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Muppet Babies
1984 - 1990 8.0 (119 votes) 7 Seasons
Genres
Animation Kids
Networks
CBS
Created By
Jim Henson
Jeffrey Scott

Muppet Babies

Overview

The Muppet Babies (Kermit, Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzy and company) live in a large nursery watched over by Nanny. The babies have active imaginations, and often embark upon adventures into imaginary worlds.

Key Crew

Producer: Robert Shellhorn, John Ahern, Bob Richardson

Top Cast

Frank Welker
Frank Welker

Baby Kermit / Baby Skeeter / Baby Beaker (voice)

Laurie O'Brien
Laurie O'Brien

Baby Piggy (voice)

Russi Taylor
Russi Taylor

Baby Gonzo (voice)

Greg Berg
Greg Berg

Baby Fozzie / Baby Scooter (voice)

Dave Coulier
Dave Coulier

Baby Animal / Baby Bunsen (voice)

Katie Leigh
Katie Leigh

Baby Rowlf (voice)

Barbara Billingsley
Barbara Billingsley

Nanny (voice)

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1984)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Noisy Neighbors
1984-11-05

The Kids spend all day Trying to keep animal quiet so they don't disturb their next door neighbor officer caruthers.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 2: Who's Afraid of The Big, Bad Dark?
1984-09-22

Bunsen hasn't been getting sleep lately each night beeker is waking up screaming saying that the monster attacked him in his sleep the kids realize that beeker is afraid of the ark and try to help him overcome his fears.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 3: Dental Hijinks
1984-09-29

Foozie's tooth becomes loose and he worries about going to the dentist, and what the dentist will do to him.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 4: Raiders of the Lost Muppet
1984-10-06

During a game of hide and seek, Animal gets lost. They search the nursery up and down. Until they eventually find out that Animal was with Nanny.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 5: Scooter's Hidden Talent
1984-10-13

All of the babies are showing their talents, but Scooter can't seem to find his. By some inspiration, he learns his talent is being computer smart.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 6: The Case of the Missing Chicken
1984-10-20

Gonzo panics when he can't find his stuff baby chicken camella.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 7: Eight Take-Away One Equals Panic
1984-10-27

A Misunderstanding leads the kids to belive that Nanny is going to give one of them away.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 8: What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?
1984-11-03

All the Muppet Babies except for Kermit know what jobs they want to have when they grow up. The babies show Kermit different jobs he can be, and he finally chooses to be a cab driver.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 9: Close Encounters of the Frog Kind
1984-11-10

Kermit and the other Muppet Babies get to meet his little nephew, Robin, the tadpole. But since he is too small, they must find him after he esapes from his bowl.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 10: Gonzo's Video Show
1984-11-17

Borrowing Nanny's camcorder, The Muppet Babies make their own movies including a ""Star Wars"" parody.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 11: Fun Park Fantasies
1984-11-24

Instead of waiting a week to visit the fun park, the babies make their own park right in the nursery!

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 12: From a Galaxy Far, Far Away
1984-12-01

When an alien (really an escaped Koala) ends up in the Nursery, the kids build a rocketship out of their toys so they can take it back home.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 13: Good, Clean Fun
1984-12-08

The babies accidently brake a lamp and try to compensate by preparing lunch, but they just ending up making up making a bigger mess, especially Animal.

Runtime: 25 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1985)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Once Upon an Egg Timer
1985-09-14

The babies use an egg timer and a story to help Rowlf get his voice back.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 2: Piggy's Hyper-Activity Book
1985-09-14

When all the babies have nothing to do, Piggy takes out her activity book to play with.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 3: Fozzie's Last laugh
1985-09-28

Fozzie decides he doesn't want to be a comedian anymore when Piggy hurts his feelings.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 4: The Great Cookie Robbery
1985-10-05

Gonzo secretly and selfishly keeps cookies to himself letting the other Muppet Babies suffer from hunger until they meet an imaginary cookie-hungry bandit, One-Eyed Jake.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 5: Out-Of-This-World History
1985-10-12

The babies hear about the timeline of history.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 6: Snow White and the Seven Muppets
1985-10-19

Bunson and Beaker come over, and the babies play Snow White. But Skeeter and Piggy argue over who is to play Snow White.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 7: I Want My Muppet TV!
1985-10-26

After their real TV set goes bad, missing their favorite show. The Muppet Babies use a pretend TV set and make their own shows.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 8: Musical Muppets
1985-11-02

Each Muppet Baby performs and records his or her own song for a song-writing contest and at the end, all their songs are played together as one.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 9: Who's Who at the Zoo?
1985-11-09

The babies must convince Rolf that the zoo is not a prison for animals.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 10: The Great Muppet Cartoon Show
1985-11-16

The Muppet Babies create their own cartoons.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 11: The Muppet Museum of Art
1985-11-23

The Muppet Babies are about to go to the art museum when Skeeter gets hurt by one of Piggy's pink skates. Before everyone could notice the skate, Piggy replaces her skate with Gonzo's in the scene of the accident so he could take the blame. Since they can't go to the art museum now, the muppets decide to bring the art museum to the nursery by creating their own works of art. Gonzo paints portraits of Piggy, but her roller skate mysteriously appears in Gonzo's paintings. Freaked out by this, Piggy attempts to keep Gonzo's paintings out of sight. The muppets then show their artwork to Nanny and an injured Skeeter. When Gonzo shows to everyone a beautiful picture of Piggy, Piggy finally confesses to framing Gonzo and apologizes.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 12: By the Book
1985-11-30

The kids are having a fun time playing boat races but when piggy cheats the fun turns into a disaster piggy claims that the rules were changed nanny tells them how rules should be agreed on and not be changed with out consulting everyone at first.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 13: When You Wish Upon a Muppet
1985-12-07

The Muppet Babies play a wishing game where they each imagine their greatest wishes coming true.

Runtime: 25 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1986)

No overview available.

16 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Pigerella
1986-09-13

The twins decide to get some snacks from the kitchen but Piggy warns them of the consinquences for getting snacks without Nannny's permision they ignore her warning but when piggy tries to sneak the snacks back in the kitchen Nanny accuses her of stealing from the fridge and makes her clean up the mess.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 2: The Best Friend I Never Had
1986-09-20

The Muppet Babies all want to have a perfect friend but find out that they are each not what they expect.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 3: The Weirdo Zone
1986-09-27

Gonzo shows the other babies what its like to be a ""weirdo"" like him.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 4: Muppets in Toyland
1986-10-04

Scooter gets an all new Transco JoBot, and all of the Muppets want one but Nanny gives them her old toys instead.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 5: The Muppet Broadcasting Company
1986-10-11

When Nanny's TV breaks, and she complains that she can't watch the news, the Babies create their own news channel, ""MBC"". Each Muppet creates his/her own show, including Kermit and Fozzie in a newscast, and Piggy in her own soap opera.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 6: Kermit Goes to Washington
1986-10-18

The babies have an election for president of the nursery, and Kermit wins.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 7: Fozzie's Family Tree
1986-10-25

All of the babies find interesting relatives in their family tree, but Fozzie can't find his family tree. So he does not know anything about his family. Kermit and Fozzie search for some of Fozzie's relatives.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 8: The Daily Muppet
1986-11-01

After Nanny's newspaper is ruined, the baies make their own paper of news for her.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 9: Scooter's Uncommon Cold
1986-11-08

The babies travel inside Scooter to heal him of a cold.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 10: Treasure Attic
1986-11-15

The babies explore the attic and find old stuff, that they never knew they had before.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 11: Around the Nursery in 80 Days
1986-11-22

After the Muppet Babies hear that Nanny is going on an ""around the world"" trip and are worried that they will not have a good sitter to look after them. They try to have her trip be in the nursery until they find out that their stand-in nursemaid will be her sister, Aunt Fanny.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 12: Fine Feathered Enemies
1986-11-29

The Muppet Babies befriend a talking parrot named Polly who causes them to misunderstand each other and quarrel with each other because of his loudmouthing.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 13: Muppet Goose
1986-12-06

Nanny tries to get the Babies to go to sleep by telling Nursery Rhymes.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 14: Bad Luck Bear
1986-12-13

After Fozzie breaks a mirror, Piggy tells him he will have bad luck for the next 7 years.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 15: Of Mice and Muppets
1986-12-20

The kids are taking care of Caruther's pet mouse pewee while he is on vacation its rowlf's turn to put peewee back in his cage but he accidently leaves the door open and pewee escapes the kids go on a all night search for pewee before Nanny finds out.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 16: Back to the Nursery
1986-12-27

When everyone is looking at Nanny's old photo album, Fozzie accidently spills cofee on an old picture of Nanny servng at a drive-through. The babies travel back in time, in a ""Back To The Future"" parody to re-take the picture of Nanny.

Runtime: 25 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1987)

No overview available.

18 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Muppetland
1987-09-19

The babies make they're own themepark, and each babie makes there own attraction.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 2: Water Babies
1987-09-26

Nanny got an aqurarium for the muppets to look at. Skeeter thought that looking for treasure is much fun than looking at the fishes.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 3: The Incredible Shrinking Weirdo
1987-10-03

Gonzo thinks that he is shrinking when his basketball jersey is too big for him, but in reality He was wearing fozzie's jersey.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 4: Where No Muppet Has Gone Before
1987-10-10

Bunsen and Beaker come over, and the babies learn about different things in outer space.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 5: Journey to the Center of the Nursery
1987-10-17

After Fozzie's skate key falls down the air vent the kids go looking for it. The kids use the closet as an elevator. At each level they go down they find stranger and stranger things. The reason it's so important that Fozzie find his skate key is because he's still wearing his skates! He can't get them off! Throughout the episode Fozzie goes wheeling and sliding all over the place!

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 6: This Little Piggy Went to Hollywood
1987-10-24

Piggy tells the babies about how she wil become a movie star like Shirley Temple.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 7: My Muppet Valentine
1987-10-31

Rowlf is bummed out about not getting a Valentine cookie from Nanny when the others did so the rest of the Muppet Babies try to cheer him up. Rowlf dedicates a Valentine song to his friends and Nanny gives him his cookie, saying that she forgot to put it with the other cookies.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 8: Invasion of the Muppet Snackers
1987-11-07

The babies smell Nanny's cooking, and itsmells really bad. They imagine how it will taste, and what it will look like. When dinner is served, they find out that the awful smell was wallpaper paste, that Nanny was using to re-decorate the bathrom with.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 9: Twinkle Toe Muppets
1987-11-14

The babies try different types of dancing, but Scooter doesn't know which type is bes for him.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 10: Weirdo for the Prosecution
1987-11-21

Gonzo is accused of breaking the cookie jar and stealing cookies, so the babies hold a trial to give him a chance to defend himself. (Boy, is he in trouble...)

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 11: Muppet Island
1987-11-28

A bunch of peanut butter and jelly gets spilled outside the Nursery door so the kids have to stay inside until Nanny can get it cleaned up. So they make their own island.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 12: The Frog Who Knew Too Much
1987-12-05

Nanny has a big surprise for the kids Kermit is the first one to see it but the trouble is not telling the kids what it is.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 13: Beach Blanket Babies
1987-12-12

Fozzie, who has never swum before, learns to swim. But it is very hard at first.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 14: Old MacKermit Had a Farm
1987-12-19

The babies try to figure out where bluberry muffins come from.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 15: Adventures in Muppet-Sitting
1987-12-26

The babies learn how hard it is to babysit when they have to look after Animal and Robin, Kermit's nephew.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 16: The House That Muppets Built
1988-01-02

The babies accidently break Piggy's dollhouse, and then make one of their own for her.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 17: Masquerading Muppets
1988-01-09

The baies are getting set to go to a costume party, so eac of them decide what to wear.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 18: Nanny's Day Off
1988-01-16

The babies give Nanny a day off, and do all the work around the house so she doesn't have to.

Runtime: 25 min
Season 5 poster
Season 5 (1988)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Muppets Not Included
1988-09-10

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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 2: Beauty and the Schnoz
1988-09-17

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

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 3: The Pig Who Would Be Queen
1988-09-24

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

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 4: Is There a Muppet in the House?
1988-10-01

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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 5: Slipping Beauty
1988-10-08

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

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 6: Muppet Baby Boom
1988-10-15

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

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 7: Scooter By Any Other Name
1988-10-22

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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 8: He's a Wonderful Frog
1988-10-29

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

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 9: Elm Street Babies
1988-11-05

The babies describe their weird dreams to each other.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 10: Plan 8 from Outer Space
1988-11-12

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).

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 11: Junkland Muppets
1988-11-19

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

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 12: The Air Conditioner at the End of the Galaxy
1988-11-26

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

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 13: Bug-Busting Babies
1988-12-03

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

Runtime: 25 min
Season 6 poster
Season 6 (1989)

No overview available.

18 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: This Old Nursery
1989-09-16

The babies find an old time capsule in the nursery walls.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 2: And Now a Word From Our Muppets
1989-09-23

The babies make up adds for Nanny's garage sale.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 3: Six to Eight Weeks
1989-09-30

The babies cant wait six to eight weeks for their playhouse to come.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 4: The Green Ranger
1989-10-07

When Kermit's favorite cowboy show ""The Range Rider"" gets cancelled, he contemplates trying to fill in the Range Rider's shoes (as ""The Green Ranger""). But he thinks his friends might have the wrong idea, and it takes more than fame and merchandising to be a real hero.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 5: Not Necessarily the Muppets
1989-10-14

The Babies discover the importance of why grown-ups watch the news, and with the nursery news, they find all their favorite toys.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 6: Comic Capers
1989-10-21

The Muppet Babies look at comic books and comic strips and imagine themselves as the characters in them.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 7: Faster Than a Speeding Weirdo
1989-10-28

Gonzo attempts to break the sound berrier while riding on a vaccum cleaner. He brings his trusty sidekick, Camilla along for a ride. However, misfortune strikes, and Camilla gets hurt, and Gonzo is unsure she'll make it. Nanny has to perform ""emergency surgery"" on Camilla, but in the end, she's alright. Gonzo sings the song ""Camilla"" to the babies, to show how upset he is about the thought of losing Camilla.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 8: Skeeter and the Wolf
1989-11-04

Nanny read the muppets a story about Peter and the wolf.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 9: Romancing the Weirdo
1989-11-11

Gonzo finds an old typewriter, and decides to write a detective novel (with himself as the hero, Philip Samuel Marlowe Spade, and Piggy as the heroine). Can his friends help him when he gets writer's block?

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 10: The New Adventures of Kermo Polo
1989-11-18

The babies pretend to be famous explorer's from different periods of time.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 11: Goosetown Babies
1989-11-25

The babies read their favorite Mother Goose book, and are transported to Goosetown, when they realize that the town just isn't the same. So, taking the matters into their own hands, they visit Mother Goose, who believes that children don't like her tales anymore, and the residents of Goosetown have all stopped taking care of themselves. When the babies go around town patching things up, Mother Goose realizes that kids will always love her books, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 12: It's Only Pretendo
1989-12-02

Piggy and Gonzo get so caught up in beating each other at ""Legend of Emelda: Quest for the Golden Key"", that they almost forget it's just a game, and the main goal should really be having fun.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 13: Quoth the Weirdo
1989-12-09

The Muppet Babies celebrate the beauty that is poetry by talking about their favorite poems.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 14: Operators are Standing By
1989-12-16

The babies wonder who could have been on the phone after Animal hangs up the phone.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 15: Babes in Troyland
1989-12-23

The babies learn about different greek myths.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 16: Puss 'n Boots 'n Babies
1989-12-30

The babies get exited about a kitty in the nursery.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 17: Muppets of Invention
1990-01-06

Uncle Statler and Uncle Waldorf come to visit, and the babies make inventions of their own.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 18: A Punch Line to the Tummy
1990-01-13

Fozzie's trying to be a real stand-up comedian, but Gonzo's attempts at getting ""feedback"" from his audience (the other Muppet Babies) make Fozzie think his friends don't like him anymore.

Runtime: 25 min
Season 7 poster
Season 7 (1990)

No overview available.

16 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Muppet Babies: The Next Generation
1990-09-15

The babies parody The Jetsons, Star Trek, Bill & Ted, and Indiana Jones. Kermit pretends to be George Jetson, and tries to get Rolf to take a bath.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 2: Buckskin Babies
1990-09-22

The babies pretend to be heroes from the old west.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 3: Sing a Song of Superheroes
1990-09-29

The babies put on their own ""superhero opera"" while Nanny tries to watch the ""Phantom of the Opera""

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 4: Gonzee's Playhouse Channel
1990-10-06

Gonzo does his own conduit of tv.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 5: Kermit Pan
1990-10-13

The Muppet Babies version of Peter Pan with Kermit as Peter Pan, Skeeter as Wendy and Piggy as Tinkerbell.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 6: Whose Tale is it, Anyway?
1990-10-20

The babies tell their own tales to each other.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 7: ...At The Movies
1990-10-27

The babies joke about the movies.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 8: In Search of Bronze Beatle
1990-11-03

The babies search for the bronze beatle that they hear about.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 9: Transcontinental Whoo-Whoo
1990-11-10

Statler and Waldorf join the kids in reenacting the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 10: Get Me to the Perch on Time
1990-11-17

After a messenger pigeon gets hurt outside the nursery window, the Babies help her by deliverying her messages around the world.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 11: Beraly Alone Babies
1990-11-24

The Nanny leave to go to the market and she leaves the alone babies.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 12: Remote Controlled Cornballs
1990-12-01

The babies joke about remote conrols.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 13: Nice to Have Gnome You
1990-12-08

The Babies help Piggy find her book of ""Alice In Wonderland"" before the Book-Mobile arrives to pick-up the books. When Miss Piggy thinks she has lost it the rest of the gang helps her to make a new book with just pictures; drawn by themselves. The kids then learn that Nanny acutally had the book!

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 14: Happy Birthday Uncle Piggy
1990-12-15

Uncle Statler and Uncle Waldorf have an aniversary.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 15: Hats, Hats, Hats
1990-12-22

The Babies have an adventure with the many different hats that Uncles Statler and Waldorf bring them.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 16: Eight Flags Over the Nursery
1990-12-29

When it will take five years to build the real amusement park the babies build their own - Babyland!

Runtime: 25 min

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