Rare Clip: Jim Henson Promoting The Muppet Show on Jonny Carson!

The Johnny Carson YouTube channel uploaded a rare clip of Jim Henson and The Muppets promoting The Muppet Show.

Typically, we'd save something like this for our Rare Muppet Clip series but it's just too good not to share by itself. 

The appearance is from September 14, 1976, which was only a week after the The Muppet Show premiered in the US. 

When The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence, The Muppet Show's second pilot, premiered March 19, 1975, it wasn't a huge hit. However, Johnny Carson's Tonight Show was appointment television, so this was likely many people's first introduction to characters such as the Swedish Chef and Fozzie Bear. 

There's even a even more behind the scenes look at the musical number "Rag Mop" which was reused in 1981's of Muppets and Men: The Making of The Muppet Show, but again this was most peoples first look at how Muppet magic comes to life. 

Enjoy!