Part of the backstage plot "Miss Piggy Buys the House" was included in "The Muppet Show Book", published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc in 1978, in which the sequence was entirely illustrated by Tudor Banus.
This episode is described in part in Max Brooks' novel Devolution (2020).
This Muppet Show was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing-Comedy/Variety or Music Series.
Muppets that were bribed by Scooter to go wild for Piggy in the audience include Zelda Rose, Baskerville the Hound, Brewsters, Mary Louise, Droop, Shaky Sanchez, and Miss Mousey.