102: Connie Stevens & Rock-A-Bye Baby

Tonight on MuppetWatch, our special guest is singer-actress Connie Stevens, and the show undergoes more growing pains. Then we take a trip back to 1958, with the Frank Tashlin-directed Jerry Lewis-starring semi-remake of The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, Rock-A-Bye Baby.

Topics of discussion include Muppet skin versus fur, the Electric Mayhem still having yet to perform as a group, unfortunate color schemes for evening gowns, the FTA tour, and how much emotional suffering for Fozzie Bear is too much emotional suffering?

Further resources:

• Baywatching: “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”
  
• Connie Stevens - Official Web-site
  
• F.T.A. - Official Re-Release Trailer
• Hope: Entertainer of the Century by Richard Zoglin
• “Jerry Lewis’ Costars Speak Out: “He Grabbed Me. He Began to Fondle Me. I Was Dumbstruck”” by Julie Miller, Amy Ziering, and Kirby Dick
  
• “Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)” with Edd Byrnes on The Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show
  
• Laughing Hysterically: American Screen Comedy of the 1950s by Ed Sikov
  
• Mulholland Drive: “Sixteen Reasons”
  
• Tashlinesque: The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin by Ethan de Seife