Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
With the recent discovered unaired "Juliet Prowse" pilot of The Muppet Show, here's the pilot version of Cowboy Time.
In the unaired pilot version of this episode, the "Cowboy Time" sketch is largely the same from the first actual episode, but this pilot includes a longer exchange between Rowlf, Fozzie, and the bartender between when Fozzie announces the stickdown and the bartender points out that the guns are pickles.
The bartender's line "You're confused, Kid, you ain't got no guns! Those are pickles!" was redubbed by Richard Hunt, because the beginning of the original line ("As a matter of fact, Kid...") didn't make sense after the exchange was abbreviated.
In the pilot, the sketch is also said to be presented by "The Muppet Players," who would only be called out as such in one other instance, the "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Disappearing Clues" sketch in episode 103.
However, in the final version of the episode, during the backstage scene, Fozzie asks Kermit if he sounds like John Wayne. The real reason is that Frank Oz changed the voice he would use for the character between the time the sketch was filmed as part of the pilot and the time the episode was finalized.
Unfortunately, I won't be able to upload the full unaired pilot without Disney taken down the video, so if you wanna watch the pilot: archive.org/details/muppet-show-prowse-pilot
With the recent discovered unaired "Juliet Prowse" pilot of The Muppet Show, here's the pilot version of Cowboy Time.
In the unaired pilot version of this episode, the "Cowboy Time" sketch is largely the same from the first actual episode, but this pilot includes a longer exchange between Rowlf, Fozzie, and the bartender between when Fozzie announces the stickdown and the bartender points out that the guns are pickles.
The bartender's line "You're confused, Kid, you ain't got no guns! Those are pickles!" was redubbed by Richard Hunt, because the beginning of the original line ("As a matter of fact, Kid...") didn't make sense after the exchange was abbreviated.
In the pilot, the sketch is also said to be presented by "The Muppet Players," who would only be called out as such in one other instance, the "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Disappearing Clues" sketch in episode 103.
However, in the final version of the episode, during the backstage scene, Fozzie asks Kermit if he sounds like John Wayne. The real reason is that Frank Oz changed the voice he would use for the character between the time the sketch was filmed as part of the pilot and the time the episode was finalized.
Unfortunately, I won't be able to upload the full unaired pilot without Disney taken down the video, so if you wanna watch the pilot: archive.org/details/muppet-show-prowse-pilot
