Favorite Muppet

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21

The Swedish Chef
Beaker
Animal

…oh heck, I love them all. Except Fozzie. He’s always been my least favorite.

22

Rowlf Cameron Swayze edges out Kermit by a nose.

23

I like Rowlf too for many of the same reasons but also because he was on the Jimmy Dean show. Second place I’d give to Animal rounding it out with Janice.

24

Gonzo, and if we’re counting Sesame Street, Grover. They always seemed like two sides of the same coin – maybe it was the blue fuzziness.

I am super psyched about the new Muppets movie (currently titled “The Muppets,” in part because of my love for all things Jason Segel:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1204342/

And as a personal hijack, a show I once worked on did an awesome spoof of the Yip Yips from Sesame Street:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L527miiCuRM

25

Animal doing what with Janice? :smiley:

26

I’ll put a word in for some of the lesser known (or at least less frequently cited) muppets:

  • Dynamite Harry a.k.a. Crazy Harry (one muppet that sure wouldn’t pass muster today.)

  • Janice, the hippie girl in Dr. Teeth’s band.

  • Guy Smiley (from “Sesame Street”)

  • Scred and the Land of Gorch characters (from SNL, season 1)

27

Animal. Also, the Sesame Street Martians (Yip, yip, yip, yip, yip!).

28

Animal – I have taught a whole lot of high school kids that remind me of Animal.

29

Another vote for Rowlf, especially as “Dr. Bob” on Veterinarians Hospital.

Miss Piggy: Dr. Bob, you don’t look well. Are you alright?
Rowlf: I’m still in shock from what happened to my last patient.
Miss Piggy: But you cured him.
Rowlf: You don’t think that was a shock?

30

I like Zoot a lot, and Animal, as well as Gonzo and the Count.

31

I like Dr. Teeth.

Also, Bobo the Bear from Muppets Tonight and the later movies. He gave me my favorite muppet exchange of all time.
Bobo is working the backstage door
Prince: Hi, I am tonight guest star.
Bobo: and you are…?
Prince: Actually, my name is an unpronouncable symbol.
Bobo: Right.
Prince: <sigh> Alright, fine. I’m “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince”
Bobo: and I’m the bear currently known as UNAMUSED!

32

And here I thought I’d be one of the rare ones who loves Beaker. Shows what I know. :slight_smile:

I see him as the outer expression of how so many of us actually feel inside. He just doesn’t hide it.

33

Animal. Although I’ll have always have a soft spot for for Lew Zealand. And his Boomerang Fish Act!

34

I have affection for Lew Zealand only because he addresses Kermit as “Mr. The Frog”.

Kermit is of course, the supreme Muppet. For shear humor, I’d give it to the Yip Yip aliens.

35

I refuse to answer on the grounds that it’s innately obvious by virtue of my posting. :slight_smile:

36

I like most of Frank Oz’s, apart from Piggy. Especially Bert and Grover.

But my favourite over all is probably Rowlf.

37

Gotta go with Kermit, but I love 'em all.

38

I don’t remember a Ron.:smiley:

39

Beaker, for this if nothing else.

40

When Jim Henson died, my mother exclaimed: “Who dies of pneumonia these days?!” Two weeks later my Dad died – of the same pneumonia that Henson had. Weird. Anyway … Kermit.