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Hubba-Wha?! Episode #23 - Becca Says Boo! · Muppet Fan Podcasts with ToughPigs.com

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  Good evening. Excuse me, but do you have a
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  room for the night? You see, the road has washed out
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  and my horse had a flat tire. Maybe I I must tell you I am not
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  alone. I am travelling with my
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  beautiful assistant and a hideous, later formed monster.
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  Oh, hideously, the phone is right.
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  Watch it. I'm the beautiful assistant.
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  Welcome to Hobo, a Muppet quiz show brought to you by
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  toppigs.com. Alright, I I can't keep that up.
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  But it's your favorite quiz show that's not like the others here.
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  Muppet fans, Muppet Professionals, and everyone in
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  between competes for fabulous prizes and to see who's this
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  week's toughest Pig. I'm your host, Becca Petunia of
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  toughpigs.com, and this week we're celebrating the only thing
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  I like as much as Muppets? Halloween.
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  That's right, boys and ghouls. Today on Habawa, we're preparing
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  for a magical Halloween adventure of our own as we talk
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  about some tricks and treats from the spooky worlds of that
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  master of horror, Jim Henson. But seriously, Halloween is as
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  much about cute and silly monsters as it is about Michael
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  Myers and company, so The Muppets have always fit right
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  in. Last season I did an episode all
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  about Muppet monsters, or I guess mainly about Frazzle.
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  This season we're focusing on some different, maybe less
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  obvious Halloween angles. This meant I really needed to
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  dig deep on Muppet Wiki. And that's right, as always,
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  today's questions were written by me with help from that
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  amazing resource, Muppet Wiki. And Speaking of, let's agree to
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  play fair today. Please don't look at Muppet Wiki
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  or any other resource during this game.
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  That's one trick I won't allow on Halloween anyway.
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  I'd be a terrible ghost host if I didn't let my themes, I mean,
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  friends, introduce themselves. That's why we're going to play
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  our first game, to tell a face. Contestants buzz in to answer
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  some questions about yourself. Whoever buzzes in first will get
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  introduced first. Ready.
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  Go. All right, our first contestant.
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  Mike, what is your name? My name is Mike Westfall.
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  OK? And you know, we're we're doing
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  this this season because it's a good thing to do and it's about
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  time that I started doing it. Mike, what pronouns should we
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  use for you in this recording? He him is fine.
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  OK, second question. So Mike, you're a first time
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  guest on this podcast and a first time guest on on Tough
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  Pigs podcasts in general. So that means I have to ask you,
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  what's your history with The Muppets?
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  I have heard of The Muppets. No, they've I they've always
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  been in my consciousness. I grew up with Sesame Street
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  wallpaper in my bedroom. My earliest memory is jumping up
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  and down on the couch and singing along to John Denver and
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  The Muppets at Christmas together.
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  So they've just been permeated throughout my life and they've
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  never gone away. And I am grateful for it.
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  And you know, I should, I should say, obviously there's always
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  time for plugs at the end of the show, but you have a podcast of
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  your own and you sometimes talk about Muppets on that podcast,
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  including recently Anthony Strand of toughpigs.com.
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  And I were on to talk about Almost Saves Christmas.
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  So tell us a little bit about your podcast.
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  Sure. It's a seasonal podcast.
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  It's called the Advent Calendar House.
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  I call it a salute to all holiday specials, but mostly the
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  Christmas ones. And I'm very excited to be on a
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  podcast where 100% of the listeners will understand that
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  reference. It's funny, there's two episodes
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  I recorded already where one was themed around a salute to all
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  nations, but mostly America, and the other was about Muppet
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  Vision 3D. So that's that's like 3 this
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  season where we've made that reference.
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  And last question, I'm going to ask you, Mike, what a Muppet or
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  Henson puppet do you think is the scariest?
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  That's a good question. I'm going to say when I stared
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  deeply at I think it's Timmy monster.
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  He kind of disturbed me as a kid when I would see him on The
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  Muppet Show. That's fair.
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  That's that's a good choice. Anyway, Mike, you have earned
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  yourself 20 points. Hey, now our second contestant.
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  Jared, what is your name? My name is Jared Faircloth and
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  Jared again, just because I think it's the right thing to
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  do, what pronouns should we use for you?
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  Hey, Kim. All right.
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  Although you can also call me boss Okay.
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  Yeah, well I was about to say you are you are my boss because
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  Jared Faircloth, everybody knows what you do for tough pigs
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  because you are one of the Co owners of tough pigs.
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  I am. I managed to weasel my way in.
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  Yeah. So Jared, instead of asking you
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  what your history with The Muppets is, because that's
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  obvious, you've got your own Tough Pigs podcast to introduce
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  our guest star. Everybody knows your history
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  with The Muppets. So instead, you know, I don't
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  know, let's do an impromptu performance review.
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  What what should I do better? What should you do better?
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  All right, well, look, last time I was on this very podcast with
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  Ryan Rowe and. I understood you couldn't play
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  favorites because we're both your boss, but you know he's not
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  here. And Mike, you seem like a lovely
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  man. But you know, I I haven't got a,
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  You know, I've. I've never been on your podcast.
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  We've never met. So as far as I'm concerned I
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  don't care if I destroy you. So if Yeah, Becca, you can like,
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  let me win, then you'll be like you're already within the top of
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  the my favorites anyway. But you'll be you'll be slotting
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  right in there above say like Soberman.
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  OK, I'm gonna just copy in some questions about EMU the that the
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  the TV show. Right.
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  That's an Australian TV show. Where is that British?
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  I've never heard of it. OK, well then I guess it must be
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  British then. I guess I've.
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  I've ruined things again. Well, I don't think you you'll
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  have to worry too hard about winning or yeah, no, it's a it's
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  a British puppet show that I just assumed was Australian
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  because there's an emu in it. Yeah, yeah.
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  Well, there's a TV show called EMU.
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  It would have been funny if I picked one that's actually from
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  Australia. And and Jared, which which
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  Muppet or Henson puppet do you think is the scariest?
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  I've got 2 answers. The first is.
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  Season one, Ma Gog is a genuinely terrifying looking
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  puppet. And then I've also genuinely a
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  little bit terrified of Snuffy. Yeah, I've got a genuine lack of
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  fear of Snuffy I and I've I've expressed that to Marty
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  Robinson. He thinks it's very funny.
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  I've seen Snuffy in the flesh and he is terrifying.
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  And if you go back and listen to twins, I guess there I think
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  with Leslie, Carrara, Rudolph, and I think it's even mentioned
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  in the Marty episode, Marty likes to do a thing where he
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  just gets in the snappy puppet and runs full pelt at somebody
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  and then bees off at the last second.
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  And I think if that happened to me, I don't think I'd recover.
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  I mean, what's even worse is, is the old Snuffy puppet,
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  obviously. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  I reviewed one of the episodes with that big yellow eyed
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  snuffle up. I guess when we were doing
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  Sesame Rewind on the site, it was the episode where Big Bird
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  gets vaccinated from the 1970s. I forget what disease he got
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  vaccinated for. But anyway, and yeah, that
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  puppet is real, real bad. And I bet it would be even worse
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  if if Marty read at you in that puppet.
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  Terrifying. Great.
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  Well, there's nightmares I'll be having tonight.
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  Thank you. You're very welcome.
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  I mean, look, it's Halloween when we're recording it.
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  It is definitely Halloween right now.
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  Yes. Let's go along with that.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Anyway, so Jared, you've also earned yourself 20 points.
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  And you know, I'm giving those to you because you are my boss.
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  Otherwise, I would have given you zero points.
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  Thank you very much. But now let's open things up by
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  talking about the most Halloweeny Muppet of all.
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  That's right. I'm talking about Count Von
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  Count. After all, nothing is more
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  Halloweeny than math and vampires, but also math.
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  Anyway, the count has been around for almost 50 years now,
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  or, I guess if you believe him, 6,523,728 years.
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  As a result, there's a lot to know about him.
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  So we're going to play a game that I'm calling The Song of the
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  Count. In this game, I'll ask you
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  questions about the count. That's it.
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  Each of these questions is worth 2 points.
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  Buzz in when you know the answer, but Please wait until I
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  finish asking the question so our bat friends at home can play
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  along. Ready.
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  All right, here we go. How do you do it?
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  Is I the count? They called me the count because
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  I love to count things. Question one Which Sesame Street
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  writer is credited with creating Count Von Count Jared?
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  I'm going to take a guess and say, was Johnstone a writer?
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  I'm going to say Johnstone. It is not Johnstone, but you.
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  You are my boss, so I'm going to just say that nicely.
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  It's definitely a great guess, but it is not Johnstone.
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  OK. Mike, do you want to try to
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  steal? I couldn't begin to guess.
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  All right, it is norm styles. He was my he was.
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  He was. It was one to two question two
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  in The Count's first appearance in 1972, he had a vampiric power
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  that was rarely used in future episodes.
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  What was it, Jared? That I know he could, like
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  hypnotize people with his hands, couldn't he?
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  Correct He could, and he used them to hypnotize Bert in that
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  that episode. We all know that the Count is a
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  snappy dresser. On which of his eyes does he
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  wear a monocle, Mike? His left eye.
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  It is his left eye. I was complaining about this
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  yesterday on Twitter. Question 4.
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  According to the album The Count Counts.
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  What is the name of the Counts radio station, which broadcasts
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  direct from the Sesame Street Studios high above Hooper's
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  Candy Store? Jared.
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  Is it like count 1-2, three or something like that?
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  It feels like it's going to be something like that.
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  Jared, I'm going to give it to you.
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  It is Radio 123I. I will give it to you that is
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  that is very close. Question 5.
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  The count has had many jobs including as a film director.
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  Which famous Irish actor did he direct in the films Transylvania
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  65000 and Counting in the Rain Mike?
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  Is it Liam Neeson? It is Liam Neeson.
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  Mike, correct. Well done.
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  And I do want to say this quote is on Muppet Wiki, Liam Neeson
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  has said. I feel like I'm not going to do
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  his voice. I feel like I've now worked with
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  the great cinematic masters Spielberg, Lucas, Rubber Ducky
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  and The Count. My artistic life is complete
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  question six. Since 2017, the Count's castle
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  has been given this street number, which makes it the same
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  as Betty Lou's address from the Sesame Street treasury.
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  There's my my great Sesame Street Treasury reference for
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  this episode. What's the Count's house
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  address? That's also Betty Lou's house
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  address, Mike. Is it 456 Sesame Street?
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  It is 456. The only reason I got that was
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  because you gave that Sesame Street Treasury hint, because I
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  made such a big deal about it then.
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  Well, I had the Sesame Street Treasury, so I remember that
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  question 7 The count appeared in one Sesame Street News flash
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  sketch where he counted which two famous fairy tale groups.
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  If you can name 1M, I'm going to say the Seven Dwarfs.
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  The Seven Dwarfs is 1. Care to guess the 2nd?
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  I'm going to guess the Three Little Pigs.
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  That is correct. Drove Kermit crazy.
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  Unsurprisingly. Question 8.
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  Unlike most vampires, the Count can be out in sunlight.
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  In fact, he once relaxed on a tropical island and sang a song
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  about counting coconuts. Which celebrity joined him for
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  this song? Jared.
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  Was like Jimmy Buffett or something.
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  It is not Jimmy Buffett you're thinking of Jimmy Buffett
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  singing Caribbean amphibian with.
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  Herman thinking of Yes with Kermit and Jill the Frog on Elmo
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  Palooza. I'm never not thinking of that.
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  Yeah, no, I mean, listen, I'm going to do a full Elmo Palooza
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  episode one day. Mike, do you have a do you have
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  a guess? I believe it was Harry
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  Belafonte. It was Harry Belafonte, yes,
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  friend of The Muppets. Harry Belafonte, Question 9.
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  At different points the Count has had a pet cat and a pet bat
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  with this same silly name. What is it, Mike?
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  It's Fatata, Tina or Tatita. I will give it to you.
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  It's Fata Tita. Fata Tita, Question 10.
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  The count is associated with many countesses, each of whom he
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  is related to in different ways. What is the full name of his
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  main love interest? The.
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  Countess Jared. Is it Cantus von backward.
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  So Jared, I will give you one point.
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  Because he has dated Countess von backward, but less
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  frequently than the other Countess.
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  So I will give you one point. Alright, I'll thank it.
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  They almost never use the name of the Countess who he most
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  often is seen with. I had to look this one up.
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  Mike, do you, do you have a guess?
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  I remember seeing the name Countess Darling Von Darling
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  Mike. I will give you one point
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  because that is the name of the Countess who is his cousin.
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  No, the the main Countess, the one who appears the most
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  frequently with the count and is usually just called the
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  Countess, is named Natasha von Numeral.
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  Definitely have not heard that one.
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  I had not heard that one either. And what famous actress and
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  horror movie star did the count? Also, once take on a date.
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  Jared, that was Julianne Moore did that.
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  Happen, wasn't he? He was in a thing with Julianne
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  Moore. Definitely.
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  Was he? But I know, I know.
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  I know who you're talking about. That wasn't who I was looking
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  for. But you know what?
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  Let me check. You know I will give it to you,
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  because I don't necessarily know if they were supposed to be on a
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  date, but she was in far from 7:00 with the count, a spoof of
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  Far From Heaven, the Julianne Moore movie.
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  I'll give you 2 points. Mike, do you know who I was
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  thinking of in this classic sketch?
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  You might have been thinking of Susan Sarandon.
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  I was thinking of Susan Sarandon, but I will absolutely
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  give Jared two points as well for Julianne Moore Question 11
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  in a sitcom parody. The count is horrified to learn
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  that Countess, Natasha von Numeral and Prairie Dawn are
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  using a made-up number instead of a real one.
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  What made-up number were they using in this sitcom parody?
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  The the the number is sitcom parody.
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  I think of like a sitcom that had a number in the name Three's
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  Company. In my head it was not Three's
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  Company because Three is a real number.
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  It was. It was one of my favorite
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  sketches, the 20 something sketch where the count is
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  horrified every time anybody says 20 something.
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  Based on what? Was it 30 something?
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  30 something What's the show? Yeah, and question 12 Matt
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  Vogel's count debuted in an official Sesame Street YouTube
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  video. What important milestone did the
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  Count commemorate in Song Jared? That was 1 billion views on
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  YouTube. For Sesame Street was 1 billion
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  views on YouTube for Sesame Street and I would have accepted
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  any number. If you got that number wrong, I
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  would have still given it to you.
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  I guess if you said 3 views I would have questioned it, but as
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  we've just discovered, 3 is not a real number.
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  Yeah, okay true. Anyway.
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  Those are so counting. Our bonus question about Susan
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  Sarandon and the question about the Countess, who's his cousin,
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  and the Countess Vaughn backwards.
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  That's 1515. Wonderful questions.
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  Radio 123 and now you will listen to a word from our
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  sponsor. Friends, has your accounting
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  been a little dull lately? Not much fun.
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  Well, maybe it's because you can only count to 10.
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  So let me tell you about the Wonderful #15.
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  It's just five more than 10. It keeps 14 from crashing into
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  16. And it's real easy to count to
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  now. Halloween might be a holiday
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  about ghosts and monsters, but it's also about trick or
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  treating. And that means dressing up.
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  That's why we're going to play a game that I'm calling All
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  Dressed Up. I'm all dressed up and ready to
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  go. In this game, I'll be asking
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  questions related to Muppets and celebrities in costumes.
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  That's right, it's still just a regular trivia game, but now
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  it's about costumes anyway. Can you see through these
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  costumes and see the truth? Each of these questions is worth
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  2 points. Please wait to buzz in until
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  you've heard the full question. Here we go.
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  Keep listening for the word imposter today on Sesame Street.
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  Hi, you're an imposter. That's the word of the street.
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  Question one which named Muppet Show character appears dressed
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  as a mummy in the opening number of the Gladys Knight episode of
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  The Muppet Show. Jared, is it fuzzy?
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  It is not Fozzy. Good guess though, there's two
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  whatnots. That's why I specified named
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  Muppet character Mike. Do you have a guess?
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  I'm going to guess Gonzo. It is Gonzo.
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  This was one of my favorite episodes as a child because I
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  had a lot of Season 5 taped directly from TV.
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  My my dad had taped them. And yeah, Gonzo is a mummy.
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  And it's funny because when he turns his head, it's the same
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  joke as as Darth Nader. When he turns his head, it's
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  revealed that he's Gonzo question two in a classic Sesame
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  sketch about Ernie's disguise kit.
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  What two costumes does Ernie wear?
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  Mike I. Remember 1 being a pirate?
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  One is a pirate. Is the other one a wizard?
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  It is not a wizard. Good guess, Jared.
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  Do you know the other one? Michael?
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  Give you one point. Is it Little Red Riding Hood?
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  It is. Little Red Riding Hood The beard
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  threw me off because he still had the.
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  Beard on Yeah, he still has the beard as Little Red Riding Hood.
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  Yes, what a great sketch. And of course there was a book,
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  Ernie's Disguise Kit. That was the same thing.
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  I had that as a kit. Question 3IN Muppets Most Wanted
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  This actor dresses as Fozzy Bear during the Gulags talent show.
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  Jared, that is Danny Trejo. Danny Trejo another great friend
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  of The Muppets. Danny Trejo, Question 4.
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  Similarly in The Muppets 2011. This celebrity dresses as Animal
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  while serving as The Muppets drummer Animal Jared.
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  That would be Dave Grohl. Dave Grohl, another great friend
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  of The Muppets. It's just Friend of The Muppets
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  episode Question 5. This Kuzbanian creature is
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  capable of disguising itself as anything, including Kermit the
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  Frog. I got nothing.
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  Like, do you remember one of those Kuzban sketches?
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  The one that pops into the mind was was from The Muppets
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  Valentine show. I do not know any other
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  Kuzbanian species by name. It is, of course, the Kuzbanian
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  fu. Of course.
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  Yeah, geez, how could you not know?
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  It was the Kuzbanian Question Six while directing his film The
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  Summer of Snuffy. This director was forced to play
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  the role of Mr. Snuffleupagus. Jared, I just the summer didn't
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  have in my head Bob. It is not Bob.
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  But I'd like to say Bob dressed as Snuffy.
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  Yeah. No, I mean, listen, there were
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  so many. I know.
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  Was it Shane who did a piece on all of Bob's costumes?
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  Yeah. I think it was, yeah.
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  There's so many good ones. What a legend.
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  Mike, do you have a guest who directed The Summer of Snuffy
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  and was forced to play Snuffy? OK, well it was of course the
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  real world director of the film The Summer of Sam, Spike Lee.
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  That's who it was, OK. He wanted Snuffy to do to read
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  his lines in different emotions, and Snuffy was unable, so Spike
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  Lee decided. He would play Snuffy in in the
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  movie Jared. More or less scary than regular
• 26:10
  Snuffy. Not quite as scary.
• 26:16
  Scary in a different way, I. Think, yeah.
• 26:17
  I mean, certainly smaller Spike. I've never seen the show.
• 26:21
  I've seen Snuffy in real life. I've never seen Spike Lee in
• 26:24
  real life. Question seven in the special A
• 26:27
  Magical Halloween Adventure. Telly monster dresses up as this
• 26:33
  triangular object Mike. Piece of cheese.
• 26:41
  A piece of cheese. He is specifically super cheese.
• 26:46
  That special is very weird. There is a great early Tough
• 26:50
  pigs article where Danny Horn reviewed it from 2004 and Danny
• 26:55
  reveals that he does not understand Telly Monster.
• 27:02
  He is incredibly annoyed by the fact that Telly Monsters loves
• 27:06
  things that are triangles. Question eight.
• 27:09
  In the same episode of the Muppet Babies reboot that
• 27:12
  introduced baby Sweetums, Statler and Waldorf appear as
• 27:17
  monsters to teach Rizzo a lesson about sharing.
• 27:21
  What type of monsters are they? I should clarify, it's not
• 27:26
  technically the same episode in the sense that they're 211
• 27:30
  minute episodes, but these were the 211 minute episodes that
• 27:33
  were recruited together. I just don't want, you know, I
• 27:37
  don't know. I'm sure there's some Muppet
• 27:39
  Babies 2018 superfan who's going to get mad at me if I don't
• 27:42
  specify that Jared, I'm just going to take a stab in the dark
• 27:53
  and I'm going to say can I can I ask one question and you can say
• 28:00
  whatever you like. Is it?
• 28:01
  Are they the same or are they 2? They are both the same kind of
• 28:04
  monster. Are they werewolves?
• 28:07
  They are not werewolves. Good guess, Mike.
• 28:10
  You want to just guess. Guess a monster.
• 28:12
  That's that was going to be my guess.
• 28:16
  Are they vampires? No, I'm sorry, they are mummies.
• 28:21
  They imagine that, like, Rizzo is looking for like, treasure in
• 28:26
  a pyramid or something. Yeah, I I saw this episode, just
• 28:30
  I don't remember it. Anyway, even without wearing an
• 28:34
  additional costume, this Muppet Show monster has represented
• 28:38
  both Quasimodo and Frankenstein's monster Mike.
• 28:46
  I'm gonna guess Swedom's. It is not Swedom's good guess.
• 28:50
  Jared, do you want to try to steal?
• 28:52
  Yeah, but I've forgotten his name.
• 28:53
  You. Must know it If you forgot his
• 28:57
  name, yeah, it's is it? Is it Van Neuter's mate it?
• 29:04
  Is Van Neuter's mate is of course, named.
• 29:08
  I'm just gonna give it to you anyway, in the spirit of the
• 29:11
  spirit of the season. But I've forgotten the name.
• 29:16
  It's, it's. Oh, hang on.
• 29:17
  Sorry. I've just got the eggy noggy
• 29:19
  skit stuck in my head and I'm trying to remember mulch, mulch.
• 29:22
  It is Mulch. Mulch is his name, yeah.
• 29:25
  He does appear season five of The Muppet Show as Quasimodo,
• 29:29
  and then in Muppets Go Hollywood or Muppets go to the movies.
• 29:33
  One of them, he's Frankenstein. And then after that, he's Fan
• 29:37
  Neuter's fan, Neuter's assistant.
• 29:40
  Okay. So now we're going to take a
• 29:42
  slight detour to talk a little bit about the video game Muppet
• 29:45
  Monster Adventure. In that game, there are
• 29:49
  monsterized versions of some of the main Muppets.
• 29:54
  In these two-part questions, I'm going to name a Muppet, buzz in,
• 29:58
  and tell me which of the universal monsters they are in
• 30:02
  that game. You will also get two extra
• 30:06
  points if you know their monster name from the game.
• 30:10
  OK, our first one of these, Kermit, Mike.
• 30:19
  He's Frankenstein's monster, and I believe that he's just called
• 30:22
  the Kerr monster, correct? On both counts, OK.
• 30:26
  Next question, Miss Piggy, Mike again by A.
• 30:33
  Hair by a millisecond. She's the bride of Frankenstein,
• 30:38
  and I believe her name is She's the Ghoul friend.
• 30:41
  She is the ghoul friend. Mike, you are.
• 30:44
  You are doing great at this PlayStation One themed, also a
• 30:50
  great game by the way. Yeah, no, it's fun.
• 30:52
  I I played it recently and by recently I mean like six years
• 30:56
  ago, seven years ago, that's. Recently for PlayStation.
• 30:59
  I was about to say, considering this game came out and like,
• 31:01
  yeah. Okay.
• 31:03
  Next question. Gonzo Jared is a vampire, a
• 31:12
  Dracula. Yeah, and but you know what?
• 31:16
  I couldn't tell you the name. So Mark, if you want to steal,
• 31:18
  go. For it.
• 31:19
  This is the best pun in the entire game.
• 31:22
  Nose prater and his. His nose I should have just
• 31:27
  spent once. You said vampire.
• 31:29
  It came up. It was just like, oh, that's it.
• 31:31
  No, it's it's the best joke of the game.
• 31:32
  None of the other ones, they tried even half as hard.
• 31:35
  Like, you know, I bet Kirk came up with these and, you know,
• 31:40
  yeah. Anyway, next question, Fozzy
• 31:42
  Bear. Jared that is.
• 31:48
  He is a werewolf and he is the Waka Waka Webbar.
• 31:52
  Yep, again. Doesn't feel like maybe tried as
• 31:56
  hard as Nos ferrat to. And then last and definitely
• 32:01
  least Clifford Jared. He is the swamp monster, yeah.
• 32:13
  And it's called. Yeah, Yeah.
• 32:14
  And it's a muck monster, I believe.
• 32:16
  It is the Muck monster, which is not even a pun.
• 32:19
  I don't get that one. I don't know what they were,
• 32:21
  what they were trying for, because swamp is mucky, I guess
• 32:24
  then. Well, no, I mean, I know that.
• 32:26
  But I mean, like, yeah, there's no pun to it.
• 32:29
  There's no Nosferatu, is it? Yeah.
• 32:34
  Well, now I know what I'm dressing up As for Halloween.
• 32:38
  The Muck Monster. No, it's it's not the muck
• 32:42
  monster. I already I already promised
• 32:44
  Scott from Muppet Wiki that I'm going to dress as Meteora.
• 32:48
  Yes, So here's something scary This episode we are not playing
• 32:55
  Beat the time. Instead, we're doing something
• 32:58
  else. We're going to play a new
• 33:01
  version of an old favorite game. Order up.
• 33:05
  Yes Sir. Rush.
• 33:07
  Order on the stuff. A special day, Charlie.
• 33:09
  Sorry Grover. Order up isn't a game about
• 33:12
  being a waiter. Instead, it's a game about
• 33:15
  placing things in chronological order.
• 33:19
  I'm going to give you 2 scary moments in Muppet history.
• 33:24
  Your job is to buzz in and tell me which came first.
• 33:29
  So if I said Uncle Deadly appears on The Muppet Show?
• 33:33
  Or the count appears on Sesame Street.
• 33:37
  You'd buzz in and say the count appears on Sesame Street.
• 33:42
  That's it. That's the game.
• 33:43
  Each of these questions is worth 2 points.
• 33:47
  And of course you can't steal if your opponent gets it wrong,
• 33:51
  because there's only two possible options, right?
• 33:55
  You get it? Got it?
• 33:58
  Okay. Let's see which came first.
• 34:00
  Question one. The Alice Cooper episode of The
• 34:04
  Muppet Show or the Vincent Price episode of The Muppet Show.
• 34:10
  Jared, that would be Vincent Price.
• 34:12
  It is Vincent Price, Vincent Price 1976, Alice Cooper 1978.
• 34:18
  I don't expect you to know that. I just wrote these down.
• 34:22
  Question 2. Grover or Harry Monster?
• 34:28
  Jared Rover. It is Grover technically because
• 34:34
  he appeared in 1967 as Gleep, whereas Hairy Monster did not
• 34:40
  appear until the first episode of season 2 of Sesame Street
• 34:44
  Question 3, Swedoms or Thog Mike.
• 34:50
  Swedoms. I'm sorry, it is not Swedoms.
• 34:55
  Great Santa Claus Switch with Thog is 1970.
• 34:58
  The Frog Prince with Swedoms is 1971.
• 35:02
  Got the I got the release date confused with a Cinderella,
• 35:04
  that's what. That that'll do it.
• 35:06
  That's that's splurge. That's splurge.
• 35:09
  Yeah. Question 4.
• 35:13
  The soldier and death episode of the Storyteller or the Fraggle
• 35:18
  Rock episode? Scared.
• 35:19
  Silly. Jared by a second Bridal Rock.
• 35:27
  It is the Fraggle Rock episode 1985 for Fraggle Rock 1989 for
• 35:33
  Soldier and Death that was part of the Jim Henson Hour Question
• 35:37
  5. Ernie and Bert explore a pyramid
• 35:40
  and find a talking statue or the song Monster in the Mirror Mike.
• 35:51
  Ernie and Bird explore that pyramid.
• 35:52
  It is. That was 1982.
• 35:54
  Monster in the Mirror. Not until 1989, which feels late
• 36:00
  to me. I thought it was later than
• 36:02
  that, actually. Yeah, I would've actually gone
• 36:04
  later. I thought that was Post Gym.
• 36:06
  No, I mean it was right on the cusp.
• 36:09
  I think the celebrity version may have been recorded post
• 36:12
  junk. That's quite it with The
• 36:14
  Simpsons at the end. That's Yep, that'll do it.
• 36:16
  That'll do it. But technically it existed
• 36:18
  before The Simpsons at the end. Yeah, yeah.
• 36:22
  It's just one of those things where again, like.
• 36:24
  And and Jared, you're of a similar age to me, if I recall,
• 36:27
  but like because I was bored in 91.
• 36:30
  That just feels like it's always been Grover's song and it's kind
• 36:35
  of funny to think that he was around for like 20 some odd
• 36:38
  years with without that. Like, it's just weird question 6
• 36:47
  Elmo says Boo or Muppet Monster Adventure for the Sony
• 36:52
  PlayStation. Mike.
• 36:58
  Elmo says Boo. It is Elmo says Boo 1997 for
• 37:02
  Elmo Says Boo. Muppet Monster Adventure wasn't
• 37:05
  until 2000. Question 7 The song I Want a
• 37:09
  Monster to be My Friend is removed from Sesame Street due
• 37:14
  to controversy or Elmo first appears on Sesame Street.
• 37:24
  Jared Elmo appears on Sesame Street.
• 37:27
  It is Elmo appears on Sesame Street.
• 37:31
  Elmo's first appearance is in the song We Are All Monsters,
• 37:34
  which of course is re dubbed for Elmo says Boo and other
• 37:38
  purposes. That was 1980.
• 37:42
  I want a monster stuck around from like season 2 of Sesame
• 37:46
  Street through 1984 before. Parents complained and then it
• 37:54
  was only gone for a little bit before it came back with
• 37:57
  different lyrics for Elmo Palooza.
• 37:59
  I have to say that Elmo Palooza version of I Want a Monster to
• 38:02
  Be My Friend is very creepy. I don't think I've seen it.
• 38:07
  Yeah. Yeah, I mean all I love Elmo
• 38:10
  Palooza in that En Vogue is basically like hitting on Cookie
• 38:17
  Monster and Frazzle and like. It's weird.
• 38:21
  It's just weird. Oh, I guess we're getting Elmo
• 38:24
  Palooza is getting canceled. Yeah, no, I'm canceling Elmo
• 38:27
  Palooza. Question 8, The Cube or the
• 38:32
  Monster at the end of this book, Jared.
• 38:39
  The Cube, it is the Cube. The cube is 1969, same year as
• 38:43
  the the first year of Sesame Street.
• 38:46
  Monster at the end of this book though 1971, Pretty early in
• 38:50
  Sesame's Sesame's run, Question 9, Matt Vogel begins performing
• 38:55
  Uncle Deadly or Matt Vogel begins performing the count.
• 39:04
  Mike. Matt Vogel begins performing the
• 39:08
  Count. I'm sorry, it is actually Uncle
• 39:11
  Deadly. He doesn't start performing the
• 39:14
  count until that video we talked about earlier, which was 2013.
• 39:19
  So Uncle Deadly, of course he was playing in The Muppets 2011
• 39:24
  and question 10, the Sesame Street special A Magical
• 39:28
  Halloween Adventure or the Bear in the Big Blue House episode
• 39:32
  Halloween Bear. Jared, do you have a guess?
• 39:39
  I'm going to go bear in the Big Blue house, but I don't like it.
• 39:42
  You should love Bear in the Big Blue House.
• 39:44
  It's a great show. I don't like the answer.
• 39:46
  No, it. Listen, Jared, you are right.
• 39:49
  Trusting your gut paid off. The Halloween bear was 1999.
• 39:54
  Magical Halloween adventure, which I think I spoiled earlier
• 39:59
  was 2004 because I said that that's when the tough pigs
• 40:02
  article was from messed that up. But yeah, I mean, hey.
• 40:08
  You are right, Halloween Bear is older.
• 40:11
  All right, let me just total the score.
• 40:14
  This is actually a very close game, which is exciting.
• 40:17
  I I like close games. I'm just doing a hell of a lot
• 40:20
  better than I did in the last one.
• 40:22
  Yeah, well, I think I had, I think I got like 2 answers.
• 40:25
  I put you on a final episode where I pull out like the most
• 40:29
  nonsense trivia possible. That was the one where I was
• 40:31
  asking questions about like Gulliver's Travels and yeah,
• 40:36
  like where it was like, no, no one's going to do like you need
• 40:41
  to be Ryan to do even OK at that.
• 40:44
  And I was against Ryan, yes, you were.
• 40:47
  And this one, this one I feel like is more more your speed.
• 40:50
  I'm asking about specials you've seen and like.
• 40:53
  I'm as shocked as you are. I'm thinking welcome to the
• 40:56
  podcast feed. Your first opponent is the
• 40:58
  coowner of the website. Yeah, you'd be surprised.
• 41:02
  That little I've seen. Certainly.
• 41:06
  Certainly, yeah. No, I mean, like Jared, Jared,
• 41:09
  you, you are knowledgeable, but you, you are not like a shame or
• 41:14
  a Ryan where like I know that you're going to, you're going to
• 41:17
  pull out the most random random facts.
• 41:20
  Yeah. Anyway, so our score right now,
• 41:23
  Mike, you have 52 points and Jared, you have 58 points.
• 41:28
  So it is close. Anyone's game.
• 41:31
  Yeah. And it's time for our final
• 41:34
  trivia game. Kind of.
• 41:37
  As we mentioned earlier, in 1997 there was a Made for VHS Sesame
• 41:42
  special called Elmo Says Boo. It's terrible.
• 41:47
  I love it. Anthony Strand from Tough Pigs
• 41:51
  loves it. Did I mention that it was
• 41:53
  terrible? Anyway, in this special, Elmo
• 41:57
  goes to the Count's castle to tell him some funny, scary
• 42:02
  jokes. The special has some old sesame
• 42:05
  clips, and I guess it kind of has a plot that's about telling
• 42:09
  jokes. But it's mostly Elmo.
• 42:11
  And also weirdly Rosita and Telly and Baby Bear and Kingston
• 42:15
  Livingston the 3rd and Joey and Davy Monkey telling basically
• 42:21
  the worst jokes any anyone has ever heard.
• 42:25
  Here's an example of one of those jokes.
• 42:31
  Yes, knock knock. Who's there?
• 42:37
  Bat. Bat who?
• 42:40
  Batter. Open the time.
• 42:42
  Mr. Count Emma has some funny jokes to tell you.
• 42:51
  This is, this is, This is why we are going to play a game that I
• 42:58
  am calling Time to Spookalize in this game.
• 43:06
  I will tell you an actual joke from the 1997 special Elmo says
• 43:12
  Boo. Your job is to buzz in and give
• 43:17
  me the punchline. I'll give you some wiggle room
• 43:20
  if you don't get the wording exactly, but you've got to get
• 43:23
  close. We we take our funny, scary joke
• 43:25
  seriously here. Each of these is going to be
• 43:28
  worth 2 points. And again, these are all real
• 43:33
  jokes from the special. I will say if we get to a knock
• 43:37
  knock joke, I will do all of the setup myself up until what would
• 43:42
  be the punchline? You guys understand how knock
• 43:44
  knock jokes work. You are not 3 1/2 years old like
• 43:48
  Elmo. All right, here are some jokes.
• 43:51
  Question one, what's a ghost's favorite dessert?
• 44:00
  Mike, you buzzed in. Is it Ice Scream?
• 44:04
  You might think You might think that the answer is Ice Scream,
• 44:08
  but I'm sorry, that is not funny and scary enough.
• 44:12
  Jared, do you want to guess what A Ghost's favorite dessert is?
• 44:16
  I've got nothing. I think it's one of those anti
• 44:20
  jokes. You know, the jokes that just
• 44:22
  don't have a funny answer. Jello, Listen, that's funnier
• 44:28
  than any of the jokes. It almost says Boo no.
• 44:32
  The correct answer is, of course, Boo Berry pie.
• 44:36
  Of. Course, of course.
• 44:39
  OK, next question. Where does a bat go to get
• 44:43
  clean, Jared? Do the Bat Room.
• 44:51
  You know, normally I'd say that's close enough, but I'm
• 44:54
  taking these jokes pretty seriously.
• 44:56
  Yeah, that's bad. close, but no cigar, Mike.
• 45:00
  The Battub? Yeah.
• 45:02
  The Battub. Absolutely.
• 45:04
  Yeah. Well done, K Question three,
• 45:07
  What's a Ghost's favorite game, Jared?
• 45:15
  Like hide and seek because they're.
• 45:18
  Visible or whatever. close, close.
• 45:22
  God damn it, Mike, do you want to steal?
• 45:26
  Is it hide and shriek? It is I'm.
• 45:29
  Just so sad. Question 5.
• 45:34
  Knock knock. Who's there?
• 45:37
  Boo. Boohoo.
• 45:44
  Jared, do you need a tissue? Because you're crying or
• 45:48
  something. I will give that one to you.
• 45:51
  I will give that one to you. It's it's phrased as please
• 45:53
  don't cry. It's only a joke.
• 45:55
  But that is certainly close enough that I will give it to
• 45:59
  you. What's the scariest ride at the
• 46:02
  amusement park? Mike the Roller Ghoster.
• 46:10
  The roller ghoster is correct. Question 7.
• 46:16
  And I do want to say I should have written down who tells each
• 46:19
  of these jokes, but this one I know for a fact is from Joey and
• 46:23
  Davey Monkey because it is what did the ghost give the monkeys
• 46:28
  to eat, Jared? Bananas.
• 46:35
  It is bananas. Awful.
• 46:40
  I've definitely talked about them on this podcast before, and
• 46:44
  I think possibly on Mike's podcast.
• 46:46
  But Joey and Davey Monkey were characters on Sesame Street when
• 46:50
  I was a child who only existed to say bananas in a funny voice.
• 46:56
  They they did not have any other gimmick or really any other
• 47:01
  thing other than just, they said bananas in a funny voice.
• 47:06
  Funny voice. I'm assuming I can guess the
• 47:08
  voice that Joey had. Yeah, I think you probably could
• 47:11
  guess the voice that Joey, Joey Monkey had.
• 47:14
  Yeah, and I will say Davey Monkey sounded like David Rudman
• 47:21
  doing an impression of Joey Mazzarina.
• 47:30
  Question 8. What's the scariest thing you
• 47:34
  can have for lunch, Jared? Jello, listen, listen.
• 47:46
  As someone as someone who has been who has been hospitalized
• 47:50
  for extended periods of time, it is terrifying when all you can
• 47:54
  eat for lunch is jello. But no, it is not.
• 47:58
  It's not jello. Mike, do you want to steal?
• 48:01
  Is it a sandwich? It is a sandwich.
• 48:05
  Question nine. What bat knows it's ABC's Mike?
• 48:15
  An alphabet? It is an alphabet.
• 48:20
  Can't stop laughing. Question 10 What does the count
• 48:26
  say at the beginning of a baseball game, Mike?
• 48:35
  I remember this one. Batter up.
• 48:37
  It is batter up. See, Jared, baseball is a game
• 48:41
  that we have here in the United States.
• 48:45
  Yeah, and the bat batter is the person who hits the ball.
• 48:50
  They don't use the animal of that though.
• 48:54
  I thought that's how COVID started.
• 48:58
  These are the jokes, folks. Question 11 Which bat works for
• 49:03
  the circus? Mike by a second.
• 49:08
  Again, Mike's on a roll with these bad See.
• 49:11
  See. Here's the difference.
• 49:12
  Mike is a dad, so Mike understands.
• 49:15
  Dad jokes? Yeah, that's it at a deeper,
• 49:17
  deeper level than Jared does. Is it an Acrobat?
• 49:22
  It is an Acrobat question 12. What's the first thing ghosts do
• 49:28
  when they ride in a car? Jared, you know, I can't even
• 49:36
  think of anything. I just don't put on their
• 49:37
  seatbelt, OK? And I'm like, I can't even think
• 49:41
  of, I can't even think of to a joke making into a joke.
• 49:44
  OK, all right. You're both looking at me like
• 49:45
  go, go, go. All right, put on the put on the
• 49:50
  seatbelt. No, no, I give up Mike.
• 49:57
  Funnier. Funnier than the actual joke,
• 50:01
  Mike. They put on their sheet belt,
• 50:05
  they do put on their sheet. Belt never would have gotten
• 50:09
  that question 8. What does a ghost put in his ice
• 50:14
  cream? Soda, you might say.
• 50:19
  Wait a minute, Becca, It feels like there's already a pun in
• 50:22
  this. And shouldn't the answer be ice
• 50:25
  cream? No, Mike.
• 50:32
  Is it whipped? Scream, it is whipped scream,
• 50:35
  which again feels like a cheap cop out like.
• 50:40
  My aunt was going to be Boots Be a Here's the thing, I think
• 50:46
  Jared Jared's are all funnier. And then our our 13th scary
• 50:55
  joke. What is a Baby Ghost's favorite
• 50:59
  game, Jared? Is it peekaboo?
• 51:07
  It is peekaboo. And with all those jokes, you
• 51:13
  must have worked up quite an appetite.
• 51:15
  So go into the kitchen for some screech cobbler.
• 51:20
  That's the last joke in the special.
• 51:22
  That's how it ends. So we still have two quick games
• 51:29
  to go. First up is of course the
• 51:34
  anything in the World Prize game, because you two are now
• 51:38
  able to ask me anything in the world, or at least anything in
• 51:43
  the world of Spooky Muppet Stuff and Muppet Monsters.
• 51:48
  Each of you will get to ask me a question about The Muppets.
• 51:51
  If you stump me, you will earn 15 points.
• 51:56
  So let me just do a do a quick point total to see where we're
• 52:00
  at while you think this over. Hey, it is still a very close
• 52:04
  game, although Mike did pull ahead in that that joke round.
• 52:11
  Jared, you have 64 points. Mike, you have 70 points.
• 52:15
  So again, still very close. But yeah, no, no, Jared.
• 52:21
  Jared kept over thinking those jokes.
• 52:24
  Anyway, Jared, do you want to ask me your your stump the host
• 52:28
  question first? I do.
• 52:31
  In the Vincent Price episode of The Muppet Show, the monster
• 52:34
  Thudge McGurk shows up in Statler and Waldorf's balcony.
• 52:38
  According to them, Thudge is a scary actor in the same vein as
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  Vincent Price. What was Thudge Mcgurk's last
• 52:46
  film? I don't remember.
• 52:52
  I remember Thudge McGurk. I don't remember the.
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  It was The Phantom of the soap opera.
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  That's right. That's that's a joke.
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  And Jared, you get 15 points bringing you up to 79.
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  Mike. There was a Sesame Street
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  storybook from 1986 called Scared of the Dark where Bert
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  and Ernie go to a scary movie. Can you name the scary movie
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  they go to? I can.
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  I know that it's not. I mean, clearly it's like a very
• 53:35
  stupid title. It's not like an actual scary
• 53:38
  movie. It's something like Attack of
• 53:42
  the Broccoli. Iffy.
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  I know you're listening. I'm sorry.
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  I don't remember this. This Burt and Ernie story.
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  I'm. I'm sorry.
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  Iffy. What is it, Mike?
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  It's called Ghosties. You know, that feels like it
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  could be a horror movie from the the 80s.
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  Yeah, you know it it there might be a movie called Ghosties.
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  Not that far from Ghoulies, you know, I do have to say today my
• 54:12
  Amazon stick recommended that I watch Ouija Shark, a movie about
• 54:17
  a ghost shark who is summoned via piece of driftwood that has
• 54:23
  a Ouija board on it. And folks, I'm sure I will have
• 54:27
  watched Ouija Shark by the time this episode reaches your ears.
• 54:32
  I want to go watch Ouija Shark now.
• 54:36
  Anyway, Mike, You also get 15 points for that, meaning that it
• 54:40
  is still a very close game, still with a difference of six
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  points, Jared at 79 points and Mike with 85 points.
• 54:50
  And that brings us to our final round.
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  It's time for our final high stakes competition.
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  Say the word. In this round you can wager any
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  amount of points. The winner gets the points.
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  The loser loses that, unlike on Final Jeopardy, you will hear
• 55:10
  the question before you wager again.
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  Jared, you have 79 points. Mike, you have 85 points.
• 55:20
  All right, now here's your scary question.
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  One of the earliest Count Von Count songs was the Transylvania
• 55:29
  Polka. In this spooky number, the Count
• 55:32
  begins with a mostly spoken introduction, explaining that
• 55:36
  his song is the favorite of all sorts of monsters, even Doctor
• 55:41
  Frankenstein. He finishes the introduction by
• 55:44
  telling an actual famous singer to eat his heart out.
• 55:50
  One famous singer, also of Central European descent, does
• 55:56
  the count taunt before singing the Transylvania poker Ah.
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  This was on Silly Songs and I've heard it a billion times.
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  Yeah, well, this is the thing. And this is something that, like
• 56:09
  I was listening to. It's on the Elmo Says Boo
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  record, I believe, or record, I say, as if they released that on
• 56:15
  vinyl on the Elmo Says Boo CD. And I I was listening to it and
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  I'm like, what did he just say? Ah, I'm.
• 56:27
  Don't know. I'm gonna be so upset when I
• 56:29
  hear this. The counts from Romania, right?
• 56:32
  Which is part of Central Europe. And this singer, while not born
• 56:36
  in Central Europe, comes from Central European descent.
• 56:40
  Ah, now, Jared, you've definitely heard this song.
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  Mike, you've heard this song, right?
• 56:49
  I've heard this song OK. I was going to say this is this
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  is one of the ones that was like on the 70s records and stuff.
• 56:55
  I don't even know if I have this person's name right, but here we
• 56:58
  go. So I will say both of you made
• 57:03
  very conservative bets. Almost like this is something
• 57:07
  that weirdly isn't even on Muppet wiki.
• 57:11
  Someone needs to get on that, and that someone should be me.
• 57:14
  But I refuse to learn how to edit Muppet Wiki.
• 57:18
  That's got to change. Both of you made a very
• 57:22
  conservative bet also. Well, let's see if any either.
• 57:26
  If you are right, Jared, you bet one single point.
• 57:32
  Yeah. And I'm pretty sure I should
• 57:34
  have bet all of them, because I'm pretty sure this answer is
• 57:36
  correct. Yeah.
• 57:36
  Who'd you bet? Keith Urban.
• 57:39
  Yeah. Keith Urban.
• 57:40
  Yeah. Hometown boy.
• 57:42
  Hometown boy. Done.
• 57:43
  Good for you, Jared. Yeah, yeah.
• 57:46
  It is not Keith Urban. What?
• 57:49
  Who is of course from Australia. Not, not.
• 57:54
  I don't know. Is he of Central European
• 57:55
  descent now? Who knows?
• 57:58
  Urban feels like a Romanian name.
• 58:00
  Yes, sure, exactly. It is not Keith Urban.
• 58:03
  So however, you only lose one point, Mike.
• 58:08
  You bet Five points, Mike. Who did you?
• 58:12
  Who did you? Who did you guess?
• 58:14
  I guessed Frankie Yankovic and I don't even know if he sang
• 58:18
  anything or just played the accordion.
• 58:20
  I don't know enough about Frankie Yankovic or if he's from
• 58:26
  where where he's from, but that is also not correct.
• 58:29
  You also lose your points. Lose five points.
• 58:34
  The correct answer? Eat your heart out, Bobby
• 58:39
  Vinton. Bobby Winton eat your hot dog.
• 58:43
  He was, of course, popularly known as the Polish Prince.
• 58:50
  Weirdly enough, Bobby Vinton still alive.
• 58:54
  Really. Yeah, and goes by the name Keith
• 58:56
  Urban. Yeah, And and he goes by the
• 59:01
  name Keith Urban now. Exactly.
• 59:03
  Looks fantastic now. So again, what a close game.
• 59:11
  A difference of literally two points.
• 59:14
  Coming down to that. Transylvania Polka, 78 points.
• 59:19
  Jared, 80 points. Mike.
• 59:21
  So Mike wins by two. That is I think the closest
• 59:27
  we've ever had a game on this on this show.
• 59:31
  So I do want to thank you. Thank you both.
• 59:33
  So our winner and today's toughest pig is Mike Westfall.
• 59:40
  Mike, congratulations. You win either your choice of
• 59:45
  some screech cobbler or this tiny, tiny portrait I made of
• 59:53
  it's shiny. I'm sorry.
• 59:55
  It's in a sleeve. This tiny, tiny, tiny tiny
• 59:58
  portrait I made of count on count.
• 1:00:00
  I love it. I will take the portrait because
• 1:00:02
  I am allergic to screeches. Aren't we all?
• 1:00:07
  Yeah, And. And listen, listen, I do have to
• 1:00:10
  say selfishly, and I know Jared is my boss, but I'm glad I don't
• 1:00:14
  need to navigate the international post system to get
• 1:00:17
  this to Jared. Well done?
• 1:00:20
  Yes, that. That's the spikiest thing of
• 1:00:21
  all. I I already need to send a
• 1:00:24
  wedding invitation to a friend of mine in Canada, and I have
• 1:00:28
  been putting that off, and that's hard enough.
• 1:00:31
  That's far enough. Exactly.
• 1:00:32
  That's hard enough. But yeah, I guess that too.
• 1:00:36
  And that brings us to the end of another one.
• 1:00:38
  So guests, where can people find you if you wish to be found?
• 1:00:42
  Let's start with Jared. Jared, where can we find you if
• 1:00:45
  you wish to be found? Well, you can find me on
• 1:00:47
  toughpigs.com and you can find me on Twitter, which is
• 1:00:52
  Jazzfaircloth. But you're fine me just type in
• 1:00:55
  my name. I'll pop up somewhere.
• 1:00:57
  I'm sure, I'm sure. I've tagged you in this post for
• 1:01:00
  sure. Yeah.
• 1:01:02
  And I should, I should say, you know, to introduce our guest
• 1:01:06
  star. There's some great episodes of
• 1:01:08
  that that are still available, and you should definitely check
• 1:01:12
  it out. And by you, I don't mean Jared.
• 1:01:14
  Jared. You know what, Jared, You should
• 1:01:16
  check it out. I don't know if you've listened.
• 1:01:18
  I'm not a fan of the American host in it.
• 1:01:21
  Oh yeah, No. What's his name?
• 1:01:23
  What's his name? Jello, Jello.
• 1:01:27
  Yeah. Davey and Joey.
• 1:01:30
  Monkey, I believe. I believe is their name.
• 1:01:34
  And Mike, where can we find you? If you wish to be found sure,
• 1:01:39
  you can find me personally via link tree.com/mike Westfall.
• 1:01:43
  That's W like where the Wicked Witch is from and fall like what
• 1:01:47
  her broom does when she tries to fly it with no hands.
• 1:01:50
  Very spooky. And I also have a podcast about
• 1:01:54
  TV holiday specials called The Advent Calendar House.
• 1:01:56
  It is located conveniently at adventcalendar dot house.
• 1:02:02
  And like we said, you know, Anthony Strand and I were on an
• 1:02:05
  episode talking about Elmo Saves Christmas, and then Anthony came
• 1:02:08
  back to talk about The Flintstones Christmas Carol,
• 1:02:11
  which I have to say sounds like it was much better than I always
• 1:02:15
  imagined it being whenever he mentioned it during full season
• 1:02:20
  of Moving right Along. And you've done other Muppet
• 1:02:23
  specials on there as well. And I'm definitely going to keep
• 1:02:27
  nagging you until I'm on for another Muppet special.
• 1:02:32
  I'd love to have. I'd love to have both of you.
• 1:02:34
  Yeah, no, it's it's great. It's it's it's a good show.
• 1:02:38
  It's fun. And of course, you can find me
• 1:02:41
  at toughpigs.com, the only website that isn't caving in on
• 1:02:46
  itself right now. I'm a tough pig.
• 1:02:49
  Yeah. No, listen, listen, I say this
• 1:02:51
  every episode. We survive 23 years, 22 years.
• 1:02:56
  We survive 22 years. That's longer than Twitter.
• 1:03:01
  Longer, Longer than Instagram. We can we can keep going.
• 1:03:06
  You can also find tough pigs on the Tough Pigs Twitter the tough
• 1:03:10
  pigs Facebook, the tough pigs Instagram.
• 1:03:15
  When I stop being lazy, maybe I'll get a tough pigs Tumblr
• 1:03:18
  going again. But.
• 1:03:20
  Anyway, and if you like the work we do at Tough Pigs, consider
• 1:03:24
  donating to the Tough Pigs Patreon where you could get even
• 1:03:27
  more exclusive free stuff. We also have Tough Pigs tshirts,
• 1:03:31
  which include a Havawa tshirt and a shirt I designed inspired
• 1:03:35
  by Monster at the end of this book and some pride stuff still
• 1:03:39
  and bunch of cool things. Muppets take Muppets take
• 1:03:43
  Manhattan themed shirts. I got another one that should be
• 1:03:46
  up soon, probably is up by the time this episode is posted.
• 1:03:50
  We'll get there, so check them out on our Tough Pigs T public
• 1:03:54
  page. And if you want to find me
• 1:03:57
  directly not on Tough Pigs, I'm on Twitter at Uncle Petunio.
• 1:04:02
  Again, that's Uncle like the kind of fraggle that would be a
• 1:04:05
  brave explorer. And then petunio is like the
• 1:04:08
  flower but with an O instead of an A.
• 1:04:11
  And I'm on all of the non Twitter social media platforms
• 1:04:15
  at tall girl Petunia. That is that time I spelled the
• 1:04:20
  flower correctly. Sure.
• 1:04:23
  I mean look, find me who knows what social media site is going
• 1:04:26
  to be good. By the time this is out, we
• 1:04:28
  could all be on ZORF, the social media site where we ZORF each
• 1:04:33
  other anyway. Well, I'd like to thank some
• 1:04:38
  other people for helping out. Of course, our guests.
• 1:04:41
  Thank you both. This was lovely.
• 1:04:44
  And Jared, again, thank you for for getting up early for us on
• 1:04:48
  this cold wintery day. And also thank you to Stacy
• 1:04:53
  Rosen for writing the theme music to our show.
• 1:04:57
  Thanks to Richard Gomez for doing our host artwork.
• 1:05:01
  Thank you to Joe Henness, The Tough Pigs Muppet Fan Podcast
• 1:05:04
  Executive Producer. Thanks to me for writing and
• 1:05:08
  hosting and producing and editing and all that.
• 1:05:11
  And thanks to Elmo for all those funny, scary jokes.
• 1:05:16
  And lastly, thanks to all of you at home for being with us on
• 1:05:21
  Haboa, the Muppet Quiz Show. And as always, Bobby Vinton.
• 1:05:27
  Eat your heart out. Good night everyone.
• 1:05:41
  My brother has ghosts in his attic.
• 1:05:45
  Sounds scary? Yeah, he's on the 10 most
• 1:05:48
  Haunted list.