In December of 1964, Jim Henson and his crew of Muppeteers got an important booking on The Jack Paar Show, which was a weekly prime-time series Mr. Paar did after stepping down from The Tonight Show. After dress rehearsal, the puppet squad had plenty of time to kill so they decided to create a little something. In this clip from Dave Letterman's old NBC show, Paar tells the story and takes Dave to see what the Muppets left him…
Actually, Paar was wrong. The creation hadn't been hidden quite that long. Many folks at NBC knew about it and it had actually been shown on TV before…but it's still quite a wonderful thing. More recently, it was decided that it should be shared with the world — or at least the part of the world that takes the NBC Tour. Here's a segment from The Today Show for last Tuesday…