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Ah, yes. He not only is continually crammed down one's throat, but he's used to steal Kermit's thunder.
Nope, not a Pepe fan.
Saying that out of the new (i.e. "Muppets Tonight" characters) Muppets he was the best is nothing to write home about. Johnny Fiama, Bobo the Bear, Mr. Poodlepants...anyone would look good compared to such characters.
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Wait, when did Snuffy become visible? I distictly remember that he was still invisible in the early 1990s, but I could be completely wrong. Tell me Puffy Treat, oh knower of amazing Muppet trivia!
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I looked it up, he became visible in the 80s, but I know there were episodes where he was invisible after I was born (which was 86).
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Yep, I was there the day that Snuffy came out of the closet. It was a momentous day and I was rather glad to see the grown ups feel all sheepish after they had doubted Big Bird for so long.
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quote:Originally posted by Narnia: Yep, I was there the day that Snuffy came out of the closet. It was a momentous day and I was rather glad to see the grown ups feel all sheepish after they had doubted Big Bird for so long.
I remember too! (I wasn't watching SS that often by that time, but my mom heard about it in advance (newspaper? radio? I don't remember) and we watched the groundbreaking episode.)
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Bert has never denied that he's a very boring person who likes dancing the Pigeon and collecting bottlecaps. Posts: 6689 | Registered: Jan 2005
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The character was named Lew Lord...partially in tribute to Lord Grade, the man who made The Muppet Show possible.
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This film is the last project the late Richard Hunt (Scooter, Janice, Beaker, many others) recorded dialogue for. Name the film.
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This TV special was broadcast as an episode of The Jim Henson Hour in 1989, won Jim Henson an Emmy for best direction, and later inspired a spin-off animated series.
quote:Originally posted by Scott R: My older brother and I used to pretend we were Bert and Ernie. He was Bert, I was Ernie.
I never understood why ANYONE would choose to be the Bert of that duo. To this day, I don't really understand my older brother.
I mean...weird.
Scott, my older brother idolized Bert as well. He expressed this in a number of ways, including collecting bottle caps and attempting to develop a taste for plain soda water (he disliked it, and would pour it out if he thought that no one was watching, but he insisted that it was delicious.
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re: Bert and Ernie...the characters were developed from the idea of having a child character on the show who would continually get the better of adults. It was decided that such would be too "Dennis the Menace"...but Jim Henson kept at the idea, altering it to a playful, child-like character who was continually joking around with a stody, adult-like character. Hence Bert and Ernie were born.
And a trivia question: What is the name of Bert's baby nephew?
(He only turned up once, but it was a very memorable skit.)
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Today's question: What is the name of the pink creatures seen during the "Mahna Mahna" number?
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The Muppets Take Manhattan was directed by Frank Oz, except for one memorable sequence. What was the sequence, and who directed it?
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Once Jim Henson had the idea of producing twelve "Storybook Specials". The Henson company would hire a children's storybook illustrator to design characters and a setting...the Muppet workshop would then build them, and a high quality family special would be the result. Of the twelve planned, only two were made before the project was discontinued.
What were the titles of the two specials?
Bonus question:
What character was spun off from one of the specials into various Muppet projects of the late 80s-early 90s?
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The Tale of the Bunnies Picnic and The Christmas Toy. Bean Bunny, a character from "Bunnies Picnic" was for a few years included as part of the "core Muppet cast" on later TV series, specials, and films.
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I guess i need to re-watch the Christmas Toy, one of my favorite movies growing up -- i don't remember Bean being in that at all!
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Ah, i misread. I thought your post said Bean was spun off from both the specials, not just the one Posts: 3516 | Registered: Sep 2002
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"Telly" the monster was originally designed with a very differrent personality. The only thing that ended up being used of the initial idea was the name. What was the idea, why was it scrapped, and what did they go with instead?
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Telly was originally going to be the "Television Monster"...just as Cookie Monster is obsessed with cookies, he would be obsessed with watching TV.
CTW decided this might be looked as as advocating poor TV viewing habits, so they made Telly a highly nervous, uncertain, angst-ridden, yet somehow lovable monster instead.
The Muppets Visit Walt Disney World was one of the last TV specials Jim Henson ever made. Part of the original Disney-Muppet deal, it featured the "core" Muppets visiting attractions at the Walt Disney World theme parks, as well as several musical numbers.
One of these musical numbers raised eyebrows from the Disney people, but made the cut because it was felt to be so light-hearted and innocent that no one would be offended.
What was the number? And in what context was is sung?
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