Best Muppet

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"Well, it's not quite a mop, and it's not quite a puppet, but man...."

So, which one's your favorite? Mine is Lew Zealand, the lunatic with the boomerang fish. Don't ask why.

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That Beaker guy, does he count?  Yeah, him...

[Reply #2 on:]

Animal.

Gooooo . . . byebye!

[Reply #3 on:]

that crazy cook (smorebrod, smorebrod - at least he sang this tune in the german version).
waldorf & stattler are great too!!!

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I always loved Gonzo. Little blue guy with that huge nose...he was the funniest of all to me.

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Ooh, I forgot about the Swedish Chef.  Rizzo amuses me too.  Gonzo was one of my heroes as a child.

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Gonzo.He was my fav as a kid...he's like Fry

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some of my favourite characters are rizzo the rat and miss piggy, but my all time favourite has to be the great gonzo..

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Animal rules along with that mad drumming he did.

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I started off liking Gonzo, But I think I prefer Waldorf anbd Stattler nowadays, I loved them as Marley and Marley in a Muppets Chrismas Carol -

"Its good to be heckling again"

"It's good to be doing anything again"

But the great Gonzo's still cool 

"We're Marley and Marley, whoooooooooooooooooo"

 

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Waldorf and Stattler!  I love them!

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Kermit was the best. Gotta respect a frog who can stand up to what he took from Miss Piggy. Waldorf and Stattler come a close second, and Miss Piggy is oinking at their heels.

But why'd they make that one muppet out of leather?

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Animal, he was great 

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Animal was ok in the movies, but I hated him in Muppet Babies. Actually I hated everyone on Muppet Babies.

Swedish Chef rocks, I have him as my wallpaper. Kermit also rocks. I also like that new Bear guy(I forget his name...not Fozzie).

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Well, my dog's named after Fozzie, so I better go with the bear.

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Originally posted by FishyJoe:
Animal was ok in the movies, but I hated him in Muppet Babies. Actually I hated everyone on Muppet Babies.

*sighs*we would watch anything when we were young....

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Never watched Muppet Babies, just the real thing 

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Yeah, Swedish Chef was cool. And who could forget Sweetums?

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I also like that hot rock band chick who always talks about being naked.

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I know the one you mean.
As an avid fan of the muppets, I've gotta say miss piggy was my childhood favourite, But I love that sweedish chef too. Actually, to pick one, thats really hard. Waldorf and Stattler are hilarious, too. I remember one quote from muppets tonight remember that talk show that they used to have?) it was a wig race, or something, and the guy who owned the winning wig was interviewed.
'so, do you use shampoo?'
'Shampoo? ha!  I use real poo! I only have the finest treatment for my wigs!'
for some reason, i found that hilarious. Oh, that stern looking eagle guy was funny too. God, i'm gonna go out and rent all the muppet videos out...

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I like the singing fruit the best.  yes i'm weird

also kermit is pretty awesome. 

If you are renting muppet videos i suggest trying to find the storyteller series... although they aren't really like the muppet show or anything.

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I can barely remember any of it, but I think I'll try to find 'muppets in manhattan' I'll take what I can get.

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Storyteller, eh? I was actually thinking about getting some of those for my birthday but ended up getting other crap instead. I will check those bastards out.

Muppets Tonight rocked. And I don't mean in a "for the kids but not too annoying for adults" way, either. I thought the show was genuinely funny. I used to have the Sandra Bulloch episode on tape(where they had to keep their ratings at a certain level or else a bomb would go off). It had some "Seinfeld Babies" sketch...goddamn hilarious.

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Yeah, I had the sandra episode on tape, and the one with billy crystal.

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Cooooooool, a muppet thread.
I loved them all. Well thats a blatant lie but the muppets are great.
Gonzo was my childhood favourite, I love all the strange acts he goes on stage with. Animal was fun, the Swedish chef was hilarious. Two grumpy old men (I know two people like that). Oh, the good old days.
Miss Piggy's nephews (Randy and somethingorother) from Muppets Tonight got on my nerves a little.
*shuffles off to find the videos*

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What's with digging up this fossil, Torq? Anyway, while it's up I'll put my vote in for Kermit.

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With the possible exceptions of Muppet Treasure Island and Muppets From Space I have enjoyed every Muppet film ever made.  I'd have to say Gonzo has been the most consistently hilarious.  Close seconds would be Rizzo (as of late), Rowlf, the Swedish Chef, Beauregard, Sam the Eagle (whom I get compared to a lot, strangely enough), and Statler and Waldorf.

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Gonzo, Statler, and Waldorf are my favorites.

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In the bus on our band trip to Florida, my friends and I laughed like Statler and Waldorf at the most remotely funny instances.  By the time 3 AM rolled around, we were getting pretty annoying.

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I have to say that Gonzo was just always my favourite. 

My dad was an Animal fan though. 

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Explanation why The muppet movie, muppets in manhattan and the great muppet caper are better than the other 3 (christmas carol, treasure island and in space) is because the first ones were with one of the greatest legends alive, Jim henson. The others were by his son, watchamacallit. Although i don't mind the christams carol one, the other two are complete crap in comparison with the great days of 'the man' I think it's because the later three have too much focus on the human actors, and not enough muppets.

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The latest films are different because the way the characters themselves are used.  In the old films, it was always Kermit, Fozzie, and Gonzo on some ludicrous adventure.  The latter three films have all been (for the most part) Gonzo telling a story with the others in the background.

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How could anyone not like Muppet Treasure Island? That film was great.

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"One leg, Jim, count'em, one!"

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That film was mind-numbing [sarcasm]Hilarious[/sarcasm]

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I liked The Muppet's Christmas Carol, the Treasure Island was well... alright. I haven't seen all of the Space one.

[Reply #36 on:]

Egh... don't go out of oyur way to see it.

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I haven't seen Christmas Carol or the space one... so far, I'd say "The Great Muppet Caper" was the best of the movies.

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I never liked Muppet Caper. The original movie and Muppets Take Manhatten are the best. Christmas Carol was pretty good even though that story is so overused. Treasure Island was just ok. Muppets In Space started out funny, but towards the end it just went gay.

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Does "Follow that Bird" count as a Muppet movie?