Sweetums smashes at a stone pillar, which crumbles - and knocks another pillar down on his head. Robin and Kermit hop just out of his reach. The ogre sings a war song, " Sweetums", as he swings his massive club around the dungeon.
"It's yummy-yummy time!" he bellows, as he tries to catch the terrified frogs. Once Robin is free, Sweetums wakes up and realizes that he's been tricked. While Sweetums is asleep, Kermit pretends to be Taminella and tells Sweetums to open the cage and let the frog go. Robin and Kermit trick the simple-minded ogre by singing him a lullaby, " Sleep, Sweetums," which easily puts him to sleep. She returns him to the care of Sweetums, who plans to eat the frog. Taminella, who has insinuated herself into the King's confidence, captures the frog and brings him to the dungeon. Robin escapes and makes his way to the King's castle, where he befriends Princess Melora. The ogre coos over the "cute froggy-frog," and Taminella tells her darling "Sweetums" that he can have the frog.for breakfast. Just as the handsome prince is about to defeat the monster, the witch Taminella appears and turns him into Robin the Frog. In this fairytale story, Sir Robin the Brave comes across Sweetums in the woods and enters into battle. Sweetums first appeared on the television special The Frog Prince in 1971 as Taminella's ogre. Sweetums menaces Robin in The Frog Prince.
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