Happy Girl Meets a Monster

thumb|300px|The sketch, as performed on The Ed Sullivan Show.
"Happy Girl Meets a Monster" (also known as "Beautiful Day") is a classic Muppet routine that has been performed several times, with slight variations. The sketch was originally written by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl.Jim Henson's Red Book "10/29/1968 – ‘Tonight Show – “Beautiful Day”.’"
In the sketch, a female Muppet is enjoying a beautiful day outside when a mean monster arrives to spoil it. With a wave of his hand and a few grunts, he makes dark storm clouds appear, but the optimistic girl says that she likes rainy days as well. The monster proceeds to do whatever he can to ruin everything that the girl perceives to be beautiful. The girl tells him that he's awful -- but he's so awful that actually he's beautiful; a perfect example of beautiful awfulness. Embarrassed and upset, the monster begins to shrink. When the monster is small enough, the girl smacks the monster with a flyswatter and walks off.
It was first performed on Today during the March 26, 1963 broadcast featuring Sue and Sneegle (characters created the previous year for a series of unaired traffic safety commercials).
The sketch was later reworked, with Little Girl Sue and Beautiful Day Monster (named after this sketch) filling their place, and was performed on The Tonight Show on October 29, 1968, The Wonderful Night of Hercules Brown in 1968, and The Ed Sullivan Show on May 11, 1969.
It was then adapted for use on The Muppet Show in episode 209, with Madeline Kahn and Doglion.
A further updated version was performed in the Jim Henson's Inspired Silliness cruise ship show starting in 2019.
==Performances==
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