# Yoda and Fonzie Bear **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 15, 2002, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215 "2002-05-15T17:21:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/1 "2002-05-15T17:21:55Z")
Is it just me, or do they sound alike? Anyone seen them together at the same time? ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/2 "2002-05-15T17:38:23Z")
Aren’t both voices provided by Frank OZ? Did you already know that? Am I being laughed at now? ---
**Author:** ![Arken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Arken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arken)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/3 "2002-05-15T17:44:29Z")
Just FYI, it’s Fozzie Bear. Fonzie Bear would wear a leather jacket, ride a motorcycle and say AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/4 "2002-05-15T18:34:12Z")
Thank you, Arken. I apparently had a deprived childhood. But “Fozzie Bear” is a Jedi Master? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/5 "2002-05-15T18:36:29Z")
[http://us.imdb.com/Name?Oz,+Frank](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Oz,+Frank) Yep, Fozzie is a Jedi. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/6 "2002-05-15T19:43:52Z")
I always thought Yoda sounded more like Grover, myself. Yoda going “wakka wakka wakka” doesn’t cut it, no… ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/7 "2002-05-15T20:33:34Z")
Yoda, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Grover…all Frank Oz. ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/8 "2002-05-15T20:52:23Z")
Yoda sounds exactly like Grover! I have always thought this. I have trouble taking Yoda seriously because I expect him to break into “near…far” at any moment. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/9 "2002-05-15T21:05:14Z")
So next we will find that Mel Blanc is Captain Kirk? ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/10 "2002-05-15T21:29:35Z")
So will Yoda wear a knight’s helmet and red cape in Episode 2? And look for the new book, _There’s a Jedi at the End of This Book_, starring Yoda! ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/11 "2002-05-15T21:37:27Z")
“Sound like Grover on Sesame Street I do, yes…” (From a parody of ‘Everybody’s Free to wear Sunscreen’) And nope, haven’t seen them together at the same time… 😉 * * * \<\< Do-be-do-be-do! \>\> ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/12 "2002-05-15T21:40:26Z")
_Star Wars_ takes place long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away. Maybe Yoda evolved into Grover. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/13 "2002-05-15T22:45:31Z")
“And cute am I, too!” ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/14 "2002-05-15T23:39:54Z")
Backwards I talk, stupid I sound… ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/15 "2002-05-16T03:09:32Z")
Like those of most non-English languages are my sentences constructed. Not understood would they be…only by a dork, yes? ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/16 "2002-05-16T06:58:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kilt-wearin’ man \* > \*\*Like those of most non-English languages are my sentences constructed. \*\* \ In fact, the sentence structure of Yoda’s speech is very _un_usual among human languages. Whether Lucas knew this, or only stumbled on it accidentally while trying to make Yoda sound “foreign”, I do not know.\ My brother mocked me when I said Yoda sounded a lot like Grover. I feel so vindicated now. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/17 "2002-05-16T12:45:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by flodnak \* > \*\*I feel so vindicated now. \*\* I try and spread a little joy where I travel. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/18 "2002-05-16T13:54:23Z")
A slight hijack here, but one of the most wonderful things I have ever seen/heard in a movie is Miss Piggy (Mr. Oz) singing “Never Before” in The Muppet Movie. Just listening to that, and knowing it’s this thin balding guy… I don’t think I’ll ever not find that funny. _Yoda, Piggy, Fozzie, Grover… Oz they are._ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/19 "2002-05-16T13:59:33Z")
I’d love to see Miss Piggy with a light sabre. “EE-YAH!” “Your hand? Moi?” ---
**Author:** ![Arken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Arken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arken)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215/20 "2002-05-16T16:33:18Z")
[And then the two worlds converged…](http://my.athenet.net/~denij/MuppetStarWars.JPG) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yoda-and-fonzie-bear/109215.md?page=2)