We’ll have to divide this into two categories: Sesame Street Muppets and Muppet Show Muppets. Any Muppets that are exclusive to movies should be considered in the latter category.
My picks:
Sesame Street: Grover. Honorable mentions to Ernie and Cookie Monster.
Muppet Show: Gonzo. Mad Props to Fozzie and that guy who just blows stuff up.
Your Muppets may vary.
The original Jim Henson voiced Kermit.
Always thought of him as the Jimmy Stewart “Everyman” of the Muppets.
And for sheer comic relief, Rizzo the rat.
Hmmm, let me think. It’s hard to narrow down:
Sesame Street: Probably Cookie Monster. Though, yeah, I really liked Grover too. Snuffleupagus was great too.
The Muppet Show: Now this is a lot more difficult. Mostly because I can do dead-on immitations of around half of the muppets (I can do any Frank Oz voice). I was a big fan of Animal, though I’d probably have to go with Gonzo or Fozzy. I just saw the movie again, and I think I now have a little different tastes. I’ve gotten a little more musical, and appreciate Ralph a lot more. Since I play bass, I also really like Floyd, the bass player for The Electric Mayhem.
And you just happened to pick the one who spans both categories.
Kermit is a great spokesmuppet, but he’s a little to goody-goody for me. If there were a Muppet election, I’m sure he’d win.
I liked animal.
And aren’t we forgetting Alf?? Alf is the best! Does he count as a muppet? What about Yoda?? He was a muppet too!
[QUOTEI’ve gotten a little more musical, and appreciate Ralph a lot more**[/QUOTE]
Isn’t it Rolf? Trying to sound like a barking dog, no doubt…
Let’s see if I get my tags right this time…
Okay, I’ll modify the OP to include only Muppets that were included in officially sanctioned Muppet events, i.e. Sesame Street, Muppet Show, or one of the Muppet Movies. And for Pete’s Sake, not Muppet Babies!
Whoops, I stand corrected. But actually, it’s Rowlf. I just looked on the Muppet’s Movie box.
S.S.: Cookie Monster or Grover
M.S.: Crazy Harry, hands down. Pure performance art.
Me too.
After that, it’s hard to decide because they’re all great in their own way: Rowlf, Gonzo, Floyd, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Swedish Chef, Pepe the Prawn…
I gotta say Elmo, cuz I can do a good approximation of the voice. Well, enough to fool the kiddies, anyway.
As for Muppets, the old guys are pretty funny. Death to Miss Piggy and that God awful voice.
–Tim
In Sesame Street, its Oscar the Grouch. He’s very funny and say things that only he can get away with in a children’s show.
In the Muppet Show, I’m partial to Animal the Drummer, and the Swedish Chef (hey, gives me an idea for a new post.)
It was so much easier on the post about the least liked muppets because I loved them all.
My favorite were the 2 martians. Remember them? Yep Yep Yep Yep, uh huh, uh huh. Check the earth book. Does anyone know what I’m talking about. They were Seasame Street muppets. Hilarious!! SS has gotten somewhat dumber in the humor dept.
The SS of the late 60’s, early 70’s was awsome! I remember me and my parents laughing our asses off at it while my liitle sister watched it. Funny stuff!
Definitely Swedish Chef. He’s still my favorite Muppet. Plus, I remember back in elementary school I used to amuse my friends with a dead-on mock Swedish.
sigh I miss Jim Henson…
I also liked that new character Digit from the '89 Jim Henson Hour.
From Sesame Street, I love Oscar. He’s great!
Now, the post that will make people look at me differently from now on:
I have a video called Muppet Classic Fairy Tales and it is the Muppets doing their own take on…you guessed it, fairy tales. Anyway, they do a semi-musical version of Rumplestiltskin. You know how they always have generic Muppets in large crowd scenes and stuff, well, in this one they have a weasel who comes out for the singing parts. He looks pretty much like a simple brown sock puppet–he has brown fur, two beady eyes and a black ball-type nose at the tip. There’s a song that they sing that says,
Anyway, when they do the first part (“we’ve got to get that name…”) the weasel is “singing” by looking at the camera and jerking his head back and forth with each word. Then, when they start singing the second part (“gottagetthatname, gottagetthatname…”), he puts his head down like he’s looking at the floor and he starts shaking wildly with his little skinny arms just flailing all over the place!!
Everytime I see this part, I literally fall in the floor laughing. I realize that you just can’t get the effect by reading it but it is truly one of the funniest things I have ever seen. I highly recommend renting the video just so you can see this one part. Although, come to think of it, no one but me has ever laughed that hard at that part…
Anyway, that weasel is my favorite Muppet.
14 replies, and not one mention of Beaker , or Dr. Bunsen Honeydew! I can’t even look at Beaker without laughing.
Then there was the guy whose stage act consited of musical torture with a mallet.
As for SS, it’d have to be Grover.
Seconds on Beaker!!!
thought Sesame street’s greatest was of course Oscar The Grouch
For SS, it’s a toss up between Oscar and Bert. I like Oscar’s bitterness, but frankly I think Bert’s very under-rated.
For MS, I’ll side with miclin and Beaker. Although, truth be told, I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for the somewhat skanky Miss Piggy. I like slutty women, what can I say?
Man, SS, it HAD to be those two aliens. That was funny…
as for the Muppet Show, I actually LIKED the two old guys in the box seats. Abrasive, just to be abrasive, my kind of guys.
CandyMan
pkbites said
Yah, sure! They were great.
For non-SS Muppets, Pepe the Prawn is my new favorite. You just have to see him in Muppets from Space - “Prawn cracker wins!” Cracks me up every time.
