The evil Heather Locklear
Heather Locklear is the main villainess from episode 2.03 of Muppets Tonight (airdate September 21, 1997). She appeared as the episode's special guest, but in the beginning of the episode, all of the Muppets are in the closet hiding from her. At the time, Heather was (and still is) best known for playing ruthless villainess Amanda Woodward on Melrose Place, and the Muppets were afraid of her because of all of the bad things her character has done on her show. After finally finding the Muppets, Heather reassures them that she's nothing like her evil Melrose Place character.
Heather appeared in a sketch written by Miss Piggy's dimwitted nephews, Andy and Randy, playing the antagonist, Queen Hawaya, while dressed in a skimpy Queen Bee outfit. Later in the show, Heather runs into Beaker and eats a chimichanga, unaware that it was one of Bunsen Honeydew's wacky experiments. Bunsen's "Mood Meals" consisted of a chimichanga and biscotti, with biscotti turning a person immensely nice, while a chimichanga turns a person evil. After eating the chimichanga, Heather turns heel and becomes mean and nasty to Beaker before planting a kiss on him. She later accuses Beaker of coming on to her and punches him; sending him flying past Clifford, and later on, the evil Heather entered the control room and snarled at the Muppets that "it's going to be a bumpy night." Heather cackled evilly as lightning crashed, cementing Heather as a villainess.
Despite the chaotic turn of events, Clifford decided to use Heather's evil persona to cast her in a Melrose Place-like sketch as a character named Diamanda, a spoof of Heather's villainous character on the actual show. Unfortunately, Heather appeared in pigtails and pajamas, and with an overly nice persona, which meant she had clearly eaten the experimental biscotti. After the skit, Bunsen and Beaker used hypnosis to control Heather's good and evil sides, with two taps bringing out each one. To test out the experiment, Beaker taps twice, which unleashes the evil Heather, who threatens to shut Bunsen down if she doesn't get a cut in their food experiment. Beaker taps twice again to bring back Heather's nice side, and it gets out of control at the finale skit with Kermit. Part of Kermit's routine included tapping his cane twice, and as he does, Heather switched from good to evil and back several times. A list of things that Evil Heather does during the segment include popping a balloon, tripping random people, and destroying Bobo's hat. Heather is finally brought back to normal when Beaker smacks her on the head with a trout.
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- Heather Locklear later played villainous divorce lawyer Laura Lang on Two and a Half Men.