Games with Potato

Let's Play Together

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In a sunny backyard with a red stage curtain, Kermit strums a ukulele and leads Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Animal, Fozzie and a penguin, alongside real children, through a song about playing together. The friends gather everyone, share a snack, stack cups, dress up in fancy clothes and dance side by side. The lyrics invite old and new friends to join and try new things together. It closes with Kermit reflecting that it has been a lot of fun spending time together.

Joking Around with Fozzie

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In a backyard set with a red stage curtain, the puppet Fozzie Bear and a boy named Bruce try to teach their friend Animal how to tell a knock-knock joke. Animal keeps misunderstanding, running off to answer an imaginary door and mixing up his lines. Step by step, Fozzie and Bruce coach him through each part until the joke almost comes together. It ends with Animal still a little muddled as everyone laughs along.

Cloud Watching

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A young girl named Kaylee and her puppet friends Summer and Gonzo lie in the grass on a sunny day and take turns naming the shapes they see in the clouds. They spot a butterfly, a mermaid, and increasingly silly ideas like a dragon in a cowboy hat driving a truck. Gonzo suggests turning one cloud into two dolphins playing volleyball, and the friends set off to find a bathtub and a watermelon. The episode ends with a cloud shaped like the friends themselves and the line 'best play date ever.'

Gonzo Says

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A boy named Kingston has a backyard play date with the puppet friends Kermit and Gonzo. They start with a quick round of I Spy, then Gonzo leads a Simon Says style game called Gonzo Says, calling out actions like mooing, doing the groovy chicken and running in place. Kermit slips up by moving without the magic phrase, and it is smoothed over as a practice round. The episode ends on a comic note when a big sneeze arrives and Gonzo answers with 'Gesundheit.'

Kermit's Cookie Caper

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At a backyard play-date table, baby Kermit leaves his cookie with a girl named Janice and asks her to guard it while he goes to wash his hands. One by one, baby Miss Piggy and baby Gonzo try to charm or trick the cookie away, and Janice turns each of them down. When she looks away for a moment, Animal swoops in and eats the cookie, so Kermit heads off to ask Miss Nanny for another one and Janice finally starts on her own snack.

Gonzo's Dance Emergency

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Gonzo rushes in announcing a 'dance emergency' because he needs good dancers for his big show. On a red-curtained stage, two children, Elijah and Aurelia, copy his silly moves like the twist and the two-step, then each invents a move of their own, the windmill and the whip. Gonzo combines everything he has learned and declares the group perfect for his show. The episode ends with everyone dancing together as the show begins.

Cup Stacking

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In a sunny backyard, the girl Sammy stacks plastic cups with Kermit while Animal keeps asking to play soccer. When Animal's ball twice knocks the cup tower over, Kermit thinks of a way to use the ball as part of the game. Animal kicks the ball on cue and topples the cups on purpose, turning the clash into one shared game. The friends high-five and ask to do it again.

Nursery Rhyme Theater

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In this short Muppet Babies Play Date episode, Kermit sets up his Nursery Rhyme Theater and casts Fozzie and a group of real children as his actors. He narrates rhymes like 'Rub-a-dub-dub' and 'Hey diddle diddle' while the children act them out on a red-curtained stage. Fozzie keeps interrupting with puns and a flubbed line, which Kermit gently corrects before moving on. The show wraps with everyone taking a bow.

Fetch Animal

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In a sunny backyard, a boy named Isa and the red puppet Animal decide to play soccer and set about gathering a ball, a goal and cleats. Each time, Animal fetches the wrong thing, a banana, a rubber chicken, so real soccer is off the table. Instead of giving up, they invent their own game called banana ball, throwing a banana back and forth and crowning themselves champions. The episode ends with confetti, cheering and Animal ready to play the whole thing again.

Piggy's Fashion Show

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Miss Piggy hosts a pretend fashion show on a red-curtained stage and introduces three friends, Bailey, Mia and Bennett, one at a time. Each child shows off their outfit, describes what they are wearing, and strikes poses while Piggy cheers them on. When one friend struggles to walk like a model, they simply switch to talking about the clothes instead. The show closes with everyone coming on stage together for a grand finale.

Kermit's Sing-A-Long

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Kermit welcomes a young boy named Skye onto a small stage to sing 'Old MacDonald' together. After a vocal warm-up, Skye keeps swapping the farm animals for an airplane, a fancy hairdo and apple slices, and Kermit playfully finds a sound for each idea. Miss Piggy, Animal and Gonzo pop in along the way. Gonzo finally reveals the apple slices are snack, and everyone heads off to eat together.