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The best-remembered of several [[Christmas Special|Christmas Specials]] featuring the [[The Muppets|Muppets]]; it could probably be better called ''A [[Jim Henson|Henson]] Family Christmas''. It originally aired on [[ABC]] in 1987.
Fozzie Bear has packed up the Muppets crew and brought them with him to surprise his mom for Christmas. There's just one problem: mom's scheduled a trip to Malibu and rented out the farm house to Doc (of ''[[Fraggle Rock]]''), who's looking forward to a quiet Christmas in the country. Throw in the Fraggles themselves, the ''[[
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* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]]: Bert and Ernie's "small talk" with Doc.
* [[Art Shift]]: In a meta sense. The ''[[Muppet Babies]]'' segment is puppeteered, matching the rest of the show but differing from the cartoon. The puppets (with the exception of Baby Animal) were re-used from ''[[The Muppets Take Manhattan]]'', officially going from Piggy's dream sequence to actual backstory status.
* [[Bat Family Crossover]]: The only time you'll ever see the four cornerstones of early Muppetdom (''[[The Muppet Show]]'', ''[[
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: As usual, most of the Swedish Chef's dialogue is a lot of incomprehensible babble interspersed with enough English to follow. But when he first arrives at the farmhouse, he greets Kermit with a cheery "''Glaedelig Jul!''" Yep, that means "Merry Christmas" -- in Danish, not Swedish.
* [[The Cameo]]: During the final sequence, Uncle 'Traveling' Matt is singing alongside Doc and Sprocket.
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'''Oscar:''' Don't encourage them! }}
* [[Dead Line News]]: A gag carried over from the regular ''Muppet Show'', when the newscaster reports on the storm and states that barometers are falling sharply. And no, he's not hit by the storm, he's [[Visual Pun|hit by falling barometers]].
* [[Did Mom Just Have Tea
* [[Disguised in Drag]]: Bert dons a woman's nightgown during "'Twas the Night Before Christmas".
{{quote| '''Ernie:''' C'mon, Bert. Somebody has to play Mama, and you lost the toss!}}
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* [[I Am Not Weasel]]: Fozzie's mom mistakenly refers to Kermit as a lizard several times.
* [[I Got a Rock]]: In this case, it's apparently a good thing. The "nice yellow pebble" has been a Fraggle gift thirty-seven times, then is given to Robin, then is given to Grover.
* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: You'd be hard-pressed to get a copy of the uncut network broadcast version on an actual tape, because the official home video releases had to cut out several scenes due to music-rights issues. And don't bother hoping Disney will release a Special Uncut Edition, since the video rights for ''[[
** The European release supposedly has most (or all?) of the songs intact, and is only missing a couple scenes. Still, [[No Export for You|don't expect it in America anytime soon]].
** The full, uncut version of the special is available for viewing in the library at the [http://www.paleycenter.org/ Paley Center for Media] (formerly the Museum of TV & Radio) in New York City and (presumably) at their West Coast branch in Beverly Hills, CA. The special is also shown for the public in the Center's theater during the Holiday season.
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* [[Statler and Waldorf]]: Fozzie gets the shock of his life when the hecklers arrive at the farmhouse, and he's informed that they are old friends of his mother's who visit her every Christmas.
* [[That Reminds Me of a Song]]: "Well, everybody, it's Christmas Eve and the tree is trimmed, so it's time for our annual carol sing!"
* [[Throw the Dog
* [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth]]: You know it's cold when the ''snowman'' wants to come in and warm up.
* [[True Meaning of Christmas]]: Robin the Frog defines it for the Fraggles as a time when "you gather together with the people you love, and you wish each other peace on Earth."
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