Halloween Video Countdown Day 12: Alice Cooper

Oh, the indignity of styling yourself as the darkest demon who ever slithered out of the netherworld, and then having to mime one of your songs with a bunch of puppets. Who knows what Faustian debt Alice Cooper was paying when he appeared on this episode of The Muppet Show, first aired on October 28, 1978.

Actually, according to this interview, Cooper agreed to appear after he was told that previous guests had included horror icons Christopher Lee and Vincent Price. Either he's remembering that incorrectly or someone was fibbing, because Lee was never on The Muppet Show. Price, on the other hand, was, so today you get a bonus treat: