List of Muppet Babies episodes

The babies struggle to keep Animal quiet so as not to awaken their neighbor, a police officer who works the night shift.

The babies help Beaker conquer his fear of darkness.

• Guest characters: Bunsen and Beaker

Song: "Good Things Happen in the Dark"

The babies try to pull out Fozzie's loose tooth so he won’t have to go to the dentist.
Note: This is the only episode to have different music for the title card.

While playing hide and seek, Animal vanishes and the babies search the house for him.
Note: The Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom fantasy sequences includes the only instance of an adult character's face being seen.

The other babies all have special talents, but Scooter can't figure out his.

Gonzo panics when he can't find his stuffed chicken, Camilla.

Panic ensues in the nursery when the babies overhear Nanny saying she needs to get rid of one of them.

Kermit struggles with deciding what he wants to be when he grows up.
Note: Guest appearance by Tom Selleck.

Kermit's little nephew, Robin, comes to visit and escapes his bowl.
Note: First appearance of Kermit's little nephew, Robin.

• Guest characters: Bunsen with Beaker (fantasy sequence only), and Robin

Song: "Practice Makes Perfect"

The babies create their own movies.

The babies try to sleep while imagining what the amusement park they'll be visiting the next day will be like.

The babies conclude the creature that climbed into the nursery is an alien and try to return her to Neptune.

After breaking a lamp, the babies try to make it up to Nanny, but create more messes in the process.

• Guest characters: Bunsen and Beaker

Song: "Keep Your Animal Clean"

When Rowlf loses his voice, the others take turns telling stories of searching for it.
Note: This episode along with the next two were aired as "Muppets Babies & Monsters".

• Guest characters: Bunsen and Beaker

Song: "Show Us the Real You"

The babies amuse themselves by working their way through an activity book.
Note: This episode aired alongside the series premiere of Little Muppet Monsters as part of the "Muppets Babies & Monsters" series.

Fozzie considers giving up comedy.

While Gonzo secretly munches away at a box of cookies, the other babies tell stories to keep their minds off their growling stomachs.

The babies wander their way through history with the assistance of one of Nanny's books.

The babies put on their own version of ‘Snow White’ but Piggy is frustrated when she doesn't get the lead role.

When the TV breaks, the babies make their own programs.
Note: Guest appearance by Johnny Carson. A clip of Ed McMahon doing his "Heeeere's Johnny" line was also used.

• Guest characters: Bunsen and Beaker

Song: "TV Maniacs"

Rowlf enters a song writing contest which inspires everyone to try out song writing.

• Guest characters: Bunsen and Beaker.

Song: Various bits by each muppet including "The Weirdo Troll", "On the Range", and "How to Tell a Chicken Joke"

The babies tell Rowlf the positive things about zoos. But when Gonzo realizes that there's no way of telling what kind of animal he is, he worries that he'll get thrown in the zoo!

The babies make their own cartoon shows. Among the antics, Piggy draws up a parody of Pinocchio, Gonzo fights with his own creation, and Scooter makes computer animation, but ends up falling victim to Animal's messier animation. Note: Gonzo turns into a flat clay figure, similar to that of Gumby.

When Skeeter breaks her ankle on one of Piggy's roller skates and nobody can go to the art museum because of Gonzo, the babies create their own art museum in the nursery for her. Meanwhile, Piggy deals with her guilty conscience, as she had blamed Skeeter's injury on Gonzo.

• Guest characters: Bunsen and Beaker (fantasy sequence only)

Song: "Art Is for Your Heart"

The babies take turns narrating stories from their favorite books.

• Guest characters: Bunsen and Beaker (fantasy sequence only)

Song: "Someone’s Gonna Fix It"

The babies imagine their fondest wishes coming true.
Note 1: The film clip shown after Muppet wish is from The Great Muppet Caper. Strangely, many of the muppets who appeared in Muppet Babies, aren’t in that scene.
Note 2: Last episode to feature Howie Mandel as the voices of Skeeter and Animal.

Piggy takes the blame and punishment for Skeeter's mess, leaving her to imagine herself as Cinderella.
Note: First episode to feature Dave Coulier as the voices of Bunsen and Animal.

• Guest characters: Bunsen and Beaker (fantasy sequence only)

Song: "Check Me Out"

With the aid of Scooter's computer, the babies try to create their perfect friends.

The babies try to get in touch with their inner weirdness in order to understand Gonzo.

Scooter’s new robot seems like the best toy ever, until it starts taking hostages.

When the power goes out, the babies make their own radio programs.

• Guest characters: Bunsen and Beaker.

Song: Let’s Hear It for Your Ears

Nanny instructs the babies to create a set of rules for the nursery which leads them to experiment with various forms of government.

The babies take a look at their ancestors to learn more about who they are.

After Nanny's newspaper is ruined, the babies make their own for her.

• Guest character: Beaker (appearing in a picture)

Song: "The Daily Muppet"

When Scooter gets sick, the babies go inside him to aide his body in fighting the germs.

• Guest character: Beaker (appearing in a picture)

Song: "Get Well Soon"

The babies set out on an expedition to the attic to recover Nanny's missing treasure.

To convince Nanny not to go on vacation, the babies build the world's biggest attractions in the nursery.

Polly the talkative parrot that Nanny leaves in the nursery causes fights to erupt between the babies.

Nanny tries to get the babies to sleep by telling them nursery rhymes.

Fozzie breaks a mirror and struggles to get rid of his bad luck.

The babies spend a long night trying to recapture PeeWee, Officer Caruther's pet mouse.

After Fozzie ruins one of Nanny's photos, the babies travel back in time to take a new one.

The babies are invited to Bunsen's birthday party at a theme park, and while waiting for the actual event, they pretend to build a theme park with each baby creating their own land (Fozzie's based on comedy, Gonzo's involving weird things, etc.).

• Guest characters: Bunsen and Beaker (non-speaking cameos in musical sequence)

Song: "Muppetland"

The babies play mine tunnel, and then explore the ocean with the help of a fish tank. Gonzo imagines himself as a deep sea explorer, and they convince Fozzie there isn't anything to be afraid of.

Gonzo is convinced he is getting smaller.

After Skeeter's Lewis and Clark game goes wrong, Bunsen and Beaker come over for a sleepover and teach the babies about outer space. The babies then have fantasies about being in space, once again.

• Guest characters: Bunsen and Beaker

Song: "Guiding Star"

When Fozzie drops his skate key down the vent, the babies travel to the center of earth to find it.
Note: Last episode to be animated with Japanese-based Toei Animation.

Once again, Piggy dreams about her future as a Hollywood star. She fantasizes going on Star Search, and starring in a parody of I Love Lucy and co-starring in a movie with Andrew McCarthy.
Note: First episode to be animated with Korean-based AKOM.

When Nanny forgets Rowlf's valentine cookie, the others’ attempts to cheer him up just seem to make Rowlf feel worse.

The babies worry how they’ll eat the foul thing Nanny is working on in the kitchen.

The babies try to figure out where muffins come from.

• Guest characters: Bunsen and Beaker

The babies try to keep Robin and Animal safe and out of trouble.
Note: Last appearance of Kermit's nephew Robin.

• Guest character: Robin

The babies prepare for a costume ball but Piggy and Skeeter argue over the queen costume.

The babies give Nanny a day off and attempt to take on her chores.

The babies find a strange object belonging to Nanny and try to figure out what it is.
Note: Some of Dr. Teeth's footage from the Play-Along video series is shown in the "Celebrity Circles" sequence.

Gonzo tries to make himself attractive in Piggy's eyes.

Rowlf's description of a scary movie makes everyone toss and turn during a stormy naptime. Things gets worse when kids start vanishing, and they believe Baby Animal found a secret passage.

The babies tell the story of Sleeping Beauty to Piggy over a walkie-talkie after Piggy gets the chicken pox.

The babies prepare to look after the neighbor's Baby (it turns out to be a kitten named Baby).

With Gonzo's assistance, Scooter experiments with different personalities.

• Guest character: Beaker (cameo in music sequence)

Song: Look at Me Now

The babies try to convince Kermit not to leave forever while he prepares to visit Robin.

The babies reveal the strange dreams they’re having, all of which feed into each other's dreams.

Convinced that space aliens are abducting nannies, the babies set out to rescue the nannies, and ensure theirs isn’t the next one to vanish.

A mess in the nursery leaves Fozzie and Piggy searching for their missing possessions and Gonzo discovers the cave of the closet trolls.

After the air conditioner breaks, the babies imagine themselves in the jungle while searching for a cool spot.

Gonzo leads a team into Scooter’s Computer to catch the bug messing up his program.

The babies find a time capsule in the wall and imagine what the people who used to live in the nursery might have been like.

When Nanny has a garage sale, the babies create advertisements to sell her products.

The babies imagine what their new playhouse will be like, while waiting for it to arrive in the mail.

Kermit wonders what it takes to be a hero after his favorite cowboy show is canceled.

The babies learn about the news by making their own program.

The babies amuse themselves by wandering the comic section of the Sunday paper.
Note: Guest appearance by Stan Lee.

Gonzo’s careless daredevil stunt caused his stuffed chick Camillia to get severely damaged. Can Nanny fix her?

Skeeter leads a team into the attic to search for Nanny’s "Peter and the Wolf" record.

Gonzo finds a typewriter and creates a detective/adventure story.

Nanny tells the babies about the great explorers in history.

Gonzo and Animal search the Mother Goose rhymes to see what’s wrong with them.
Note: Last episode to feature the 1986–1989 music in the title card.

Piggy and Gonzo go a little crazy competing for high scores in a video game.
Note 1: Some of the footage is taken from the video game Fantasy Zone.
Note 2: First episode to use different music for the title card, and the music is now composed by Robert Irving and Hank Saroyan.

The babies share their favorite poems with their new friend, Bean.
Note: First appearance of Bean Bunny.

• Guest character: Bean Bunny

Song: "Making a Rhyme"

Animal hangs the phone up on someone, and the others wonder who it was.
Note: First appearance of Uncle Statler and Uncle Waldorf.

• Guest characters Statler and Waldorf

Song: "It's the Bee"

Scooter teaches the others about Greek mythology.
Note: The live action clip of a monster is from the X-rated film Flesh Gordon.

The babies and Nanny babysit Officer Caruther's pet cat, giving the babies a chance to learn about kittens.
Note: Unlike most live-action sequences, a real cat was pasted into the cartoon world.

• Guest character: Bean Bunny

Song: "Meow"

Statler and Waldorf encourage the babies to make inventions of their own.

• Guest characters: Statler and Waldorf

Song: "Nose for the Future"

Fozzie tries to record his jokes to hear if they’re funny or not, but all he hears are the others insulting him.
Note: Guest appearances by John Ritter, Whoopi Goldberg, and Dave Coulier.

The babies try to imagine what the future will be like, and end up performing parodies of multiple space programs.
Note: The title of this episode is a parody of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

• Guest character: Bean Bunny

Song: "The Future Is Counting on You"

The babies imagine themselves as folk heroes of the old west.

• Guest character: Bean Bunny (fantasy sequence only)

Song: "We're Pals"

Nanny's water is shut off and the babies go in search of it while performing superhero operatic numbers in exaggerated garb.
Note: Last episode of the show to be air in syndication.

• Guest character: Bean Bunny

Song: Various parodies of opera numbers.

The babies start their own TV Channel with parodies of Sesame Street, Winnie-the-Pooh, etc.

• Guest character: Bean Bunny

Song: "Numbers Make My Day"

The babies recreate a whacked-out approximate version of Peter Pan for Bean Bunny's benefit.

• Guest character: Bean Bunny

Song: "Animal Gator"

Piggy becomes jealous of Bean's friend Janice, whom is able to read before all the other tots, causing a fight over who will play the role of Mother Rabbit when Janice announces she will read "Peter Rabbit".
Note: First and only appearance in the show of Janice.

• Guest characters: Bean Bunny and Janice

Song: "I'm Only One Bunny"

After Uncle Statler and Waldorf announce they will open their own movie theater, the Muppet Babies jump into their favorite movies. Johnny 5 from Short Circuit helps Scooter find a movie that fits him.

• Guest characters: Statler and Waldorf, plus Bean Bunny

When Statler and Waldorf's old trunk arrives a beetle brooch goes missing, the Babies go in a fantasy search for it.

• Guest characters: Statler and Waldorf, plus Bean Bunny

Song: "Faraway Places Are Calling Me"

The babies build a transcontinental railroad across the nursery and more.

• Guest characters: Statler and Waldorf, plus Bean Bunny

Song: "Simon Says"

An injured carrier pigeon recuperates in the nursery while the babies travel the world delivering the mail.
Note: Last appearance of Bean Bunny.

• Guest character: Bean Bunny

Song: "We're Looking for Lou"

While Nanny locks up in anticipation of a storm, Fozzie sets traps for a burglar.

Bunsen and Beaker bring over their TV transducter and accidentally mix up everyone's favorite shows.
Note: Final appearances of Baby Bunsen and Baby Beaker.

• Guest characters: Bunsen and Beaker.

Song: "Is That What's Bugging You Pearl?"

Piggy searches the labyrinth for her missing library book.
Note: Featuring clips from Jim Henson features Labyrinth and The Witches.

The babies try to create a perfect surprise party for Uncle Statler.

• Guest characters: Statler and Waldorf

Song: "It’s Hard to Be As Wonderful As Me"

Statler and Waldorf bring hats to the Nursery.
Note: Last appearances of Uncle Statler and Uncle Waldorf.

• Guest characters: Statler and Waldorf

Song: "When You're Under a Hat"

A new amusement park will open in five years, and, deciding not to wait that long, the babies imagine their own wacky amusement park. Series Finale
Note: This episode contained episodes from the "Kermit the Frog: Private Eye" segment, and the animated "Pigs in Space" segment from the "Space Cowboys" episode of Jim Henson's Little Muppet Monsters.