# Who's your favorite Muppet?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 18, 1999, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416 "1999-11-18T19:07:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [November 19, 1999, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/1 "1999-11-19T06:48:00Z")
How can anyone not like the Muppets?
I think my favorites are the two old guys in the balcony: Waldolf and ?
But it is always changing. Excellent cast of characters.
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Nothing funny to add, check back tomorrow.
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 19, 1999, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/2 "1999-11-19T06:56:00Z")
my favorite would be the one who lets me put my hand up his little empty muppet body :o
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### Author:  [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)
#### Post date: [November 19, 1999, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/3 "1999-11-19T06:57:00Z")
Animal.
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Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, dogs are from Pluto.
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [November 18, 1999, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/4 "1999-11-18T19:07:00Z")
Shirley - the two old guys you like are [Statler and Waldorf.](http://kermit.com/profiles/statlerwaldorf.htm)
My personal favorite is Swedish Chef, mainly because I can do a killer impersonation of him (never fails to crack up the family). But I am also a huge Beaker and Animal fan.
If you like the Muppets than I have to highly recommend the Muppet CD Rom - Muppets Inside. The entire thing is worth it just to hear Beaker, Animal, and the Swedish Chef sing “Oh Danny Boy.”
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Well, shut my mouth. It’s also illegal to put squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling.
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### Author:  [@Kakkerlak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kakkerlak)
#### Post date: [November 18, 1999, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/5 "1999-11-18T19:08:00Z")
Statler: “Why do we always come here?”
Waldorf: “I guess we’ll never know.”
Statler: “It’s like some kind of torture,”
Both: “to have to watch this show !”
My favorite is still Gonzo. The one time I met Henson, back in 1989, somebody in our group asked him exactly WHAT Gonzo is, specieswise. He directed them to the credits of the Muppet Movie, which lists him as a “Little Blue Wierdo”.
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“It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive”
Bruce Springsteen
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### Author:  [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)
#### Post date: [November 18, 1999, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/6 "1999-11-18T19:10:00Z")
Fozie Bear…he is too cuddly!
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“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good
things.” --Edgar Degas
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### Author:  [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)
#### Post date: [November 18, 1999, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/7 "1999-11-18T19:17:00Z")
Traditional muppets??
Then its the Swedish Chef or Rawlf.
But overall right now it has to be Pepe the Prawn…
And yah anyone who can watch a muppet movie and still be sad is a freak. Definatly in need of medication. And lots of it!
Why are there so many…songs about rainbows…and whats on the other side…(tailing off into the cybervoid)
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-Frankie
I’m not a shrimp, I’m a King Prawn.
-Pepe the Prawn
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### Author:  [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)
#### Post date: [November 18, 1999, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/8 "1999-11-18T19:18:00Z")
I used to watch the Muppets with my Dad (his inner child is alive and well, one thing I truly love about him!) and we got a big kick out of the two old fogeys trashing the show.
I also liked Animal, the master thespian. 😉
Gonzo and his chickens, Swedish Chef. What about the uptight eagle? (whose name I forget). He was also a hoot.
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Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?
- Groucho Marx
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [November 18, 1999, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/9 "1999-11-18T19:23:00Z")
Sam the Eagle.
If I could replace my Muppet knowledge with Biology, the common cold would probably be eradicated.
Then there is always Lew Zealand and his boomerang fish.
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### Author:  [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)
#### Post date: [November 18, 1999, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/10 "1999-11-18T19:24:00Z")
I always liked Scooter the best because he was always running around with his little clipboard, trying to organize the show. I also used to crack up everytime they’d show the Muppets from the feet up. Skinny little Muppet legs make me giggle.
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### Author:  [@metroshane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/metroshane)
#### Post date: [November 18, 1999, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/11 "1999-11-18T19:29:00Z")
muppets from space was awesome!
pepe was cool, but i like gonzo.
But if we can include sesame street guys, then super Grover is definitely the coolest.
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We live in an age that reads to much to be wise, and thinks too much to be beautiful–Oscar Wilde
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### Author:  [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)
#### Post date: [November 18, 1999, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/12 "1999-11-18T19:30:00Z")
1. Gonzo
2. Beaker
3. The hippy girl in the band
4. Statler and Waldorf
5. Rolph
These are in no particular order. Others may be added a la the popularity thread.
HUGS!
Sqrl
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Gasoline: As an accompaniement to cereal it made a refreshing change. Glen Baxter
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### Author:  [@Stevie\_Rave\_On](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stevie_Rave_On)
#### Post date: [November 18, 1999, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/13 "1999-11-18T19:36:00Z")
Beaker was the best. I used to love it when he would make an appearance on the cartoon Muppet Babies.
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“Now, Bart, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for daddies and kids with fake IDs.”
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### Author:  [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)
#### Post date: [November 18, 1999, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/14 "1999-11-18T19:44:00Z")
**Sqrl** …
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> 1. The hippy girl in the band
She’s Janice!
_Oh man… Like, what a drag._
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### Author:  [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)
#### Post date: [November 18, 1999, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/15 "1999-11-18T19:44:00Z")
Gonzo
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“If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
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### Author:  [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)
#### Post date: [November 18, 1999, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/16 "1999-11-18T19:54:00Z")
Elmo, or as my son called him, “Malmo.”
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### Author:  [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)
#### Post date: [November 18, 1999, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/17 "1999-11-18T19:59:00Z")
1: Sam The Eagle
2: Gonzo
3: Miss Piggy
4: Statler and Waldorf
I think I saw every episode of the Muppet Show in University. My favorite one was the one with Alice Cooper.
Oops, forgot about Animal and … aw to hell with it they were all good characters. i hope your smiling at us Jim
Keith
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You want brilliance BEFORE I’ve had my coffee!!!
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### Author:  [@PTVroman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PTVroman)
#### Post date: [November 18, 1999, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/18 "1999-11-18T20:09:00Z")
Statler and Waldorf rule! When I was going to school, there was a bar that was made out of the stage of an old theatre. They built a balcony there with life-sized Statler and Waldorfs sitting there.
Next favorite would have to be Sweetums, who had the clasic line from the original Muppet Movie,
> [@](#):
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> Jack not name, jack job!
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_“The large print givith, and the small print taketh away.”_
Tom Waites, “Step Right Up”
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### Author:  [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)
#### Post date: [November 18, 1999, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/19 "1999-11-18T20:13:00Z")
The Swedish Chef – “Too-dah ve’re goink too mek da Turkey Mousse. First yew tek da turkey – bork bork bork.”
Though I do have a soft spot in my heart for all the chickens.
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### Author:  [@torq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torq)
#### Post date: [November 18, 1999, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-muppet/11416/20 "1999-11-18T20:17:00Z")
From the Muppet Show:
Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem as a group, and Rowlf.
From Sesame Street:
Grover, with Guy Smiley and Kermit in a tie for (distant) second.
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