Sketch Listings
| Sketches on Monsterpiece Theater | ||
|---|---|---|
| Sketch | Description | Inspired By: |
| "ABCD Blue" | Grover and Herry Monster portray police officers who sing the alphabet song together. | NYPD Blue. |
| "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" | Anything Muppets are counted to total 40. | The story from the book of One Thousand and One Nights |
| "Anyone's Nose" | A monster sings a song about various noses and what they do. | The Cole Porter musical Anything Goes. |
| "Chariots of Fur" | Grover and Herry Monster have a race. | Chariots of Fire |
| "Conservations with My Father" | Cookie Monster's loving dad, an environmentalist, teaches his son about conserving electricity and water. | Herb Gardner play Conversations with My Father |
| "Cyranose DeBergerac" | A poet with a 2-foot-long (0.61 m) nose tries to help the queen of France finish her poem. Unfortunately, the word used to finish it is the word he's the most sensitive to: "nose." One mention of that word infuriates DeBergerac. | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| "Dances with Wolves" | A pig dances with a wolf. | Dances with Wolves |
| "Dr. No" | Super-spy James Bond has trouble seeing and visits his optometrist, Doctor No, who recommends that James take off his dark glasses. Afterwards, Bond is able to see again. | Dr. No by Ian Fleming |
| "Fiddler on the Roof" | A farmer and his daughters sing about "Addition", which involves putting one fiddler on the roof after another. | Stein/Bock/Harnick musical Fiddler on the Roof |
| "Gone with the Wind" | Kermit the frog and his "wife" in their home are caught in hurricane-force winds. While they hold on to the banister for support, Kermit tries to think of ideas to get out of the wind. His wife suggests subtracting; Kermit follows and is blown away, then his wife says "one of us, take away one of us is (wife gets blown away) ZEROOO!!!!!!", and finally Alistair Cookie experiences the wind. | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. |
| "Guys and Dolls" | Herry Monster sings about how he likes to play with dolls, and Ruby sings about how she likes to play with trucks. | Frank Loesser musical Guys and Dolls |
| "Hamlet" | Mel Gibson plays Hamlet, who keeps repeating "words, words, words" -- but Elmo can't read, so he only looks at "pictures, pictures, pictures". | Hamlet by William Shakespeare |
| "Howard's End" | A yellow and pink rattlesnake named Howard slithers on a stone wall while he shows his beginning, middle, and end. | Howards End by E.M. Forster |
| "Inside/Outside Story" | Maria is inside; Tony is outside. Will they ever meet face-to-face? | West Side Story |
| "The King and I" | Grover plays a king, who dances with the lower-case letter "i". | Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I |
| "Little House on Prairie" | Alistar Cookie displays an embarrassed Prairie Dawn with a little house on her head. Then, he shows "Little House Under Prairie", and then "Little House in Prairie". She runs into the studio, saying she can't do that. He proves her wrong by eating the little house. | Little House on the Prairie |
| "Lethal Weapon 3" | Mel Gibson and Danny Glover meet near a "Danger" sign, and take cover from a number "3", which falls from the sky. | film of the same name. |
| "Me, Claudius" | Several monsters fight over which one of them is Claudius. | I, Claudius (with a title originating in the catchphrase I'm Spartacus. |
| "Monster in a Box" | A small monster is supposed to be in a box, but instead he is on a box, and then under a box. | Spalding Gray monologue |
| "Monsters of Venice" | Grover convinces people that they should invite him and his monster friends to a party. | The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare |
| "Monsters with Dirty Faces" | Police Grover's first task of the day is to get a group of monsters to wash their faces, but they only do what their tough leader, Rocky, does. | Angels with Dirty Faces. |
| "Much Ado About Nothing" | Waiter Grover laments to Mr. Johnson that the restaurant doesn't have anything he orders. | Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare |
| "The Old Man and the C" | Grover plays an old man in a rowboat, which is on a giant letter "C". | The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway |
| "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" | The wrong numbers keep flying over the wrong things. | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey |
| "Room at the Top" | Grover climbs up a mountain to find there is no room at the top. | Room at the Top |
| "The Horse Whisperer" | Various animals whisper their own noise before a horse comes to whisper "neigh". | The Horse Whisperer |
| "The Postman Always Rings Twice" | Grover is waiting for the postman to deliver his important letter. As he waits, however, many other people come to his house with their own unique "rings". | The Postman Always Rings Twice |
| "The Sound of Music" | Grover is sitting on a hill, which moves to the sound of music. Look for an audio cameo by Julie Andrews. | Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music |
| "The 400 Blows" | Grover has to blow out the candles on his birthday cake 400 times, causing him to gasp severely. This was the only Monsterpiece Theater sketch that is in two parts. Part 1 shows 1-40. Part 2 is 41-400 (this part never actually occurred). | François Truffaut film Les Quatre Cents Coups. |
| "The Sun Also Rises" | The only one who can make the sun rise is Merry Monster - who won't stop crowing. | The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway |
| "The Taming of The Shoe" | Grover is accompanied by a talking shoe. | The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare |
| "12 Angry Men" | After going through a situation similar to "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", Alistair Cookie announces he's out of time and is confronted by 12 Angry Men. | 12 Angry Men. |
| "39 Stairs" | Grover climbs 39 stairs to see what is at the top, but ends up being disappointed with the results. | Alfred Hitchcock film, The 39 Steps |
| "Twin Beaks" | Cookie Monster gets to star in this tale, in which he is a detective in a town where everybody has two beaks. | 1990s television series Twin Peaks |
| "Upstairs, Downstairs" | Grover runs up and down a flight of stairs (look for a picture of Dr. Teeth on the wall). | British television series Upstairs, Downstairs |
| "Waiting For Elmo" | Grover and Telly Monster lament near a tree waiting for Elmo. In disgust, the tree both monsters are waiting near leaves. | Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett |
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