Comments | kniedzw: Favorite Underrepresented Muppet?

kniedzw

Favorite Underrepresented Muppet?

Apr 19, 2006 14:37

I'm sort of in an odd mood, so here's an odd sort of question.

Everyone thinks of a particular muppet when they think of Jim Henson. Generally, it's someone like Kermit, Miss Piggy, Oscar the Grouch, or Bert (or Ernie). ...but most of us who grew up with them have a particular oddball favorite. Perhaps it's the Honkers from Sesame Street. ( Read more... )

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moxieholic April 19 2006, 20:04:01 UTC

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robotnik April 19 2006, 20:05:31 UTC

Hell yeah.

kniedzw April 19 2006, 20:12:36 UTC

Wow. I think I might have owned that album. I know I had the John Denver / Muppets Christmas album as a kid, but Roosevelt Franklin! Nice.

moxieholic April 19 2006, 20:39:44 UTC

I still have a copy (in beautiful shape, I might add). Plus many others like Oscar's Let A Frown Be Your Umbrella and The Count Counts.

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It's like roll call. jadasc April 19 2006, 20:10:00 UTC

* Mokey Fraggle, who gets no play.
* The Amazing Mumford
* The Count is appreciated, but only as a cult figure. He's had an amazing impact on other things, though.
* Floyd Pepper, from the Mayhem.
* More Statler and Waldorf love.

Re: It's like roll call. kniedzw April 19 2006, 20:16:27 UTC

Mumford! How could I forget about him?

"A la peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!"

Re: It's like roll call. moxieholic April 19 2006, 20:44:14 UTC

I used to work with a guy named Mumford, who of course we all called The Amazing Mumford.

One day he accidently clocked me in the head with a rifle barrel.

And I'm pretty sure his magic spell was just "A la peanut butter sandwiches!" I don't think he used jelly.

Re: It's like roll call. kniedzw April 19 2006, 20:53:38 UTC

And I'm pretty sure his magic spell was just "A la peanut butter sandwiches!" I don't think he used jelly.
You're probably right. I think I always got that messed up, mostly because I hated plain peanut butter sandwiches as a kid. I mean, who really wanted them without the jelly, right?

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telepresence April 19 2006, 20:20:27 UTC

Beaker. Super Grover (Not Grover. Super Grover) Pinnochio with the nose carrying Kermit out of the window.

And, though it's not a character, the giant orrery from Dark Crystal was amazing to me as a kid.

vampyrusgirl April 19 2006, 20:31:06 UTC

I have a Super Grover figurine. :) Love him!!

kniedzw April 19 2006, 20:34:48 UTC

With Super Grover, it was his helmet that always got me.

...and the orrery was fan-freaking-tastic. I totally wanted one for my room.

sarcastibich April 20 2006, 01:20:38 UTC

You know that Laughing Tom has the orrery in his Lodge, right? Or something damn like the orrery from "Dark Crystal." I think its broken again, but it could be fixed and is all kinds of useful.

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papersource April 19 2006, 20:29:37 UTC

Ooo! Oooo! No one's mentioned mine yet! It's the baby muppets. NOT Muppet Babies (baby Kermit, baby Piggy, etc), but the muppets that were supposed to be little infants. They appeared from time to time in the musical numbers, usually as some sort of chorus. I've done a few Google image searches, and I can't find any evidence of them. Does anyone else remember the baby muppets?

bluegargantua April 19 2006, 20:37:54 UTC

Yes. You are not alone. I too remember them.

Tom

kniedzw April 19 2006, 20:39:29 UTC

Check out the top of this page. The Kermitage is great. :)

papersource April 20 2006, 01:50:08 UTC

Wow. I did not know about the Kermitage. I don't think that anything could possibly warm my little gen x heart more than seeing those baby muppets again. Thanks, and thanks for this thread!

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Oh I'll NEVER get it! NEVER! NEVER! *bang!* bluegargantua April 19 2006, 20:37:14 UTC

Don Music.

You remember Don. He'd try and do a children's nursery rhyme, but he couldn't get the last word. He'd bang his head on the piano when it happend. Then Kermit would suggest a strange ending and Don would rewrite the whole song to make it fit.

He got discontinued because kids kept banging their heads on the piano. But I seem to recall seeing him well into the 80's.

Tom

Re: Oh I'll NEVER get it! NEVER! NEVER! *bang!* robotnik April 19 2006, 20:41:33 UTC

This thread is gonna get crazy long if we all just post to say MAN TRUE whenever somebody hits on another way cool muppet we'd forgotten about, but:

MAN TRUE!

Re: Oh I'll NEVER get it! NEVER! NEVER! *bang!* moxieholic April 19 2006, 20:49:47 UTC

I loved Don Music...and my friend Jennifer, who was and is a piano whiz used to impersonate him all the time. As far as I know, she never suffered any lasting brain damage.

I memorized his versions of "Mary Had A Little Lamb" (which became Mary Had a Bicycle) and Yankee Doodle ("Who puts macaroni in their cap?"). Priceless.

Re: Oh I'll NEVER get it! NEVER! NEVER! *bang!* vampyrusgirl April 19 2006, 21:50:45 UTC

I think I rmember the head-bonking! Awesome!