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Hubba-Wha?! Episode #19 - A Salute to All Nations (But Mostly America) · Muppet Fan Podcasts with ToughPigs.com

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I realize I'm interrupting your steady stream of ninja sleeping
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puppies and pirated music videos, but it is time to fill
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these tubes with a tribute to Herm Erica.
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How do I make this tribute thing work?
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Welcome to Habawa, a muppet quiz show brought to you by
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toughpigs.com. It's your favorite quiz show
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that's not like the others here. Muppet fans, Muppet
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Professionals, and everyone in between competes for fabulous
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prizes. And to see who's this week's
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toughest pig, I'm your host Becca Petunia of toughpigs.com.
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Today on Hobowa, it's time for a salute to all nations, but
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mostly America. That's right.
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It's a glorious 3 hour finale that.
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Hang on. OK, yeah, I'm getting a getting
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a call from producer Johannes. I've only got a minute and a
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half. Well, hopefully we can
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compromise and find some place in between three hours and a
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minute and 1/2. And today our contestants will
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be answering questions about countries all over the world.
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And that includes America. You know, so many countries have
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their own version of Sesame Street, and at a time The Muppet
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Show was aired in almost 108 nations.
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The Muppets are some of the most international performers of all
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time. Meanwhile, I've been to a grand
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total of 1 country that wasn't the United States, but I know a
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lot about America. Well, if I want to learn about
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other countries, you'd think I'd need to talk to a world traveler
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like Global Grover. However, there's another way I
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can learn about the world, and that's through Muppet Wiki.
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Because as always, the questions we'll be dealing with today were
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written by me with help from that amazing Muppet resource,
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Muppet 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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Cheating is against the American way and also the British way.
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Anyway, before we travel the world, I'm going to need to see
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your passports. That's why you'll be introducing
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yourselves in our first game. To tell a face.
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Contestants, buzz in to answer 3 questions about yourself.
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Whoever buzzes in first will get introduced first.
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Ready. There we go.
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All right, that's Danny. So Danny, the first question
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that I'm going to ask you, what's your name?
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My name is Danny Horn. All right, Excellent work.
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That is correct, right. Second question, you know,
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listen, we all we know so much about your history with The
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Muppets. Danny Horn of course founder,
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founder of Muppet Zine and tough pigs and cofounder of Muppet
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Wiki. But Danny, what kind of muppet
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projects are you currently working on?
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My current Muppet project is a Twitter feed and a Facebook feed
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called Muppet Pictures where I just have a whole bunch of
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Muppet pictures that I've collected and I want to share
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them with the world. And so I'm sharing them three
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pictures a day and enjoying that very much.
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Danny, I got to say I love that feed.
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I feel like I've mentioned this on your podcast or on my podcast
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or yelled it at no one, but I love that feed.
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You know, when when I first saw, and I didn't know it was you and
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I saw there was an account called Muppet Pictures that had
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followed me and I was like, it's going to be the same 12
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pictures, isn't it? It's going to be, it's going to
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be, it's going to be that same picture of of just like, OK,
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it's the stock image of Fozzy Bear and his head is weirdly
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shaped like an egg for no reason, like in that new Fozzy
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Bear stock photo they use. But no, it's not.
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It's it's consistently surprising and like high quality
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images that even I haven't seen. It really, really brightens up
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my day to see it. I am.
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I'm. I'm trying to make Twitter.
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A little bit more of a decent place to to spend time.
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This is my contribution. We appreciate it and you're
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working on others other projects as well.
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Let's, why don't you, why don't you tell us a little bit about
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those right at the start. All right.
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I also have a blog and a podcast called Superheroes every day
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working right now especially on that podcast.
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It's a It's a pod comedy podcast about pivotal moments in
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superhero movie history where we take a look at.
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Superhero movie every week and split it up into three acts
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according to the Sid Field three act structure and then walk
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through the whole movie analyzing it and making witty
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and intelligent conversation along the way.
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Becca has been on an episode that was about Fantastic Four,
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Rise of the Silver Surfer, and she'll be on another episode,
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which we're gonna record pretty soon.
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Yeah, who knows if it'll be out by then, But by the time this is
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out, you can find superheroes every day on Spotify or anywhere
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where you get your podcast. And last question that I'm going
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to ask you, which Muppet do you think should be president of the
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United States? Which?
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Muppet should be president. I think it would have to be Big
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Bird because he looks great in a tie and he's he's, he's very
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positive and that was the first Muppet that I thought of.
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Did you write that unproduced script about Big Bird becoming
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president or running for president?
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I did not. It would be a good idea though,
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right? I don't know.
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Maybe. People like to vote for tall
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people and he's and he's the tallest one there is.
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Yeah, they OK. You're right.
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They actually should have produced that script.
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OK. All right.
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Well, Danny, that's 20 points for all of those correct
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answers. So that puts you in the lead.
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But before we move on, our second contestant JD What's your
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name? My name is JD Hansel, right?
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And as has been established, the JD stands for John Denver and
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The Muppets of Christmas together.
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I like to like to remind everyone of that.
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I didn't think that joke was going to stay in that first
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episode. And not only did you then,
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you've referenced it repeatedly and it makes my heart very
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happy. I think it's hilarious.
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John Denver and The Muppets of Christmas together.
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Hansel So, JD, You're also a writer for Tough Pigs, as well
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as working on some podcast stuff.
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What's your history with The Muppets?
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Well, you know, Becca, it's funny because in many ways it,
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like, directly parallels a lot of Danny's career with Muppet
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fan stuff. In 1992, I actually started my
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own Muppet fanzine, but mine was called well, OK, I I used the
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other part of the Word magazine. So.
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So it was. It was.
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It was called Mag a Muppet, but I need everyone listening to
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understand that at the time. At the time, that didn't mean
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what it means. Today the context was totally
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different. Nobody could have foreseen what
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that was going to become. Fortunately, when the Internet
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came along, I left that all behind and started a Muppet fan
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site. It would it.
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It was called Fund thepigs.com. And I know through Modern Lens
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that sounds like a Copaganda website.
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And yes, most people thought that's what it was even then.
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I know the slogan Fuzzy and Blue Lives matter.
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Maybe it hasn't. Aged well, but in that
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particular cultural moment I thought it was clear that I was
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talking about getting more money behind Muppet Projects at a time
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when the Henson Company and Sesame Workshop were really
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struggling financially. Now it is true that the fund the
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Pigs Forum became the hotbed for certain.
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You know, the development of certain hateful movements and
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demonstrations that I'd rather not talk about right now.
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But I didn't know all that was going on because I was focused
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on my next project. I've gotten really into puppet
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building and was trying to document all the materials that
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The Muppets were made out of, so those of us building replicas
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would know what foams to use, how to make the eyes, which
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which fabrics would stay in good shape for a long time, and which
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fabrics would pill. So that was my intent when I
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started Pilled Wiki, which I could not have predicted would
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become the most popular information sharing site for Alt
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Red conspiracy theories to date. I really didn't expect the
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editors to take it in that direction.
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But honestly, by the time I started my current fan project,
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the Twitter account Tucker Pictures that that was actually
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just a few months ago and I knew exactly what I was.
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It's your fault. Yeah, that's on you.
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So that's me. Apart from that, I ride for
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tough pigs and host the Tough Pigs Podcast.
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What is it called? The Great Muppet Fanda panel.
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Yeah, I I frequently said that's my favorite of the Tough Pigs
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podcast. I know.
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I heard you saying that the other day when I was listening
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to you on another podcast. That's true.
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I heard you starting to say that moving right along was maybe
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your favorite. I was like, oh, am I losing my
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status? And then you said, actually,
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Jade, this is my favorite. I'm like, yes.
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I mean, I love moving right along dearly.
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I love that podcast. But my gosh, that that title of
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Becca's number one? Oh, it means a lot to me.
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It upsets other people and I feel genuinely bad for them.
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But oh, it means no, I got, I got to be consistent.
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And I don't know, I guess the third question I'm going to ask
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you is what Muppet do you think should be president of the
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United States? Looking around the room, looking
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around the room, Constantine look, I just feel like I don't
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know what would happen. But whatever would happen would
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happen quickly and explosively. The problem is that Constantine
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is Constantine's. I don't think he's a U.S.
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citizen. All right, all right.
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All right. Looking around the room, looking
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around the room. The Swedish Chef.
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OK, he's he could be naturalized.
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Who knows? You just keep choosing the
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European ones. All right.
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Well, either way, JD, I'm going to give you 20 points as well.
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Way too many deducting points. We'll see.
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Nice work, both of you, and it sounds like you're ready to
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board this plane and fly to our next destination, a game we like
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to call. Can you guess?
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Like I said earlier, at its height, The Muppet Show was
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aired in almost 108 countries. You see, we just learned that
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The Muppet Show is being shown in 108 different countries.
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Uh oh, better get out your old army uniform.
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Yes, with 108 angry countries, there's bound to be trouble for
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more than 108 countries or less. Honestly, we've never gotten a
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definitive answer. There's a whole Muppet Wiki
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article about how we don't know how many countries the Muppet
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Show aired in, but we can be pretty sure that the show aired
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in at least 70 countries. Because the Muppet News man gave
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us a specific list in a word search in an old Muppet Fan Club
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newsletter, I'll I'll post a link.
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In this game, I'm going to give you a Muppet themed clue.
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The answer to each question will be a country where The Muppet
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Show aired during its original run.
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Your goal is to buzz in and name the country.
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So I'm going to give you a Muppet themed clue and your goal
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is to buzz in and name the country that I'm looking for.
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All of these are countries where The Muppet Show was aired during
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its original run. Now each of these questions is
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worth 2 points. Please wait until I finish
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reading the clue to buzz in so our world travelers at home can
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play along. Ready.
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Let's fly question one. Muppet performer Carmen Ozbar is
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from this country. Danny.
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Is it Mexico? It is Mexico.
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Question two. A massive amount of Muppet
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productions were filmed in this country, ranging from Fraggle
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Rock to Emmett Otter's Junk band Christmas to The Cube.
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Danny, Canada, it is Canada, correct?
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JD do you appreciate that cube? I was about to say I didn't know
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if it was okay for me to jump in and say thank you for shouting
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out the cube, my fave. I know Question three.
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When Big Bird and Barkley went to this country, they met the
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bamboo Princess Danny by a second.
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Japan, that is Japan. I wrote about that special it's.
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Incredibly bizarre, those those Big Bird International specials
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and like, I feel like don't eat the pictures kind of fits into
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that. It's not not international, but
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the vibes of him helping the ancient Egyptian boy are
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basically the same. Yes, absolutely the same.
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They're so weird, but also so good and so special.
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And I just, I mean, honestly, I love anytime they get the
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puppets out in the world. But also, yes, it's very
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bizarre. It's very strange.
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I if I remember, I think the bamboo Princess turns into a she
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becomes a phoenix at the end. It's been a minute.
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The Phoenix is a big bird in China, yeah.
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Oh, the Phoenix is in China. OK, I remember the Princess
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Question 4 on Muppets Tonight. A variety of Muppets, including
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Zelda, Rose, Slim, Wilson, and Animal sang a song about how
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they've got a lot of coffee in this country, JD.
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Brazil. It is Brazil.
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They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil.
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Question 5/2 of The Muppets on this country's version of Sesame
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Street are Pinot and Tommy Danny.
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Is it Denmark? I'm feeling like it must not be
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Denmark. It is not Denmark.
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I'm sorry, JD is. Going to kill me, Germany.
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I'm sorry, the correct answer is the Netherlands.
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I I was so afraid that you would start asking questions about
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International Sesame Street because.
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There's so much of it. There aren't as many as you
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would think because I was like there's some people who are
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really good at this, but a very small portion of our of our
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community. So I have only a couple
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questions about. That I thought I was better at
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it than apparently I am. I will say that long pause,
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which I might have added it out, but that that pause was me
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trying to remember if Denmark and the Netherlands were the
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same country, because I knew the Netherlands was sometimes called
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something else and I was like. Wait, is it Denmark?
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No, it's it's Holland. Yeah, was was what I was
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confused about. Listen, I know a lot about The
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Muppets. Less about Denmark.
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Actual geography. Question 6 on Bear in the Big
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Blue House. Bear's special friend Ursa is
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from this country, Danny. Spain.
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It is Spain. Killing it on this, I really
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thought it would be far behind by this point.
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Question 7 on The Muppets 2015 TV show This is the Country
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where Miss Piggy found Gloria Estefan the Penguin.
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Danny. The Argentina.
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It is Argentina, Danny. You are.
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You are. You are crushing it today.
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No, it's amazing. Question 8.
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Squiggly A worm from this country.
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Oh. Dear Squiggly, a worm from this
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country won the 1 yard dash in the Worm Summer Games.
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Danny, do you have a guess? Is it Holland?
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It is not Holland. How about the Netherlands?
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I knew as soon as as soon as you said squiggly, I was like, I'm
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out on this one. I guess I should take a guess,
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yeah. JD, do you have a guess?
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I can't remember the names of any countries in this moment.
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I'm so nervous right now. I didn't think I'd be nervous.
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Cuba. I don't know, OK.
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It's not Cuba. That's where they That's where
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the cube was filmed. Yeah.
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Oh, no kidding. You'll never get out.
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You'll never get out of the Cuba.
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Yeah, it's true. It was.
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The correct answer was Kenya. They were doing a Kenyans are
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good at racing Joke. I don't know Sesame Street?
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Sometimes you're good. Question 9.
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According to reporting from Slate magazine and The Atlantic
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to people from Sweden, The Swedish Chef sounds like he is
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from this country, JD. Norway It is Norway, correct?
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Question 10 in Muppets Most Wanted Jean Pierre Napoleon's
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Interpol headquarters are in this country.
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Danny is. It France.
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It is not France. You're leading me on.
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Isn't it Germany? It is not Germany either.
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You guys are missing a country that is kind of between them,
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Switzerland. Oh, oh, that makes sense.
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Question 11. This is the country where
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Farscape was filmed, Danny. It's either Australia or New
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Zealand. I'm going to go with Australia.
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It is Australia. Wow.
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Well done, well done. I was around.
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Back then, I saw JD basically just getting up, getting up from
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his chair, and leaving as soon as I mentioned Farscape.
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It's true. If you if you mention it a third
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time, I disappear. What are you?
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What are what are you going to do the next time you see Ren
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question twelve Former president of the Jim Henson Company
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Charles Rivkin was the US ambassador to this country.
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You got us both on this one. I know we're not allowed to have
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the Muppet wiki or any other. Reference for this.
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And I have like a world map up in another window, just so I can
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remember what other countries look like and where they are.
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You can you can look at a world map for JD.
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This is. Allowed we're that has to be
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allowed for both of us. We're allowed a world map.
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OK, I do remember where where the world is.
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That makes one of us. My my guess is, is Uruguay.
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It is not Uruguay. Good guess, I guess, JD.
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I can think of a country. Just name a country.
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Name a country. Paraguay is just sitting right
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there. South Korea.
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It's also not South Korea. The correct answer is France,
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the president. The president of the Jim Henson
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Company, or the former president Charles Rifkin, was formerly the
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US ambassador to France. Do we know what he's doing now?
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I don't know. Being rich and not funding
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Muppet productions. Anyway, nice work in that round
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and figuring out those 12 countries.
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And I guess we have to assume that the other 96 countries
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didn't matter. Anyway, let's move on to our
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next round, which we call What's the name of that name?
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I think I got it now. We all know the names of our
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favorite Muppets. Kermit, Rolf the Dog, Big Bird,
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Stop with the Camel, Benny Rabbit.
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This is easy. But in other countries, our
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favorite friends often have different names.
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So in this round I'm going to name a country and give the name
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that country's productions use for a well known Muppet.
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And I will say these are all well known Muppets.
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They are all I would say either. Top ten at best, yeah.
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Absolute main characters. Some are maybe like well known
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secondary characters, but I'm not going to throw any
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characters that you guys don't know, so let me start there.
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If you can guess The Muppets English name from those clues,
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you will earn three points. If neither of you can name the
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Muppet, I will give you a clue about what Muppet series they're
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from. If you get it right after that,
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you'll earn two points instead. If that's still not enough, I
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will name their original performer in the American,
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English, Canadian, whatever you want to call it, version of The
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Muppets. If you get it after all of those
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clues, you will earn one point. Please tell me that the step
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after that is you will do an imitation of the character.
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Yes, if it comes to that. I would gladly have zero points
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for that. That'll be fun.
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So for instance, if I said in Israel they call him Mar Ashpah,
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you'd say Oscar the Grouch. If neither of you knew that, I
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would first say that it was a character from Sesame Street and
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you'd each get to guess again. Or if that didn't work, I would
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say that he was originally performed by Caroll Spinney.
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And then you'd have two choices. It's not going to be pickle
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puss. Anyway, I promise most of these
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are easier than Mar Ashpah. Are we ready to rename some of
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our favorites? Here we go.
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Oh Creature and Chinnua Media Blancher Esogamer.
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Here Creature and Chinni cap deso for Bali Bobo bobbido
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question 10. And I should say, before I even
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get into question one, I'm going to do my best to pronounce
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these. I speak French very poorly and
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Hebrew very poorly, and I am going to be trying my best with
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the other pronunciations. I believe in you.
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I would love for people to to to let us know on the Tough Pigs
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forum or anywhere else if there's a better way that I can
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pronounce these names. But we're diving right in with
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#1 in Brazil. They call him, call me, call me
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JD. I'll throw out a random guest to
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get us started. Kermit the Frog.
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It is not Kermit the Frog. I'm sorry, Danny.
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Do you have a guest for Colme Cole?
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Me. I do not.
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We have the. OK.
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Well, let's the next. Yeah, if I give you the next
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one, JD will have the chance to buzz in again.
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That's OK. I accept it.
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The character Colme Colme, he's from the Brazilian version of
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Sesame Street. Danny, I'm.
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Going to say Cookie Monster, it is the Cookie Monster, correct?
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Because colmet is of course the Portuguese word for food.
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It's also the Spanish word for it.
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Eat, eat. Yes, eat.
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So his name is literally Eat Eat, Question 2IN Italy, she's
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called Aurora Bella JD. Miss Piggy, I'm sorry, it's not
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Miss Piggy. Danny, do you have a guess?
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Betty Lou. Not Betty Lou either.
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I'll give you guys a clue. Character from Sesame Street,
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JD. Prairie dawn.
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It is Prairie dawn. Because, of course, if you know
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your Latin, Aurora is the Latin word for.
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Nice Dawn. Good call.
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Question 3. Some of these you will be able
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to get that way. Not many of them question 3IN
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Poland they call him Borjo. I don't know why I made this one
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the third one, as if this was an easy one.
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The first two are like based on root words you might remember
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from high school foreign language class.
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JD, do you have a guess? Grover.
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Sorry. It's not Grover.
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Danny. A guess.
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Say Ernie. It's not Ernie either, but it is
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a Sesame Street character. You guys are right about that.
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Danny, guess. How about Bert?
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It's not Bert either. JD I guess.
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Telly. It's not Telly either.
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This is going to give it away. But this, this character in the
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American version of Sesame Street is currently performed by
27:23
Ryan Dillon, JD Elmo. It is Elmo.
27:30
Now, am I required to bring out the Elmo impression, or is that
27:32
only if we lose on all of them? I mean, it's up to you.
27:35
If you want him to say something in Polish, that's your call.
27:39
Well, I can't do that. You got me there.
27:41
All right, skip it, skip it, skip it.
27:42
We'll come do it when we come to it.
27:43
Question four. In Germany, his first name is
27:48
Honic Tao. First name JD.
27:57
Fozzy Bear. It's not Fozzy Bear, Danny, I
28:01
guess. Guy Smiley Not Guy Smiley
28:05
either. This is a Muppet Show character.
28:08
Monique Dao, JD. I'm just so fascinated by the
28:15
fact that you said first name. That's really interesting, I'm
28:21
aware. Because there is that, that that
28:23
interview, was it on Arsenio Hall?
28:27
Where Kermit? Says Muppets don't have last
28:30
names, but that's not always true.
28:33
The biggest counter example I I can.
28:35
The most obvious counter example I can think of is Floyd Pepper.
28:38
So that'll be my next guess. Is not Floyd Pepper.
28:51
That was a long shot on the American version of The Muppet
28:55
Show. Good guess of a Muppet who has a
28:42
last name though. Danny, do you have a Muppet
28:45
Show? Guess.
28:47
JP Gross. It's not JP Gross either.
28:50
OK, third. Or I guess British, because
28:59
that's where it was filmed. This gets confusing on the
29:01
American version of The Muppet Show.
29:04
This character, Honique Dao, is played by Dave Goles Danny.
29:11
Bunsen honeydew. It is Bunsen Honeydew Honique,
29:14
though. It's beautiful.
29:18
And his full name is Doctor Honique Dao Bunsen Brenner,
29:23
which is why I had to leave off the The Last Name Question 5 in
29:28
Mexico. He's Figueredo Danny Grover, not
29:36
Grover, JD. Ernie.
29:40
Not Ernie. This is a Muppet Show character.
29:45
Figueredo. Danny.
29:49
I'll say Fozzy, it is Fozzy. Great question. 6IN Israel he's
29:55
Bents JD Bert it is Bert well. Done.
30:05
It feels like it feels like we the the two of us are throwing
30:12
darts into a black hole and then getting a message later about
30:15
what planet. And many of these many of these
30:18
kind of have clues in the names. Question 7.
30:24
In Canada, he's Magre Blue, Magre Blue JD.
30:34
I don't know if we already have this character, but Grover, it
30:38
is Grover. I assumed it was a play on the
30:41
color blue and it is a play on the color.
30:44
Blue I did in my imagination, run a whole horrible fan site
30:50
about characters who are fuzzy and blue and why we need to
30:52
support them, so I should know. I I have a question, Canada.
30:56
Yeah, according to your wiki. Why does Canada?
31:00
Why doesn't Canada call him Grover?
31:02
I guess French Canadian productions.
31:05
Oh. Geez, I mean magra Blue is
31:08
French. And French?
31:10
Yeah. Well, Speaking of France,
31:12
question eight In France, they call him Hyacinth.
31:16
It's a. Beautiful name.
31:18
It is a beautiful name that I know I'm pronouncing poorly,
31:22
Danny. I'll say big Bird, not Big bird.
31:25
Good guess. It would be nice though,
31:26
wouldn't it? Yeah, cute name for him.
31:28
JD You can name your big bird Hyacinth.
31:34
How about the Great Gonzo? Not the Great Gonzo.
31:37
This is a Sesame Street character Hyacinth Danny.
31:44
Mr. Snuffleup, I guess. Good guess, no JD.
31:48
Count von Count Good guess, no. But I will say, like
31:51
Snuffleupagus and Count von Count, this character is most
31:56
famously performed by Jerry Nelson Hyacinth, JD.
32:02
Hairy monster. It is hairy monster.
32:05
His name is Hyacinth in France. So cute.
32:08
I like that. He's got like, this cute, really
32:11
soft name that's actually fun Question nine in the United Arab
32:15
Emirates. He's Anise.
32:21
Danny, I'm. Going to say Ernie correct.
32:24
Yay. Well done, question 10 in
32:28
Hungary. He's Lotte Fouty Danny.
32:37
Swedish Chef Sorry, incorrect JD Guess.
32:42
Permit the frog. Good guess, no.
32:44
This is a Muppet Show character, Loti Fouty.
32:48
And by the way, again, pronunciation terrible.
32:51
I'm doing like an Italian accent there.
32:52
Like Loti Fouty. Danny.
32:58
I'm going to say either Statler or Waldorf.
33:02
It's not really fair to let you guess too, but I will say
33:04
they're both wrong. JD.
33:08
Ralph the dog Incorrect. This character originally
33:12
performed by Richard Hunt. Scooter.
33:17
Correct. Danny, it is Scooter.
33:19
Narrowed that down. Yeah, we have two more.
33:22
I get like .8 of a point for them, two more or really one
33:25
more at a bonus. So question 11 in Spain.
33:29
He's Bumbo, JD. I can't remember whether or not
33:39
we've done this character. I feel like we have, but maybe
33:42
not. I'm going to try Big Bird.
33:43
We haven't done Big Bird, but it also isn't Big Bird.
33:47
Good guess though. Danny Guess.
33:51
So what country is it? Spain.
33:53
He's Bumbo. I'm.
33:55
Going to say Cookie Monster incorrect.
33:59
This is a character from Fraggle Rock.
34:02
Oh, Danny Gobo Fraggle Incorrect JD.
34:10
Uncle Traveling Man. Well, I will say this is the
34:13
other day of goals Character JD. Uber Fraggle Boober Bombo is
34:20
Boober. I was.
34:21
So come on. I know I was so close to saying
34:24
Boober, that was where it was going to go.
34:25
But then I thought, wait a second.
34:27
That sounds like what you would name a character who's supposed
34:31
to be very silly and not very bright, and someone who's
34:35
bumbling around everywhere and I'm like, that's it.
34:38
That's a decent name for Uncle Matt.
34:40
He's clownish in the right way for that name.
34:42
But no, no, no. That's.
34:43
A solid argument, actually. I think you should go to Spain
34:46
and have that conversation with them.
34:48
Go to Spain in 19/19/83, yeah. Look, all you all you could do
34:54
is ask, right? They might say no, Okay, miss
35:02
every shot. You don't take the last bonus
35:05
question for this round. What is unique about Kermit the
35:09
Frog's full name in Portuguese speaking countries?
35:14
No other country has this element to his name except those
35:20
in Portuguese countries. Danny, they both start with the
35:26
same letter. What do you mean by they both
35:29
Kermit and Portugal? The the word for Kermit and the
35:34
word for frog start with the same letter.
35:36
I'm sorry, not correct. I mean, actually, they.
35:39
They do, but it's not unique. I don't know if they do, but I
35:42
don't think it's unique that they do.
35:44
But anyway, that's not the answer JDI guess.
35:49
I I'm because I'm only thinking of the same thing that Danny was
35:52
thinking of. Not that specific detail, but
35:54
another angle to the same thing. Like, I know of this other name
35:59
that Kermit used to have, and so is it the the.
36:08
Are they the only places that used to have a a different name
36:11
for Kermit other than Kermit? No.
36:14
There's a couple, they call him Renee in France, but no, only in
36:21
Portugal and Brazil is Kermit a toad.
36:29
His name translates to Kermit the toad in Portugal and Brazil.
36:35
I would not have gotten that one good question, and Kermit
36:38
wouldn't like that one. Because he's weird about that
36:42
sometimes, right where where he's like, no, I'm a frog, Toads
36:45
give you warts. Like, he really seems to think
36:48
badly about toads. That joke must not quite work in
36:52
the Brazilian dub of The Muppet movie.
36:56
Anyway, we're going to move on to my favorite game beat.
37:03
The time. That's right.
37:05
It's our classic headtohead round beat the time.
37:09
Today we're thinking about Muppet Show guest stars.
37:13
The Muppet Show was always an international production.
37:17
It was the brainchild of Americans, but filmed and
37:20
produced in the United Kingdom. As a result, a lot of the show's
37:25
guest stars were from the United States or the British Isles, and
37:30
this tradition carried over to Muppets Tonight.
37:34
However, on both shows, certain guests were from other parts of
37:39
the world, and in this round we'll explore that starting with
37:44
JD. Name a Muppet Show or Muppets
37:48
Tonight guest star who wasn't born in the United States or on
37:54
the British Isles. So either on the Isle of Great
37:57
Britain, the Isle of Scotland, Scotland, Ireland, N Ireland or
38:07
the United States. Be careful, some of these are
38:10
trickier than others. We'll go back and forth between
38:14
the two of you to see who can name more.
38:18
If you can't remember one or get the answer wrong, your opponent
38:22
will have a chance to steal. In total, there are 15 Muppet
38:28
Show or Muppets Tonight guests who fit this criteria.
38:34
This is sorry, I'm already nervous.
38:38
Muppets Tonight is a show I like.
38:41
Actively avoid watching. Well, I will say most of them
38:45
are from The Muppet Show. OK, JD, can you name a guest
38:50
from a country that isn't one of the ones I listed?
38:57
Charles as Navoir. Charles as navoir correct.
39:02
Danny. Senior Wences.
39:05
I am sorry. Oh no, no no.
39:08
Senior Wences is on here. I was like what I was like so
39:11
surprised. Ji was like, is he really
39:15
American JD? I mean it's it's possible.
39:19
It's all possible. Jean Pierre Rampal Jean Pierre
39:25
Rampal? Correct.
39:27
Danny Rudolph Nureyev. Rudolph Nureyev, Correct, JD.
39:35
How much time do I have? Because I already feel like I'm
39:37
out and that's. Really concerning out as well.
39:42
This episode is so hard it. Really.
39:47
Is. And I'm still shaken by the jump
39:49
scare from Jerry Nelson's voice a few seconds ago.
39:52
You know, you hear that part where like.
39:54
The whole the tone of the episode changes when that that
39:57
voice comes in, yes. The time I get startled.
40:01
That you absolutely you absolutely heard here live in
40:04
studio. Yeah.
40:05
And I don't add on to the podcast later.
40:08
This is all done live, folks. Like we have a studio audience
40:12
here. The chair.
40:14
Comes over and hands us points somehow.
40:19
Sorry, I'm stalling. Just I appreciate.
40:23
That something you want? Yeah, Excuse me.
40:25
It's Danny, OK, Danny, do you have one?
40:28
I have elke summer, Elke summer correct.
40:31
Good JD good. Back to JD.
40:35
Actually, Danny, you you can. You had to steal because JD
40:37
missed. You can give another one.
40:39
No, I got that's. I'm let, let, let, why don't we
40:43
let JD go? OK, JD.
40:46
If neither of you can get it. I'll just call the game here.
40:51
It just feels. Like we should get better than
40:52
five. Right.
40:54
But it's it's also a frustrating ground because like I can think
40:59
of guest stars who who very much have it as part of their brand
41:05
that they also know other languages.
41:07
I don't like to then make the assumption that I can tell where
41:11
they were born. That's what I'm struggling with.
41:13
JDJDI promise no one's going to, no one's going to call you.
41:18
No one's going to call you racist if you incorrectly know
41:22
what country Best Star is from. All right.
41:25
If if you, Becca, I'm. I'm considering you the
41:29
authority on all of the opinions of all of the Internet.
41:33
So I'm trusting you here when I guess, Rita Moreno, I was
41:36
considering Puerto Rico to be part of the United States.
41:40
It is. Part of the United States and so
41:42
I don't get the point and so we're good and do this is
41:44
exactly the situation that I was worried was going to move on
41:48
move on. That's not a wait wait, hold on,
41:53
I need to check when was it. You're dragging on when Puerto
41:58
Rico became part of the United States.
41:59
I'm trying. I'm trying to.
42:00
Appreciate this technicality. Well, it was well before.
42:02
Thank. It was well before the month of
42:04
time. Oh yeah.
42:05
No. Yeah.
42:05
It was well before Rita Moreno. I have any other guest?
42:10
Juliet Prouse. Juliet Prouse.
42:13
Is technically born. Do you know JD?
42:19
I don't know. What's it going to be, Danny.
42:22
Do you know or are you just guessing?
42:24
I It's where was where was Juliet Pross born?
42:28
India. There you go.
42:31
OK, when it was controlled by Britain but not part of the
42:36
British Isles, so I will give it to you.
42:39
I knew that I was totally aware of all the bio details of.
42:44
Juliet Pross Life. I'm pretty sure she was born in
42:47
the night Wrong. Yeah, born in Bombay, all.
42:50
Right. You never know, JD.
42:52
A guess. I'm I'm kind of flipping through
42:58
every guest or on either show that I can think of.
43:00
I'm really struggling to remember who the heck was on
43:02
Muppets tonight. I will tell you both, there are
43:05
only two Muppets Tonight guests listed.
43:09
Granted, there were fewer of those guests in general.
43:17
I'll click on on Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, I'm pretty sure
43:21
they're. Definitely British.
43:22
They're definitely extremely British, Johnny Cash, Also
43:25
American. They'll throw.
43:26
That out there. All right, I'll help you.
43:34
Out. You probably throw in some
43:35
tricky ones where like you'd never know that this person
43:41
wasn't just like the most like I just do You guys, do you both
43:46
want me to give you a hint? Yes.
43:49
OK. One thing that you guys are
43:51
forgetting is while it is often confused for America or England,
43:58
I did not say Canada is not allowed.
44:03
You're giving me a lot of credit for acting like I was confused
44:06
about this. OK.
44:08
But there's there's certain you're.
44:10
Leaving all of the Canadians, there's certain guests who are
44:13
like some of the most famous Canadians.
44:17
Céline Dion not a guest on either of these shows.
44:22
I think I'm gonna have to call this.
44:25
All right, let me. All right, I'm gonna.
44:26
I'm. Gonna Rick Moranis.
44:28
Rick Moranis, Correct, Danny. Thank you.
44:31
Thank you for the Canada. Rich Moranis is Canadian.
44:37
Oh, it's why he played the moose in Brother Bear.
44:43
That's all I needed was Canada. You got any other countries?
44:46
Why don't you? Actually, if you can like, throw
44:47
the country? Oh sure.
44:49
Well, let me just double check some of these countries.
44:52
I should have written it down beforehand, but OK, we've got so
44:58
the third one on my list from Switzerland.
45:02
Got me on that one. 4th one is Canadian.
45:07
Orson Welles, not the movie. OK, I'm just going to call.
45:11
All right. Yeah, I'm good.
45:12
All right, so the Swiss, the Swiss one is, of course, Mum and
45:16
Shawn's. They're from Earth.
45:20
That's that's on us. Space is not part of the United
45:24
States either. Rich Little, who is, of course,
45:29
Canadian. We should have been, Danny.
45:33
We should have been thinking of a way to not have to take credit
45:37
for rich little this whole time right here.
45:42
Helen Reddy from Australia, Spike Milligan, born in India.
45:49
Victor Borgia, definitely not American.
45:54
And Murray, who was from Canada as well, the.
46:00
Canadians Doug Henning was Canadian.
46:04
Martin Short was Canadian and was on Muppets Tonight and
46:09
literally is so Canadian that at Disney World he hosts the Canada
46:15
ride. And by ride I mean room and that
46:22
was the 15. But I also would have accepted
46:26
Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, R2D2C3PO and and and count von
46:35
Count. Yes, all right.
46:39
I was think I was. I was also thinking like, is
46:42
there is there a trick here with the Muppet performers where I
46:45
can think of one of them And it did.
46:46
I did that. Got you nowhere, yeah.
46:49
Wow, Becca, you are so many steps ahead of us.
46:54
Well, listen, so maybe that game.
46:56
Listen, OK, out of 15, you guys together got 7.
47:01
So you got half of them, that's something.
47:05
Thank you. We feel better.
47:07
That's something. Yeah, I feel fantastic.
47:09
And maybe, maybe you weren't thinking about the four guests
47:13
who were from outer space. You know, I I mean.
47:21
Is is this is this the point in the program where we get to slow
47:24
down and and take care of Katie's feelings?
47:26
I I think I'm okay. I think I'm having a great time
47:29
here, Becca. I'm pretty sure, but I don't
47:33
know. You wouldn't.
47:34
Can't tell from the scoreboard. I don't care what anyone says,
47:39
I'm having a great time. What's the scoreboard?
47:45
Are you allowed to know that? Yeah, sure.
47:48
Why don't I share the scoreboard?
47:50
Listen, it is, it's a pretty close game we have right now.
48:01
OK, so Danny has 46 points and JD has 37 points, so it's only a
48:10
difference of nine. And I will say, I will say we've
48:15
been saluting other nations, but now it's time to salute America.
48:22
At times with this, I am proud to be an American.
48:28
Thank you. You know, there's so many things
48:31
to love about the United States. Everything the United States is
48:34
perfect and everything about it is wonderful.
48:38
Did you read my old fan site? I did.
48:40
I really try to stay away from people who read that.
48:43
And if there's one thing we know, not only is the United
48:47
States perfect, but the most perfect thing about the United
48:50
States are our country's politicians.
48:54
So that's why we are going to play a special round of mystery
48:59
guests themed on US presidents. I'm going to describe a time The
49:08
Muppets mentioned, referenced or featured a U.S.
49:13
President in one of their productions.
49:16
Your job is to buzz in and identify the president.
49:21
So for instance, if I said forgetful Jones imagined meeting
49:26
this president after he discovered the Martians you'd
49:30
buzz in and say Ronald Reagan, That happened.
49:39
I believe Scott posted that clip on Twitter a while ago.
49:43
But anyway, I do apologize to our international listeners.
49:47
This round is about us and each of these questions.
49:52
And you know what? Let's mix it up.
49:55
Each of these questions is going to be worth.
49:58
A random number of points, 3 points.
50:01
Back open a random number generator, please.
50:05
Oh no, no, no. Each of these questions is worth
50:07
the amount of points that this president is.
50:10
How's that? Would you guys be happy with
50:12
that? If the answer is.
50:14
If the answer is, you know Abraham.
50:17
Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln probably gets a
50:19
pretty high score. Well, no, no, no.
50:21
I just mean, like, so, OK, so James Buchanan was like, the
50:23
15th president. So like.
50:25
You get 15 points. You get 15 points.
50:27
If the answer is James Buchanan, you want me to.
50:29
You want me to mix it up that way, JD?
50:32
You know, do whatever you want. I'm here, I've accepted my fate
50:35
and I'm happy. I'm very happy.
50:37
There were three points each. I will make them worth 3 points
50:42
each because I want to make this anyone's game.
50:46
Oh, so it's out of kindness to me.
50:48
All right, that's fine. Question one.
50:51
In the Paula Abdul episode of Muppets Tonight, a robot version
50:55
of this president terrorizes the studio JD.
51:03
I think Danny got in before me. Oh, it was Danny.
51:06
Look at that. JDI.
51:07
Appreciate your sportsmanlike conduct.
51:10
That's very patriotic. Danny, I will also say, I think,
51:15
did you buzz in right before she said the final word or right
51:18
after? Because you might just have a
51:20
faster signal than me. But like that buzz in was coming
51:23
in just as I was hearing the end of the word, Well, we're not
51:26
going to recalibrate the buzz you're.
51:27
Right, Danny. Danny, what president was this?
51:32
I I cannot tell a lie it was. It was Abraham Lincoln, correct?
51:37
And and thank you, JD for your sportsman like conduct Question
51:41
2. Grover helped this U.S.
51:44
President win a significant military victory.
51:52
JD. George Washington.
51:54
It is George Washington, correct?
51:57
He heard that George Washington wanted to surprise the the
52:01
Hessian soldiers, so he brought balloons.
52:05
Question 3. Joe Pesci played a parody of
52:09
this president in Sesame Street's 25th Anniversary
52:13
Special JD. Was it Donald Trump?
52:21
It was. Donald Trump wasn't president at
52:24
the time, of course. But question 4, Wolf, the dog in
52:30
an episode of The Muppets, asks this trivia question, Who
52:35
succeeded President William McKinley after he was
52:38
assassinated in 1901? Hint it wasn't a dog.
52:43
Canine. Americans still can't.
52:45
Hold public office and we're supposed to answer the the,
52:49
yeah, answer the trivia question.
52:50
That trivia question Who succeeded President William
52:52
McKinley after he was assassinated in 1901?
52:54
The dog things are misdirect. Don't I say Danny?
53:02
Yeah. Danny Roosevelt, It is Theodore
53:05
Roosevelt, correct. Wow.
53:08
Question five in The Muppets. The 2011 film Kermit has this
53:15
president's number in his Rolodex of celebrities.
53:23
JD, President Carter. It is President Carter, Question
53:30
Six in a Sesame Street sketch about the American Revolution.
53:34
Don Music plays a frustrated version of this president.
53:43
Danny is. It Thomas Jefferson, it is
53:45
Thomas Jefferson. Question Seven.
53:49
In a different Sesame Street sketch about determining what
53:53
should be the national bird, Ernie portrays this president
53:58
who remained levelheaded when making his choice of the
54:01
national bird, JD John Adams. Correct.
54:12
Question 8. And I guess I'll give you 6
54:15
points if you get both of these. These two presidents appear as
54:19
members of the Billy Crystal Band on Muppets Tonight.
54:28
Danny. Bill Clinton is 1.
54:30
Bill. Is one of them.
54:35
And there's a second president. There is a second president in
54:38
line with with Bill Clinton in that in that scene.
54:43
George Bush is not George Bush. I will give you 3 points.
54:48
Thank you, JD Do you want to guess the president?
54:53
I mean there are only so many it.
54:56
Was 1996. Yeah, you normally don't like it
55:01
when when the answer to one question has already been the
55:04
answer to another question. So I'm going to try to just
55:07
think of someone different. Look at JD Medic Gaming.
55:13
I know. I do that.
55:14
I know. And yet, right now, here's the
55:16
thing that's great that I can do that.
55:18
But right now, I'm blanking on the name of every President
55:24
Constantine. It was Constantine.
55:26
It was Ronald Reagan. Nice.
55:29
My meta gaming was very wrong. Well, technically he was the
55:33
answer to the answer to my practice question.
55:36
But yes, question nine. He was the only president to
55:40
write for Muppet magazine. Danny.
55:49
Barack Obama. Incorrect.
55:53
Would have been nice. I don't even know how to
55:57
interpret the question. There's like there's there's
56:01
really no trick here. It's it's pretty genuine.
56:05
Okay George HW Bush. The correct answer is Gerald
56:11
Ford, who in the fall 1983 issue of Muppet magazine, he
56:18
contributed to Robbins Roundup, an article featuring memories
56:22
from Celebrities School days. Ford shares sentiments about his
56:26
high school teachers and laments on his sports activities at
56:30
South High in Grand Rapids, MI. That is adorable.
56:35
There is a screenshot here of from Robbins roundup.
56:43
Not. I believe a long running feature
56:48
of Mother magazine cuz I didn't remember Robin's roundup ever
56:51
existed. Well, I will say this was the
56:54
4th issue and care to guess who's on the cover for 150
57:00
points? 4th issue because I don't think
57:06
you can get this. It's Olivia Newton John or
57:10
Bronson Pincho. It is neither.
57:13
JD, do you have a guess for 150 points?
57:17
Looking around the room, looking around the room.
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Herb Alpert, No. The special was Fozzie meets the
57:25
Fonz. Henry Winkler also included
57:28
School Memories with Carol Burnett, Pat Benatar and more.
57:32
Gerald Ford didn't make the cover of School Memories and the
57:36
Wizard of Oz spoof, which I bet was funnier than the other time
57:40
The Muppets did that. Question 10.
57:45
This president is actually Caroll Spinney's ninth cousin,
57:49
twice removed. It's on your wiki, Danny.
57:55
I'm certain that it is it's ninth cousin.
57:59
His ninth cousin twice removed George W Bush.
58:07
It is not George W Bush, JD. George HW Bush?
58:15
OK. Well, they'd both be related at
58:18
that point. True, but not the same you gave
58:22
it. You didn't ask who's related,
58:24
you asked for a very specific no, weirdly enough, the right
58:30
answer. Yes, Barack Obama.
58:34
Oh, all right then. That's beautiful.
58:36
I wonder if they ever hung out. Big Bird.
58:41
Big Bird. He must have visited the Obama
58:43
White House. Yeah.
58:44
No, because they. Because Michelle was doing all
58:46
kinds of things. Yeah, but it was Vogel doing in
58:50
person appearances by then. Because Carol was already
58:53
pretty. Yeah.
58:53
I mean, why don't you nap? It's it's got to be.
58:57
It's got to be. On the wiki somewhere, it's got
58:59
to be on your wiki. Well, believe it or not, you
59:01
both scored the same amount of points that round, meaning that
59:07
the score is right now Danny with 58 points and JD with 49
59:13
points. Honestly, it's still very close
59:16
difference of nine points and it is now time for the Anything in
59:23
the World Prize game. As you know, in this round you 2
59:28
will be able to ask me anything you want as long as it's about
59:32
Muppets. If you stump me, you will earn
59:36
15 points. So let's actually start with
59:41
Danny. So Danny, you can ask me
59:44
anything in the world. All right.
59:48
My question is about America. That's part of the world.
59:52
Yes, it is. Senator Jill McCarthy is
59:54
remembered for his anti communist crusade in the early
59:57
1950s. Which began with a famous speech
59:59
where he announced I have here in my hand a list of known
1:00:03
communists working in the State Department.
1:00:05
Whatever this question is, I love it.
1:00:08
Backup what? Muppet has also announced I have
1:00:11
a list and what was on that list?
1:00:16
I am so glad you didn't know this immediately.
1:00:20
Sam the Eagle, Yes, words that you aren't allowed to say on.
1:00:27
ABC TV because of the Muppet sitcom.
1:00:31
No, as you are half correct. OK, but there's no.
1:00:34
Half critical. OK.
1:00:36
What was the context? It is a Buppet show sketch,
1:00:41
probably like second season I would say, he says.
1:00:44
I have a list and he is complaining about Namby Pamby
1:00:47
conservationists and the list is the list of animals that the
1:00:52
Namby Pamby conservationists want to protect and it includes
1:00:56
bald eagle. That's that.
1:00:59
That's right. Well, that's 15 points for you,
1:01:05
Danny. JJD, do you have a question?
1:01:07
Do you have a question about communists?
1:01:12
Well, you know, if you've read my work, you know my
1:01:14
interpretation of Fraggle Rock. I do Becca in Fraggle Rock Back
1:01:20
to the Rock, episode 6 of season one.
1:01:25
I'm going to start calling it season one already.
1:01:29
It's the Legend of I See Joe. In that episode of Back to the
1:01:34
Rock, you see pictures of a number of prominent, like famous
1:01:40
people in Doc's workshop, including some, like very famous
1:01:44
prominent American political figures.
1:01:47
Only one such person is seen twice in Doc's workshop Appears
1:01:54
in two pictures. Who is that famous American
1:01:59
political figure? Is it Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
1:02:03
I'm pretty sure she is there. She's there.
1:02:07
Doc's wall of she rose. She is there, not twice.
1:02:13
OK, the correct answer was. The correct answer is Michelle
1:02:17
Obama. There are two Michelle Obama's
1:02:20
on Doc's wall of she rose. All right.
1:02:23
Well, that actually would have been my second guess, but it was
1:02:25
not my first guess. So, JD, you also get 15 points,
1:02:31
meaning that you again got the same number of points, meaning
1:02:35
that again, Danny, you have 73 points.
1:02:39
JD you have 64, meaning Danny is up by 9:00, which brings us to
1:02:46
our last game, which is, of course, say the word.
1:02:52
As you know, in Say the Word, you are able to wager any number
1:02:57
of points. The winner gets those points and
1:03:00
the loser loses them. It's kind of like Final
1:03:03
Jeopardy, except you will get to hear the question before you
1:03:07
wager. So here's the question.
1:03:12
The most famous American is probably George Washington.
1:03:17
As mentioned, he's been played by an Anything Muppet in a
1:03:20
sketch with Grover. However, throughout the years
1:03:25
and through different Muppet media, many Muppets have
1:03:28
impersonated him. However, not as many as you'd
1:03:32
think. In fact, by Muppet Wiki's count,
1:03:37
5 Muppets have impersonated George Washington, although some
1:03:42
have done it more than once. Each of you is going to send me
1:03:48
a list of five Muppet characters.
1:03:52
And a points amount that you would like to bet whoever gets
1:03:57
more Muppets correct will win their points back.
1:04:06
So there are. 5 Muppet characters who have impersonated
1:04:11
George Washington who have dressed up as George Washington.
1:04:14
I'm not counting anything Muppets. 5 Muppet characters who
1:04:20
have dressed as George Washington at some point in
1:04:22
Muppet media. What I need you guys to do is
1:04:28
send me a list of five Muppets as well as your point bet and I
1:04:34
will just say score again. Danny has 73 points.
1:04:39
JD has 64 points. OKI have an answer from Danny.
1:05:00
Okay. Like I said, there are 5 correct
1:05:05
answers to this question. JD Let's start with you, JD.
1:05:10
You bet first double Infinity points, and then I said that you
1:05:15
had to bet an actual number. So you changed that bet to 10
1:05:20
and you wrote which five Muppets?
1:05:27
Miss Piggy was the one I was certain of, and then I guess
1:05:30
Cookie Monster? Elmo, Ernie.
1:05:32
Bert. Okay, Miss Biggie is definitely
1:05:35
correct, as is Elmo, who dressed as George Washington and sang a
1:05:41
song from Hamilton with the actor who was playing George
1:05:45
Washington at the time. And you are also right that Bert
1:05:51
was George Washington on that amazing Sesame Street
1:05:55
bicentennial calendar. Cookie Monster and Ernie were
1:06:00
never George Washington, at least not according to Muppet
1:06:04
Wiki. So three of yours are correct
1:06:09
Danny. You also bet 10 points and you
1:06:15
listed 5 Muppets. Danny.
1:06:21
Which five Muppets did you guess?
1:06:25
I guessed Miss Piggy. Kermit the Frog, Bert, Ernie,
1:06:30
and Grover. Ernie, as we established, is
1:06:33
wrong, but Miss Piggy and Bert are right.
1:06:47
It was. Grover also was never George
1:06:39
Washington in any media. However, Kermit the Frog was
1:06:45
meaning. It was on the for a state
1:06:50
quarters promotion as well as Baby Kermit.
1:06:54
Was George Washington on Muppet Babies?
1:06:57
So you also did note Mount Rushmore from The Muppet Show
1:07:01
Sex and violence. I think that doesn't.
1:07:05
Doesn't that's the actual George Washington Muppet?
1:07:09
Doesn't count. All right, very well.
1:07:12
You also bet 10 points and you also got 3. 3 answers right?
1:07:17
You both get 10 points. Meaning also got the same about
1:07:25
the points once again. Fate.
1:07:28
It must be fate. Now what does this tell you?
1:07:31
What this What this tells you is that my career as a Muppet fan
1:07:36
continues to directly parallel that of Danny Horn.
1:07:42
It all it all comes full circle and one.
1:07:44
Step behind me. How could you guys forget that
1:07:47
5th Muppet because Kermit, Miss Piggy, Elmo and Bert?
1:07:51
Were were the the the ones that you you got between you?
1:07:57
But of course the 5th is Elvis. Yeah, I, I, I OK.
1:08:05
I remember now from the show that I actively avoid watching.
1:08:09
Those great moments in Elvis history.
1:08:14
Well done, well done. Yeah.
1:08:17
Anyway. So our final score, which has
1:08:20
remained with a difference of nine points since we ended our
1:08:26
third round, I don't remember. But the winner with a score of
1:08:31
83 points is Danny Horn. Great.
1:08:35
Thank you very much. So congrat take about, take
1:08:38
about. Thank you, Danny.
1:08:40
Congratulations. You are this week's toughest pig
1:08:47
it. The mantle once again falls to
1:08:49
you. You.
1:08:50
You gave it up in like 2005, yeah.
1:08:54
And you just got it back. Hooray for a whole week.
1:08:56
Yeah, for a week. So anyway, you win your choice
1:09:01
of a magnet of Harry Truman or a magnet of Sam the Eagle.
1:09:09
I'm going to say Sam the Eagle, all right.
1:09:12
Unless that. Unless that was Harry Truman,
1:09:14
which is Harry Monster dressed up as Harry Truman.
1:09:17
Well, I didn't make that. But now I kind of want to okay.
1:09:22
I will take the same. The same.
1:09:24
And I and I will treasure it. Thank you so much.
1:09:26
You're welcome. And that brings us to the end of
1:09:28
another one. So first of all, JD, thank you
1:09:34
for being such a good sport. I'm.
1:09:37
I'm sorry that you you were. Getting a little frustrated, but
1:09:42
you bounced back and hey, apologize.
1:09:44
I've had a good time. I've had a great Becca.
1:09:47
This is always fun. I appreciate it very much.
1:09:50
I'm. I'm very happy.
1:09:51
And you brought it full circle with with with your your great
1:09:54
parallel lives. So, JD, where can people find
1:10:00
you if you wish to be found on most socials?
1:10:04
I'm at J D11PC. What socials will those be by
1:10:09
the time you hear this? Obviously, who's to say it's
1:10:12
been a wheel? We'll find out.
1:10:15
You can probably, if Twitter's still around, still find the old
1:10:19
Bad Henson Bio and Bad Henson Bistro archives.
1:10:22
If you want to see some really weird nonsense that I did a
1:10:25
couple years ago. And you can always just keep an
1:10:28
eye on tough pigs. Tough pigs will post my newest
1:10:32
stuff before I know it's been posted, and so that is the place
1:10:37
to look, right? And of course, I was about to
1:10:42
tell people to subscribe to the great Muppet Phantom panel.
1:10:44
But if you were subscribed to this feed, if you're listening
1:10:46
to this, I think you're good. Yeah, it'll it'll show up.
1:10:51
JD I'm waiting, and I'm waiting to be on a real episode and not
1:10:56
a patriotic exclusive episode. I know, I know, You're free in a
1:11:01
couple weeks. I'm always free for podcasts.
1:11:04
We'll talk. I make time for podcasts.
1:11:07
Should get that printed on a T-shirt and JD You know, I
1:11:10
should also say, like I said, love your podcast.
1:11:14
But also that Bad Henson bio, bad Henson Bistro stuff is
1:11:18
hilarious and I'm glad it's still out there.
1:11:21
Yeah. Thank you, Danny.
1:11:22
I didn't know that you'd seen any of that stuff, so I.
1:11:25
Oh yeah, no, I thought they were hilarious.
1:11:27
Yeah, I didn't realize with you. Yeah, I know I wasn't totally
1:11:30
public about it because I went way off the rails with that
1:11:34
Henson bio recently, but the Bistro?
1:11:38
Actually, it was the Bistro that that really impressed me.
1:11:41
That like how long you were able to keep that rolling, Yeah.
1:11:46
Danny, where can people find you if you wish to be found?
1:11:51
Well, my my Muppet relevant project is Muppet Pictures.
1:11:54
You can find me on Twitter or Facebook.
1:11:57
And also take a look for the Superheroes Everyday podcast.
1:12:00
It's on Spotify. You can also find me like
1:12:03
Twitter and Facebook talking about those or any place that
1:12:06
you get your podcast. All right.
1:12:09
And hey, you can find me on Tough Pigs is probably again,
1:12:15
the only one that I'm sure will not fall apart by the time this
1:12:19
episode is released. Would have done it.
1:12:22
Hey, listen, it lasted this long.
1:12:24
It lasted longer than Twitter. You can find me on Twitter at
1:12:30
Uncle Petunio. That's Uncle Like Uncle Sam.
1:12:34
And then Petunio, which is like the flower with an O instead of
1:12:38
an A. And I'm on the other socials at
1:12:41
Tallgirl Petunia. So that's Instagram.
1:12:45
Blue Sky Threads Tumblr. Discord.
1:12:53
I don't know. We're we're just throwing,
1:12:55
throwing darts at the wall, trying to see what sticks.
1:12:59
But most importantly, you can find
1:13:00
toughpigs.online@toughpigs.com or at any of the many social
1:13:05
media services, all the ones I listed.
1:13:10
You can find us there. And of course, you can also find
1:13:14
tough pigs at. T public check out the Tough
1:13:18
Pigs T public we've got a couple fun shirt designs, one themed
1:13:22
after Hubble Wah, a Grover one I designed.
1:13:26
Couple Pride merch shirts that I think we still have floating
1:13:30
around, so lots of fun stuff there.
1:13:33
And you can support us on The Tough Pigs Patreon, where you
1:13:35
could get access to some more free stuff, like the episode of
1:13:39
J D's podcast that I'm on. I'd like to thank a couple
1:13:43
people for helping out. Of course, both of our guests,
1:13:45
thank you so much and thank you for putting up with a weird one.
1:13:49
But I'd like to thank Stacy Rosen for writing the theme
1:13:52
music for the show, Richard Gomez for doing the host
1:13:56
artwork. Thanks to Joe Hennis, The Tough
1:13:59
Pigs Muppet Fan Podcast Executive Producer.
1:14:02
And thanks to Traveling Matt for encouraging us all to explore
1:14:06
the world around us. Oh yeah, and also thanks to me
1:14:09
for writing the show, hosting the show, editing the show
1:14:14
thanks to. You thank you.
1:14:16
Thank you. Thank, thank me.
1:14:19
And lastly, thanks to all of you at home for being with us on
1:14:23
Haboa, The Muppet Quiz Show. And as always, patriotism swells
1:14:28
in the heart of the American Bear.
1:14:33
George Washington Bridge, George Washington Washington Bridge,
1:14:41
George Washington Bridge, George Washington Washington Bridge.