Flashback: See Kenny Rogers perform 'The Gambler' on ‘The Muppet Show’
, “that if you do this, you will become the Gambler.” Which is precisely what happened. The song signaled the beginning of a whole new career for the Texas native, as Rogers would soon star in a series of “Gambler” films as character Brady Hawkes. The tune would also inspire a slot machine and, more recently, a comical GEICO insurance ad in which Rogers annoys his card-playing buddies by singing a snippet of the tune.
in October 1979. The wacky episode — which also found Rogers dealing with oil traders in his dressing room — recreated the song’s storyline by pairing Rogers’ singing with three life-sized Muppets riding a train with him. Unlike the song, most of the Gambler’s lines inversion are spoken by the title character seated across from the singer. Although the original song was kept deliberately ambiguous with regard to the Gambler’s fate, many assumed he “broke even” by dying at the end.
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