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Bonus Episode: Blind Ranking Muppets from the Muppet Christmas Carol · Mom Street USA

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so Duck threw out this idea that was like totally not a a real
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sincere thing at 1st and then I was like Nope, we're doing that
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so we are going to take. A list.
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Of The Muppets featured in Muppet Christmas Carol and Blind
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rank them. In abbreviated list as a huge
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not all of them. I had to I had to pick so we
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wouldn't be here all night because I absolutely would have
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included the ranking of like the fruits and vegetables in the
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stands. We we had to count it short.
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So I only did 15 of them. So pairs right.
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So we did like size of teeth and all the electric mayhem.
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We did Bunton and Beeker. Batler and Waldorf are together.
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Oh God, I'm knocking things over.
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Marley and Marley and Marley. Doomed.
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Screwed. You're doomed for all the.
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Time your future is a horse. Sorry, written by your crimes.
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Before we start, I would just like to say a general note about
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A Christmas Carol. This sentiment has gone been
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going around and I firmly agree. Where I being Bunny being Bunny.
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I love him. He's my baby.
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I love him. I would not need the other
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ghosts if my dead Co worker showed up in my bedroom and was
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like if you don't change your ways you're going to hell just
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like me. I would be bet.
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All right, I'm gonna fix this. I'm gonna fix my attitude.
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I don't need the other 3 ghosts. I do not.
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Right. Literally.
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So I wonder if you're going to feature Bean Bunny in the new.
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I hope so. I hope.
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So too, I love him. OK, so we are going to blind
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rank. I'll let me show you our list.
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Here's our list. I didn't know I could zoom on
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this. That's so hopeful.
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Here's our list for everybody to look through.
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We got it. Is it in your brains?
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OK, close up on Bean Bunny. Him's a baby.
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He is OK so we are going to rather than us trying to draw
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and like mess with it. I just duplicated this wheel
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free time so we each get a turn. Nice.
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I know I was. I was smart.
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I thought I had. Aren't you proud of me?
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Nailed it. OK, so who's going first?
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Who's the line ranking first? I'll.
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Go first. OK, let's see who's So we're
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doing 5, right? I'm assuming we're doing 5.
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Yeah, we can do 5. OK.
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We'll be here all night otherwise.
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I know. OK, draw one.
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Oh, the ghosts of Christmas yet to come.
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So. So the Grim Reaper.
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A spoopy man. Yep.
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Because of who I am as a person. I don't know though.
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Think about who else left on that list, Doc.
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I know. You know what?
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I love him and he's terrifying, but as a Muppet, he's not a very
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good Muppet. He's true.
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He's a dude in the cloak with scary arms.
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So he's going at 5:00. That is so fair and I love that
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so much. OK, so 5 is taken.
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Do you guys like how I put the Muppet picture in the middle of
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our wheel? Oh my God, you're so cute.
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Yes. OK, oh Swedish chef.
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Number one, Number one, I without a doubt.
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I love the Swedish Chef so much. I have a lot of Swedish Chef
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gear I personally identify with. The Swedish Chef I don't.
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Know why with the scissors? Gurdish Murder.
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So I love the Swedish Chef. I love cooking.
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And therefore like any chef characters, like I really love,
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right? Like we talked about this, I
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think with Ratatouille, right? Like I really love any like sort
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of chef characters. And I'm deeply attached to The
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Muppets because I grew up watching The Muppets and so.
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And the Swedish Chef has always been a favorite of mine.
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And even to this day, anytime I'm cooking, 9 times out of 10 I
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do their right. Like I.
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Do some sort of can I? Can I tell you that it took me
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entirely too long to realize, Yep, that he that he has human
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hands? Yes, yes, it's human arms that
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that's what it took me. Entirely too long.
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It was what Andrew pointed out to me, what in the last like 5
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years maybe. And I was like, my mind was
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blown. Yep.
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It's, it's a little shocking that it's kind of like a dude
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with a muppet on his hand and it's his hands.
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Yep, Yep. Yep, Yep, 100% good things.
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OK, so so five and one are taken.
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All right, the extremes, I like it.
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I know it's going to get competitive.
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All right, let's see Bean Bunny. I know Bean.
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Bunny is going to have to go it too red like I'm going to have
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to reserve too because I love bean Bunny but like for.
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The. Perspective.
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We don't have enough bean. Bunny.
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You know, I think my Sam Eagle that I truly love came from The
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Muppets Treasure Island. So if we're talking about like
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the headmaster Sam Eagle, though I do love it's the American way.
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It's it's the British way. British way.
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Exactly, though I do love that. Lot the American way.
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Yeah, it's just the British way. He's going to have to go at
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4:00. If this were your island
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ranking, though, he'd be much higher.
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But I I feel like he has too small of a part to make a huge
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impact because he's just in the past and he only has his one
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stereotypical line. That that's fair.
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That's fair for the the amount that he has featured, that's
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fair. OK, so you've got two and three
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left. Let's see.
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Oh, Kermit, Kermit the. Frog here.
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Two or three. I'm going to say oh God, because
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I'm so scared I'm going to get Bean Bunny, and Bean Bunny has
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to be at #2 so for that reasoning alone, Kermit's going
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three. It's not anything personal.
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It's for the possible future of Bean Bunny.
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That's totally, totally valid. And let's see who your number 2
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#2 is, Fozzie. OK, I'm OK with Fozzie.
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I think, you know, hindsight's 2020 without the possibility of
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being being there, I probably would have put Fozzie at like 3
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because for the same reason of like Sammy goes lower, right?
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Yeah, like he just doesn't, he's Fozzie wig.
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He doesn't get a ton of time, right.
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I do enjoy Fozzie as a general Muppet.
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I enjoy all Muppets. Yeah, Yep.
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Totally, totally valid. So we had five.
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Was the spoopy ghost 4? Was Sam.
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Sam Eagle 3 was Kermi. Yep, 2 was Fozzie and your
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number one Swedish chef. I love it.
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Sorry this is a terrible angle, but I'm like trying to.
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Also like so it's fair. Let me just.
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OK, OK, Jess, are you going or am I going?
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I can go next. OK?
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Now, Jess, do you have the same love for The Muppets as Duck
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does I? Don't.
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Take anybody the risk of being like, attacked in this chat.
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No, I do not. I quite enjoy The Muppets, but I
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do not have the same like childhood emotional attachment
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to them. Yeah, I think that's the thing.
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Like you did not grow up watching The Muppets.
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I watch Muppet Christmas Carol every year.
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Growing up, my parents loved the Muppet Show like when they were
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younger. And so they watched like they
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like recorded it on VHS or rented it from the library when
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it like some episodes were available or whatever.
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So then I watched a ton of it and I had obviously I love
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Muppet Treasure Island the show or the movie, but I also had a
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Muppet Treasure Island point and click adventure game then played
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endlessly on the computer. Like endlessly.
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So like I can still hear Kermit talking about the constellations
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in my mind, right? Like, I've, I played hours of
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that game, so I like, I really have a deep attachment to The
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Muppets. Your parents, I don't even think
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you knew what The Muppets were until you steered what The
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Muppets were. I don't even think you were
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properly introduced to The Muppets.
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And so it might do you. Like various things, but not
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like a religious watcher of The Muppets.
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I'm nervous. Yeah, Zach, I feel like that's
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true. You've seen the characters
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elsewhere, but Muppet Vision 3D was your first actual Muppet
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experience. I think that's true for a lot of
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people because I'm sure this is not going to be met with any
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sort of pushback because I think everyone agrees Disney has
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wasted them up its IP. They could have done so many
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other things and I really hope. I got to flip around, but then
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there's The Muppet Show with Sabrina Carpenter in February.
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Jackie. Jackie.
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Jackie, I haven't been. Normal about it since I found
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out. I'm so excited.
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I'm so excited, OK? I love.
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And I also like obviously love The Muppets, but like, I love
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the idea of Sabrina Carpenter being.
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Like, I actually when I heard rumors about this, I said to
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Jess that this is going to be, like the best thing that they
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could have done for The Muppets and she is going to be a great
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host because all of, like, the other previous ones that like,
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did the best, in my opinion, like my favorite episodes of the
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actual Muppet Show had somebody like her.
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Yeah. Like, I know she's really going
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to lean into it and have herself a good time.
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Like when Lady Gaga sang Venus with Doctor chasing Electric
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Mayhem, Right. Like, I think about that lives
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rent free in my head. And I think she's going to have
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a moment like that. And I really hope that her
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popularity, we'll like Rocket The Muppets back into public.
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I know. It's really great.
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I'm so excited and I love the timing and I love that Disney
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was so intentional with the timing because that comes out in
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February and then like summer is when the refurb re theme is
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supposed to be done for rock and roller coaster.
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So like chef's kiss on that Swedish?
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Chef's kiss. I was just going to say Gerd
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heard it. I love it.
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OK, focus. Jess, you're up.
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You ready all? Right.
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Ranked up. Ranked up.
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OK, your first you'll miss. The Suppers divorce.
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OK, your first selection is Bunsen and Beeker.
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I know it's hard when they're together, but like we had to, we
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had to combine some to get everyone in.
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We had to package deal some of them.
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I know is that I would like to reiterate not not to pressure
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you, Zach, I'm going to throw you out of this chat, not to not
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to pressure you, but you the way that I contextualize them within
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the story. Please, please feel free to do
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the same right where I had I ranked Sam low or where I might
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have ranked a buyer for Muppet Treasure Island.
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I should do this for Muppet Treasure Island too.
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We actually should just do this for every Muppet's property.
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Oh my gosh, I'm. Going to say maybe 4.
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Maybe or for sure, because four. OK, four.
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That's OK. I can pull forth Chloe.
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Bunsen and Beeker a lot. Yes, for the context, OK.
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Yeah, where they're just like they're the the charity seekers,
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so. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, OK. Just like not not as huge a role
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here, right? Next option, you're getting all
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of the the groupings Statler and Waldorf.
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They're like #2. Where Marley and Marley?
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Where Marley and Marley two. OK, so you.
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I got. 2:00 and 4:00. Satisfying.
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We'll spin noise. You know, that's why I cranked
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my volume all the way up so good.
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Oh, Kermit, Kermit. The frog here. 3.
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OK, Oh, you've got only one and five left.
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Oh God. Oh, oh, oh, pressure's on.
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Oh boy. Oh, all right, Miss Piggy, But
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think about her in the. Movie, I know.
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In the movie, she is a vastly different character than most
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other Muppet movies. I know I think I have to put 5
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for this. That's fair.
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I think given your your options left, yeah.
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Yeah, OK. I'm nervous for you.
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I know. But let's see, I shuffled you
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for good luck. Bean Bunny.
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Bean Bunny. Doctor Teeth and the Electric
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Mayhem. That's like a fair 1.
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Yeah. Even though they're in there
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quick, everyone loves doctor teeth because that also includes
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animal. And like Janice, they're still
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fun. I have my astral projection
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seminar on Friday. Oh, do you need the day off?
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No, I'll be here, but I'll be there too.
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It was not ready for you to pull that whole quote out.
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Of just like. That's good, that's good.
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I love that. OK, so recap of Jess's 5 was.
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Piggy. This piggy, this piggy.
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I should have had a beaker. At 5:00. 4 was I.
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Think it's a Bunsen and Beaker? Of no hesitation.
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Yeah, I. Am like well.
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That like you wouldn't believe. 3 was.
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Now I don't. Remember Hermit?
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Yep. 2. Statler and Waldorf and one was
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Doctor Words are hard, Doctor Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
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OK, valid. It's all right.
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It's that's what makes this these things bad.
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Not bad, there are better characters, but.
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But a you'll get them, will you get them and B like in the OR
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right like? Now I should have just used one
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on Statler and Waldorf. That's right.
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It's. I know I'm gonna have a hard
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time, like separating my feelings about the characters
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from this movie. So we'll see.
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OK. OK, That's.
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Why I had to give a preamble every time I read that one?
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I know. OK, here we go, my first draw.
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Ghost of Christmas yet to come. Oh, so you also got the spooky
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boy. I feel like I have to turn so
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you guys can see me like I might have to just like keep flipping
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it back and forth. That's an easy 5.
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Yeah, there was no in no world, but I think it was.
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In fact, I'm shocked you didn't even like rage close the laptop
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and refuse to finish. No, I would squish bean Bunny.
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I can't do that. Oh, that's true, true.
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Him's a little. Boy, I know.
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OK, easy 5. All right?
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I'm so weird. Like the lamp drop the rat.
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Oh, that was so close to being Bunny Kermit.
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OK Oh, in this movie. Oh, wait, wait, wait.
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That's so interesting all. Three of us.
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Got Kermit, I know wondering about odds of that, which is
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funny 'cause like he wasn't even first on the like when I typed
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them in. You know what I mean 3I.
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Think we all put him at 3I? Think we put him at 3 when it's
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like I obviously I love his character and like his character
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is a huge part of the story, but there are so many other
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characters that I also really love.
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Yep. Right.
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So OK, I'm putting him at 3. It's tough.
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I'm putting him at 3, OK? Respectable.
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OK, sorry. Oh my gosh.
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OK. Oh, Gonzo.
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Expect the first ghost when the clock strikes one.
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Oh, I. Really love.
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Gonzo in this movie Gonzo is like not my in my top list of
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Muppets normally but in this movie I love him so much.
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Have you seen Muppets in Space? It's been forever since, I'll be
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honest with you, I need to rewatch some Muppet movies
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because it's been forever since I've seen the other Muppet
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movies. We watch now the Muppet Haunted
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Mansion because become a yearly. Tradition.
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Same. It's our favorite good.
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It's our favorite Halloween time viewing experience.
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You love that. One version of the Haunted
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Mansion. Right, right.
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But right, I know. OK, I'm going to put Gonzo at
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2:00. Well, I'm nervous for doing
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that, but I'm going to put him at 2:00.
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Well, he's the narrator. I mean, he is.
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No. So much of the movie, yeah.
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Anzo and Reza should have been together, I know, but like.
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Also well, so that's the thing I like.
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Yeah, I like had a hard time. So if we were just like, because
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when I was thinking about this, I was thinking about Muppets
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that also do mean Charles Dickens.
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Yes, movie, we did. Put that in there.
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Dang it. Opportunity missed.
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Was he saying, oh, when we were like, pairing them?
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Like traditionally Gonzo and Rizzo have gone together, but I
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felt like they were so because Rizzo also because Gonzo was
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playing Charles Dickens, the narrator and Rizzo was playing
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himself. Whereas the other pairings I put
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together, like they were in tandem, like they had to be
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together to make it make sense, right?
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You know what I mean? Like I felt like I felt like
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them being separate because it was like the lamp, not the rat,
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right? He's right thing.
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I felt like that was that was how I was justifying it.
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I actually, that's so funny that you brought it up because I went
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back and forth for like 15 minutes.
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Well, they should be together or not.
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That is good, yes. So I'm going to put gonzo with
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two. So that leaves me with one and
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40. OK, I'm spinning this is going
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to be chaotic on when I go to edit this later.
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Couldn't for sure. Oh no.
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Like. The oh saved at the last second.
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It almost landed on Rizzo and I was like, what am I supposed to
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do with that? OK, Bunsen and Beaker, this is.
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Again, it's got to be. Four in one.
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Four in one. Yeah, hang it.
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I know. I can't put them at one.
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I just can't. They have to go with four.
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I love them. But in this movie, Oh my gosh,
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OK, I'm so scared. Let's see who my number one is.
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I'm so scared. I'm so scared, I'm so scared.
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No. Boo waka waka.
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I like it. I like it, always do.
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This again. Redo you.
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Know what? Heck yeah.
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Please. Tell me it's a ghost of
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Christmas past. Oh.
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God no. No, you should have sound,
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Fozzie. Oh, no.
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Oh, no. That's the scariest Muppet ever
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made. It's a child's face just
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getting. I don't even think.
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That's a muppet. I think that's like a demon.
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Y'all ever see Annabelle? It's Annabelle that is the most
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cursed object. They have to have a point.
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Also Duck, I feel like you have some weird Mystic of powers
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because you said the ghost of Christmas past and then it was
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the ghost of Christmas fest. But it again, okay, hold on,
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hold on. Kane and a Christmas film.
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It's Michael Caine. And do we have Michael Caine in
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there as a Muppet Sissy count as a muffet now that he was in this
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with? Respin to spell the bears.
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Back the one. Yeah, dispel that cursed real
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fast. Oh my God.
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Please be Bunny. That was, it's not it's same
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ego, but I'll take him as well, OK.
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Fine, it's better than that. Thing is so.
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Oh my God. Didn't.
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They like soak it in baby oil. So like, OK, get hold on hold on
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hold. On that is.
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More not like there's a floating in baby feels like how they gave
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it the effects. So Oh my gosh, the scary Muppet
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is from or yes, to make it look like ethereal and floating.
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What they originally did was try to film it in like 100 like a
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bajillion gallons of baby oil, but it was too expensive to keep
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filling up the baby oil and also it was ruining the puppet.
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So they eventually switched over to water and like made the made
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the puppet out of like a slightly different material.
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So like when it's when it's it's floating and it looks all
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ethereal. That's because it was filmed
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underwater and green screened onto the movie.
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Flag says we need to rank them without spinning.
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OK. 15 of them. Are we still picking 5?
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Do your top Who are your top five and they don't if they
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want. Words are hard.
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They don't have to be in order if you don't want them to be in
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order. OK, so definitely being Bunny
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for #1 he's, he's my boy Rizzo. OK.
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Are these in order or just your top five?
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I'll go in order. OK.
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Statler and Waldorf, so it's 3. Gonzo's Four and Ghost of
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Christmas Present is 5. Excellent.
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Which are? Yeah, because I actually really
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like the Ghost of Christmas Present.
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I think that's a very impressive Muppet.
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And I think it's, like, pretty close to the book, you know,
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comparatively speaking. So Duck, say it.
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Thank you, Sarah. All right, Jess.
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I feel like. This is Michael Caine specific.
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I'm so sorry guys, I'm fully. Losing it I like.
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My OH. Yeah, I think that identical.
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To the ball, that's sweet. Oh yeah, Jackie, there's I saw
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that sound when it had less than 10 videos.
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It now has 200 and I think I've seen every single you have.
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Seen every single one and he's singing it around the house.
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Not stop. Not Stop isn't a new bubble
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stamp. Amazing.
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I think I might copy paste ducks ranking.
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Griller. Yeah.
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Safe. Losing it, it's lost.
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Yeah, Moogie. I don't think I ever had it,
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honestly. I love this.
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I love this. OK, mine might be a little.
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I don't know if it's a hot take or not.
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So Bean Bunny is one of. Course.
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Christmas present is 2. Fair, I I can, because in the
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context it is a such a unique and impressive muppet.
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I will, I will, and I. Like, like, come on with his
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song. Yeah.
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In the singing of a street corner choir.
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Yeah. Coming home and getting one.
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Just come on. Come on.
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Is like Christmas. Yep, agreed.
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Just come on now, come on. OK so being Bunny is 1, Ghost of
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Christmas Present is 2. Oh gosh.
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I would say Rizzo is 3. Like the lamp, not the rat.
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Wait, what did I say? OK, so Rizzo is 30 and then I
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think I would put probably Kermit at 4:00 thinking in the
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context of the movie, right? And then Oh my five could
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literally be like any of them. Honestly, I'm.
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Surprised you didn't do Gonzo at 4.
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Not because you particularly love Gonzo, but because he's so
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integral. Interesting.
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Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Bean Bunny goes to Christmas
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present. Rizzo.
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Now I'm like rethinking what I said.
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Wait, who did I put it for? Kermit.
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Kermit. Yeah.
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And then and then. Yeah, I don't.
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Yeah, maybe. I think you're right.
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And then literally anybody. I know.
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Why would you know? You're right, you're right.
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Cuz in my head I was like Rizzo but also Gonzo and I forgot that
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they were separate cuz this was the conversation we had earlier.
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So I would put Gonzo at four and Kermit at 5:00.
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OK, responsible ranking. That would be probably mine.
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In the context of the movie, very respectful.