Rizzo the Rat "Midnight Cowboy". Steve Whitmire created the character, based on rats he had previously made out of bottles. Rizzo first appeared in episode 418 of "The Muppet Show", as one of many rats following Christopher Reeve backstage. He can be seen mugging and reacting to practically every line of dialogue. He remained a scene-stealing background figure through the final season, occasionally performing with Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem. By the time of "The Muppets Christmas Carol", Whitmire had been performing Rizzo for around 12 years. After the series, he appeared in "The Great Muppet Caper" as a bellboy in a
TV Mayhem TV Mayhem TV Mayhem was a British children's short-lived Saturday morning television series that was originally a replacement for "Hey Hey It's Saturday" after it was cancelled and aired from September 1991 for just six weeks on the breakfast television channel TV-am. The show was presented by Chris Evans, who later went on to co-host "The Big Breakfast" in 1992 on Channel 4. Cartoons that were aired included all the animated segments from "Wake, Rattle and Roll" (which were "Fender Bender 500" and "Monster Tails") and "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures". It was cancelled after TV-am lost its licence to