# Which Muppets are your favorites? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 23, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406 "2000-08-23T05:27:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JoeyHemlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@JoeyHemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeyHemlock)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/1 "2000-08-23T05:27:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![seriousart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@seriousart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seriousart)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/2 "2000-08-23T05:47:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/3 "2000-08-23T05:51:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![JoeyHemlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@JoeyHemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeyHemlock)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/4 "2000-08-23T05:53:29Z")
> [@](#): > > **The original Jim Henson voiced Kermit.** 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. ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/5 "2000-08-23T05:55:14Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![JoeyHemlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@JoeyHemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeyHemlock)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/6 "2000-08-23T05:55:46Z")
[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… ---
**Author:** ![JoeyHemlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@JoeyHemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeyHemlock)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/7 "2000-08-23T05:59:45Z")
Let’s see if I get my tags right this time… > [@](#): > > And aren’t we forgetting Alf?? What about Yoda?? He was a muppet too! 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! ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/8 "2000-08-23T06:13:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JoeyHemlock \* > Isn’t it Rolf? Trying to sound like a barking dog, no doubt… \*\* Whoops, I stand corrected. But actually, it’s Rowlf. I just looked on the _Muppet’s Movie_ box. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/9 "2000-08-23T06:29:02Z")
**S.S.:** Cookie Monster or Grover **M.S.:** Crazy Harry, hands down. Pure performance art. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/10 "2000-08-23T06:30:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by seriousart \*The original Jim Henson voiced Kermit. 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… ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/11 "2000-08-23T06:30:50Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/12 "2000-08-23T06:42:49Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/13 "2000-08-23T07:14:24Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![EnochF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/779978/32.png) [@EnochF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnochF)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/14 "2000-08-23T07:32:38Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/15 "2000-08-23T08:56:54Z")
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, > [@](#): > > - > > We’ve got to get that name, we’ve got to get that name, got-to-get-that-name. > Gottagetthatname, gottagetthatname, gottagetthatname, gottagetthatname, gottagetthatname… - 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. ---
**Author:** ![micilin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@micilin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/micilin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/16 "2000-08-23T12:37:19Z")
14 replies, and not one mention of [Beaker](http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~louiseh/beaker.jpg) , 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. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/17 "2000-08-23T12:42:19Z")
Seconds on Beaker!!! thought Sesame street’s greatest was of course Oscar The Grouch ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/18 "2000-08-23T12:44:35Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![CandyMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@CandyMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandyMan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/19 "2000-08-23T12:54:43Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406/20 "2000-08-23T13:36:07Z")
pkbites said > [@](#): > > 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. 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-muppets-are-your-favorites/30406.md?page=2)