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Hubba-Wha?! Episode #7 - The Great Gonzo · Muppet Fan Podcasts with ToughPigs.com

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Welcome to hop Allah, a muppet quiz show brought to you by
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tough pigs.com. It's America's new favorite game
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show where Muppet fans Muppet Moles and everyone in between
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competes for fabulous prizes, and to see who's this week's
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toughest Pig. I'm your host, Evan G of tough
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pigs.com. Today on hubba-wha our
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contestants will be testing their Muppet ational metal with
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a series of questions, themed around one of our favorite
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characters. Gonzo and also probably some
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questions about Camila for good measure as you all know.
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Muppets Haunted Mansion dropped pretty recently, which
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absolutely reminded me just how good Gonzo is, he's, he's better
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than good. He's I'm sure there's some kind
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of word I could use. Um, he's really good.
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That's that's what we'll say. As always these questions were
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written by me with help from that amazing Muppet resource
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Muppet Wiki, speaking of Muppet Wiki.
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Let's agree to play fair today. Please don't.
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Look at Muppet Wiki or any other resource while we're playing.
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We're in it for the art, not the prizes.
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So let's blow that trumpet. Bang, that Gung and get things
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started in. Our first round, will meet our
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contestants. It's around that we like to call
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to tell a face contestants. You are going to buzz in to
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answer three questions. Ins about yourself.
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Whoever buzzes in first will get introduced first ready?
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Go All right, Megan. So Meghan, what is your name?
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My name is Megan Barbeau. Alright that's 10 points right
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there. Nicely done.
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Great Megan. What's your history with the
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Muppets? Um, well, I've always been a fan
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of the Muppets and then just like, as much as anyone else.
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And, you know, I watched the movies growing up, and my dad
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recorded, a couple specials, like a muppet celebrate, 30
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years and stuff like that. So I would watch those a lot
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too. And then it was when I was in
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high school, it was about 2010 at my dad, got me, the DVDs for
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the Muppet Show and I like, you know, do right into it and
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binged it and loved it. And so then I you know, found
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Tough pigs and online fan community.
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And just been, you know, around ever since then, all right?
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And Megan. Who is your favorite Muppet
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today? Today today is gonzo.
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Oh today's comes ooo. Hey that's a that's a really
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appropriate choice and you know Megan.
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I do just want to shout out, you wrote a great article about
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Gonzo. Thank you.
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The other day for tough pigs were You investigated what
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exactly is Gonzo's knows how does it work?
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Because it might have bones in it and that was a terrifying
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thing to realize. Sorry I came to that.
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Realization that sort of sparked that article.
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So I sort of went down that thought train and put one with
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that. It's definitely worth checking
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out and we'll link it in the Show notes.
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So you've earned yourself 20 points nicely done and let's go
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to our other contestant Richard. Richard, Hudson.
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Hi Richard, what's your name? I'm sure.
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Michael Gomez. That is my name.
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All right, nicely done, 10 points.
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Richard, what's your history with the Muppets?
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I grew up on Sesame Street, like an initially, I had my full
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story ever was a little big but flesh and then my mom introduced
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me to shows like triangle Rock. And I watch the Muppet movie
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with my dad at some point in time and I just grew really
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attached with characters and and kind of the same growth of I
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have all these little DVDs that I kept on.
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Jimmy man, quash all the movies and I just really grew to love
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them. And, you know, I I do want to
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shout out, you do some fabulous Muppet art, these days your
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stuff that you post on, you know, Twitter and Instagram and
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stuff is, is really wonderful. So I, you know, wanted to shout
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that out as well. And Richard.
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Who's your favorite Muppet today?
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I am not really sure. If I think it's Lou Zealand, New
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Zealand, dude. Losing one's a great choice.
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Voice and an excellent choice. There, today's questions are not
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about Lucille. In today's questions are about
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Gonzo possibly the only person weirder than blue Zealand and in
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our first well I guess in our second round, we're going to be
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talking about some weird stuff from The Muppet Show to today.
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Gonzo has been delighting and disgusting audiences with some
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of the weirdest stunts. Performance art pieces
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imaginable in this round, which I call the remembering game.
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Your job is to finish my description of a Gonzo stunt
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from a movie or TV show for instance, if I said that we were
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talking about the Muppets 2015 sitcom and I said, Gonzo shoots
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himself out of a cannon and lands in a tub of You would say,
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piggy water. Okay, so you're finishing the
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stunt, I'm going to start describing it and you finish it.
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Each of these, right? Answers is worth one point buzz
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in when, you know the answer but please, wait, until I'm done
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with the question. So our friends at home can play
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along. Are you ready, question 1?
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on The Muppet Show, Gonzo ate a tire to the tune of Megan.
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I do the Bumblebee Flight of the Bumblebee.
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Correct? Question 2 on The Muppet Show,
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Gonzo hit a rock while yelling. Megan part repeatedly.
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And that's how, you know, it was Art question, 3 in Muppets Most
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Wanted, Gonzo performed the running of the bulls but it was
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Richard. That inside.
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Yeah, indoors indoors. Yeah.
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Okay, I will absolutely give you a point for inside question for
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in The Muppets, Take Manhattan Gonzo's chickens did their
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impression of Tony Bennett singing.
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The William Tell Overture while Gonzo did a death-defying leap
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from the loop de loop ramp intending to spin and hurdle.
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His body through a flaming circle of Doom, Ultimately
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Landing comfortably in. He doesn't succeed in landing in
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this but he's trying to I literally knew like every part
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of that I want to say I intend to intentionally wrote it
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because I was like this is the one people are going to know
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otherwise. It's going to be too obvious.
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Oh I can't remember the correct. Answer is an imitation leather.
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Easy chair earlier today a man I forgot about the again.
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He doesn't land in it so it's the hardest part, two of them.
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You see it briefly at the beginning but obviously not the
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end question. Five on The Muppet Show Gonzo
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hypnotized himself so he could Megan Hold a 5,000 pound Anvil
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or something over his head. Correct.
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And you actually have the weight, correct.
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I wasn't going to do this acetate that, but it was 5,000
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pounds, 5000. Yeah, question 6 on The Muppet
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Show Gonzo recited the Soliloquy from Merchant of Venice while.
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Megan hanging from a boa constrictor by his nose.
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It's actually a feather boa. Not a boa constrictor, but I
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will again. Focus on.
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Sorry, that's what I meant. I will give you, I will give you
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credit. Certainly closer now.
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Make a great stunt. Oh yeah, that's actually harder.
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Yeah, the living animal. Question 7 on The Muppet Show.
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Gonzo stood on a hammock and balanced a piano while.
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Megan reciting, the seven times tables poorly.
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It is the seven times table. He recites the seven times
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table. Question 8 on The Muppet Show,
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Gonzo grew a tomato. Plant to the tune of Remember
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that one? Yeah, I yeah I lost.
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So I forget what episode that was.
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I am going to check. Just out of character.
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Charlie Bergin. Episode And that it's not.
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And I don't think it's Edgar Bergen.
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Hold on, I'm so bad at remembering like what episode
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everything, it's Connie, it's Connie Stevens, the Connie
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Stevens, episode from season, 1 episode 10 to actually and Gonzo
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grows that tomato. Plant to the tune of the 1812
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Overture. Hmm, of course.
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Naturally he loves these overtures.
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What can I say? Yeah.
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And these next two are the hardest to because they're about
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a show that isn't on Disney plus question. 99 question, 9 on
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Muppets tonight Gonzo did an inverted suborbital rocket?
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Powered anti-gravity, bungee jump with the help of special
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guest star. Again, I'm just gonna guess, I
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don't remember this. I'm just gonna guess that.
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It's the Tony Bennett episode and it's these things fly me to
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the moon or something. And he gets shot into space or
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something. That would make more sense than
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the right answers, but it is not the right answer.
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Richard, do you have a guess? No, I don't have.
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Yeah, I don't have any, I don't have a gas, it's Garth Brooks.
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If you remember the whole plot of the Garth Brooks episode is
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that Garth Brooks wants to do anything except sing a
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country-western song. So this is one thing he would
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rather do than I sing a country-western song.
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And lastly question. 10 on Muppets tonight, Gonzo got
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hammered into a railroad tie. Bye.
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Megan. This is driving me crazy.
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Was it like American Ninja Warriors or something like that?
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Oh, you're so close. Yeah, something like that.
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I just can't remember. I just read it today.
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Thank Richard. Was it straight up ninjas?
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Then? No, no, it was American
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Gladiators, which was a competition show from around the
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same time. Um, specifically for anyone
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listening who's an American Gladiator fan, it was the two
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female American Gladiators ice and zap.
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I wasn't going to mandate that as an answer, but I'm sure
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there's someone listening. Who knew that, you know, I don't
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know, probably i-i've watched mother tonight somewhat
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illegally, but I didn't go back and we will be rushed them
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afterwards. So I have a clue.
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It's a, yeah, you know, I kind of wished isn't my, I kind of
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wish Disney would put it up on Disney.
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Plus, there's there's definitely some moments of it that are
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good. There's a lot of moments of it.
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That are very bad. I think overall I feel like I'm
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in the minority but minority, but I think that overall, it
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worked pretty well for. I feel like they could have
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liked it if they had gotten more time.
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Yeah. With the 2015 series, if they
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had more time to work it out a little bit I felt like Muppets
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tonight was a nice like update on the variety show.
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I 90s still I absolutely I mean I I love Muppets tonight part of
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that is nostalgia. Because I was like six when it
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was on and I definitely watched it all the time, then whenever
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it was, you know, on on reruns or whatever but um, it's yeah, I
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don't know if they should put it up there.
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They should let more people decide like it good or bad.
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I really like but it's correction.
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They were going with like that Johnny Fiamma comes home like
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plot Joe and episodes. Yes.
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Cool like that. Well, that's kind of where 2015
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wound up. To anyway.
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Yeah, so nice work though on remembering at least the Muppet
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Show stunts and all of that thinking about Gonzo.
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Stunts has me wondering, what is a Gonzo?
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And no, I'm not talking about the Muppet Babies book that has
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that title. I'm talking about this round of
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our show, which we're calling. Well, what's so Gonza in this
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round? I'll be asking questions about
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what we know about Gonzo's ever-changing backstory as
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before you learn one point for each.
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Correct answer. And of course, just wait to buzz
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in until after I finish the question.
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So our friends at home can play along, are you ready to try to
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make sense of this guy? I'll try all right, many have
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tried. You have.
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Succeeded. Question 1 on The Muppet Show,
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John Cleese describes Gonzo as the ugly.
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Disgusting one who Megan catches cannonballs catches cannonballs.
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Absolutely. Question 2 in The Muppet Movie,
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Kermit tells his conscience that Gonzo looks a little like this
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animal. Megan a turkey but not much a
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turkey. But not much question, 3 in
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Muppets from space, Gonzo tells Noah to write him down.
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As this, the opening dream sequence, we're gone zone is
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imagining Megan. I think he says, put me down as
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though whatever he does. He says, whatever question.
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For speaking of, Muppets from space.
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The leader of Gonzo's alien race is called this.
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Megan. I'm just gonna guess.
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I don't know if this is correct but I know that they use this
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somewhere. So if it's not here, then maybe
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use it somewhere else. Is it AA snog?
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He's not. AA.
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Snog. They've used a snog elsewhere.
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It's not us. Not Richard I was not gonna
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enhance now, right us. I I think so.
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Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
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I just ramble his voice. I think he's performed by Bill
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Beretta but I don't remember anything else about him.
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She's got like she's actually Jerry Nelson that makes sense
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and I'll sorry it's okay. He's called The Uber Gonzo.
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Question 5, the Gonzo puppet was originally conceived as this
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Muppet species. Megan a fractal, a fraggle.
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Absolutely. You know, if you read the tough
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pigs piece on the history of Mo frackle, people know that the
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the defining characteristic of a frackle is that they have a fur,
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they have fur everywhere except on their nose and mouth and
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that's, that's the way Gonzo is. Yeah.
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I mean when you like if you watch it's like The Great Santa
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Claus which you can, you know, There's I feel like the freckles
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in The Muppet Show had more of a uniform look but like if you
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watch The Great Santa Claus which there is a lot more
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variety in their appearance so he does fit in a little more.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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They're just kind of vaguely Jim.
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Henson e creature was like fog and say God also technically
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Freckles but true right? Exactly.
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And I'm going to question 6. According to a conversation
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Gonzo has with George Burns. When did Gonzo's mother died,
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Richard. Before he was born before he was
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born, absolutely. Question 7.
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In Muppets from space, we learn that Gonzo's.
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Whole alien species has long noses, but no nostrils according
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to Rizzo, how Descanso smell. Megan exactly.
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He smells terrible. Question 8 in we're doing a
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sequel. Gonzo refers to himself as this.
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Richard. I want to say a handsome,
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long-nosed thing. Oh Richard Richard, I'm gonna
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give you a clue, you've got everything right?
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Except it's a handsome long-nosed and then there's a
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color. Thing blue thing?
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Yeah, okay. It's actually potable, right?
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It's actually purple. Which is weird because Gonzo
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recent perfect Berry Blue Richard.
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I'm gonna give it to you anyway. I'm gonna give it to you.
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No, no. The certainly You could argue
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some of the older ones were a little more purple but the new
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Builds are not not purple. all right, he's got like blue
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pantyhose on its nose now, too, but that's really a question 9
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in a famous panel from Roger languages Muppet Show comic,
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Gonzo tells scooter that he's this Richard.
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And artists and artists absolutely spider that because
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that's one of them loved it. But had and I read it front
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cover. Like so many times scooter is
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desperate to find out what Gonzo is and Gonzo tells him.
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Oh, scooter! I thought you knew.
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I'm an artist and question 10. In a Superman parody on Muppet
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Babies, Gonzo imagined that he was a weirdo from another
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planet, his parents whose names were sore elbow.
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And we're de sent him to Earth from their Planet because their
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planet was Megan. I run this also earlier today.
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I think it was that the planet was becoming too normal.
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Be coming to normal. Absolutely.
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Yeah, this is one that I got straight from Muppet Wiki
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because I didn't remember anything about I've seen a lot
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of Muppet Babies, but I didn't remember when I was a kid.
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I watched a lot as a kid. I just thought that that was
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such a funny potential back story that I had to include it.
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All right? Speaking of what were speaking
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of speaking of This game. Let's take a look at, let's take
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a look at the scores right now. Megan.
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You have 31 points and Richard you have 24 points.
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There's absolutely still a chance.
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It's still anyone's game and we are moving into our next round.
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The head-to-head round. We call be the time.
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In this round, the rules are a little different.
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I'm going to ask a question with many correct.
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Answers by my count, there are 20 correct answers to this
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question. Starting with Richard, each of
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you is going to give an answer to my question, so we're going
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to start with Richard Richard. You're going to give an answer,
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then we're going to jump to Megan.
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Megan, you're going to give an answer.
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Then we're going to jump back to richer, right?
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If you get the question wrong. On where you take too long to
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answer, then your opponent can steal if neither player can
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answer the round ends. So here's how this round is
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going to work. Gonzo is one of the only Muppets
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who hasn't been recast since the Muppet Show that's because his
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performer. The amazing Dave goals is still
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around and working with the Muppet gang but unlike Jim
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Henson or Frank Oz or Jerry, Nelson, Dave goals, never had as
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many characters to perform. In fact, Dave, barely performed
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on Sesame Street sticking. Mainly to The Muppet Show,
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extended family, and Fraggle Rock.
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Starting with Richard, you will each take turns naming a
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recurring named Muppet character performed by Dave goals from
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either, the now, disney-owned, Muppets or from Fraggle Rock.
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So we're including the Muppet Show.
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The Jim Henson our Muppets tonight The Muppets 2015 sitcom
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and Fraggle Rock. We're including any characters
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that he now plays. But Not originate as well,
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because there is at least one of those.
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All right. So we are looking for characters
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from those either the, the disney-owned Muppet Bunch, you
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know, Kermit Fozzie and their friends or from Fraggle.
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Rock that are named recurring characters, performed by Dave
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goals and we're starting with Richard.
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Richard name a character. Oh, World's oldest fraggle.
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The world's oldest fraggle. I like that.
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You're starting with a deep cut there.
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Yeah, Megan. Well that also has go with a
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deep cut and also large, Marvin large, Marvin Richard, keep it
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going with fraggles Uncle traveling, Matt, absolutely
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Uncle traveling, Matt Megan, boober Fraggle, Correct, boober
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fraggle, Richard bodog. The gentle.
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Beauregard. The janitor.
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Absolutely Megan chip chip. Absolutely.
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Unfortunately, Richard digit digit.
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Absolutely Megan, build the bubble guy Bill, the bubble.
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God is on my list. I like the whole the bubble guy,
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you know. Bubbles come out of his head.
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I know. Yeah, Richard and oh sorry quick
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question. Ask me you're calling like More
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than one of parents. Yeah.
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Okay. Just making sure sorry gonna go
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find some. How do you do Bunsen?
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Absolutely. That's probably the easiest
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other answer. Yeah.
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Well Gonzo I'm going to ask you to just say another one, okay?
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Technically isn't on my list, but it's not wrong.
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Okay? My mind is going blank, too.
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I feel like he's one of the harder ones to come up with
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care. You guys, you guys are
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forgetting some. Some major characters though II
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we're not counting Emma daughter and stuff, right?
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Yeah right. Okay.
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All right, gonna have to pass back to Richard soon.
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Yeah. Okay Richard Can you steal?
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This is a 50-50. Um I'm not sure.
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Which one is gunge Richard. Unfortunately he's not let's go.
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But that was your steel. That was your steel.
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So technically now it's your regular turn.
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Do you have another guest? Hey, hey Philo.
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Yes, he absolutely was Philo Megan.
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Well, that made me think of one but I also don't know which one
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it is. oh, now Andy. Okay incorrect.
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I'm going to bounce back to Richard.
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I'm going to go Waldo. That is correct.
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He didn't originally play Waldorf but he does now Megan.
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Maybe you want to try? Try something else.
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Randy pigs Randy Pig. Richard.
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I was holding on to that civil servant character but then I
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remembered they don't appear more than once.
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Unfortunately, man on man. And that dummy doesn't appear
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more than once, evil, man. I think I'm blanking a little
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bit. All right.
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Megan you have anything else? Otherwise we're going to end
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this round. I don't think so.
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Okay. So you guys named a lot and
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again some deep Cuts with like large, Marvin and world's oldest
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fraggle, I love large Marvin by my count on my list.
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There are 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Seven and a half that you must
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and some of them you are going to be okay with and some of them
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you're going to be a little frustrated that you missed.
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So first of all wrench doozer was one of the main doozer
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characters, then the one that counts as a half, I would have
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accepted but I also could see if you don't consider sidebottom
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who sometimes appear separately from boober.
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And was also performed by Dave goals, sidebottom, being boobers
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fun. Alter Ego Richard the
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ventriloquist dummy did appear in several episodes of Muppets
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tonight, but he has a name Gary Kalinga.
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Yeah, I was he's into, isn't he? And yes, his name is Gary
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co-anchor. Then also on Muppets tonight.
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And this was one that I did not realize, I did not remember.
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And that's me saying that, and I know so much Muppet trivia that
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I decided to host a muppet trivia show.
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Four dozen eggs on The Muppets tonight.
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Recurring sketch EIEIO, are he played dr.
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Payne, who was a purple monster. Who was next to Fozzie,
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sometimes I Don't know and I can't blame you for not getting
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that counts. I guess.
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He also going back to the Muppet Show was Lubbock Lou from The
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Jug Band? Yes.
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Brewster the old man appeared in the pilot and would go on to
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appear a couple times. Is that orange Muppet here?
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Ya go. The guru.
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Exactly. Ma P JP grossest dog.
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Real be was, was he consistently Muffy?
31:36
Oh, that's the only credited Muffy.
31:39
I could find on Muppet Wiki really.
31:42
I need again, I can't blame you for not naming it.
31:45
There is zero chance. I would have well and you know
31:48
there's might be another Rufus and food too so it's like yeah.
31:53
And the let me just double-check that he's the only confirmed one
31:57
on my boat. Vicki since the Muppet Wiki
32:00
admins. You know, every time I see a
32:03
small fuzzy puppet dog, I just instantly assume it's Steve
32:06
Whitmire even though it wasn't with them back then.
32:08
So it makes sense. That was Dave's.
32:10
Yeah, Dave goals is the only cited performer here other than
32:18
for money up here. It was, it was a Rufus and the
32:21
Frog, Prince wasn't. Yes.
32:23
Okay. Because this is Frank, guys.
32:25
I know that. Yeah, that was right.
32:27
Yeah, but they look so, They're right, they're basically
32:29
identical but Ma p is yeah. It was j.p. grosses, dog.
32:39
On The Muppet Show and apparently showed up in the
32:41
Martin Short episode of Muppets tonight who knew really and then
32:47
the last one that you guys. Forgot.
32:50
And the one that I am astonished that you guys forgot, which is
32:53
why I saved it for last. Zoot.
32:58
Oh, that's why I was leaving with
33:14
sometimes that's fair. But it's funny because like
33:17
you're leading with the world's oldest fraggle.
33:20
And I'm like, I'm Sookie. Yeah.
33:26
I'm preparing. Like I'm preparing like mr.
33:28
On between one avocado thinking about exactly.
33:35
All right, baby and juice and while we're here for a bonus
33:42
Point, can anyone name a Sesame Street character voiced by Dave
33:46
goals? Richard.
33:52
Mr. On between. I did, just get in the way by
33:55
accident. Well, you were the one who got
33:58
it. Mr. Eaton's, we does have other
34:01
things. I would have accepted the off
34:04
the top of my head because I am not looking this all up on
34:08
Muppet Wiki. But the elephant elevator
34:10
operator from the catchy song of the same name.
34:13
The puppet that would later go on to be Horatio and the giant
34:18
chicken from Elmo in Grouchland. Yeah.
34:24
Basically sounds like Wendell porcupine.
34:27
Yeah, mr. In between might be my favorite
34:31
Sesame Street song, ever, you know, Richard?
34:35
I don't know if I know that song.
34:37
Yeah, I don't think I will have to look for it.
34:40
Really, I'll put it in the show notes, mr.
34:42
Between, he's mr. Between.
34:44
He's the between East guy you've ever seen.
34:48
It's a very jovial song. I'll take his word for it.
34:52
Yeah. And let's, let's talk about our
34:56
scores as they are now. So Richard you have 36 points
35:02
right now and Megan, you have 38 points very close and we are
35:11
moving into the end of our show where the points get even
35:15
bigger, right. This is the Thing in the world
35:19
prize game because you two are now able to ask me anything in
35:24
the world or at least anything in the world of Gonzo.
35:29
If you can stump me, you will earn 10 points.
35:33
All right? So Megan Richard did you prepare
35:37
questions? Yes.
35:39
Yeah I did. Okay.
35:41
Megan. Why don't you start?
35:42
We've been starting with Richard on the past to.
35:45
Okay. So So this was kind of inspired
35:50
by when I wrote the article that we mentioned earlier, because
35:54
one of my favorite moments that I mentioned in there Gonzo is
35:58
when he and Peggy were on the Disneyland 35th Anniversary,
36:02
Special and Peggy wanted to be Cinderella in Disneyland and so
36:09
they put her to work it scrubbing, the floor in the
36:12
castle and then so she wants to be Cinderella.
36:17
So then gone. Appears as her fairy God thing
36:21
and is able to Grant her three wishes and he does Grant three
36:27
wishes, do you know what any of those three wishes are?
36:37
I feel like one of them is going to be like to get lost, like
36:43
scram, but I will tell you, I can't even guess.
36:49
I I don't know the answer to that question Megan.
36:53
So for our audience at home, what is the right answer to this
36:57
question? The right answer is there's
37:01
first she says she gets frustrated with him and she
37:04
says, I wish your nose would just blow up and that's what I
37:07
mentioned in the article and then a little bit.
37:15
A little bit of moppet Muppet body for long for you because it
37:20
just blows right off. And then she says, oh, I wish I
37:24
hadn't said that. So then I'm does that and brings
37:27
his nose back and then he kind of laments that and kind of says
37:31
like oh I kind of liked it that way, you wish for a back and
37:34
then she says, I wish you would be more serious and then he
37:36
turns into this sort of lawyer type with the suit and glasses,
37:41
and he gives her a receipt. All right, so Megan that's 10
37:48
points. Bringing you to 48 points and
37:52
Richard. Do you have a question for me?
37:56
Sure. I have a question.
37:58
So, it kind of has Two answers. Hell, that's okay.
38:03
It's like kind of like to powder.
38:06
That's 50 guns. Almost is most closely
38:09
associated with Dave goals and he, he was, he's been your
38:15
adjusted rebuilt for more distinguishable features, like
38:20
the movement of his eyelids, by my dad goals and he's been
38:23
multiple answers have been made by creating was like Jane good
38:26
Nick. But before Dave goals, There was
38:31
a lovable snob cigar box, crackle.
38:34
And there are two people, one who built him and one who
38:37
originally puppeteered, invoiced them that are not Dave goals.
38:40
And can you name those two people?
38:46
Megan can but that's not how the game works.
38:57
I can hear his voice as normal because I love that special if
39:01
you could find it. Perhaps on.
39:03
Oh yeah. Yeah.
39:06
Some kind of tube. When the performer is on member
39:18
weekee, I don't think the bill do is, but it's been stated
39:21
multiple times, and I've kind of accepted it, as fact.
39:25
All right, well Megan not for any points.
39:29
Richard you get 10 points because I don't have an answer
39:31
to this question. I'm blanking, but Megan, would
39:35
you like to answer this just for the thrill?
39:38
Sure. I believe Daniel, Seeger and
39:42
played him. A great Santa Claus, the wedge
39:44
and Jim Henson originally caught him up.
39:49
That's why he's all scraggly. Because you just like, yeah,
39:52
yeah, look out a foam. The fast schedule.
39:56
The fact that he's an original like Jim Henson puppet makes me
39:59
like so happy. No reason.
40:01
Like that's Jim. Henson's character design.
40:03
I think that's so cool. I just think that's true.
40:06
That's all. All right.
40:09
Yeah, that's right and and that's certainly worth 10
40:11
points. So here's what we're going to do
40:15
for our final round. We're moving into what we call
40:22
save the word or in this case Gosh words in this round as you
40:29
know you can wager any amount of points.
40:33
The winner gets those points, right?
40:36
The loser loses those points. You will get to hear the
40:39
question before you wager. So let's look at the scores,
40:44
Megan. You currently have 48 points.
40:48
Richard you have 46 points. Here is your question.
40:53
On the original Muppet Babies TV show.
40:56
Camilla was Gonzo's plush toy, however, on the new Muppet
41:02
Babies show. Camilla is a real chicken.
41:06
In fact, Miss nanny has three chickens.
41:11
What are the names of the other two chickens on Muppet Babies?
41:16
2018? I'll give you half credit if you
41:23
get one. Okay, remember, you're going to
41:28
type it in, don't say it type in how many points your bedok.
41:47
Okay. So you have each submitted your
41:50
answers. Richard you bet 25 points.
41:57
What was your answer? First of all, I was trying to
42:01
come up with that like cute number for everyone.
42:03
I just settled on 25. I'm sorry, but I answered and I
42:07
don't think this is, I think one of them might be correct.
42:10
The one I think might be correct is Henrietta which sounds
42:13
correct. I've read these before but I
42:14
can't remember now and the other was born nice which may or may
42:18
not ever have been a chicken named Palisades made it a
42:21
chicken name but I don't know if it's an actual chicken.
42:24
All right, Henrietta and Bernice Megan.
42:26
You bet one point It shows me just how the confidently Lawry's
42:33
answers. Yeah, Megan, what were your two
42:37
chicken names? Well, now that you say Henrietta
42:41
and Bernice, I remember those being chicken names, but I said,
42:45
Gladys and nany jr. Both great game, great.
42:49
Both great names too. However, the chickens Gonzo's
42:54
chickens on Muppet Babies R. Camilla Scylla.
43:03
Beep, beep. Yeah.
43:08
Muppet Babies. 2018 beep is the one who instead of sounding like
43:12
a chicken? Sounds like an automobile?
43:15
Hmm. Not really yeah?
43:20
No, no kidding. Hey, listen.
43:24
Listen, the last question is supposed to be hard.
43:27
That's the goal here. And that means our final scores
43:32
are Richard with 21 points and Megan with 47 points, making
43:38
Megan tonight's champion and tonight's toughest Pig.
43:43
So Megan, you get your choice. Your choice of fabulous prizes,
43:51
you can choose between your chance to be hammered into a
43:57
railroad tie, by to American Gladiators or these Dave goals.
44:03
Magnets of Gonzo and boober Fraggle, So, which prize are you
44:10
choosing? Well, hmm.
44:16
I think that I'm like, obsessed with those drawings especially
44:20
boober, who is one of my favorite Muppet ever?
44:22
So I most certainly going to choose those magnets.
44:25
All right. Well those those we'll head your
44:28
way and both of you. Thank you so much for joining us
44:32
joining me tonight on hubba-wha. So before I before I go,
44:39
Richard, do you want to share with Where you can be found
44:43
online, if you'd like to be found, do you have any plugs?
44:48
Sure thing. You can find me at strong Manzo
44:52
on Twitter, Instagram and a very inactive Tumblr page.
44:57
I'm working on getting some accounts from the tough pigs
45:00
from, and up its Central form. But I don't know if I'll ever
45:03
get another Central form. You can also contact me at Vista
45:10
men's out at gmail.com. Thank you for having me.
45:14
All right, thank you and Megan. I'm on topics for him so I miss
45:22
Mumford on the topics for him. That's my username there and
45:25
then you can also I'm not Super Active on Twitter but my website
45:32
is Megan. Barbeau.com you can look at some
45:34
of my art. Okay, great.
45:38
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46:16
Thanks to well myself for writing the questions.
46:21
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46:24
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46:28
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46:31
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46:38
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46:42
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