Animal was always my favourite Muppet and I've had a crush on Rita since.... forever!
And there's another Animal moment that is so beautiful because of the urban legend attached to it. NO IDEA if it's real or not.
Okay, so they allegedly based Animal on Keith Moon. Buddy Rich was known to be one of Keith Moon's inspirations. Buddy Rich was on the Muppets in November of 78, shortly after Keith had passed. The urban legend is that they filmed it in the early summer, and Keith was on the set. And during the drum battle the puppeteer looked over, noticed Keith's reaction to Buddy playing, and had Animal make the same gape-jawed reaction -- until it was time for him to pitch the drum as scripted.
NO IDEA if it's true or not, but I like to think it is. It's a cool story, at any rate!
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Animal was always my favourite Muppet and I've had a crush on Rita since.... forever!
And there's another Animal moment that is so beautiful because of the urban legend attached to it. NO IDEA if it's real or not.
Okay, so they allegedly based Animal on Keith Moon. Buddy Rich was known to be one of Keith Moon's inspirations. Buddy Rich was on the Muppets in November of 78, shortly after Keith had passed. The urban legend is that they filmed it in the early summer, and Keith was on the set. And during the drum battle the puppeteer looked over, noticed Keith's reaction to Buddy playing, and had Animal make the same gape-jawed reaction -- until it was time for him to pitch the drum as scripted.
NO IDEA if it's true or not, but I like to think it is. It's a cool story, at any rate!
Here it is...
https://youtu.be/VJh9W3Gcpmo
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