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Hubba-Wha?! Episode #17 - Havin' Fun with Ernie and Bert · Muppet Fan Podcasts with ToughPigs.com

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Yo-ho-ho avastin. Shiver me timbers.
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Have you seen my mizzenmast sir? It's missing.
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Ernie, you're a fool. Welcome to hubba-wha a muppet
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quiz show brought to you by tough pigs.com.
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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 Queen competes for fabulous prizes, and to see
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who's this week's toughest pick. I'm your host.
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Becca petunia of tough pigs.com today on ha ha.
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We're spotlighting two of the most famous Muppets of all.
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That's right. Put down your duckies and stop
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playing checkers with your pigeons because we're talking
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Ernie and Bert today. Maybe you've heard of these
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guys. Really.
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Are there any Muppets more perfectly Muppet e than our
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favorite roommates? Everyone's either an Ernie or a
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Bert and today we're celebrating all of us.
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As always, these questions were written by me with help from
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that amazing Muppet resource Muppet.
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Wiki. And speaking of, let's agree to
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play fair today. Please don't, look at Muppet
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Wiki or any other resource during this game.
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Come on. Who would do something like
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that. Play a game, unfairly, just to
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bother somebody else. I can't think of anyone who
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would ruin a game like that. Well, our first game is all
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about letting one and one, make two as we meet our contestants,
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it's time to play a game. We usually call to tell a face
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but today we'll call to tell one fine face contestants buzz in to
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answer three questions about yourself.
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Whoever buzzes in first will get introduced first ready.
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Go All right, Joe. So Joe, what is your name?
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My name is Johannes. Hello, everybody.
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And Joe, I'm going to ask you a question that I feel like you've
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answered a million times before. But what is your history with
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the Muppets? The the, who, oh, um, so do you
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remember season 1 of Saturday Night Live?
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Things the Bumblebees. Yes, I love bees.
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Yes. You know, they're endangered and
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we really had to have to save them.
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It's really it's important work that well I'll be in my brief.
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My very brief history of the Muppets is that.
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I like him a whole lot and like him so much that I run a muppet
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fan site called tough pics.com, that is the website that hosts
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this is fine podcast, it's true and Joe I'm going to ask you.
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Do you feel like you're more like Ernie or you're more like
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Bert. I had a feeling this was going
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to be the question here and it's funny because I have actually a
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really strong theory about this is that nobody is under knee or
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Bert except for Ernie and Bert because it all depends on who is
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standing next to you. That is so true.
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I used to live with my, my topics writing partner, Ryan
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row. And when we were roommates, we
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even had a frame. For Bert and Ernie like they do
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in their bedroom and like Ryan is definitely the Bert to my
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attorney. Like I think everyone will agree
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with. If you've ever heard Ryan moving
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right along, you'll know, like he can be a little more serious,
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he me. But more of a stickler for the
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rules. Like that sort of thing he's
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open taller than you. He's also a much taller than me,
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so like I am in Earnest effort. However, now I'm married.
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And my wife, Sarah is definitely, definitely the Ernie
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to my Burt. So, in that relationship, Up.
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Like, I'm the one who, like, I've got very specific interests
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and I find a lot of joy in very boring things and she's much
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more of a free thinker and a free doer than I am.
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So yeah. So I definitely, you know, I'm a
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Bernie. I'm a murderer, I'm a bit above.
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Well, you've just earned yourself 20 points for those
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correct. Yeah.
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All right and let's move to our second contestant.
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Second contestant. What is your name?
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Everyone knows me. Is this she?
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Alright, iffy. And if he what is your history
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with the Muppets? I feel like I have the same
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answers. Everyone else does, basically,
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my family had a lot of show watched look at all that growing
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up, and since I'm Canadian, we didn't actually have proper
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Sesame Street for a lot for a while.
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So I grew up with play with. The Sesame and Elmo's World.
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The growth Global go her separate into three separate
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separate time slots and a little bit of the Marie are obsessed
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with later on. I think one of my first, my
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earliest memories was actually my brother explaining to me how
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the difference between how Bert's and Ernie's are
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mechanisms, work like how how dare arms are puppeteered and
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being endlessly disappointed that our dog Dollar Store,
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Ducks, could not speak, that's great.
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And, you know, you're, you're a big fan of Burton Ernie.
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You do a lot of art of all the Sesame characters, but
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especially Burton Ernie on Twitter.
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All of them's, the starts by mean, listen, listen, at my
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request. You did Humphrey and Ingrid and
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Natasha you're going to use her question.
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You just Um, fair. So I think that becomes all of
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them once you've drawn them. Um, but um.
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And and do you feel like you're more of an Ernie or you're more
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of a bird, you don't have to agree with joke because I was
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actually having this conversation with one of my
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friends a couple days ago. because emotionally, I
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definitely relate more to Ernie because he's very emotional and
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but whenever I'm with certain friends and very much a bird
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because I hang around with a lot of very energetically chaotic
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people, Yeah, no I think I think it's true that we all have a
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little a little bit of bit of each.
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I'd say that. I'm very Like rules focused.
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And obviously I love all of this very boring stuff like the
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content of, of Allah. But but also, I love to make
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these games like hubba-wha and bother My Friends by asking them
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these questions about. You know, well, we'll get into
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what these Questions are about in the second so I don't know,
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it's sometimes tough to tell. So let's move into one of those
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rounds with our our first trivia game, which is did if he get any
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points for that or my in. You're absolutely right.
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No, that's it. If he got Zoo, if he actually
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lost one. Now, if he earned 20 points for
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those answers, as well. Thank you, thank you.
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I got so excited by by this next game because this, and this The
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Burton me that was calling out like, excuse me, teacher, you
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forgot to give us homework, mmm-hmm, yeah, you could have
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one, I didn't ya, I can't run away with the whole thing.
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I did write it in my book. I could write the 20 points in
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my book L, think of this. So it wouldn't.
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It wouldn't actually help to you.
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So I'm just so excited because our next round is one of my
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favorite games. That's right.
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It's time for the triangle is, right?
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That's right. Buried on the triangle.
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That is a game. Okay, now let's start playing
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our game, not much of a game. If you remember from other
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episodes of Hubble, wha each of the questions I'm going to ask
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has three correct answers. You will earn one point for
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each. Correct?
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Answer? You get remember, you can buzz
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in even if you don't know, all three answers, you'll get points
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for whatever you do. Member but of course if you miss
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any if you forget anything if you get it wrong, your opponent
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will have a chance to clean up whatever you missed.
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All right, we all know how Burt feels about cleaning.
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So, of course wait, until I finished reading the question to
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buzz in. So our buddies at home can play
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along. Are you ready?
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Yes. Good luck buddies at home.
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All right, question. One the three words that Ernie
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uses to describe rubber ducky Why in the pre chorus of rubber
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ducky, the will find a little fella who's Joe.
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So I got thrown off by the word pre-chorus.
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Sorry to use technical music notation there.
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He's cute, he's yellow. And he's chubby.
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Correct question to the three. Things that Journey sometimes
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imagines, he'd like to be in the song.
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Imagine That Joe, I'm going to take at least one point because
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I know he managed to be a knight.
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A knight in shining armor is the first thing he imagines, he'd
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like to be and I don't remember the other two.
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So I'm going to assume I'm going to make it wild some wild
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guesses. He wanted to be a cowboy and
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prison of the United States are either those, right?
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He would do pretty well as president of the United States,
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but no. Now.
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Okay, no, neither Those. If he do you have any guesses?
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I haven't listened to songs years.
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I don't remember anything, but the nice little that wasn't my.
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That wasn't like in my research at all.
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It's like, yep, that's a song that exists moving on.
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I didn't, I didn't read, I didn't know.
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So the night is the first thing. Um, this is one of those things
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that I feel like and I've talked about this on ha ha before, but
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it's hard sometimes for me, like things that I feel like are
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something that everybody knows, and And I'm like, Oh no, just
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you had an obsession with that song.
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That doesn't mean that anybody else did, but the other things
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were a brave Explorer, he's sailing a ship in a storm.
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He's wearing a cute little yellow raincoat.
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And of course, the last one because this is how Bernie
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imagining songs, always go. A person, whose name Journey
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because in the end he decides he wants to be himself.
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The bill, I hate Question 3, bring it up with our Naik
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question 3 Burt's, three real relatives who have appeared in
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puppet form. Oh, this is actually no longer
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accurate. There's actually four I believe
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since I wrote this question, there's a new one, I'm pretty
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sure. I'm going to have to pause here.
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There's actually four correct answers to this.
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But you can get points for any of them.
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I'm sorry to fact-check myself, live on air.
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You caught it. You caught it before.
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Before the fans did was pretty dolls angry comments.
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Well, can you name any of Bert's relatives who have appeared in
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puppet form? Iffy.
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Bart. Hmm, his mom.
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Mhm. Oh, I'm forgetting honey.
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What is I know? I'm angry.
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Well, I'll give you both a Hint by saying all of his relatives
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have names that sound like Burt. Nope.
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All right. So Joe we've got Bart and his
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mother. There are two remaining.
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Yeah. So I believe it's his sister
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bertina. Cousin eivin cousin, who's A
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1013 the new one is the new one, right?
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And his nephew Brad, mfu Brad, big big deal about nephew Brad
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recently on the internet who's of that?
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Yeah, who had that on their bingo card of Burt's nephew
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Brad? Made the news because he has
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teeth what a-what a sentence to say?
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Out loud? It was strange.
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Nobody knows what we're talking about this.
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This was. Yeah, but I Center for puppetry
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Arts they Tweeted out a picture of the puppet, they have on
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display of birds, nephew Brad, and he has teeth and people were
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kind of weirded out by it because it's a creepy picture.
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He's like kind of angry looking and again, he has teeth and Ryan
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wrote an article about it. For tough pigs, about the
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history of Brad and history of Brad's teeth.
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And of course, we saw Bert's mother in the weird Fresh Prince
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of Bel-Air video that they put out like four years ago.
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That's when I would've remembered.
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I forgot about that. Good job.
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If he question for the three performers who have played Ernie
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other than Jim Henson, and Steve Whitmire.
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Iffy. John tartaglia correct so bad
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names. No, it's okay.
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I had the thing and I know I picture them as concept more
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than the concept of John tartaglia Billy bar.
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Cursed Billy Billy Barkus? Absolutely.
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And you're taught that to hard ones, Peter and Peter lens.
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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John tartaglia. Felt like this to catch because
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he only played him on, play with me Sesame, but then you said
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that, that was and that's the thing.
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I agree. Yeah.
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So, so there you go. But yeah, John tartaglia did it
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then Billy bar Coast. There is a a liar are going by.
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I believe as long as your paused, I believe it's
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Parkhurst. Oh okay.
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Oh, yeah. It is.
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I wrote it as Parkhurst and I'm pronouncing it bar Coast.
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Um, that's right. I'm John tartaglia performed him
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on play with me Sesame, Billy bar cursed, briefly, on Sesame
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Street, I think for two or three seasons.
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And Peter Lynn's is the current performer of Ernie question. 5,
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the three things, that Bert, and Rick Moranis realize they have
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in common before they start singing, stick out your hand and
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say hello. Joe, I know one of them is
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saddle shoes, one of them is the saddle shoes that Bert love so
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much. I'm going to guess.
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If it's before they start singing, it's got to be physical
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thing. So is it?
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They're both wearing striped shirts.
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They are not both. Not both wearing striped shirts.
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Rick Moranis is wearing a pretty typical 80s.
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Rick Moranis outfit. Yeah, he's cosplaying as Rick
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Moranis Kaya. Is it that they're both?
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Afraid to fly because they're on an airplane.
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No, I got one of them. It is shoes.
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That's the important one. If he two other things that they
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have in common, I know this is a little, so a specific song.
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I'm asking you guys to remember, well, you're very good at taking
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those few things that it has not seen the video on time.
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This is my problem to me. This is like, I think about this
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song like every day and and again I need to realize
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sometimes that that's just me. I have the I had that problem,
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trying to come up with my question for dinner.
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The I feel like one of them might have something to do with
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their socks. It is, it is that they both are
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wearing argyle socks. I will give it to you for saying
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that they something to do with their socks.
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The other, the other final one should be should be the most
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obvious. They can, I make another guess
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if he doesn't have any other guesses.
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Yeah. Let's meet each other.
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I don't know anybody. Sure.
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But that's it's not quite what I'm looking for.
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I'm sorry. Joe.
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Do you have another guess? I'm not going to give you points
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but if you want to, yeah, it's something that's such a broad
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concept, but like, that they there, they both want to be
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friends with the other perks. Like they're both.
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No, see, you're lonely in there, like, you know, like, oh man, I
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wish I could meet this cool guy sitting next to me, but you're
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going, but gee whiz thing, but I'm thinking of something even
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more obvious. They're both asked if they they
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want the chicken or the fish and they don't they want a bowl of
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hot water so they can make instant oatmeal.
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Oh, see, that's the thing I did. I completely forgot about that
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part completely. I was that obvious.
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How is that the most obvious meal?
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Oh, he loves a lot of things. Listen, I've been doing the
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activity books in the Sesame Street Treasury and I had to
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draw a line from Burt to the oatmeal just like I had to as we
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discussed in a previous episode, draw a line between Ernie and
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the peanut butter sandwich. Because that's his favorite
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thing. And I had to draw a line between
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Betty Lou and the French toast because now I have to know
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that's her favorite food. Yep.
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Yep. I got it.
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I got it question, six. The first chronologically
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speaking, the first three characters other than Ernie and
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Bert to appear in Bert and Ernie's apartment.
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Joe. So I'm excited about this
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because I thought this was going to be one of the later games of
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the back and forth, so I did research this one.
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So I know it's beautiful day monster is the first and Cookie
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Monster, mmm-hmm, the third and not quite as confident about
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because they don't know the order.
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I just made a list of names. Let's guess, is it Oscar?
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It is not Oscar goodness. If he any guesses.
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Is it big bird? It is not good.
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Guess no one would guess this last one?
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Because it is Simon soundman Yeah.
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Now, wow, those the sound it made for us, get that one wrong.
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And the last question in this round, the three Muppet Show
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episodes that feature Bert. Iffy.
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Name as many as you can. I know these are names.
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The problem is, I know all of them but not okay.
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Okay, here for that force is not for no, no, no.
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For the sake of this game, can you describe what what Burt was
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doing or singing or any of those things?
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Because I will give it to you in the interest of keeping the game
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fun. He was Zoom.
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Both the both the pilot episodes is section violence.
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Yeah, he's in the sex and violence.
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I don't believe he's also, he's also yeah, he is in the credits.
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He had learned to look in the car.
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So then there's four because I didn't count both Pilots.
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I only counted sex and violence. So, there you go.
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Because sex and violence is the one where he's dancing with a
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woman who looks exactly like Ernie.
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And he turns to the camera and goes like, you know, you remind
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me of someone, do you remember the Other two other one.
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It's the one where the whole cast comes comes and comes out
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from behind the rock. Yeah, it's it's no, it's okay.
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Joe, do you know the name of that that actor?
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I will give you each a point? If you know, that episode where
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they all do, the whole Sesame Street cast, comes out from
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behind a rock. Yeah, that's the.
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Marty Feldman episode, right? Because they're Ali.
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Baba thing they're doing in Alibaba Pastiche, and they yell
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open sesame, and then all the Sesame Street guys, come out
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from behind, or by all the Sesame Street, guys.
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I mean, Ernie, Bert Grover, the count and Roosevelt Franklin's
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mom and they Now, from behind the Rock and they sing the
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Sesame Street theme, unless you're watching it on Disney,
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plus where they just? Don't they cut it?
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Yep. yeah, I was going to say if he do, you remember the fourth
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because apparently there's four Again, I don't know that the
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accident name but it don't the one where he's singing some
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chanting Ethan. Yeah, he sings Some Enchanted
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Evening. Joe.
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What is the name of that actress?
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That guest star that guest star is Connie Stevens?
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That is Connie Stevens. So I will give one and only I
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will give you each a point for that.
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This is great. We're sharing POI.
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Yeah, I agree Shara just like Bert and Ernie would do, yeah.
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Not because there any would trick Burt.
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It's a yeah you should peanut. That baby made invented peanut
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butter sandwiches. It's true.
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And now something completely different.
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That could really only be on a game show as hip and happening
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as hubba-wha. It's a new game that we're
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calling order up. Yes.
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But we're not talking about Food instead we're talking about
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orders or one very particular order, see with most Duo's
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there's a set order we always use when we're listing the
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members you'd never say Costello and Abbott or Garfunkel and
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Simon or peel and key. But throughout the years there's
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never really been a clear answer to the question is it Ernie and
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Bert or Bert? And Ernie just quickly What do
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you guys usually say Ernie and Bert or Bert and Ernie I'd say
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Bert and Ernie every time I feel like Ernie and Bert is something
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that's more that the use a lot more in the earlier and then
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later on its transition more to Bert and Ernie.
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And so that's what this round is going to be about Muppet.
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Wiki actually has an article all about this discrepancy, whether
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the order should be the Ernie and Bert or Bert and Ernie.
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So I explored that article and I will be referencing a either, a
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classic quote regarding Ernie and Bert or a specific product
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or title that references Ernie and Bert your goal is to buzz in
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and say whether in that instance it is Bert and Ernie or Ernie
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and Bert you are going to tell me the order of the names.
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I know that this is silly And probably needlessly challenging
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but hey either way you have a 50/50 shot of being right?
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It's either Bert and Ernie or Ernie and Bert.
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Each of these questions is worth one point.
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Wait until I finish reading the question to buzz in and, of
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course, there's no stealing this round because there's only two
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possible answers for each of these.
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All right, here we go. So this will also give you an
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idea of how these questions are structured.
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So the segment X & Y, Sighs. Great Adventures.
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Iffy. Burner, that is Bert and Ernie,
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in that case. Question 2, in the Connie
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Stevens, episode of The Muppet Show that we were talking about
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earlier. Kermit says, all the way from
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Sesame Street here they are. Now the two and only If he by
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like a second at least by my eye Ernie and Bert.
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Yes, that one is Ernie and Bert. Question, 3, the classic album X
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and Y sing along. Iffy.
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This one's Harding, is it Bert and Ernie.
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It is the Burton Ernie sing-along question for in
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Muppet family Christmas. They introduce themselves.
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This way to Dock and Emily bear later.
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Refers to them this way. Joe Zen Ernie, and Bert, that is
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Ernie. And Bert, sure is question 5 in
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Elmo's. Christmas Countdown.
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The duo and Prairie Dawn. Wrecked Tony sirico and Steve
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schirripa in the X and Y Christmas special.
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Joe Burton Ernie, that is Bert and Ernie.
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I said it with such confidence, like I actually knew the answer.
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That's a good clip though. That's the one with Gingerbread
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Man in your ear. Sure.
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Yeah, it goes around every Christmas but like there's no
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reason for him to have a gingerbread man in his ear like
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Ernie was like you know, you have been anorexic.
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You're pretending to be on the telephone like.
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That. Seems like a thing, right?
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Yeah. But gingerbread man is
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Christmas. You don't eat bananas but this
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but it still doesn't Becca, maybe she was talking to the
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gingerbread man. Yeah, but it's got its like in
27:04
is hear something. I mean, listen, if it was the
27:07
Devi and Joey Christmas special, then there would be a banana in
27:12
Tony sirico zir, but it's not the Davey and Joey Christmas
27:16
special, but here's what you've just done.
27:19
You just put the idea of a DV enjoy Christmas special in my
27:23
head and now that's all I want. That's all I want.
27:27
Why can't we have a whole Christmas?
27:28
Ursula just JV and Joey monkey. Well, remind me and I'll draw
27:32
this in December. Fantastic.
27:34
Last question. Last question in this round in
27:38
2009? Frank Oz said, this was the
27:42
correct order of their names. Joe who was Frank?
27:50
Oh, gotta go either way. I think I think because it's old
27:52
school he'd say Ernie and Bert incorrect.
27:56
Frank says it's Bert and Ernie but he did take a while to
28:01
answer and he said Ernie and Bert first and then corrected
28:04
himself and said no it's Bert and Ernie so he's not sure and
28:09
if he doesn't know, then no one knows, I say that about a lot of
28:14
things. Frank says, look, Frank is the
28:17
expert on, you know, how to fix my leaky drain in my bathroom.
28:22
Joe, Frank doesn't know, yeah, nobody gonna know it's tough.
28:27
You know, it's tough to get an appointment with Frank Oz the
28:30
plumber, but, you know, I try, he would have been a great
28:33
plumber. He's fairly local right.
28:35
Doesn't he still live in the city as far as I know?
28:37
I mean, I don't know. I don't like keeping in touch
28:39
with them. Hey, let me text Frank Oz, real
28:43
quick and ask him Frank. Are you at I wish.
28:48
All right. Well we're gonna move into our
28:50
head-to-head round. Now beat the time one of the
28:56
most famous Bert and Ernie songs and this one you guys had better
29:02
know as well as I do is lalala a wonderful song about the letter
29:08
L. That really highlights the Duo's
29:11
personalities, released on many albums.
29:14
Aired in many episodes. And even refilmed with the newer
29:18
puppets, this song would even eventually be covered by The
29:22
Barenaked Ladies in a thing that absolutely happened.
29:26
Yeah, I'll post a link. If you guys haven't heard the
29:29
Barenaked Ladies cover of this song.
29:31
It was for a for the kids charity album even more
29:36
interesting. The for the kids to charity
29:39
album features the band, Guster singing, the burp song I've got
29:44
to Be clean, which is such a bizarre, deep cut, amazing.
29:50
Yeah, I love that. I get to say that sentence.
29:53
You remember, Guster. They had a hit with Fafa in the
29:56
early 2000. Sure.
29:58
Do. Um, in this song, The lol song
30:03
that is not guster's, far, far, Ernie encourages Bert to list
30:08
lovely lilting words that start with the letter L, but his buddy
30:12
can't seem to think of things that are like Able enough, do
30:15
you remember the things that Bert and Ernie name in la la la
30:22
starting with? Oh wow the score is tied.
30:27
I'm going to have to usually I put the person who has the lower
30:30
Score first but the score is tied.
30:35
Okay so I flipped a coin starting with iffy.
30:40
You are going to name an L word that either Bert or Ernie sings
30:46
after La La La. In this song There are 11 total
30:52
things that either Bert or Ernie sing after la la la.
30:58
Or mentioning a word that starts with L separate from that.
31:04
So we are going to alternate, if you're going to name one, then
31:08
Joe, then if he then back and forth, if you can't name it or
31:13
you get it wrong. Your opponent will have an extra
31:17
chance and of course, if neither of you can name that name them,
31:21
the game will end. All right, so here we go.
31:30
Lemon. Lemon.
31:32
Good. Joe lightbulb iffy well my Joe,
31:42
I'm very excited to do this. Linoleum.
31:46
There we go. That's the, the, the big one.
31:49
If he Wally Papp lollipop, Joe lump in my oatmeal.
31:59
Correct, iffy lights in the sky lights in the sky.
32:05
How do we do laughter? We did not laughter iffy.
32:13
There are three remaining. All right.
32:27
All right, you're out. Joe anything.
32:31
Yeah listen to me I wasn't counting listen to me.
32:36
This fine I can skip it. There's lace there's Do we do
32:47
licorice? You did not.
32:50
There is one, there's one more. Okay?
32:53
When I get to the end of this, I skip you made it to the end of
32:55
the song, licorice and Lace are the last two, but you skipped
32:59
one. Oh boy.
33:04
Oh, it's from the beginning. It is from The Burning.
33:07
It is one of Burt's. It's Lamppost.
33:11
It is Lamppost is Lamppost. Little Burton is lovely impose.
33:17
Yeah. That's that's what we know.
33:18
And for, all right. Well, hey, I think that's the
33:22
first one of these games that that we've gotten all of them.
33:27
Oh, how exciting for us, much different from again in a
33:30
previous episode, the 90, some odd things, Cookie Monster eats
33:36
that we played. Also when you did every
33:39
character starting with the Be no, no, that was also, a pilot,
33:43
neither of them. Listen, neither of those were
33:45
supposed to be able to answer all of them.
33:49
That was the point of those games.
33:53
See, I'm bringing these up because you The Listener will
33:55
have listened to ya. If you haven't, why aren't you,
33:59
why are you not listening to this in order?
34:01
I'm curious. Yeah, it's like a narrative
34:04
clearly but our serializing hubba-wha.
34:07
Yeah, I will say considered it for the next season like doing
34:14
it as like an elimination bracket where we fun.
34:18
Yeah. But anyway um Joe's been
34:20
listening to all of them because Joe has been quality.
34:22
Rolling them. So that's why Joe knows about
34:25
future episodes where they will Guess the 90s, something things
34:30
that Cookie Monster eats that are not food Rosebud.
34:35
The slide amazing. All right well that was lovely
34:41
contestants and now it's time for our final regular game which
34:45
we are calling. What's the name of that name?
34:56
Obviously but Bert and Ernie have a lot of friends, pets,
35:03
hangers-on and accessories that are important to.
35:08
I'm going to name something related to Bert or Ernie and you
35:13
have to name it buzz in when, you know the name.
35:17
But as always, wait until I finished.
35:19
So our buddies at home can play along.
35:22
And each of these questions, you know what, let's make this
35:25
interesting. Each of these questions will be
35:28
worth two points. Oh, that is interesting.
35:31
I'm interested. Here we go.
35:34
Take. So little.
35:36
Here we go. Question, 1 Bert's pet pigeon.
35:44
Iffy. Bernice Bernice, correct.
35:50
Question to Ernie's baby cousin. Iffy. this is another play with
36:00
me Sesame thing, because he was on that show, lat Ernestine, it
36:04
is Ernestine question 3, the letter themed society that Bert
36:10
is the chairman of Joe by like a second.
36:19
The National Association of w lovers.
36:22
Correct. Ernie is also a member, which I
36:25
feel like we forget a lot, he's there in the crowd in the never
36:29
forget. Is there in the crowd?
36:31
I think Simon soundman is there too.
36:34
Is he a member? Or is he like auditing?
36:36
Actually, I'm pretty sure. Big bird says that he's there
36:39
for Bert. Oh, he's like just supporting
36:42
him. She's just to support didn't Big
36:44
Bird. There was that one?
36:44
We're like big bird is showing Ernestine a family outing top.
36:48
Yeah. It's a, it's like a movie about
36:52
a movie. Like, one of those VHS is the
36:54
best of Ernie and Bert and something.
36:57
Well, that's, that's the, like, the, what you call it, the
36:59
bookend. Yeah, please Big Bird.
37:01
Big Bird is babysitting Ernestine for some reason.
37:05
Sure, why not? What a, what a, what a comedy
37:08
duo because they did. Don't have Frank Oz or Steve
37:13
Whitmire on set. That day is probably the reason
37:18
I think he's she's actually being babysit but I don't
37:21
remember who you're probably not the six-year-old.
37:24
Yeah. It might have been like Gina Big
37:26
Bird's big birds just yeah. Good point.
37:29
Good point. Big bird is six question for the
37:34
name of Ernie's bathtub. Iffy Rosie.
37:43
Correct. If he, why does he call his
37:45
bathtub? Rosie has malaria takes a bath.
37:48
He leaves a ring around the Roses.
37:50
There we go. Question 5 Bert's, favorite
37:54
soda. If he buy a second she feels it
38:02
is. Figgy Fizz question 6, the band
38:07
that helps Ernie dance himself to sleep.
38:14
Iffy. What are they called?
38:25
Of course, I'd forget this one. Joe, Can you steal?
38:32
You will be shocked if he got it, as I was saying, Joe.
38:35
Can you steal if you want to take a clear take of that?
38:38
What are they called? Buggy will be see.
38:41
It is the Boogie Woogie sheep. Can I steal it now?
38:43
Yeah. Joe, what is it?
38:49
One Baba, Yaga Baba. It is.
38:51
Yeah. Dang.
38:52
It's actually over heater. Everyone guess.
38:56
I feel like that's a theme in Hubble wise.
38:58
Well, everyone. Guesses over heater is the right
39:00
answer to a question. In and she has never been the
39:03
right answer to a question question 7, what Bert wants to
39:09
name the puppy that Ernie brings home?
39:16
Iffy Norman. It is Norman this is funding,
39:21
because of Wonder one of the potential questions and most was
39:27
gonna ask you later was the all of the names that I see.
39:35
I don't, I don't know both of them, but I will quickly mention
39:39
norm, and of course, after Norm Styles, head writer of Sesame
39:42
Street at the I'm the name of at least one of Burt's books that
39:51
he reads. Iffy cooking without you cooking
39:59
with oatmeal is one of them. That was of course in the Fresh
40:02
Prince parody. Joe, can you name another?
40:07
I was going to say A Tale of Two oatmeal's.
40:11
Let me check my list. There was never a tale of two
40:17
oatmeal's. So what's he reading?
40:19
When he says it was the best of oatmeal's it was the worst of
40:21
oatmeal, A Tale of Two breakfasts.
40:25
Oh man. Are you getting a hug?
40:26
Not popping Wiki never lies. Yeah.
40:30
Wow, and we are so again, The name of at least one of Burt's
40:39
pet goldfish. Iffy.
40:46
Talbot Talbot is one of them. Joe, that was mentioned in the
40:51
Betty Lou, round of, of all the new information to take in in
40:59
that episode Betty Lou's. Goldfish is of course, named
41:01
Talbert, which is strange that they have two very, similarly
41:07
named goldfish. It's almost like I have no idea
41:10
what the person writing the Betty.
41:11
Lou character page was thinking about can Anyone named any of
41:17
Bert's other goldfish? He has three no Goldie.
41:21
Well I'm Goldie. How should it be?
41:25
Can we retroactively named one of them Goldie so I can get that
41:27
question right, call Norm Styles.
41:31
Anyway, goes a long with Talbot. The other one is named Lyle
41:36
named. After Lyle Talbot.
41:38
Anthony knows who I'm talking about and there's one named
41:42
Melissa. Not sure.
41:43
Why was that was that during the?
41:46
Steve is Ernie days? No, I don't know.
41:48
Think so, that's an old one. Um, the only reason I remember
41:52
this one, they were live goldfish.
41:54
I don't even remember what happens in the sketch, but my
41:56
sister when she was little, she's older than me.
42:00
But when she was little, we had goldfish and she wanted to name
42:05
the Goldfish Talbot because she respected Bert so much.
42:11
Not yeah, understandably. Don't we also that's that's why
42:13
I have a sense that it was pre Steve.
42:16
Because it was something that from from her childhood.
42:20
I mean, the only reason I ask is because Steve, what Myers wife
42:23
is named, Melissa, that was very kind joke.
42:25
But, I mean, he was on the show with the, with the Muppets at
42:29
the time. Most likely.
42:30
Yeah, not only with Sesame Street, but yeah, they'll be a
42:34
weird like, hey, my body from my other job.
42:37
I'm gonna make a reference to his wife in this sketch
42:41
contestants. It is time for you to share your
42:44
knowledge with me. Or I guess you've been doing
42:47
that all along, but it's time for you to share.
42:49
Even more knowledge with me in the anything in the world prize
42:54
game, you two are now able to ask me anything in the world or
42:59
at least anything in the world of Ernie and Bert.
43:03
If you stumped me, you will earn 10 points.
43:07
Let's start with Joe. Joe, do you have a question for
43:12
me? Sure.
43:14
Do I got that? I got a couple that I'm too.
43:16
In between, but I'm gonna guess that one of these seems more
43:21
likely to be your your final question.
43:23
I'll rewrite a final question if I need to not.
43:27
So I'm gonna go with this one. Okay.
43:28
So as you may or may not know in 1982, there was a treatment
43:33
written for something called Sesame Street the movie, which
43:37
was an unmade feature film. That would have seen Big Bird
43:39
elected as president of the United States and all the Sesame
43:42
Street characters would have been filling out his cabinet in
43:45
this. Ideal scenario of American of
43:47
the American government system. What would Bert?
43:50
And Ernie's positions have been? I can't believe that.
43:53
I don't know this, I because I've read everything, if you
43:58
haven't read this article on Muppet Wiki and I think we wrote
44:01
about it on tough pigs. At one point, we probably have
44:04
mentioned it, but I've been planning on on us doing
44:06
something a little bit larger about this treatment because
44:09
it's fascinating. Yeah, no, it's amazing.
44:12
I mean like Follow That Bird is great but this would have been
44:17
Weirder. That's for sure.
44:20
So um, I definitely read though the Muppet Wiki article on this,
44:25
but I do not remember either of their positions.
44:28
So I will say that journey is the Secretary of bath time and
44:37
Bert is the Secretary of breakfast.
44:42
Great guesses. And I'm actually a little
44:44
surprised that that they didn't go that direction to give them
44:48
all like funny funny you know fake secretary.
44:52
It's actually like real positions, right?
44:54
Oh for sure. Yeah okay yeah like Bert Bert is
44:57
the Secretary of State and Ernie is Secretary of Defense.
45:01
So Ernie gets to Bert is the third most powerful person in
45:07
the United States government effectively and yep.
45:10
And Ernie gets to declare war on other nations.
45:15
That's right. And then actually like that.
45:17
I mean definitely Ernie having you know access to the button
45:21
you know is kind of kind of appropriate but also Burt I can
45:26
picture Berta Secretary of State just like trying so hard to keep
45:30
everything together. He's the only one who knows how
45:32
to Country should be run. Bird is the most serious of all
45:35
of them? Exactly.
45:37
And this is not a burden or any question, but I had forgotten
45:39
this until I read the Wikipedia are the Muppet Wiki article.
45:43
Do you remember who vice president under Big Bird?
45:45
Would have been who it was a comedian?
45:47
Right? It wasn't, it was not a comedian
45:49
but it was a celebrity. No, it was.
45:52
It was Lena Horne as herself. Not as a character like the real
45:57
Lena has the musician Lena Horne.
46:00
Correct would have been would have been vice president, great
46:03
amazing. What a thing to exhibit what a
46:05
sentence to say in this world because you think it would be
46:10
Snuffy? Right now.
46:12
All right. So Joe you've earned yourself
46:15
ten points and everybody at home.
46:17
You've earned yourself a trip to Muppet Wiki to look up Sesame
46:21
Street, the movie and any executive working on the new
46:27
Sesame Street movie. If you like to throw out
46:30
everything, you've written and start from scratch with the
46:34
Sesame Street, the movie Pitch from the 1980s, I give you
46:40
permission. If you were waiting for us you
46:44
got it. If you do you have a question
46:47
for me? I do.
46:50
Funny story, actually you left me to my own devices for about a
46:55
year. That's true.
46:56
Like 12. You said that the dog, the dog
47:05
at least was brought up. But what what other ones?
47:09
Would you excuse me? Did I ask any of the other ones
47:11
that you had written down or? No, don't believe some.
47:15
Okay. Well we do have a couple of I do
47:19
have a couple of like very round of scary.
47:23
You're allowed to listen. You cannot I blend.
47:27
Yeah. But the thing is, I want I kind
47:30
of want to go with something a bit more standard but more.
47:34
Okay. The cific to - yes, please to be
47:38
fair I just asked a question about a movie that doesn't
47:41
exist. So I think you can you can ask
47:44
anything that you want to ask the important.
47:47
Question Burt would Thrill. So, this four songs, this
47:53
there's four songs, we're learning is specifically upset.
47:59
It's he's sad about Bert. Basically, what are the four
48:04
songs and what is this specified reason that he is sad?
48:09
Not snoring? Oh, for songs where Ernie is
48:18
upset about Bert I can't. think of any of them, there's there's
48:28
one because there's at least one sketch where like there's one
48:34
sketch where Ernie is just like sort of cycling through all the
48:37
different emotions that he feels because like Bert is not there
48:42
but he doesn't sing a song in that one and I know when it's
48:48
not necessarily obsesed just complete sort of like, said
48:52
missing him or it happens a lot. Yeah, I can't think of any of
48:58
these songs. Um, I really, there's one that I
49:02
feel like is really hungry, Joe Joe, why don't you, you're not
49:06
going to earn polar means? But no, no, of course not.
49:09
I mean, the one that comes to mind is best friend blues that
49:11
he sings with Snuffy. Because they're both the both of
49:15
them. Their best friends are not
49:16
around is that was called best friend Blues.
49:19
Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is one of the and I
49:22
think that there's one and I don't know what it is, where
49:26
Ernie is singing at night because Bert is is like like
49:31
sleeping at someone else's house or something like that or
49:33
visiting a family member. But I'm just, I have like the
49:36
image in my head, but not the song.
49:38
Yeah, I can't name any of them. Best friend.
49:41
Blues is okay, I can name one. He's upset that he has to hang
49:46
out with the Snuffleupagus instead of Bert.
49:49
That's how I'm framing it he's like I can't believe I have to
49:52
hang out with this guy. Are you counting like somebody
49:55
come and play? There's that sad version of
49:57
somebody. Come and play that were Ernie's
49:58
on the swing set. It did not include that in my
50:02
list now because it's not specifically.
50:04
Yeah that's true. I mean we can assume but uh that
50:08
would be making an assumption. Yeah.
50:10
If he tell me, what are the what are the other ones you were
50:12
looking for? Well, the First one I have here
50:15
is when Bert's not here. Now that's all.
50:17
Oh yeah. Which is the worse for you to
50:19
get ice for sure. Fun.
50:21
I was surprised when you said best friend Blues that's, that's
50:24
literally the title of the song. Yes, maybe there's, there's 900
50:29
songs. So hard to remember them all.
50:30
Yeah, these are the ones. I remember course, this is my
50:34
specific. This is something you care a lot
50:37
about. The reason that he's gone in
50:39
that song is because he went to Pigeon festival with rings.
50:45
For and then just best friend Blues, but you mentioned.
50:50
It is birch felt sick and had to go home while they were flying
50:55
kite. So you said because birds at
50:57
home sick, okay? Because he's allergic to kites,
51:00
of course, there's don't go away without you which was sort of a
51:07
trick because Bert's not actually gone.
51:09
He's just upset and he's just upset because he Thanks.
51:14
Bert is probably going on a very long trip.
51:16
I don't know this that song. I, you know, either, I'm not
51:21
convinced. I've heard it.
51:22
No, I mean, like, I believe you like I'm not, it's just, I've
51:28
wanted to make I wanted to end the song so many times the
51:35
entire songs. Basically Ernie sees, birds,
51:39
going to get his suitcase fixed preparing, a suitcase to get
51:42
fixed. And he assumes that he's going
51:45
on a very long trip. And she goes into a whole song,
51:48
but he doesn't want him to go without him because he'll miss
51:51
him, too much. Yeah, it's from the 1978 album.
51:55
Fair is fair fair? Yeah, which I've definitely,
51:59
I've About this album on Twitter because weirdly enough on the
52:05
cover is Oscar Big Bird little bird Bert Ernie Prairie Dawn and
52:10
fat blue and I was like they're all hanging out with fat blue
52:14
and they didn't tell Grover. Well, I thought you might have
52:18
known this one because okay. So remember you posting and then
52:23
the last one is the last one isn't really listed anywhere as
52:29
a Cific song, but it is a song Play with Me session called if
52:36
Bert were here. But he's see where he's sad
52:41
because Burt can't hang out with him and audience.
52:47
Because he's too busy and so he goes into a whole song where he
52:51
has the audience and him pretend to be basically like to do
52:57
things the way Burton do him. I'm gonna ask you a question.
53:01
If e inspired by me, looking up these songs on Muppet Wiki, as
53:06
you were reading them off which jazz pianist or pianist covered
53:13
when Bert's not here for a One album a rare find Forgotten gems
53:20
from the American popular song book.
53:23
See, I know this, but again, that Justin something, it is, it
53:28
is Justin Justin, Justin tapered, Justin Hayford.
53:34
Apparently he considers Joe raposo 's when Bert's, not here
53:38
to be a forgotten gem from the American Songbook, it's so
53:45
sweet. That makes the The song so slow
53:48
and so sad. It is my favorite.
53:51
Yeah. If I had a feeling that if
53:53
anyone knew it, it was you. Um, all right.
53:57
Well let me tell you something. This is an appropriate for a
54:02
Bert and Ernie round. This is possibly the closest
54:06
round of hubba-wha we have ever had.
54:11
Um, our scores are currently Joe has Is 52 points, and iffy has
54:21
53 points. So obvious, if he's up by
54:27
literally one, which means that this literally comes down to
54:32
this last round, like it is anybody's game.
54:37
And that last round is, of course, say the word in this
54:41
game, you can wager any amount of points.
54:45
The winner will get those points.
54:46
Points and the loser will lose those points, and you will get
54:49
to hear the question before you before you wager.
54:53
So let's check the scores. A wait, we did that already.
54:57
I'm reading my script them again, I know you will check out
54:59
my checks. All right, so we found this
55:08
point just on the ground that it fell off the table.
55:11
Alright, so here's the question. As we all know, Jim Henson,
55:19
unfortunately left us far too soon in 1990.
55:23
What was the final song? Jim Henson performed as Ernie
55:30
before the role was passed to Steve Whitmire, right?
55:34
So you can bet up to 53 points. The name of the last song that
55:43
Jim Henson ever recorded as Ernie.
55:47
Joe, you know how this works. Same deal on the chat, send it
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just to talk pigs. You've done this before and
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you're also want to computer. So it's a little easier
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thinking. Yeah, yeah.
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Give me a second to thank care because I'm not confident.
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I didn't know this one until I read it on Muppet Wiki.
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Well, that's a good sign. Could you say the question
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again, please? Yes.
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So we are looking for the final song.
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Jim Henson performed as Ernie before the role went to Steve
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Whitmire. Your final segment specifically
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a song. Okay I'm not sure if there's a
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different answer if it's segment I wouldn't know.
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I'm yeah I mean I know I know that this is listed on Muppet
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Wiki as the final the final Jim Henson Ernie song there weren't
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too many Steve Whitmire Ernie songs so it's really one of the
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final learning songs Feel like a new this at some point.
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If you ask me those two years ago, I definitely didn't know
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anybody. I'm sorry.
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I know you were supposed to be on last year so maybe maybe I I
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should have I'm suddenly forgetting every single song.
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So I don't even know. I think is, all right, we'll
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make a guess, or you can just bet zero points and make no
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guess boy-oh. Um, I'm gonna have to guess 0
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because I can't even come up and so so if he has that zero points
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and no song, and Joe has also been zero points, but Joe has
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listed a song. Joe, what song did you list?
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Well, I listed things that I remember specifically, because
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this is not a thing that I remember.
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It feels like that would be a really like, sweet and touching,
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Saying like oh we're reflecting on everything.
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He's things that I remember with Marisol.
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Oh sure is, yeah. Oh, I don't, I don't know the
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real inside, like, we want that to be true because it's like,
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oh, they're reflecting on all of the good times that they had,
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but that's not the case. What was it?
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Something? Where like, he's wistfully,
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looking out the window. Nope.
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Because I feel like, that's okay.
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That's like what we, what we want it to be again because
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like, you You but the, I mean, the whole thing is it's not like
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they knew this was going to happen, you know, that's no,
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yeah, whole tragedy of Henson's passing.
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So the answer is Ernie was, of course, sitting in the park and
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singing. Don't throw that trash on the
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ground. Never in a million years, would
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I have known the answer to that question?
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I am not confident. I know that song, I mean, I bet
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it's on YouTube. If the official Sesame page,
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hasn't uploaded, it Shane probably has, but I don't think
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I do. It is the final Jim Henson
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Journey song. So since neither of you got it,
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right? Neither of you get points.
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But since both of you bet zero points, neither of you earn
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points, which does mean that our winner and today's toughest Pig
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by one, not even one and one make two but one point Is iffy.
59:31
So congratulations. If you win your choice of Bert's
59:36
blanket, which I actually can't get you because Bert has it or
59:42
this magnet I made of Bert's brother, Circa the 2000s.
59:49
So he's got his thick glasses and beard.
59:54
So if he you are entitled to either of these fabulous prizes
59:59
except I can't get Give a blanket.
1:00:01
So your choice of zero prizes or one prize.
1:00:05
Take the blanket. That's a tough one, but I gotta
1:00:12
go step in Brittany, says blanket.
1:00:15
Okay, okay, so I will I will make sure that that that gets to
1:00:19
you somehow and that brings us to the end of another one so
1:00:25
guests. Where can people find you if you
1:00:27
wish to be found, let's start with Joe.
1:00:30
Yeah, well, you can find me on topics.com and all of the tough,
1:00:34
big social media, things like Facebook and Twitter and
1:00:38
Instagram and Tick. Tock.
1:00:42
We have a tick tock. We've posted one video.
1:00:44
Well, we're working. Yeah.
1:00:45
I know you keep trying to like recruit one of us to run The
1:00:49
Tick-Tock and we keep being like none of us understand this.
1:00:52
We're all none of us are young enough to know how to take.
1:00:55
No, we are all so very very old. Is he if you want to run the
1:00:59
tough exterior? Q, let me know.
1:01:05
If anyone listening to this podcast wants to run the topics
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Tick-Tock. You, you reach out to me.
1:01:10
You're opening up a can of worms there, but we'll see.
1:01:13
Oh, am I ever? Well, yeah, so I'm on tough pigs
1:01:16
everywhere. If you want to follow me
1:01:17
personally, I'm a Twitter at Johannes.
1:01:20
I'm on Instagram at tough pigs, Joe, but I never post their, I
1:01:26
only post on tough pigs. Because that's where, that's
1:01:30
where my interesting thoughts. Go to die.
1:01:33
You post on tough pigs. A locked up.
1:01:34
So that Sure do. Yes yes.
1:01:37
And and if he, where can people find you, if they want to see
1:01:41
some of your Sesame stuff and other stuff once every year, I
1:01:50
will do something else. Occasionally I'm on Twitter.
1:01:56
I'm on Twitter at Burton e which is bear thing.
1:02:01
That wears hats TM. IE yeah and II can't I can't
1:02:07
recommend if these stuff enough and you know.
1:02:10
Same, yep. You you surprised me a couple
1:02:14
weeks a couple weeks ago with a birthday picture of a prairie
1:02:18
Dawn. So you know I'm very grateful.
1:02:23
We can I can I just double down on The fact that everyone should
1:02:27
follow, if he on social media because you do, you're
1:02:31
embarrassed, I'm sorry. Well, I have to say it because
1:02:34
your art is phenomenal. And it's very heartfelt, you
1:02:38
have a lot of talent. And I don't think anyone draws,
1:02:42
Bert and Ernie specifically, Bert and Ernie, as well as you
1:02:45
two and I'm including like, actual Sesame Street artists in
1:02:50
in that. So, if you want to see a whole
1:02:53
bunch of really great Sesame, Street illustrations and
1:02:55
painting, Sighs. I don't even know what medium
1:02:56
you use but they're phenomenal. Like everyone, everyone go
1:02:59
follow bear. Its knee.
1:03:01
Yeah, it's hard to say but easy to find it is an awesome.
1:03:06
Believe me, believe me. I know from awful usernames bear
1:03:11
to me. That's again, be e AR T ni e and
1:03:16
of course, as Joe mentioned, you can find tough pigs at tough
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or on patreon. If Want to want to support us,
1:03:28
you know, we got to feed the pigeons around here.
1:03:33
We also do have tough pigs t-shirts, which includes
1:03:38
hubba-wha t-shirt and, hey, I'm recording these out of order.
1:03:41
So, this is the only episode that I'll mention that I
1:03:45
recently designed Monster at the End of This Book themed t-shirt
1:03:49
that you can get as well. It's the only episode I'll
1:03:52
mention it because I recorded all of these before.
1:03:54
I drew that t-shirt. Shirt.
1:03:57
And people love that thing. It started selling immediate.
1:04:00
Oh, that's great. It's good.
1:04:02
I'm yeah, I'm glad I'm yeah, it's a great design.
1:04:05
Yes. And where can people find those
1:04:07
T-shirt? Oh, that's right on the tough
1:04:08
big store, Auntie public. But you can get there just from
1:04:12
the tough pigs website. Is probably the easiest way to
1:04:15
get there. That's true.
1:04:17
And of course, I'd like to thank some people for helping out.
1:04:20
I'd like to thank both of our guests for being for being here
1:04:24
with us. I'd like, Thanks Stacy Rosen for
1:04:27
writing the theme music for the show.
1:04:30
I'd like to thank Richard Gomez for doing some new host artwork
1:04:35
for the show. I'd like to thank myself because
1:04:39
it's important to be grateful for yourself.
1:04:42
And I you know, wrote and edited and all that stuff, this show
1:04:48
and I'd also like to thank Johannes.
1:04:51
The tough pigs Muppet fan podcast executive producer.
1:04:55
For executive producing. This fan podcast, you get to
1:04:59
things. Yeah, yeah, I didn't win the
1:05:01
game but I got the two things. Yeah, there you go.
1:05:03
So that's the real reward. You also get to host this
1:05:07
podcast on your website. So that's a prize to.
1:05:12
That is true. And I'd like to thank everybody
1:05:15
on Sesame Street for telling Ernie, what time it is when he
1:05:18
sings opera out the window, And, of course, I'd like to thank all
1:05:22
of you at home for being with us, on hubba-wha the Muppet quiz
1:05:26
show. And as always, I'm messy, but
1:05:30
you don't mind it because that's what friends are for.
1:05:34
Thanks everybody. Wow, these boring stories are
1:05:44
really exciting.