If You Were a Muppet...

[Feynn]

I was reading the "What is it about the Muppets" thread by Persephone and was inspired to ask if you were a Muppet, which one would you be and just what would this say about you as a person?

Me?

Kermit. I think he's the most normal of the muppets, He's an average guy in a less than average environmentand surrounded by some really strange people.

Yep.. that's me.

Does that mean that Lola is Miss Piggy?

I am so going to die.

[Demo]

Dude, Whammo is so Fozzie Bear! :D


Actually, we did this in chat one night. Someone said I reminded them of one of those old guys that sit up in the balcony and heckle everyone.

[yabob]

Oscar the grouch. Whatever my best intentions concerning my surroundings at home or work, I always seem to be living in a garbage can. With a convenient slammable lid, of course.

[meek]

... the Snufaluf...
the Snufalufi
smufalofag

aw crap
big bird
:)

[lolagranola]

Lou Zealand, the guy who throws the fish. I'm not sure why, but I always identify with him. Feynn thinks of me more as Bunsen Honeydew.

[Upham]

i'd just be damn cute

I'd like to be Animal, too, cause he gets to smash stuff

[matt_mcl]

Grover. Or Telly.

[Iguana Boy]

I'd have to be Fozzie as I have an endless collection of really bad jokes.

That, of course, would allow me to have a secret Jedi alter ego!

[PRNYouth]

I'd have to go with Kermit as well, although with a tad of Sam the Eagle (I'm conservative) and a dash of Gonzo the Great (I'm also a little wacky).

And just for the record, it's Lew Zealand.

(Yes, I'm the same one who corrected Fozzie's name here (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1073416#post1073416) -- I'm a major Muppet fan, and some thought went into choosing those names, so I like to see 'em spelled right. So shoot me. Or do the Crazy Harry thing and blow me up.;))

:D

[Juniper200]

I've always identified with Kermit. He's a competent frog. Placed in a normal environment, he'd get along swimmingly and cope. If The Muppet Show were taking place in a normal theater, he'd have that thing winning Tonys within weeks.

However, it's not a normal theater and he isn't around normal people and even though he has the order of the show all set up and the guest is safe in his dressing room and the first act is on the stage, Fozzie wants to try out his new routine and Gonzo accidentally blew off half of the roof with that big cannon and a troupe of dancing crawfish has invaded the backstage area and Scooter can't find the costumes for the next number and Piggy is getting jealous again and to top it off Sweetums may have actually eaten the guest who was supposed to be safe in the dressing room and Kermit just can't take it anymore and lets go with a big arm-waving scream.

Direct parallels can be drawn with my own life.

[Mamapotomus]

I'd have to say Miss Piggy. I get wayyyyy to bent out of shape over goofy stuff and tend to make a doofus out of myself.

If I could change my personality, I'd choose Janis, the groovy mellow girl in the band.

[Quadzilla]

I'd be a smaller version of Snuffy Snuffalupagus. I frequently start a conversation, only to trail off and ask whoever I'm talking with to remind me what we were talking about... I'm also one of the biggest klutzes around.

[pricciar]

Grover, for sure.

I am cute and loveable, natch.
I always screw stuff up when I try to do it.
The little purple man is always annoyed at me, even when I play my guitar for him in the park.
I don't see the fly in the soup.
And, when I fix a computer, I always use the magic words of "Wubba Wubba Wubba"

pat

Ps:
I can't fly, either.

[Persephone]

Pepe the Prawn. He is SO cool.

[bad French accent]

"If you tell him, I will spank you. I will spank you like a bad bad donkey, okay?"

[/bad French accent]

[Palmyra]

My printmaking TA is soooooo Fozzie bear because of all the bad jokes we have to endure. :)

I think I would be Gonzo. I really am a kooky person and half the time what I say goes over people's heads and all I get is a bunch of puzzled looks. I don't have a Bernice the Chicken though

[Totoro]

I never remember the guys name, but he's the Rasta-type guy with the the purple dreads and pink skin. I find myself to be a lot like him. I wear a lot of hawaiin shirts...

But sometimes, I act like a little bit of Bunsen, and a little bit of Beaker... sometimes...

[TruePisces]

Probably Scooter... Don't know why, but I always seemed to identify more with him as a kid... kinda there, trying to help, usually in the background rather than the limelight...

That kind of thing.

TruePisces

[RickQ]

I would be the Cookie Monster (I'm afraid I dunno if he has any other names)

I just love cookies.

:eek:
Kindof like the cookie monster

Rick

[robgruver]

I would be the Count from Seasme Street (don't know if that counts, but they look like muppets).

The Count is such a pimp too. My friends and I came up with this one night when we were not totally in this reality.

"One bitchslap. Ha! Ha! Ha! Two bitchslap. Ha! Ha! Ha!"





Guess you had to be there.

[Eo Echo]

Definitely Dr. Teeth. He's cool and he's with the band.

[Persephone]

I never remember the guys name, but he's the Rasta-type guy with the the purple dreads and pink skin. I find myself to be a lot like him. I wear a lot of hawaiin shirts...

His name is Clifford. And yeah, he's way cool.

I would be the Count from Seasme Street (don't know if that counts, but they look like muppets).

Oh yeah, they're Muppets. Sesame Street is where the Muppets got famous (Kermit got his start on another old variety show--can't remember which one, though. Maybe PRNYouth knows?)

[Juggler]

I would be right along with Democritus and heckle everyone. Although in real life I do this in front of the people I heckle always hoping they will understand that I'm just teasing.

[Juniper200]

Kermit's genesis was on the show Sam and Friends, but that was before he was clearly identified as a frog. For most (all?) of the show's run, he lacked the "collar" of light green pointy stuff around his neck and was just a lizardy-thing.

[PRNYouth]

Originally posted by Persephone
Kermit got his start on another old variety show--can't remember which one, though. Maybe PRNYouth knows?
As I preview this, I notice that Juniper200 beat me to it, but I'll post anyway. A pre-frog Kermit got his start on a program called Sam and Friends Jim Henson did on a DC-area station. Kermit was sans the nifty pointed collar, and often lip-synched to records with a very different voice, but it was his start in show-business. Sesame Street was his big break, though. What I'm not sure of is how early he was identified as a frog on Sesame Street. He was clearly a frog by 1972, though, when he starred in The Frog Prince. (Robin was the prince, not Kermit, but Kermit was still clearly a frog.) What you may have been thinking of, Persephone, was Rowlf the Dog, who was the first Muppet to receive national exposure, and that was on the old Jimmy Dean variety show.

Originally posted by Palmyra
I think I would be Gonzo. I really am a kooky person and half the time what I say goes over people's heads and all I get is a bunch of puzzled looks. I don't have a Bernice the Chicken though[/i]
Gonzo's girlfriend was Camilla the Chicken. There wasn't much mention of her in the recent Muppets From Space, though. I suspect fowl play. :)

Muppet cop, at your service. :D

[woolly]

I can relate deeply to The Swedish Chef . :)

Reminiscing ... turtle neck soup ... nut cutlets ... chocolate moose ... Oh dear, if I'd laughed any more I'd have gone from incoherent to incontinent! :D

[Odieman]

Another vote for Fozzy, I sympathise with him trying gamely even though he was the worst comic with the worst jokes, he always plugged away......either that or Link Hearthrob.....I always wonder if William Shatner recognized himself.....

Keith

[Angkins]

Sometimes I feel just like Beaker.... but feminine ;)

[nashiitashii]

I'd be Gonzo with a big heaping of self esteem. He always seemed so insecure... Uhm, anyone else got a clue which muppet I'd be? I'm stumped.

[Mr. Blue Sky]

I'd be a mutation of Kermit (regular-Joe under pressure), Scooter (efficient, but overlooked) and Beaker (always wondering what the hell I'm doing here). Also, I used to have Beaker-like hair.

[spark applied to powder]

I like Kermit best, but I'd hate to be green. It's just not good on me.
Maybe one of the exotic yellow and black varieties.

[Kat]

Animal or Cookie Monster or a combination of the two.

C is for Cookie, that's good enough for me!

[Fairy Princess Kitty]

I'd probably be grover, but a girl. I do have the tendency to be over enthusiastic and jumpy and bouncy and spazz about little things. At least outwardly I'm so grover, all out going and cheery and stuff.

Kitty

[Persephone]

What you may have been thinking of, Persephone, was Rowlf the Dog, who was the first Muppet to receive national exposure, and that was on the old Jimmy Dean variety show.

YES! Thank you, PRNY! That is indeed what I was thinking of! Dang. I love it when Dopers get psychic!

Gonzo's girlfriend was Camilla the Chicken. There wasn't much mention of her in the recent Muppets From Space, though. I suspect fowl play.

I was trying to remember her name, too, but it was escaping me.

Oh, IMHO, the opening scene from Muppets from Space is one of the all-time best pieces of Muppet choreography, ever.

[hampster]

Wembley Fraggle

I'm Canadian, and I can be just a bit just a bit indecisive
at times.





Okay, completely fraught with doubt.

[hypergirl]

You do realize that half the characters you people are mentioning are not Muppets, but Sesame Street. They are not the same thing.

That being said, I kinda like Fozzie. "Wokka wokka wokka" :p

[hampster]

hypergirl
You do realize that half the characters you people are mentioning are not Muppets, but Sesame Street.
They are not the same thing.

You forget The Muppet Family Christmas,
LINK (http://www.henson.com/television/specials/tv_specials_mupfam.html)
Which clearly demonstrates that Muppets, Fraggles, and
everyone from Sesame Street exist in the same universe.

No, I don't need to go out and get a life. :)

[screech-owl]

Originally posted by hypergirl
You do realize that half the characters you people are mentioning are not Muppets, but Sesame Street. They are not the same thing....

How are they not the same?? The OP is not referring to "The Muppet Show" specifically. Muppets are found on "Sesame Street", "The Muppet Show" and its various movies, "Fraggle Rock", etc. Most are the 'half-bodied, wires-from-below-connected-to-the-arms' puppets that we know and love. Others like Sweetums, Big Bird, and Snuffletc. are full costumed charaters, but still fall under the generic 'Muppet' heading (the trademark/copyright symbol eludes me). (When the Muppet 3D attraction was slated to open at Disney MGM, [around the time of Jim Henson's death, IIRC], there was quite a uproar regarding trademarks and rights and definition of "muppet" between the Henson Corporation and Disney.)

A Sesame Street muppet character is still a Muppet.
A Fraggle Rock muppet character is still a Muppet.

Gah, I am tired, I canot believe I am debating the intrisic qualities of a muppet.

Myself - dunno - part "Sam the Eagle", part "Bunsen Honeydew"

[evilbeth]

I think I relate to Ernie more than any other Muppet--I even laugh like him sometimes when I've done something rather sneaky! Plus, I have a shirt just like his! Also, I detailed it here (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=16258&pagenumber=2) before but my favorite Muppet still has to be the weasel from Muppet Classic Fairy Tales--sometimes I feel like him/her!

[andygirl]

Kermit, I suppose.

Actually, I'd like to be his little nephew Robin. "I'm five..."

[Palmyra]

Originally posted by PRNYouth
Gonzo's girlfriend was Camilla the Chicken. There wasn't much mention of her in the recent Muppets From Space, though. I suspect fowl play. :)

Muppet cop, at your service. :D

:eek:
then where the f*ck did i get Bernice?? this is weird...

[kristoph]

I'd have to be one of those purple shaggy alien dudes, transfixed by the radio

Uh-ha, uh-ha, radio, yep, yep, yep ,...........

[BornDodgy]

I love Fozzy.

But I am more of a Tweeny I guess..
I want to be a female Milo.. he always makes a mess "by mistake" and gets the whiny one (Jake) to cry.

Wonder about my knowledge of BBC Kids?
Damn.. so do I... what the hell did I do this summer???!

dodgy

[Sublight]

Although my nickname in school was Beaker, I think I'm now somewhere between Dr. Honeydew and Rizzo the Rat. Blissfully detatched but still sarcastic.

--sublight.

[GuanoLad]

Boober Fraggle.

Complete with discoloured socks constantly hanging in my room.

[Anake]

I'm a cross between Kermit and Oscar the Grouch.

--Anake

[11811]

Probably I'd be Fozzie Bear: love the corny jokes. If not I'd be Big Tiny Tall-Saddle, the western singer, mostly because of the cool moniker.

[beakerxf]

Definitely Fozzie. I've got that whole joke telling, earnest, eager to entertain type of personality.

I'm totally the offspring of the bastard child of Statler & Waldorf, after having mated with Fozzy & Gonzo's love child.

(Muppets don't really go much by gender, do they?)

[Palmyra]

Gonzo is defintely male, since he's head over heels for Miss Piggy and Camilla.

[idiotboy]

I am certainly the legendary Zoot Simms, Tenor Saxophone player and consumate cool of Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem.

[KimKatt]

I want to be the cat that was always hanging out on the bannister, backstage at the theatre. Probably because right now, I need a nap.