Sam and Friends - Powder Burn 

Jim Henson in 1960: "Hmm. I have over ten episodes of this amazing variety show that's adorable and fun for all ages. It shows my complex look on the world and it deals with contemporary and controversial topics with light humor. It showcases my skill as a puppeteer and an animator and it could be potentially valuable later in my career. the jokes are hilarious and the humor is intellectual. But should I preserve them? Will I ever become more popular than I am now? Will I move on to anything else? Huh. Maybe I won't. Maybe I'll just stop right here and constrain my creativity. Maybe I should just take this show and burn it in the fireplace. That would make sense. I'll just set it in the cinders and let it roast. I can always do other stuff later if I want to. For now, this stuff is going to be destroyed forever. Jim Henson in 1990: "Why the hell did I do that?"

Jim Henson always did like puns.

MY PAWN TAKES YOUR BISHOP CHECKMATE!

I love it 😀

I'm not quite old enough to know about "Sam and Friends", so I just found them. The puns had me laughing. I spit my coffee out on one of them. Thanks!

This was in 1955!. The first time Kermit was on Tv....Pure classics! Thank you!

"I was just wandering what movie was playing." "What movie was playing?!?" "Yes! A showdown on Main Street!" LOL!!! Who knew they used so much sarcasm back in the day? IT'S FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!

I think TV looked a lot more entertaining in the 1950s. Just so simple. I would love to watch these kinds of low budget (well it certainly wasn't low budget back then) puppet shows.

RIP Jim Henson

Actually, there's only 18 episodes that still exsist and there are 86 episodes of Sam and Friends overall. I hope that the people at the muppet studios will find the rest of the episodes.

I find it weird that the fact the Muppets have existed long enough to have made a High Noon reference.

“The first man they look for and the last i hope they find”

The puns in this one I think are the best in the Sam & Friends series! Side-splitting!

I think this is the only skit with Chicken Liver where he's voiced

It's hard to believe both Kermit and Tom and Jerry shorts were both once new at the same time (as in there was overlap between this show and the original Hanna-Barbera Tom and Jerry cartoons)

awesome!

Long Live NBC!!!!

The Buzz from Disney and Pixar's Toy Story with The Bourne Identity

Never mind. There are only 20 surviving episodes

Kermit: 70 Years with You (1955-2025)

RIP James Arness

very funny ...even back then....😊😊😊😊

I'm a-waiting.

OMG 1959 The dope Days with Kermit 100%

This seems very bear on patrol.

GNARLY!!!!

Long Live Jim Henson!!!!

This Clip Also Appeared On One Of The Monitors In The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson

THE MUPPETS WON THEIR FIRST OSCAR!!!!

Too cute!

WAY COOL!!!!

rip vintage age 2008-2011

It's time to play the music. It's time to light the light...

I couldn't quite understand the last pun Kermit speaks. He plays chess _______?

Black Bart...lol....i remember him....

3:46

this episode originally aired in 1956 in Sam and Friends season 1 episode 6

Poor Marshall Dilly

Marshall Matt Dillon Should See This Sketch!

Poor Chester

Two and A Half-Man is a Take-off of Two and A Half-Men

F Yes!

GOLLY!!!!

Yay! Kermit

Kermit:(shocked): SHEESH!

You're Welcome

This Is A Parody Of Gunsmoke

🌼🌷⚘🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒

@Speedracer78 Right About That

OMG!

Long Live James Arness!!!!

@mohinderbauer "you play very well"? "no only chess fair"

@TheNatkidd Pretty Please With Cream And Sugar On Top?

@JesseOliver111 While I do have a copy of that episode, it is actually in fairly rough shape. I am looking to do a little re-mastering work on it before I post it up. Also of note, I uploaded my copy of the episode "Poison to Poison" but had to immediately pull it due to a copyright violation. Warner Music Group owns the audio used in that episode, taken from the album "Spike Jones in Stereo". A shame too since I own an un-cut version.

what was the last punchline from kermit about his chess playing?

@TheNatkidd No, this is not the pilot of Sam and Friends. As far as I have been told, this episode was in the second season from 1956.

@TheNatkidd Sorry, but I don't have a copy of the pilot. As a matter of fact, only about 20 episodes/segments of Sam and Friends are known to still exist, none of which are the pilot.

Hi 1955, this is 2020 the worst year of all :->>>

@kaiclay2 I Know

Where did you get this? These are hard to find. Thanks!

HUZZAH!!!!

lol Punsoke

I don't get it. "You play very well?" "No, only chess fair." Where's the pun?

I'm surprised this how kermit looks like in these times.

GADZOOKS!!!!

@carl22069 Long Live Sam And Friends!!!!

@Speedracer78 Is this the pilot of Sam and Friend's.

@Speedracer78 where the heck did u find these???

this has been "pun smoke" lols

@Speedracer78 Well can you please upload the pilot.

Kermit´s debut?

@cstoczyn Who me or Speedracer78.

@TheNatkidd Speedracer78

there are some sam & friends footage that we have yet to see. still nobody has uploaded "Anything You Can Do," "Poison To Poison," "Singin' In The Rain," "That Old Black Magic," "There's A New Sound," "Tweedle Dee," "The Yellow Rose Of Texas," "Weather Warehouse," "Stan Freberg Demands Credit," & "The Final Episode (December 15th 1961)". when do you think someone will ever post these sam & friends videos?

FTW

So when are you going to upload "That old Black Magic"?

@b4ifly2paradise LOL

@kaiclay2 Me 2

can u get these on vhs

weird.

Poor excuse of a US marshall

FTW