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Hubba-Wha?! Episode #25 - Party Like It's 1999 · Muppet Fan Podcasts with ToughPigs.com

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  Emma doesn't think he's on Sesame Street anymore.
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  Happens to be the greatest place runner.
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  A place where you can kick off your shoes and I think I feel a
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  song coming on. Welcome to Hubba Wah, a Muppet
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  quiz show brought to you by toughpigs.com.
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  It's your favorite quiz show that's not like the others here.
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  Muppet fans, Muppet Professionals, and everyone in
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  between competes for fabulous prizes and to see who's this
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  week's toughest Pig. I'm your host Becca Petunia of
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  toughpigs.com. And tonight we're going to party
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  like it's 1999. That's right, today's episode is
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  all about the year 1999. You know, throughout history,
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  most years see the release of 0 theatrical Muppet movies.
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  And yet 1999 is an outlier because there were two
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  theatrical Muppet movies released this year, both Muppets
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  From Space and The Adventures of Elmo and Grouchland.
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  And yes, I have to use the full title at least once, came out in
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  1999. You know, it's been said by
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  some, not by Tough Pig's own Anthony Strand, but by some,
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  that 1999 was the best year ever for movies, or at least the year
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  that really changed the course of what today's cinema would
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  look like. And I was doing some reading,
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  and it turns out that that's entirely because of Muppets From
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  Space and The Adventures of Elmo and Grouchland, because these
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  movies were massive critical and box office successes.
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  And I'm sure that that's true and you don't.
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  You guys don't need to look it up.
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  I'm sure it's true. So today I've planned an entire
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  episode of questions about what The Muppets were up to in 1999.
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  Now, I was alive in 1999, but I was only 8 in 1999, so I don't
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  remember it perfectly. So I had to head to Muppet Wiki
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  to learn what I needed to help write the questions for this
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  episode. Plus, because we're talking
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  about a year of great movies, I turned to IMDb and to Box Office
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  Mojo. So Speaking of, let's agree to
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  play fair today. Please don't look at Muppet Wiki
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  or any other resource during this game.
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  Anyone who breaks this rule will be imprisoned in the Covenet
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  facility for scientific testing. Anyway, before we hop in the old
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  time machine, let's meet our guests.
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  As always, we're going to play our first game to tell a face.
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  Contestants buzz in to answer some questions about yourself.
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  Whoever buzzes in first will get introduced first.
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  Ready. Go.
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  All right, that is Tough Pig's own Anthony Strand.
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  Anthony. What's your name?
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  Anthony Strand. Tough Pig's own Anthony Strand?
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  Sure. That's my title, but we can say
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  it's my name. Sure.
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  So Anthony, everybody knows you. Certainly everyone listening to
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  this podcast knows you. You're a long time writer for
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  Tough Pigs. You Co host Tough Pigs flagship
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  podcast moving Right Along A Muppet Movie podcast brought to
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  you by toughpigs.com. It's.
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  True, I do. Which is a fabulous podcast and
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  is basically easily, easily in my top two favorite podcasts.
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  It's in my top. I don't know 53.
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  I don't know like. This OK, well, well, keep that
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  in mind. So the point I'm making is, is
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  everybody knows your history with The Muppets.
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  Everybody listening knows your history with The Muppets.
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  And if they don't, there's hours and hours of stuff they can
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  listen to that'll explore that. I know all about how you first
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  watch The Muppets on reruns on Nickelodeon at your
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  grandmother's house, and the rest is history.
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  It's true. So I'm not going to ask you your
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  history with The Muppets, and instead I'm going to ask you a
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  simple question, Anthony. Do you wake up in the morning
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  mean and grumpy and do you frown at everybody that you see?
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  And Anthony, do you like your oatmeal nice and cold and lumpy?
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  Sure, but I don't understand that reference.
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  I I I think it's something about Bert.
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  I I don't know it. Is it from?
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  Is it from Elmo and Grouchland opening song?
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  No, no. What is it?
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  I I don't know it. So Anthony, this is, this is a
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  classic Oscar the Grouch song. This this is like an Oscar the
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  Grouch song from the 70s. This is like.
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  I believe. When we had that long
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  conversation on the group chat about the fact that I thought
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  that Counting is Wonderful was like the most classic count song
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  ever and you'd never heard anyway, it's called the Grouch
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  Song I. Don't know it.
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  Carol Spinney sings it, and for it was Carol.
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  Spinney sings it. You already said it's a classic
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  Oscar the Grouch song from the 70s, and now, as though this was
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  additional information you added, Carol Spinney sings it
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  well. It is worth noting that on the
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  Elmo and Grouchland CD, but not in the movie, there's a bonus
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  version of it that is sung by Oscar, Elmo and Grizzy.
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  So, you know, keep that. In mind I I truly thought you
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  were gonna say sung by Mandy Patinkin.
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  I really did. I won't, man, Can you imagine?
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  It'd be great. It'd be great.
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  I'm sorry. I really am sorry to ruin the
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  bit. I don't.
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  I didn't know it. I.
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  OK, OK, OK, that's fine. There's no questions about it,
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  'cause it technically wasn't in the movie.
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  You're fine. And Anthony, my third question
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  for you is actually you didn't answer do do you wake up in the
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  morning meaning grumpy and frown at everybody that you see?
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  Only on Thursdays. OK.
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  That's fair. And Anthony, my last question
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  for you is, did you see either of these movies in theaters in
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  1999? No, I did not see either of them
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  in theaters. I was 14 years old, and I broke
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  my leg in June, the same month that most from space came out.
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  And so I had a broken leg at the time.
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  And so I couldn't go see it at the movie theater and Elmo and
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  Grouchland, I don't know. I wasn't gonna go see that at
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  the theater. Certainly.
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  Certainly not when you're 14, not when.
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  I'm 14, exactly like I think even if I'd been like 19, I
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  probably would have or something, you know?
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  14 is the exact age where you are not gonna go see a Sesame
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  Street movie in public. Exactly.
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  I I will say I I'm pretty sure I saw Muppets from Space in
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  theaters. I know I did not see Elmo in
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  Grouchland and. Theaters.
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  No one did. No one did.
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  Well, we'll get there. I mean, hold on.
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  Wait. Well, by my count, everyone did.
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  And it's the most successful blockbuster movie of all time.
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  Uh huh. Uh, huh.
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  Oh, that's that's what I read. But anyway, thank you so much,
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  Anthony, for all of those questions and whether or not
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  you've heard the classic Carroll Spinney number, the Grouch song.
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  Well, I'm. I'm certainly going to look it
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  up now. You should.
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  It's great. Sure.
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  But you still earn yourself 20 points.
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  Let's move on to our 2nd guest. 2nd guest what is your name?
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  My name is Patrick Cotner, and I'm hoping to earn myself 30
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  points in this opening segment. Oh.
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  Well, maybe you will. Patrick, you know you aren't as
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  regular of a fixture on Tough Pigs, So I'm gonna ask you.
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  First of all, I'm gonna ask you for our audience.
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  What is it that you do? Great question.
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  I'm. A Patrick, can you answer that
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  question for me? Because I'm honestly, what do
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  you do? I I don't know if I know.
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  Yeah, but I'm. A I'm a producer.
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  I'm a talent Booker. I'm a Co host.
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  I'm AII work in the comedy world.
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  I do a show called The George Lucas Talk Show with Connor
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  Ratliff and Griffin Newman. I produced a show called ASCAP
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  out at UCB Theater in Los Angeles.
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  I booked a bunch of podcasts. I worked on The Chris Gethard
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  Show. I I I interned at Sesame Street.
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  I sort of, you know, bop around for whoever will give me money,
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  you know, and I'm hoping to earn 30 points in this opening.
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  OK, OK. OK.
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  Well, I'm, I'm, we're getting close.
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  And how about The Muppets, What's your history with them?
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  You hear about those guys, The Muppets?
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  I I have heard about them. I it would be this would be
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  tough. This would be a tough show for
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  me to be on if I was like, oh, I don't know those guys, you know?
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  No, I was a big Muppet kid growing up.
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  My my aunt was very into The Muppets when she was a child,
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  and my grandma and grandpa had saved all of her stuff.
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  So I had books and I had toys and I had, you know, VHS tapes
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  from when she was a kid. So I the first thing I really
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  remember seeing was either the Muppet Movie or VHS of the
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  Vincent Price, Alice Cooper episodes of The Muppet Show.
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  It was like a Halloween VHS and I just watched those over and
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  over and over again. But they had all those puppets
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  that came out in the 70s the like mass produced, you know,
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  Miss Piggy and Animal and Ralph and all those.
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  So we used to play with those a lot as a kid and just never grew
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  out of it. Couple weeks ago, listeners
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  aren't going to be able to see this.
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  I finally got a Palisades Kermit.
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  Just the regular Kermit. I never had the naked, naked
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  one. Yeah.
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  So I opened it up. I have.
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  I have a fozzie and a scooter and I haven't been able to open
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  them because I know that once I open them there will be no other
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  ones for me to open in the future and that makes me very
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  sad. You can kind of see it's it's
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  hard, but I'm pointing with my pencil eraser at New Zealand and
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  Uncle Deadly. Who?
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  I mean the Kings. Who are over here sort of you
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  can kind of see. And you can you can cut
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  listeners you can't see this but the pigs in space place that is
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  up on a bookshelf. Behind.
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  Oh well, I can see that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  But. And listeners, you can't see
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  this, but right over there, you guys can't see it either.
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  But right over there, it's on my shelf, My VHS shelf.
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  I got Stetler and Waldorf sitting in their chairs right
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  next to the VHS tape of Meet Me in Saint Louis.
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  They probably, you know, I bet they would like that movie,
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  though. You know, they probably would.
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  Yeah, It's appropriate, actually.
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  Maybe I should. You know, what's funny is I
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  actually have Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men on tape.
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  I really should put them next to that.
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  One of those between the two of them.
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  Didn't you? We'll get into that, I was going
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  to say. And Patrick, did you see either
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  of these movies in theaters in 1999?
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  Now look, I hate to one up both of you, but I saw both of these
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  movies in theaters in 1999. I I was trying to remember while
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  you were talking. I know I saw Moen Grouchland in
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  a movie theater. I don't know if it was first run
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  or if it was like a summer movie program thing they were doing
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  where they would like re release kids movies to like I don't know
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  if you read five books, you got a movie ticket or something like
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  that, but I know I saw it in a movie theater within 1999 or
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  2000. You know it was within that
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  first year because I'm a little bit, the tiniest bit younger
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  than you guys. So I was still too old but was
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  happy to see it. I do remember though, I was
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  thinking about this. We, I grew up in the town where
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  the North American headquarters for Lego was and we were at a We
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  were at like a Lego block party thing and they were sponsoring a
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  cars like an SUV and it had a DVD player inside, like you
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  could watch DVDs, it would like flip down from the screen.
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  It was like super early for that kind of thing.
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  So it's really crazy that that existed.
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  And I remembered they were playing Muppets from Space on
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  the DVD player in there. And I was so excited because I
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  was like, mom, I want this car so we can watch Muppets from
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  Space. And I didn't care about the car
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  at all. I just wanted to watch Muppets
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  From Space. And so you also saw Muppets From
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  Space in theaters? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for
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  sure. I, I look.
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  Maybe we'll get into this later. Love Muppets from Space?
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  Easily Top tier Muppet movie for me, Yeah.
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  You're in good company, I feel like, of the tough pigs, Anthony
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  and I may be the ones who like Muppets from space the most.
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  I think that's right. I think that's right.
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  Yeah. Muppets from Space could be my
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  second favorite. Muppet Movie, probably my third
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  favorite. I.
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  Understand. I understand that.
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  That's great. My ranking is.
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  Wild. It's like a solid 5 or 6 for me.
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  Still not bad. Depending on how I feel about
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  the 2011 movie that day. Basically sure.
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  I think this is the movie I'd want to re watch more than a lot
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  of them though, which I also understand is crazy.
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  It goes down real easy. It's so short it's the shortest
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  one. So fun, fun fact, fun.
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  And see where I knew. I knew we would.
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  I knew we would get off topic. But that's what I got into when
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  I invited YouTube. And this isn't really off topic,
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  but like off script is I guess what I mean.
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  But when I was a kid, this Muppets from Space was the movie
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  I would watch when I was sick. So whenever I was homesick from
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  school, I would put on Muppets from Space.
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  So I've seen this movie, possibly more than any other
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  Muppet movie. I love that.
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  I love that. That's a good.
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  That's a good choice. I think you made the right
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  choice. Yeah, but we'll we'll talk all
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  about our our love or or Nah or where it's us on the show, our
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  love of. Muppets.
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  I think that's. I think that's right.
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  Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  I'll talk. We'll talk about our love for
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  Muppets from Space and of course, audiences love for
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  Muppets from Space. The biggest blockbuster of the
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  year 1999. Cause yeah, I was looking, I was
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  looking at at a book and it said that the biggest blockbuster of
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  1999 was a movie about space. And so I didn't even read the
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  next sentence. I just knew what it had to be
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  talking about was. 'Cause you you you said Lost in
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  Space came out in 1998 and threw it down.
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  That's what happened. And Attack of the Clones came
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  out in in 2002. Couldn't be that.
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  Couldn't be that I thought maybe it was Galaxy Quest, but I was
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  like, Nah, Nah. Anyway, the point is, Patrick,
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  you have earned 20 points, but you know what?
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  You're going for 30. And I forgot to ask another
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  question that I've been asking this season.
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  So both of you will start with Patrick Patrick.
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  What pronouns should we use for you on the show?
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  You can use he him for me. OK.
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  And Anthony, how about you? I too am a he him boy.
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  OK, so you guys both get 10 extra points, bringing you to 30
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  points. You'd think I would remember
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  that I added that to my script. And yet, here we are.
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  All right, Well, anyway, now that we've met our guests, let's
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  go back to 1999. Picture yourself in 1999.
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  Bill Clinton is in office. You just rented Donkey Kong 64
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  from Blockbuster. And of course, the Talk of the
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  Town are those massive Blockbuster smash hits, Muppets
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  From Space and The Adventures of Elmo and Grouchland.
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  That's all the town was talking about in 1999, so let's relive
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  this conversation in our first game.
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  Can you guess? In this round, I'll ask you a
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  grab bag of questions about The Muppets 2/19/99 theatrical
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  films. You'll buzz in to answer them.
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  It's basically just how trivia games work.
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  I don't know, I didn't. I didn't need to do anything
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  fancy here. Each of these questions is going
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  to be worth 2 points buzzing to answer, but Please wait until I
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  finish reading the questions so our friends at home can be
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  nostalgic with us. Ready.
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  Yeah. Let's go.
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  Andrew. Yes, Sir.
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  The remote. The goat.
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  The remote. The remote remote.
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  I thought he said The goat. All right, so this question I
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  had to ask because Tough Pig's founder Danny Horn said that I
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  had to ask it. What is the name of the
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  character that Bobo plays in Muppets from Space?
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  Anthony Rentro. It is Rentro to this.
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  To this day, I don't understand why.
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  And Anthony, I can't wait until you get to this on moving right
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  along because I hope that you will find the answer.
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  I hope we can. I hope we can, yeah.
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  Question Two Elmo's unwillingness to share which of
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  his belongings forms the main conflict of Elmo in Grouchland.
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  Patrick. It's his blanket.
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  It is his. Blanket It's Elmo's best friend,
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  as he says in the opening song to Elmo in Grouchland.
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  Can I also say, when you were reading those lyrics to the
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  Oscar song? Anthony asked.
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  Is that from Elmo and Grouchland?
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  And I nodded vigorously. I watched the movie yesterday
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  and I. I I'll admit that I did not
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  rewatch either of these. I should have.
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  It's, it's not in the movie. It's on the CD.
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  It's on the CD and I have to say, see, here I go again.
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  But that song, it's kind of weird that it's like Elmo is
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  singing it, but the concept is like Elmo is trying to learn how
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  to be a grouch. And it's so cute because the
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  song ends and Elmo tries to do Oscar's laugh and say have a
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  rotten day, and then Oscar laughs and goes.
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  Now that's my boy. And I just love this idea of
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  Oscar having like a weird paternal side towards Elmo.
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  I don't know, I always found that very cute.
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  That's. Very funny.
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  That's. The sequel.
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  That's the sequel. Yeah.
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  Louie's. Louie's out.
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  Yeah, we're getting rid of Louie Question 3.
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  Which classic Muppet Show character made his first
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  appearance in Muppets From Space since 1991's Muppet Vision 3D?
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  After eight years of neither silent nor speaking appearances,
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  I think Patrick buzzed in Patrick Scooter.
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  It is Scooter correct? Here's a fun question.
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  Where does Scooter appear on Muppets Anthony?
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  Is he a photograph in like the green room?
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  Yeah, he's a photograph in the green room or just on the wall
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  of the studio somewhere. Sure, that makes sense.
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  Yeah, but no, he's again. He didn't even appear in the
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  background. Treasure Island, Muppet
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  Christmas Carol. And then he's in this movie.
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  Question four, What is the name of the tabloid style alien TV
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  show that Gonzo and Piggy appear on?
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  Anthony. UFO Mania.
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  It is UFO Mania, correct? My favorite show.
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  Is it still on? Yeah, I've seen every episode 25
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  seasons. Is Shelley still there?
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  Yeah, Shelley Snipes is still the host.
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  She's doing well. They got rid.
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  They. Got rid of Rob.
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  Schneider. Exactly.
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  We're just putting in the same joke.
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  Question five, though, we always just call him Mandy Patinkin.
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  What is the name of the villain of Elmo in Grouchland, who of
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  course was played by Randy Patinkin Patrick?
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  Huxley. It is Huxley.
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  Mean old Huxley. Can I can I bring up something I
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  thought of while I was watching this movie?
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  I watched this movie and I was just like, what's Huxley's deal?
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  He's just a guy who lives in Grouchland and like sort of has
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  the mentality of a child. Correct.
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  OK, great. I was.
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  I was just thinking about it in real life and I was like, how
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  did he get there? I want the origin story.
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  What is Huxley's deal? You should pitch a comic.
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  You know, like the I have a. Great origin story for him.
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  He's one of the kids from the early seasons of Sesame Street
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  who accidentally fell down Oscar's can.
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  Oh, there you go. There you go.
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  I think that's fun. I think you should pitch that.
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  Well, listen and write. It wasn't there.
• 22:11
  Wasn't there a script for the Sesame Street movie, The third
• 22:15
  Sesame Street movie that was about how Anne Hathaway was one
• 22:19
  of the kids from season one of Sesame Street returning to
• 22:22
  Sesame Street? Oh, I didn't know that was the.
• 22:25
  Pitch that was at 1.1 of the pitch.
• 22:27
  Interesting. Interesting.
• 22:30
  Anne Hathaway, a person who's like, born in 1981.
• 22:34
  We're gonna be from season one of Sesame Street.
• 22:36
  Well, the the movie took place in 83 there.
• 22:39
  You go, there you go. Yeah.
• 22:41
  David's back, Everyone's back. The hot dog.
• 22:43
  Guy. Kermit Love the hot dog guy and
• 22:46
  all of that. Great.
• 22:49
  Great. Please.
• 22:54
  Question 6IN Grouchland, it's against the law to use shampoo.
• 22:59
  As a result, what do the grouches use to wash themselves?
• 23:06
  Patrick, I'm. Gonna say mud?
• 23:09
  It is not mud, Anthony. Do you know?
• 23:13
  Is it real, Pooh? No, that's funny, but that's not
• 23:17
  really a Sesame Street joke. Not at all, of course.
• 23:20
  Not no. But it's funny.
• 23:21
  It's it's cheese is the correct answer.
• 23:24
  It's cheese. Reminder though, Becca, that
• 23:27
  that is literally a Muppet Show joke.
• 23:29
  It's wig racing, Richard Hunt's character says.
• 23:31
  I I don't use shampoo to clean my wigs.
• 23:34
  I only use real poo. I don't remember that.
• 23:37
  Wow. Who says that?
• 23:40
  He's like in it's a Muppet Sports segment and it's Richard
• 23:43
  Hunt as like the wig trainer in Wig Racing.
• 23:47
  Weird. Yeah, I mean, it's a funny joke.
• 23:52
  Yeah. Yeah, Hey, and also Speaking of
• 23:56
  laws in Grouchland, some of your favorite Sesame Street
• 24:00
  characters get thrown into jail during the plot of Elmo and
• 24:04
  Grouchland. What crime do they commit,
• 24:11
  Anthony? It's like saying hello or
• 24:15
  something like that. Close, but no.
• 24:17
  OK Patrick, do you remember you watched the movie yesterday?
• 24:23
  I. Watched the movie yesterday.
• 24:25
  Is it smiling? It is not smiling.
• 24:29
  It is asking a police officer for help.
• 24:33
  I mean, I mean, look. Sesame Street reflecting the
• 24:37
  reality of life. As always, Question 8, Kirk.
• 24:41
  Thatcher wrote a similar script to Muppets From Space, except
• 24:45
  his involved Muppets actually going to Space.
• 24:48
  What merchandise was released themed around this script?
• 24:57
  Patrick by a hare. The Welch's grape Jelly jars.
• 25:01
  It is Welch's Jelly jars, correct?
• 25:03
  We had those when I was a kid. I had one of them, I had the
• 25:06
  animal one. I think we may have had all of
• 25:10
  them. I was at lunch with my friend
• 25:13
  Brian Lynch the other day and this came up in conversation and
• 25:17
  we were both trying to do best Offer on eBay postings for full
• 25:23
  sets of them. And both of us were like, we
• 25:25
  don't need these, we don't have space for them, but we want
• 25:28
  them. And I don't think, I don't think
• 25:30
  either of us won. They are pretty cool.
• 25:37
  Question 9 Gonzo receives a message from his alien brethren
• 25:41
  in his breakfast cereal, Captain Alphabet.
• 25:44
  Which Muppet character appears on the cereal box?
• 25:52
  Patrick the. Mr. Poodle Pants.
• 25:55
  It is Mr. Poodle Pants, So this is honestly something I never
• 25:59
  realized. I never.
• 26:01
  Did until you. Until you asked the question.
• 26:04
  According to Muppet Wiki, it is Mr. Poodle Pants.
• 26:07
  And according to Steve Whitmire, he filmed a scene with Mr.
• 26:14
  Poodle Pants as Cap and Alphabet.
• 26:16
  Who was going to appear in Covenant.
• 26:19
  Huh. It's on Bumpy Wiki.
• 26:23
  Wow. Wait, he was going to appear in
• 26:26
  Covenant? Correct on.
• 26:29
  No explanation of how that makes sense.
• 26:31
  OK. Do you guys know Ken Plume?
• 26:34
  Yeah, sure. He's write articles.
• 26:36
  He's write articles stuff. He has the cereal box?
• 26:39
  No. Kidding.
• 26:40
  Does he really that rule? He has the cereal box, which is
• 26:43
  very cool. That's great, yeah.
• 26:45
  But yeah, if you look at it, it is Mr. Poodle Pants with a
• 26:47
  different wig. I never thought about it before
• 26:51
  writing these questions, but Muppet Wiki has trivia on it.
• 26:56
  I always think about Mr. Poodle Pants, Question 10.
• 27:00
  Hey, for question 10, we're going to play a mini beat the
• 27:02
  time. So we'll go back and forth,
• 27:07
  starting with Anthony Anthony, starting with you back and
• 27:12
  forth. Name as many of Rizzo's fellow
• 27:14
  Lab Rats as you can. Bubba.
• 27:17
  Bubba is one of them. All right.
• 27:19
  Patrick, can you name another? The Birdman.
• 27:22
  The Birdman is another one of them, Anthony.
• 27:26
  Those are the two I can remember, so I'll say shakes.
• 27:30
  Shakes is correct I. Couldn't remember if that was
• 27:32
  his name. Is there only one more?
• 27:34
  No, there are 5 total. No, fast.
• 27:43
  Eddie Fast Eddie is one of them. And there is one more.
• 27:50
  And it's Masterson. It is not Masterson's good
• 27:56
  guess, Patrick. Any idea?
• 28:00
  I don't know. It's Troy.
• 28:02
  I have no memory, no memory of there being a rat named Troy.
• 28:10
  But Muppet wiki says there is, I should say.
• 28:14
  Troy and Rizzo in the morning. I did not rewatch Muppets From
• 28:20
  Space to write these questions. I knew the movie so well, and I
• 28:26
  knew I had Muppet you. Didn't know Troy.
• 28:27
  You didn't know Troy. Becca.
• 28:29
  I had Muppet. Troy.
• 28:30
  Becca. I I checked muppet wiki for
• 28:32
  that. And I also want to be clear, I
• 28:35
  did watch the movie today. I do not remember a rat named
• 28:38
  Troy. I just want to put that out
• 28:39
  there. He's the.
• 28:42
  One who is lifting weights. OK.
• 28:47
  Sure, sure. And for the last question, in
• 28:51
  this round we are going to play a mini.
• 28:54
  So there's 3 answers to this one.
• 28:57
  Buzz in and you can name as many as you can, but your opponent
• 29:00
  will be able to steal the three inventions Bunsen and Beaker.
• 29:04
  Give The Muppets to break into Coffnet.
• 29:08
  Anthony. It's like invisibility cream.
• 29:13
  Mm hmm. Mind control spray and door in
• 29:19
  the jar. Correct on all of them.
• 29:23
  Nice work. And the door in a jar kind of
• 29:26
  looks like 123 says it absolutely.
• 29:28
  Does. And the CG of the stuff going up
• 29:33
  against the the wall looks fantastic and no one should ever
• 29:36
  question it. Flawless.
• 29:38
  Remember, this is this is the same year that The Phantom
• 29:40
  Menace came out. Yeah, it looks just like Boss
• 29:43
  Nass. Yeah, maybe that.
• 29:46
  I was gonna go for Sebulba. Sure.
• 29:48
  Sure. Yeah, you can't.
• 29:52
  You can't. You definitely can't see them.
• 29:54
  But I have my boss, Nas and Jar Jar, and one of the pod erasers.
• 30:03
  I can't believe I'm forgetting which pod eraser.
• 30:05
  ODC mandrel. It is not OD.
• 30:07
  Manic. No.
• 30:09
  Is it Tinto pagalis? It's the one.
• 30:13
  It's then Quadraneros. It's not.
• 30:15
  I wish it was is this. Mannequin Skywalker.
• 30:18
  Is. It Sebulba.
• 30:22
  No, I'd remember that one too. She said Sebulba, She.
• 30:25
  Said that, is it? Let me guess this I want to
• 30:29
  really want to get this. Is it God?
• 30:32
  Who's left? Is it the one who goes and then
• 30:35
  hits the rock? It's the little one with really
• 30:38
  long arms. But who isn't Sebulba?
• 30:43
  Oh yeah, I don't remember who. Oh, oh, I don't remember who.
• 30:47
  It is. Well, here's why I'm
• 30:48
  embarrassed. I have the Comtech chip on my
• 30:51
  key chain for like my house keys.
• 30:54
  So in theory I see the character's name every day and
• 31:00
  in practice I do not remember it.
• 31:02
  Anyway, so Gazgano that's his name.
• 31:07
  Gazgano I have. One I have one Star Wars action
• 31:10
  figure. I own one.
• 31:12
  It was a gift from my moving right along Co host Ryan Rowe.
• 31:15
  I know it is. It is Dexter Jetster.
• 31:18
  Good choice. Good choice.
• 31:20
  Good figure. It is.
• 31:23
  Yeah, no, these were all a gift from my sister.
• 31:26
  You know, like found for a buck at a thrift store type thing.
• 31:30
  Like no one wants Gazgano anyway.
• 31:36
  Clearly, as evidenced by the Gazgano on my shelf over there,
• 31:41
  we haven't left 1999 yet. And neither of The Muppets
• 31:46
  because again, it was a huge year for them.
• 31:50
  Two new smash hit movies. 30 years of Sesame Street Muppets
• 31:56
  tonight, Not on TV. What a wonderful year for The
• 32:01
  Muppets. Well, I can't even say that with
• 32:03
  a strange face. It might have been in repeats by
• 32:08
  then it might. Have still Disney Channel by.
• 32:10
  Disney Channel OK, OK, new episodes of Muppets Tonight not
• 32:14
  being produced. No.
• 32:16
  So that's why we're going to play a new game called 99 Pieces
• 32:21
  of Cheese on the Wall. It's a game where I ask you
• 32:25
  trivia questions about the year 1999.
• 32:30
  I don't think I can ever use this game again in any other
• 32:32
  episode. It's it's not.
• 32:34
  Not my most versatile game. Each of these questions will be
• 32:39
  worth 2 points again. Wait until I finish reading them
• 32:44
  to buzz in. Here we go.
• 32:45
  Oh, problem there, Sir. You remember those parking
• 32:50
  tickets you asked me to take care of for you and and I said
• 32:54
  that. Oh, just say it.
• 32:58
  Cars impounded. Oh.
• 33:02
  We can take my company car. Fine.
• 33:05
  Great. 66 bottles. Beer on the wall. 66 bottles.
• 33:11
  Excuse me. Excuse me.
• 33:14
  Can this thing go any faster? I'm doing 30.
• 33:17
  Hey, you want to slow down there, buddy?
• 33:20
  We're out of traffic tonight, Sir.
• 33:22
  Safety first. Question One.
• 33:24
  In 1999, season one of this acclaimed Henson TV show
• 33:29
  premiered on the sci-fi Network. Anthony.
• 33:36
  Farscape. It is Farscape Question 2.
• 33:39
  Sesame Workshops Co owned television channel premiered at
• 33:43
  the start of the year. What was it called Patrick is?
• 33:50
  It noggin it is. Noggin correct Question 3.
• 33:55
  This 80s Jim Henson series had its first VHS releases in 1999.
• 34:04
  Anthony. The Storyteller.
• 34:06
  It is the storyteller, correct? Question four In an episode of
• 34:12
  Bear in the Big Blue House from this year, which of Bear's
• 34:16
  friends form a secret society called The Toilet Tears?
• 34:24
  Patrick is. It pip and pop.
• 34:27
  It is Pip and Pop, correct Fun fact about that episode that I
• 34:32
  have to say here because Lord knows when else I'm going to get
• 34:35
  to say it. Mitchell Kriegman, creator of
• 34:38
  Bear in the Big Blue House, said that that episode was created
• 34:42
  during a point at which Bear in the Big Blue House was so
• 34:44
  respected by Disney that he could get away with murder.
• 34:48
  He wrote the episode. Disney said that he could not
• 34:51
  air it and he said this is educationally relevant.
• 34:55
  Got educators to back him up and Disney was forced to air the
• 34:59
  toilet tears episode of Bear in the Big Blue House, which they
• 35:02
  did not want to air. Oh, that's so funny.
• 35:06
  Question 5 Sesame Street's 30th season ended in 1999.
• 35:12
  This was the final season of credited work for which Sesame
• 35:16
  Street crew member Anthony John Stone.
• 35:24
  It's not John Stone. I think.
• 35:26
  I think I know who it is. Patrick, do you know I.
• 35:29
  Don't know if I know. Oh, Raposo.
• 35:32
  Joe Raposo. It's not Raposo, Anthony, Do you
• 35:35
  know? Is it Jeff Moss?
• 35:36
  It is Jeff Moss. Yes, I I realized as soon as I
• 35:39
  see. It Yeah, he died around this
• 35:40
  time, right? Question 6 In January 1999, we
• 35:46
  met the most infamous Sesame Street character of all.
• 35:50
  Who is this new character who holds the honor of being the
• 35:53
  only recurring Sesame Street character that Elmo actively
• 35:56
  dislikes? Patrick?
• 36:02
  Rocco. It is Rocco the Rock, First
• 36:05
  appearance January 1999 Question Seven in the TV special Cinder
• 36:12
  Elmo. This Golden Globe winner played
• 36:15
  the role of Princess charming Anthony Keri Russell.
• 36:23
  It is Keri Russell. Correct Star Wars Episode 9 star
• 36:27
  Keri Russell. Correct.
• 36:28
  Show some respect. Zori bliss.
• 36:31
  Sorry. Saw it once.
• 36:34
  Would you believe I still haven't seen it?
• 36:36
  That's that's fine. Yes, I know.
• 36:40
  Comment. Listen, this is not a Star Wars
• 36:45
  podcast. Even though I was just talking
• 36:47
  about Gasgano, question 8/19/99 was truly Elmo's year.
• 36:54
  He appeared singing. Do you hear what I hear on this
• 36:57
  celebrity's Christmas album, Patrick?
• 37:05
  Rosie O'Donnell. It is Rosie O'Donnell, correct.
• 37:09
  Patrick, did you actually know that or was that a guess?
• 37:11
  You know, I had that CD. Come on.
• 37:17
  Oh. Patrick also featuring Billy
• 37:19
  Joel. Patrick, you truly are in a
• 37:24
  league of your own question. Nine in the 1999 book The
• 37:29
  Muppets Mixed Up Christmas, Piggy can't find her Christmas
• 37:33
  decorations. Things get even worse when her
• 37:36
  friends try to help because they can only find Anthony.
• 37:45
  I heard extensive wardrobe. No.
• 37:51
  What? You don't know this one,
• 37:52
  Patrick? $5,000,000 in a paper bag on the
• 37:56
  side of the road. I'm I'm I'm actually going to
• 38:01
  take issue with the question because the question was Miss
• 38:06
  Piggy's friends helper. Miss Piggy doesn't have any
• 38:09
  friends. Famously, she hates everyone but
• 38:12
  herself and Kermit, who she only likes for sexual purposes.
• 38:16
  She has no friends and she never has.
• 38:20
  I do think I know what it is. OK, so hold on, I can throw this
• 38:25
  out and give neither a few points, which is what I was
• 38:28
  going to do anyway. Patrick, do you have a guess?
• 38:32
  Rosie, O'Donnell. Patrick, you truly are in a
• 38:41
  league of your own. There's no crying at the mixed
• 38:45
  up Christmas. Betty Rubble is here.
• 38:53
  Yeah, the problem is I can only think of one Rosie O'Donnell
• 38:56
  movie. Yeah, and it's and it's wide
• 39:00
  awake. M Night Channel had a debut.
• 39:05
  Which we all definitely watched. Everyone saw wide awake where
• 39:08
  she plays a nun. Anyway, the answer is as you'd
• 39:13
  know if you looked at the cover of.
• 39:20
  The answer is as you'd know if you looked at the cover of The
• 39:24
  Muppets Mixed Up Christmas. I don't know why this is funny
• 39:28
  to me. The answer is as you'd know if
• 39:33
  you looked at the cover of The Muppets Mixed Up Christmas.
• 39:35
  The answer is decorations for all the other holidays.
• 39:42
  That's why it's mixed up, yes. And.
• 39:47
  Missus basil E Frankweiler is overwhelmed by how mixed up this
• 39:51
  is. The final question in this
• 39:58
  Truly, truly, I have no idea what's going on in this round.
• 40:05
  Another Christmas book from the same year, A Very Muppet
• 40:09
  Christmas, contains Muppet themed parody lyrics for classic
• 40:13
  Christmas carols. The Statler and Waldorf song is
• 40:16
  a parody of God, Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, and it is called
• 40:20
  Please Rest Ye. Wait, Patrick, did you?
• 40:28
  I did. I.
• 40:29
  Did sorry, I think that was you? Yeah.
• 40:31
  Do you know the answer? Isn't it?
• 40:33
  Is it Grumpy gentleman? It is Grumpy Gentleman.
• 40:36
  I think I had this book. You started saying that and I
• 40:38
  was like, wait, I know what this is.
• 40:41
  Yeah. Yeah, and now I want this book
• 40:44
  and I'm I need to record them all.
• 40:47
  But anyway, now you have some things to discuss at the next
• 40:53
  90s themed party you go to. And hey, as long as we're in a
• 40:58
  time machine, let's play our favorite time themed game beat.
• 41:03
  The. Time Idris Elba, Zooey
• 41:07
  Deschanel, Hugh Jackman, Aaliyah Shaka, Zach Galifianakis,
• 41:14
  Michael B Jordan, Bobby Moynihan What do these actors have in
• 41:20
  common? They were all on TV.
• 41:22
  Yes, but no. They all had their theatrical
• 41:26
  film debuts in 1999. Yeah, Wikipedia has a list of
• 41:33
  this. And it was super interesting.
• 41:35
  There was a ton. That was only some that I
• 41:39
  thought were the most surprising to me.
• 41:41
  What? Was Bobby in in 1999 I.
• 41:44
  Have no He might. How old was he in 99?
• 41:48
  He'd be like in his he'd be in his early 20s, right?
• 41:50
  Yeah, probably in 75. He probably would have just been
• 41:55
  out of high schoolish. I mean, now I have to Look, I'm
• 41:57
  sorry. It's OK, we'll get into.
• 41:59
  We'll get into what the trivia is, but.
• 42:02
  Yeah. Aaliyah Shawcott was definitely
• 42:05
  young in. 19 Yeah, she was. Well, because she was on state
• 42:08
  of grace not that long after that, though.
• 42:10
  When's that? That's 2002.
• 42:12
  But this is theatrical film debuts.
• 42:15
  We're talking. 2001. I feel like she was a kid in a
• 42:18
  movie, Like if you there's like a.
• 42:20
  She clearly was. Yeah.
• 42:22
  Yeah, because. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 42:23
  She's like my age, so she was definitely not even a teenager.
• 42:26
  At the time, she's got to be older than you because Arrested
• 42:28
  Development starts in 2003 and she's like and she's like 1514
• 42:34
  there. I mean, right?
• 42:35
  She must have been born in the late 80s.
• 42:37
  Eighty 98889 would be my guess. Yeah, 89.
• 42:40
  So she's two years older than I am.
• 42:42
  It says he's in something called 9 The Hard Way, which only has
• 42:48
  him and one other man in the cast, so I'm genuinely.
• 42:51
  Not sure. It's probably like some Shorty
• 42:53
  maid in college or something. You know, like.
• 42:55
  Yeah, well, listen, Wikipedia says that 1999 was Bobby
• 42:59
  Moynihan's theatrical film debut.
• 43:02
  The Year of Moynihan. That's what we called it.
• 43:06
  I remember everyone was talking about Bobby Moynihan.
• 43:11
  I said this man one day will appear in two separate live
• 43:18
  Muppet shows. Can we can we talk as long as
• 43:21
  we're as long as we are digressing, talking about Bobby
• 43:25
  Moynihan? It always makes me sad that
• 43:28
  there's no pithy clip of Bobby Moynihan on Larry King.
• 43:32
  And now it's too late, because we got Ben Schwartz getting
• 43:36
  Larry to do a Sonic voice and we got Danny Pootie saying Larry,
• 43:39
  I'm on Duck Tales, and we don't have Bobby Moynihan, the third
• 43:43
  nephew. We don't.
• 43:45
  Saying anything to Larry and it's an it's a tricky.
• 43:47
  Ever. I wonder if he ever met Larry.
• 43:49
  Next time I see him, I will ask him if he ever met Larry.
• 43:52
  Let me know please let me. Know an addendum to this podcast
• 43:55
  that'd. Be great, Patrick.
• 43:56
  Next time you see him, can you ask him about the movie he's in
• 43:59
  in 19? 98 I was almost typing up a text
• 44:03
  message saying. And I do have to say, if you
• 44:07
  want to hear more from Bobby Moynihan on this very podcast
• 44:10
  feed, he recorded an episode with our friends Joe Hennis and
• 44:15
  Jared Faircloth for their podcast to introduce our guest
• 44:18
  star. He was the titular guest star.
• 44:21
  He was. Joe and Jared were the titular
• 44:24
  hour. Oh, were you going to say that?
• 44:26
  I'm sorry. It's OK.
• 44:27
  I was going to say they were the titular to introduce, so yours
• 44:31
  was better anyway. So if Idris Elba, Zooey
• 44:36
  Deschanel, Hugh Jackman and Co all had their theatrical film
• 44:40
  debuts in 1999, that got me thinking.
• 44:44
  Which Muppet and Sesame Street characters made their theatrical
• 44:48
  film debuts in 1999? That's why in this round of Beat
• 44:53
  the Time you'll take turns naming existing Muppet or Sesame
• 44:58
  characters who made their theatrical film debuts in
• 45:03
  Muppets From Space or The Adventures of Elbow and
• 45:07
  Grouchland. Now be careful.
• 45:10
  I'm only counting named characters who had previously
• 45:13
  appeared on Muppet TV shows or on the television show Sesame
• 45:18
  Street. I am not counting new characters
• 45:21
  like grizzy, unnamed characters like the many alien Gonzos or
• 45:28
  and this is important, the various puppets from the animal
• 45:32
  show like Dikembe the Gemsbach who just kept appearing and
• 45:37
  stuff in this era and technically our characters, but
• 45:41
  no one is going to guess Custer the bison.
• 45:45
  So we are going to exclude those characters.
• 45:50
  My favorite thing about this is no one is going to guess this,
• 45:53
  but I have to make it clear that you can't guess this.
• 45:57
  Because no, no, no. Because you guys weren't going
• 45:59
  to. But there's somebody at home.
• 46:01
  There's. Somebody listening.
• 46:02
  Right, right, right. Look, someone wrote the article
• 46:05
  about Dikembe the Gemsbach on Muffet.
• 46:09
  Wicked. So someone knows him.
• 46:11
  And let me tell you, I sat there and I said, oh, that explains
• 46:17
  the random Gemspach waiting on line to see a Maul Santa in the
• 46:22
  Bear in the Big Blue House Christmas special.
• 46:25
  So I could now suddenly care more about this African antelope
• 46:31
  than any other Muppet. But I won't.
• 46:34
  So depending on how you count it, there's somewhere between 17
• 46:38
  and 20 named characters from Muppet TV shows and from Sesame
• 46:43
  Street who had not appeared in theatrical movies before
• 46:47
  appearing in either one of these films.
• 46:51
  In classic Beat the Time fashion will go back and forth between
• 46:56
  the two of you to see who can name more.
• 46:59
  If you can't remember one or you get the answer wrong, your
• 47:02
  opponent will have a chance to steal.
• 47:06
  So we are going to start with Anthony Anthony.
• 47:12
  Name a Muppet or Sesame Street character who made their first
• 47:17
  film appearance in 1999. Doctor Phil Van Neuter got gotta
• 47:22
  start there. Doctor Phil.
• 47:23
  Van Neuter Correct Patrick. I mean starting so strong,
• 47:30
  Johnny Fiama. Johnny Fiama, correct, Anthony.
• 47:35
  Sal. Sal Manella.
• 47:40
  But. Sal is put.
• 47:42
  That puppet is played by Jerry Nelson in Mobile Treasure
• 47:44
  Island. That is not.
• 47:46
  That is not the character site. It is not.
• 47:49
  Listen, good point. And here's Here's what's funny.
• 47:52
  Here's what's funny. I made that distinction for some
• 47:54
  of the other characters. Forgot to for Sal.
• 47:57
  Good for good, for you for catching that.
• 47:59
  But I am we. Just needed.
• 48:00
  We needed to have the conversation.
• 48:02
  Sure. No.
• 48:02
  No, I get it. I get it.
• 48:03
  Clear the. Air I just.
• 48:05
  I just. Can the gem Spock of Greece?
• 48:09
  I can just so clearly see the the Sal puppet Jerry Nelson's
• 48:13
  voice coming out of it saying the devil himself would have to
• 48:16
  call him scum that that ain't Sal.
• 48:20
  Come on. You pitched that a little higher
• 48:24
  and that sounds like Sal, though.
• 48:25
  Your your version of. It My version.
• 48:28
  OK, let's see. I'll try to do it like Jerry
• 48:30
  Nelson. I can't do it.
• 48:33
  The devil himself would have to call him scum.
• 48:37
  Well, that was pretty good. All right.
• 48:40
  You got a whole season of that coming up, so.
• 48:43
  Can't wait. That's my favorite song in that
• 48:45
  movie. That's gonna actually be the
• 48:46
  theme song, right, for this, this season of moving.
• 48:49
  You know, good question. I don't know, I hope.
• 48:51
  So you you singing, is that? It's gonna be me singing Love
• 48:58
  Let Us here. All right.
• 48:59
  The point is, the point is there is another character.
• 49:02
  Spoilers. There are other characters on
• 49:05
  that list who fit a similar bill to Sal.
• 49:09
  And we're we're counting that or not?
• 49:11
  We are counting Sal. I forgot to put an asterisk next
• 49:14
  to him, but I put an asterisk next to these other characters.
• 49:17
  Patrick Bobo the bear. Bobo the Bear, One of the ones
• 49:21
  who has those asterisks because he is in Muppets Take Manhattan,
• 49:26
  but with different eyes and not Bobo the bear.
• 49:30
  And he also does. He also does the honeypot dance
• 49:33
  in the theatrical film Mr. Willoughby's Christmas Time.
• 49:37
  Theatrical film. I know.
• 49:39
  I've never seen that. Oh, it's you gotta see it.
• 49:42
  It's it's bad in a really fun way.
• 49:45
  It's like it's it's a real good, bad.
• 49:47
  Well, I have not seen it either. Great.
• 49:49
  When you start breaking it down minute by minute, I'll come on.
• 49:52
  All right, I can't wait. I can't wait.
• 49:55
  No, Pepe. We didn't say Pepe.
• 49:57
  Yet we did not say Pepe Anthony is correct.
• 50:00
  Pepe, Patrick. Chip.
• 50:07
  Chip correct. Oh, good one.
• 50:10
  Anthony. So I'll switch tracks, baby
• 50:12
  bear. Baby bear correct.
• 50:16
  I mean, if we're going for Chip, you might as well say Zandra.
• 50:20
  Zandra is also there. Correct might as well.
• 50:24
  Or as well, get it out of the way at the.
• 50:26
  Time. Darcy Darcy from Muppet Muppet
• 50:30
  Real World Anthony. Yeah, let's say.
• 50:36
  I mean Zoe. Zoe correct.
• 50:39
  She's in that movie, yeah. Patrick.
• 50:44
  Rosita. Rosita correct.
• 50:50
  Let's see. So other sesame ones.
• 50:54
  So this might be wrong, but I don't think he's in.
• 50:57
  Follow that bird. Mr. Johnson.
• 50:59
  Mr. Johnson is not in Follow that bird, correct?
• 51:03
  And he is. There is like a waiter Grover
• 51:06
  scene at the beginning of Elmo and Graf, right?
• 51:09
  Patrick, Zip, Zipity ZAP, Zipity.
• 51:12
  Hold on, why don't I have Zipity ZAP on my list?
• 51:14
  Because I feel like he's. Like he's like on the beach,
• 51:17
  isn't he? He is definitely there.
• 51:19
  I'm gonna double check, but I think I just forgot to write him
• 51:21
  down. I think he's on the beach.
• 51:23
  He is, So I will definitely give you a point for Zipity ZAP
• 51:29
  Anthony, let's. See.
• 51:36
  Not telly. Because he's in.
• 51:37
  Follow that bird. He sure is pretty.
• 51:39
  Prominently. He was a fairly new character
• 51:43
  for Follow That Bird. Right, right.
• 51:45
  Yeah, Yeah. Elmo's in Follow that bird very
• 51:48
  briefly. So it's not Elmo.
• 51:50
  That's why we can put him on the DVD box, Anthony.
• 51:53
  That's right. That's right.
• 51:56
  I'm trying to think is like Roxy Marie in it.
• 52:00
  Roxy Marie is not in it. I'm sorry.
• 52:03
  So we're going to go back to Patrick.
• 52:07
  I think his name is Carter. His name is Carter.
• 52:12
  And listen, listen, Carter is one of the other ones that I
• 52:15
  have, the two asterisks. Because Carter was the female
• 52:21
  Jerry and the Atrix member who sings Days Go passing into years
• 52:26
  in in the wedding scene of Muppets Take Manhattan.
• 52:32
  Yeah, it's it's repurposed. Sure.
• 52:35
  Yeah. I wonder if Carter still exists.
• 52:37
  Probably we should. Clarify that we are talking
• 52:40
  about Howard Tubman's Butler. Here.
• 52:42
  Like. Patrick Patrick.
• 52:45
  He's a woman again in Haunted Mansion.
• 52:51
  Oh, interesting. And it's listed listed in the
• 52:54
  credits as Miss Cartier. Do you?
• 52:57
  Think they rebuilt him that just for like so long for like I
• 53:00
  have. No idea.
• 53:01
  And I don't know why. Again, and this is me saying
• 53:05
  this, I don't know why they keep changing the gender.
• 53:10
  Anthony, we're going back to you.
• 53:13
  OK, I'm trying to think of. I'm sure there's like someone is
• 53:16
  Grungetta in it. Grungetta is not, but she isn't.
• 53:21
  Follow that, Bert. She is sure OK.
• 53:23
  She's she's with with Louis and Bob at Mr. Hooper's.
• 53:29
  Oh, sure, yeah. Yeah.
• 53:30
  Holding down the Fort. Right.
• 53:33
  At least I'm pretty sure. I think that's right.
• 53:36
  I think I'm right. All right.
• 53:37
  Anyway, Patrick, do you have another guess?
• 53:41
  Is Stinky in it? Stinky is not in it.
• 53:46
  OK, Horatio of the elephant. Horatio of the elephant not in
• 53:50
  it. So I think we're going to have
• 53:51
  to call it here. Yeah, I think.
• 53:54
  So so characters you were missing.
• 53:57
  We will start with the characters from Muppets from
• 54:00
  Space Clifford. Oh, sure, of course.
• 54:05
  Wow. Wow.
• 54:07
  He. Tries to hook up with Tom
• 54:10
  Cruise's ex-wife. It's true.
• 54:13
  Tom Cruise's future ex-wife. Future ex-wife.
• 54:16
  Yeah, absolutely. Her name?
• 54:19
  'S Katie. Her name is Katie Holmes.
• 54:20
  I don't want to get backlash for only referring to her as Tom
• 54:23
  View, Tom Cruise's ex-wife. She's a very talented actress.
• 54:25
  Should have stayed with the Batman movies.
• 54:27
  It was a mistake. She's bet much better than
• 54:29
  Maggie Gyllenhaal is in those movies.
• 54:31
  She's also just pretty good in other stuff too, but.
• 54:33
  Yes, 100. Percent Listen, it was funnier
• 54:35
  the way that you delivered the line I liked.
• 54:37
  I liked it when she sang on my own at the talent show.
• 54:42
  I would have counted. Was I the only one who watched
• 54:45
  Dawson's Creek? Correct.
• 54:47
  See the problem? See, it's it's 'cause it's
• 54:49
  'cause we're young. I'm.
• 54:50
  I'm older. I'm so much older than both.
• 54:52
  This movie is the most exposure to Dawson's Creek I've ever had.
• 54:56
  This is the most I've ever seen those characters talk.
• 54:59
  My brother was like all in on Dawson's Creek, so I like it's
• 55:03
  one of I was in the room, I enjoyed it, but Christopher was
• 55:05
  like he was all about it. It's one of those things like
• 55:08
  you're six years older than me and like that's a huge
• 55:13
  difference when Dawson's Creek is on.
• 55:15
  Air, right? Yeah, Yeah.
• 55:16
  I was 13. I was 13 when it premiered.
• 55:18
  And it's the kind of thing that I didn't go back, you know what
• 55:20
  I mean? Of course not.
• 55:21
  Yeah, There's other stuff that like, Oh yeah, I didn't watch,
• 55:24
  you know, in 1999 that like I watched now and I think it's
• 55:28
  good. I have no desire to do that for
• 55:30
  Dawson's. Great.
• 55:31
  All right. Well, Joey sang on my own at the
• 55:33
  talent show and she nailed it. OK.
• 55:36
  All right. That's a tough song to sing.
• 55:38
  I I know. That's the thing.
• 55:40
  That's the thing. I've gone back and watched Les
• 55:42
  Mis, so I know that. And then I would have counted,
• 55:48
  although this is what I mean. When I said like 17 or 20, I
• 55:52
  would have counted Andy and Randy Pig and Mr. Poodle Pants.
• 55:56
  More like in photographs they. Appear in photographs.
• 55:59
  So if you really wanted to argue, I would have counted that
• 56:03
  from Sesame Street. I would have counted if you
• 56:06
  really wanted to fight me. The dingers.
• 56:11
  I don't consider them to be named characters, but they are
• 56:14
  not in follow that bird. They are only in Elmo and
• 56:16
  Grouchland, but also would have counted because I never said it
• 56:21
  had to be Sesame Street Muppets Gina and Ruthie.
• 56:25
  I was gonna. I was thinking about Gina I
• 56:27
  forgot about. Ruthie I I never said it had to
• 56:30
  be Muppets, so that's kind of a trick question.
• 56:31
  Here's a fun question that I learned from Muppet Wiki.
• 56:34
  What is Gina's last name? I knew this at some point I.
• 56:38
  Don't know. Apparently, it's Doctor Gina
• 56:42
  Jefferson. Oh, that sounds familiar.
• 56:45
  Yeah, her family had that sitcom.
• 56:46
  She was the the kid on The Jeffersons, right?
• 56:49
  Yeah, that's what it was about. Yeah, she's moving.
• 56:52
  Yeah, she's. Moving on up to Sesame Street.
• 56:54
  Yeah, she's Lionel's little sister.
• 56:57
  Anyway, hold on. Let me just calculate the points
• 56:59
  you each squared 1/2. Oh, I thought you were
• 57:02
  calculating the edit point for that joke.
• 57:04
  Yeah, no, just to edit that out. Oh no, I don't.
• 57:06
  I don't. Listen, there's no joke too
• 57:08
  stupid for me. Yeah, her dad was Earl
• 57:11
  Sinclair's boss 4/5. 6 All right.
• 57:19
  And listen, we can all agree there's no bigger celebrity than
• 57:26
  doctor Gina Jefferson, but I think we have to give credit to
• 57:31
  some other folks in our final regular trivia game.
• 57:36
  That's right, it's time for our favorite celebrity game.
• 57:41
  And certainly both of your favorite celebrity game mystery
• 57:46
  guest. You know, like I said before,
• 57:49
  some people consider 1999 to be one of the most important years
• 57:53
  for movies, and truly, there were some wild blockbusters this
• 57:57
  year. Now, this may surprise you, but
• 58:01
  neither Muppets from Space nor Elmo and Grouchland cracked the
• 58:07
  top 12 highest grossing movies for the year.
• 58:11
  I haven't checked, but I think that they're #13 and #14
• 58:16
  respectively. Yeah, I think so.
• 58:19
  I haven't. Checked.
• 58:20
  That's not bad. If that's true, well.
• 58:22
  That's not true. Let let me live in this.
• 58:28
  Reality I'm doing a bit. Let me let me live in the
• 58:32
  reality where moments from space was #13 highest grosser for the
• 58:36
  year. Let me have that.
• 58:39
  Well, anyway, while the top 12 movies didn't have any Muppets
• 58:44
  in them, they do feature celebrities with Muppet
• 58:47
  connections. So in this round, I'm going to
• 58:51
  describe a time a celebrity worked with The Muppets.
• 58:56
  With Sesame Street or with Henson.
• 58:59
  You'll buzz in and identify the celebrity answer correctly to
• 59:03
  earn two points. Here's the thing.
• 59:07
  All of these celebrities had a major role in one of the 12
• 59:11
  highest grossing movies of 1999. So you will also get a bonus
• 59:17
  point if you identify the blockbuster film from 1999 that
• 59:22
  this celebrity appeared in. I have shuffled the order
• 59:28
  around. So no, the first question is not
• 59:31
  going to be about the number 12 or #1 film anyway.
• 59:36
  It'll make sense as we go. Are you ready now?
• 59:39
  That. Is TV.
• 59:40
  The phones are lighting up like Vegas.
• 59:42
  What power? What heat?
• 59:43
  You're a hit. Not you, him, me, Gonzo.
• 59:48
  You've got it. Sure wish we could find a cure
• 59:50
  for it. All right, question. 1-2 years
• 59:53
  earlier he played the lead in a film with creature shop effects,
• 59:58
  namely the hilarious George of the Jungle Anthony.
• 1:00:07
  It's Brendan Frazier and it's the Mummy.
• 1:00:09
  It is Brendan Frazier and his 1999 blockbuster was The Mummy
• 1:00:15
  Question two in 1999's Muppet parody calendar, Miss Piggy
• 1:00:20
  appeared on a parody poster for one of this actress's most
• 1:00:23
  famous films, namely Piggy Woman Anthony.
• 1:00:31
  Again by a second, Anthony. It's Julia Roberts, Piggy Woman
• 1:00:35
  star Julia Roberts. It is Piggy Woman Star.
• 1:00:38
  It's it's Notting Hill. It is notting.
• 1:00:40
  Hill. It is Notting Hill, not Notting
• 1:00:44
  Hill. Patrick, can you steal?
• 1:00:46
  Is it Gary Marshall's own runaway bride?
• 1:00:49
  It is Gary Marshall's. Own Runaway Bride.
• 1:00:52
  I guess so, yeah. I'm I'm surprised that was the
• 1:00:54
  bigger hit of the two, honestly. I mean again, I just looked this
• 1:00:57
  up on. People were so excited to see
• 1:01:01
  Gear and Roberts back together. Again.
• 1:01:04
  Question Question 3 Alongside Bobo the Bear, he played an
• 1:01:08
  angry airport security guard named Officer Mimi in letters to
• 1:01:12
  Santa Patrick Nathan Lane. It is Nathan Lane.
• 1:01:25
  I don't think I know the movie, though.
• 1:01:30
  Anthony, any guess? 1999.
• 1:01:36
  I will tell you he is not the lead, he is a.
• 1:01:38
  Lion King is much earlier. Nathan Lane.
• 1:01:41
  I can't even think of anything It's producers is later.
• 1:01:44
  Here's a. Clue.
• 1:01:45
  Lion King 1 1/2 is later. Yeah, well, Lion King 1 1/2,
• 1:01:48
  What a great movie Birdcage is earlier.
• 1:01:51
  That's like 96, right? Here's a.
• 1:01:52
  Clue. The sequel to this movie.
• 1:01:55
  Features Oh, it's Stuart Little. It is Stuart Little Anthony, you
• 1:01:58
  got it. He plays the cat.
• 1:02:00
  He does play the cat. Written by Written by Rosie
• 1:02:03
  O'donnell's friend. At night, yeah.
• 1:02:07
  Question 4/3 and Elbow Question four.
• 1:02:10
  He guest starred on Sesame Street as one of his famous
• 1:02:13
  characters, helping Telly create the totally excellent video show
• 1:02:17
  Telly's Town Anthony. So that's Mike Myers.
• 1:02:25
  That is Mike Myers. And it's it's Austin Powers, the
• 1:02:28
  spy who shake. Correct.
• 1:02:30
  A movie that made something like four times as much as the
• 1:02:33
  original. Correct.
• 1:02:34
  That one is in the top, top 12, yeah.
• 1:02:36
  It was. It was massive.
• 1:02:38
  Question Five, since he also had another ABC show at the same
• 1:02:44
  time as the Muppet sitcom. He appeared in the second
• 1:02:47
  episode Hostile Makeover to Torment Kermit on the ABC lot
• 1:02:55
  Anthony. It's Laurence.
• 1:02:57
  Fishburne It is Laurence Fishburne Anthony The Movie.
• 1:03:01
  It's the matrix, of course. It is of course the matrix.
• 1:03:05
  I know this sounds like the most basic complaint ever, but my
• 1:03:09
  letters are not sending. I'm like, I have to hit it like
• 1:03:13
  four times for it to go, OK, we're going to try this again.
• 1:03:17
  OK. OK, question 6.
• 1:03:20
  Prior to appearing in this film, this character appeared in a
• 1:03:23
  variety of computer generated inserts for Sesame Street
• 1:03:31
  Anthony. Hey Arnold It is.
• 1:03:38
  It is it is not. Hey, Arnold, I.
• 1:03:40
  Don't know what it is because we've been saying actors and now
• 1:03:44
  you said this character. I know so.
• 1:03:46
  This feels like it's from a different game.
• 1:03:48
  It's not Steven Root as Milton from Office Space.
• 1:03:51
  It is not Steven Root as Milton from Office Space.
• 1:03:54
  The correct answer is Luxo Junior.
• 1:03:58
  Oh, is in Toy Story, is in the Luxo as in short.
• 1:04:00
  As in Toy Story Two, Question Seven, he appeared on Sesame
• 1:04:06
  Street to sing the Emmy nominated song about Elmo, where
• 1:04:09
  he played guitar and comedically struggled to find words that
• 1:04:12
  rhyme with Elmo Anthony. It's Adam Sandler.
• 1:04:20
  That is Adam Sandler from the movie. 1999 Is it little Nikki?
• 1:04:25
  No, not Little Nikki. 1999. Patrick.
• 1:04:29
  Is it Big Daddy? It is Big Daddy.
• 1:04:31
  And that makes more sense. You had the wrong size you were
• 1:04:34
  thinking. Had the wrong.
• 1:04:35
  Size. You're thinking of a little
• 1:04:37
  nick. It's just.
• 1:04:39
  A Also Anthony, it's real cute that you thought little Nicky
• 1:04:42
  was in the club. Earlier I I knew it wasn't.
• 1:04:46
  That's why I said, is it little Nicky?
• 1:04:48
  No, 'cause it couldn't like, no way, man.
• 1:04:51
  Like that movie was like, not a hit, right?
• 1:04:53
  That's his first like, not hit, right?
• 1:04:56
  Even I knew that was a flop. Yeah, but I don't know about
• 1:04:59
  this crazy other list you're looking at, Becca.
• 1:05:01
  I don't know. But all I know, little Nicky, is
• 1:05:03
  #7 on that list. Like, I don't know.
• 1:05:06
  I went to, I went to high school with this kid named Josh
• 1:05:08
  Chenecki, who used to call himself Little Necky after that
• 1:05:11
  movie came out. That's true.
• 1:05:13
  Question Eight. She did ballet on Sesame Street
• 1:05:16
  while dressed as an elephant. Patrick.
• 1:05:23
  Natalie Portman. It is Natalie Portman.
• 1:05:25
  Far Wars Episode One, The Phantom Menace.
• 1:05:30
  Famous friend of Gascano. Do you think they met?
• 1:05:37
  Do you think Queen Amidala ever met Gascano?
• 1:05:42
  Well, he probably came to the wedding.
• 1:05:45
  All those pod races were at the wedding.
• 1:05:46
  I would love it if they're getting married by the lake in
• 1:05:49
  Naboo and the only thing is the camera was not turned around to
• 1:05:53
  see Mahonic and Gascono. Yeah, wait a minute, Anthony.
• 1:05:57
  We know for a fact that only two people.
• 1:05:59
  Were at the wedding. I know, I know.
• 1:06:02
  They were robots. They were our good.
• 1:06:05
  Good Friends, Muppet Show, Guest Star and Sesame Street Guest
• 1:06:08
  Star, C3PO and R2D2. That's true.
• 1:06:12
  Those guys were on that. Yeah.
• 1:06:14
  Anyway, question 9. Three years later, he would
• 1:06:19
  voice the Creature Shop character Barry Barrington in
• 1:06:23
  the greatest film ever released, The Country Bears.
• 1:06:32
  Patrick. Sorry I hit it so many times,
• 1:06:35
  'cause it wasn't going through. That is Hailey Joel Osmond.
• 1:06:39
  It is. Friend of Rosie O'Donnell and
• 1:06:42
  night the 6th Sense. True.
• 1:06:45
  It happened. Yeah, I talked about that movie
• 1:06:49
  a couple nights ago at ASCAT at UCB.
• 1:06:51
  The show I do because the woman who did monologues was this
• 1:06:54
  woman named Misty Rosas who plays Queal on the Mandalorian,
• 1:06:57
  The Ugg not from season one because she is the in suit
• 1:07:00
  performer for Barry Barrington. Oh, is that right?
• 1:07:04
  Yeah, Cool. Cool.
• 1:07:06
  And Haley Joelesman also went on to create those apples.
• 1:07:11
  Like craft Hard Site. No, it's on what we do in the
• 1:07:16
  shadows. And the.
• 1:07:20
  Creator of those apples. All right, anyways.
• 1:07:23
  Worth worth noting, and this will this will be.
• 1:07:25
  I know Anthony knows this, but I don't know if Patrick does.
• 1:07:29
  I am obsessed with the movie The Country Bears.
• 1:07:31
  I genuinely, genuinely, genuinely love it.
• 1:07:35
  I just got married a month ago and the thank you and the last
• 1:07:40
  song at our wedding was straight to the heart of love.
• 1:07:44
  We we all danced and sang along to straight to the heart of
• 1:07:48
  love. Amazing people.
• 1:07:49
  People were waving, waving their phones in the air like lighters.
• 1:07:53
  It was it was truly, truly an amazing experience.
• 1:07:56
  I love that fun, weird movie. Yeah.
• 1:07:59
  Anyway, agreed Question 10. In the open and close episode of
• 1:08:05
  Elmo's World, Elmo's TV announces that coming up next is
• 1:08:10
  the film Closed Encounters of the Third Kind, starring this
• 1:08:15
  appropriately named actress Anthony.
• 1:08:23
  Glenn Close. It is Glenn Close. 1999, though?
• 1:08:28
  Oh, it's. Tarzan it is Tarzan.
• 1:08:30
  She's correct. She's.
• 1:08:30
  Tarzan's mom, Yeah. She is Tarzan's mom.
• 1:08:33
  Carla's gonna be his mother now, yeah.
• 1:08:35
  I couldn't. I couldn't do Rosie O'Donnell.
• 1:08:37
  That would have been too obvious.
• 1:08:38
  And believe it or not, the others don't seem to have any
• 1:08:40
  connections. I couldn't find a Mini.
• 1:08:43
  Wayne Knight never never ordered The Muppets.
• 1:08:46
  Wayne Knight in. And he's in Tarzan.
• 1:08:48
  Yeah, that's right. The elephant.
• 1:08:50
  He's the elephant in Tarzan. But maybe he doesn't.
• 1:08:52
  It just seems like someone who would have crossed paths with
• 1:08:54
  them at some. I don't think he.
• 1:08:56
  Did I don't think Wayne Knight does, yeah.
• 1:08:59
  Lance Hendrickson, Either, yeah. Who plays Tarzan's stepdad?
• 1:09:03
  Who hates him? Yeah.
• 1:09:04
  Huge year, huge year for Clayton performer Brian Blessed, who
• 1:09:07
  also played Boss. Now, boss, Yeah.
• 1:09:10
  Episode 1. The Fan.
• 1:09:10
  Right. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:09:11
  But doesn't seem to have a Muppet connection again.
• 1:09:14
  And he was he. Was on, he was on Doctor Who.
• 1:09:17
  He has that going for him. We talked about Rosie O'Donnell
• 1:09:19
  too much, so I had to skip Turk. Right.
• 1:09:22
  Yeah, yeah, sure. She was trashing the camp, Yeah.
• 1:09:25
  Pepe the King Prawn appeared on a Christmas episode of her short
• 1:09:29
  lived talk show where he was fascinated by the wreath pattern
• 1:09:35
  on this talk show host's chest. I think Patrick buzzed in I.
• 1:09:46
  Didn't, did you? I did.
• 1:09:47
  I. Did, I'm sorry, sorry.
• 1:09:49
  Sorry. Is it Bonnie Hunt?
• 1:09:52
  It is Bonnie Hunt. Patrick.
• 1:09:54
  I was genuinely wondering if you were the one who put that clip
• 1:09:57
  on YouTube. It was not it usually.
• 1:09:59
  It usually is me, but it's not in this.
• 1:10:01
  Yeah, Toy Story 2. She's not in Toy Story 2, but
• 1:10:07
  you do get two points. Anthony, what was the Bonnie
• 1:10:10
  Hunt blockbuster of 1999? 1999 I don't know.
• 1:10:16
  I can't think of it cause Jerry Maguire's earlier correctly
• 1:10:19
  which was a big hit 1999 Bunny Hunt.
• 1:10:26
  Is it an animated movie? It is not an animated movie.
• 1:10:31
  It's not Beethoven. That's related to.
• 1:10:34
  It's not Rain, Man. I should note I have a
• 1:10:37
  Beethoven. I don't think you can see him,
• 1:10:38
  but I have a Beethoven on my shelf over there.
• 1:10:41
  That's 80s robot. Anyway, no idea.
• 1:10:44
  The answer is the Green Mile. Oh yeah, sure.
• 1:10:48
  I don't. Even remember her being in that.
• 1:10:50
  But I believe you. She's I, You know, weirdly
• 1:10:53
  enough, not a lot of Tom Hanks connections with The Muppets,
• 1:10:57
  which is. Feels like there should be.
• 1:11:00
  He's. Definitely one of those guys.
• 1:11:02
  He's one of those guys who, until recently, Weird Al was one
• 1:11:04
  of them like that, you know? And the last question, I do not
• 1:11:10
  believe any actors in the tenth, highest grossing film of 1999
• 1:11:15
  ever worked with The Muppets. But you should know that the
• 1:11:18
  state where it takes place is the same state where Jim Henson
• 1:11:24
  went to college and where Kevin Clash was born.
• 1:11:27
  What state, Anthony? Both Maryland.
• 1:11:35
  It is Maryland Anthony what was the 10th highest grossing film
• 1:11:39
  of 1999 that took place in Maryland and features no actors
• 1:11:45
  with Muppet connections. Took place in Maryland.
• 1:11:48
  Not a single actor with. A Muppet Connection.
• 1:11:50
  It's a Baltimore movie I didn't know.
• 1:11:52
  David Simon wrote the 10th highest grossing movie of 1988.
• 1:11:56
  I was gonna say it's The Wire season one.
• 1:11:57
  Yeah, that was. My yeah.
• 1:12:00
  Yeah, yeah, I think it was some of them.
• 1:12:02
  Had to have been had to some of the wire cast crossed over.
• 1:12:07
  Yeah, I don't Michael B Jordan ever worked with Muppets.
• 1:12:09
  Seems like he would have. He's very prominent in season
• 1:12:12
  one of The Wire. That's true.
• 1:12:13
  He is, and this was his first he filmed debuted this year.
• 1:12:17
  He He's in this movie. No.
• 1:12:19
  Oh, just this was his film debut 1999, is it?
• 1:12:26
  No, this he got game just takes place at State College or
• 1:12:28
  whatever. I don't know.
• 1:12:30
  I don't know what. It is fun fact I love this
• 1:12:33
  movie, Patrick. I have no idea.
• 1:12:36
  I am talking, of course, about The Blair Witch Project.
• 1:12:41
  Oh, sure. I've never seen it.
• 1:12:42
  I didn't. I could.
• 1:12:43
  You could have given me a million years and I never would
• 1:12:46
  have come. Up it really.
• 1:12:46
  Never. No, it's it's the only time ever
• 1:12:50
  that a blockbuster has been released without, like, a single
• 1:12:53
  celebrity in it. Right.
• 1:12:55
  Yeah, yeah. Like.
• 1:12:57
  Yeah, I would not have known that took place in Baltimore
• 1:13:00
  either. Yeah.
• 1:13:01
  Anyway, these tenuous Muppet connections are exactly why
• 1:13:06
  these movies all did so well at the box office.
• 1:13:10
  And Speaking of, you know, you guys got me thinking maybe
• 1:13:14
  Muppets from Space and Elmo and Grouchland didn't do so great at
• 1:13:19
  the box office. So while I look that up, why
• 1:13:24
  don't we play a quick round of the Anything in the World Prize
• 1:13:27
  game? As you know, in this round you 2
• 1:13:31
  will be able to ask me anything in the world literally about The
• 1:13:36
  Muppets in 1999 or just about 1999.
• 1:13:40
  I wasn't very clear in my directions, so honestly this is
• 1:13:44
  going to be weird. As always, if you stump me, you
• 1:13:49
  will earn 15 points. Anyway, it's a really close
• 1:13:54
  game, unsurprisingly right now before we enter our Anything in
• 1:13:59
  the World Prize game. Anthony, you have 76 points.
• 1:14:02
  Patrick, you have 73 points. Wow.
• 1:14:08
  It's a close game, so Patrick, why don't you ask me your
• 1:14:13
  question first? Yeah.
• 1:14:15
  So I I'm, I'm only going to ask you one.
• 1:14:17
  I do have four questions and I want you to answer the other
• 1:14:20
  three once we're done. They don't have to count for
• 1:14:22
  anything. You know, that sounds like it
• 1:14:25
  could be we could do it at the end and that could be some Boko.
• 1:14:28
  Boko OK, I'm going to ask you. Oh God, these are hard to figure
• 1:14:33
  out which one you want. OK, OK.
• 1:14:36
  At the beginning of the of Muppets from Space, they are all
• 1:14:40
  waking up in their house. Rizzo is working out on a on a
• 1:14:45
  mousetrap. Next to him is a Letterman
• 1:14:48
  jacket. It is a yellow Letterman jacket.
• 1:14:51
  It is not the jacket that Rizzo was wearing during the rest of
• 1:14:53
  the movie. On the back of the jacket it
• 1:14:56
  says something. What does it say?
• 1:15:00
  You know, I don't know. And here's the thing.
• 1:15:02
  I can never even remember what it says on the back of Rizzo's
• 1:15:05
  actual Letterman. Jacket.
• 1:15:07
  I don't think it says anything on the back.
• 1:15:09
  No, there is at least one that does.
• 1:15:11
  Oh really? I think it's one of those things
• 1:15:13
  that like, maybe I'm wrong, but either way, I don't know.
• 1:15:16
  It says cheese for life. You're shockingly close.
• 1:15:28
  It says the cheese whiz cast and crew, and it's like the whiz.
• 1:15:34
  You know, that's actually decently funny.
• 1:15:37
  Sure. Yeah, because.
• 1:15:40
  But also the rats, including Rizzo, did.
• 1:15:43
  He's on down the road on The Muppet Show Season 5.
• 1:15:45
  And the rats are the munchkins in Muppets Wizard of Oz.
• 1:15:50
  The best movie ever. The the third highest grossing
• 1:15:53
  movie of all. Time The TV movie that everyone
• 1:15:56
  hates? Yes.
• 1:15:57
  I do also want to point out I was trying to find a photo of it
• 1:16:00
  to send to you. Oh, I did find it.
• 1:16:01
  Great, but there is a Burger King toy from Europe of Rizzo in
• 1:16:06
  the Mouse Trap and he is wearing the wrong jacket.
• 1:16:10
  He actually Rizzo wears that same Cheez Whizz cast party
• 1:16:15
  jacket in Muppet Classic Theater, which I know cuz we
• 1:16:19
  just recorded our bonus episode about it podcast.
• 1:16:21
  No kidding. Interesting.
• 1:16:26
  Oh, like I see the toy here he is wearing his.
• 1:16:28
  That's his normal Muppets for like, Muppets Tonight Jacket.
• 1:16:31
  Also, I was wrong. The jacket I thought was yellow.
• 1:16:33
  In my brain it was yellow, but it's actually blue.
• 1:16:35
  OK, well then it's an unfair and I'm not giving you OK.
• 1:16:38
  Well then I'll give you another question.
• 1:16:39
  No, no, no. Give you another question.
• 1:16:40
  It's OK. I give you 15 points.
• 1:16:43
  Your score is now 88. Great.
• 1:16:49
  Anthony, do you have a question for me?
• 1:16:51
  I do. So there are 16 puppeteers who
• 1:16:55
  are credited on both Muppets from Space and Elmo and
• 1:16:59
  Grouchland. Five of them are Gimmies, Steve
• 1:17:03
  Whitmire, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Kevin Clash and Dave
• 1:17:06
  Goles. I'm not gonna let you guess
• 1:17:08
  those. I know that.
• 1:17:10
  You know those. It's interesting that Dave.
• 1:17:12
  I know that. You know Dave Goles plays the
• 1:17:14
  giant chicken. I know that.
• 1:17:15
  You know that. He plays the giant chicken.
• 1:17:21
  Famous non Sesame Street cast member Dave Golds is in Elmo in
• 1:17:24
  Grouchland as the Giant Chicken. But of the other eleven, there
• 1:17:30
  are 11 other puppeteers besides the main characters credited on
• 1:17:34
  both movies. Can you name three of them?
• 1:17:38
  OK, Ricky Boyd, OK, Peter Lynn's.
• 1:17:52
  OK. And I don't know Bruce Bruce
• 1:17:59
  Lynn Oil. So you got 1 Bruce Lynn oil is
• 1:18:02
  right great. You got you got one the so Bruce
• 1:18:07
  Lynn oil and then Bill Beretta surprisingly is credited on Elmo
• 1:18:10
  and Grouchland. No kidding.
• 1:18:12
  Yeah. So Bill Beretta's one of them.
• 1:18:15
  All of the others are people I've never heard of or like,
• 1:18:18
  maybe seen names in passing. They are John Boone, Lisa
• 1:18:23
  Consolo, Raoul Gorman, Rob Killen, Bob Lynch, Ed May, Tim
• 1:18:30
  Parotti, Andy Stone and Lisa Stirs.
• 1:18:35
  Yeah. See, I knew you wouldn't be
• 1:18:36
  asking me this if the correct answer was like Peter Lynn's
• 1:18:40
  Stephanie de Bruzzo and. Right.
• 1:18:43
  And well and and like like those two, for example, Peter worked
• 1:18:46
  on Mugsham Space. Stephanie worked on Elmo and
• 1:18:47
  Grouchland but like not not the other one.
• 1:18:50
  Yeah. It's like all of the people you
• 1:18:52
  would think you're you're Drew Massey's you're John Kennedy
• 1:18:55
  like all worked on on one or the other.
• 1:18:57
  Yeah. You know I.
• 1:18:59
  Presume they have to be they. Have to be local, North Carolina
• 1:19:03
  or wherever they filmed. It right.
• 1:19:04
  So yeah. So they shot Mugsham Space in
• 1:19:06
  Wilmington and they shot Elmo and Grouchland in but but.
• 1:19:13
  So that's why I was surprised that there are like 9 puppeteers
• 1:19:16
  that I don't know who they are who worked on both.
• 1:19:18
  Well, here's something interesting about they.
• 1:19:20
  Shop. They shop both of them in
• 1:19:21
  Wilmington. Oh, they did.
• 1:19:23
  Well, there you go then. That's why.
• 1:19:25
  Those must be locals. Here's something that's really
• 1:19:28
  interesting about Peter Lynn's and Muppets Muppets from Space
• 1:19:33
  that I learned from Muppet Wiki and wanted to ask but didn't.
• 1:19:39
  Can I guess? Yeah.
• 1:19:41
  Is it that his voice is in the trailer?
• 1:19:44
  It is that 'cause I knew that a lot of the time the Frank Oz
• 1:19:49
  characters were performed by other people and then Frank
• 1:19:53
  dubbed the dialogue. Later in in the trailer, he says
• 1:19:56
  my hair looks great and it's Peter Lentz.
• 1:19:59
  Yeah, it's, you know, it's honestly not.
• 1:20:03
  Awful. It's not bad.
• 1:20:04
  Yeah, I. Know I never noticed as a kid,
• 1:20:06
  and I used to watch that trailer all the time.
• 1:20:08
  Because a normal person would never notice.
• 1:20:10
  Yeah, but you can tell. Once you know, you can tell.
• 1:20:14
  That also happens in Elmo and Grouchland.
• 1:20:16
  Half of Mr. Johnson's dialogue is David Rudman.
• 1:20:19
  Right. Yeah.
• 1:20:20
  Yeah. And I was.
• 1:20:20
  Listening to it and I was like, sounds weird.
• 1:20:22
  Why does it sound weird? And then the second-half of the
• 1:20:24
  line is Jerry Nelson. And I'm like, what happened
• 1:20:27
  here? Well, they just forgot to dub
• 1:20:29
  part of it, yeah. Yeah, it it there's there's a,
• 1:20:33
  there's a couple other examples of that happening in like movies
• 1:20:37
  from this era. I think it happens in.
• 1:20:41
  What? We just, we just talked about it
• 1:20:43
  in our I said we just recorded our Muppet Classic theatre
• 1:20:45
  episode for moving right along. There's a brief moment in that
• 1:20:49
  where Rizzo runs up to Whisper in Kermit's ear and Rizzo is
• 1:20:52
  Dave Goals because they didn't die.
• 1:20:54
  Yes, yes, that's that's one of the ones I was thinking of.
• 1:20:57
  There's like a Kevin Clash, Statler or Waldorf in Muppets
• 1:21:00
  Tonight, I think. That would make sense.
• 1:21:03
  Yeah. He also Kevin, There's a Kevin
• 1:21:06
  Clash piggy in the Dancing in the Dark music video.
• 1:21:09
  Piggy has like one or two lines at the end and it's Kevin, yeah.
• 1:21:12
  Well, Frank wasn't around much at that at that time.
• 1:21:15
  Like he basically all but quit. But anyway, so Anthony, you have
• 1:21:21
  also earned 15 points, bringing the score to Anthony 91, Patrick
• 1:21:26
  88. And hold on a second, let me
• 1:21:32
  just check check the box office website again.
• 1:21:37
  Yeah, I got bad news for you guys.
• 1:21:39
  Muppets from Space and Elmo and Grouchland did not do well my my
• 1:21:46
  whole world view. Why did I even why did I even
• 1:21:52
  record this episode? The These movies didn't do well
• 1:21:55
  at all. Well, from space made like $14
• 1:21:59
  million or something, right? Like, well, here's here's the
• 1:22:02
  thing. Oh, that's gonna be the
• 1:22:05
  question. I'm sorry.
• 1:22:06
  Listen, yeah, it's almost like I was building to this as my band.
• 1:22:10
  No, it's OK Well, it's still anybody's game except Muppets
• 1:22:16
  from Space and Elmo and Grouchland.
• 1:22:18
  They're they lost. But it's still either of your
• 1:22:21
  game, because we are going to end with our final round.
• 1:22:26
  Say the word. In this round you can wager any
• 1:22:30
  amount of points. The winner will get those
• 1:22:32
  points, the loser will lose them.
• 1:22:35
  And well, seeing as I just learned these box office
• 1:22:40
  numbers, I might as well ask a little bit about them.
• 1:22:44
  Box Office Mojo lists the top 200 highest grossing films from
• 1:22:49
  1999, in order from highest grossing to lowest grossing of
• 1:22:55
  the two, Elmo and Grouchland and Muppets from Space.
• 1:23:00
  Which movie ranks higher in total gross, not accounting for
• 1:23:06
  the film's budget? And whichever one you say was
• 1:23:10
  higher, I want you to tell me what number it is on the list.
• 1:23:16
  So if number one is The Phantom Menace, #2 is The Sixth Sense.
• 1:23:21
  You are going to choose either Muppets From Space or Elmo and
• 1:23:24
  Grouchland, the one you think is better, or you or the one you
• 1:23:27
  think did better. And you are going to tell me
• 1:23:31
  what number it is on this list. Whoever chooses the correct
• 1:23:36
  movie and gets closest, I don't expect you.
• 1:23:41
  You're not gonna. You're not gonna, you know, 3
• 1:23:45
  pointer from downtown. You're not going to you're not
• 1:23:49
  going to do that I don't think. But whoever gets closest and
• 1:23:53
  gets the correct movie will win their points back.
• 1:23:56
  So are we clear on what we're looking for?
• 1:23:59
  So we're saying, so we're saying what made more money and what
• 1:24:03
  number? OK, so it's a number between one
• 1:24:07
  and 200, right? I'll give it away.
• 1:24:09
  One is The Phantom Menace, Two is the 6th Sense and 200 is
• 1:24:14
  Limbo. I will say both of them are
• 1:24:21
  between One and 200. OK, neither of them did so badly
• 1:24:30
  that they are not on this list. OK, so you both have correctly
• 1:24:40
  guessed that Muppets from Space did better than the film The
• 1:24:44
  Adventures of Elbow and Grab Flank.
• 1:24:48
  And I did not ask you this because I can only ask you to
• 1:24:52
  just randomly guess so many numbers.
• 1:24:55
  But Muppets from Space grossed Anthony.
• 1:24:58
  You want to guess? Is is it 14,000,000?
• 1:25:01
  It is not 14,000,000. It did better than that.
• 1:25:05
  I was going to say 15-5. It is 16 million, 16,625,000,
• 1:25:12
  Grouchland 11,000,000. Yeah, wow.
• 1:25:19
  So honestly, pretty similar. Now each of you guessed that
• 1:25:26
  right, but the question is how well did you think it did in the
• 1:25:31
  in the rankings? Now, I want to be clear and I
• 1:25:34
  should have clarified this, and I don't think it's going to
• 1:25:37
  change either of your guesses. If it is, I'll let you know.
• 1:25:40
  I'm just literally doing closest.
• 1:25:42
  I don't play by closest without going over rules.
• 1:25:45
  Those don't make sense. I can do subtraction.
• 1:25:47
  I can figure out whose number is closer.
• 1:25:55
  Patrick, what rank did you say Muppets From Space was on this
• 1:26:00
  list? I said 118.
• 1:26:04
  OK. And Anthony, what ranking did
• 1:26:09
  you say? I said 83.
• 1:26:13
  Patrick, you bid 50 points. Anthony, you bid 89 points.
• 1:26:21
  Unfortunately for one of you, and unfortunately for The
• 1:26:29
  Muppets, Muppets From Space was not the 83rd highest grossing
• 1:26:35
  film of 1999. That was, of course, Arlington
• 1:26:42
  Rd. Oh, with Jeff Bridges and Tim
• 1:26:45
  Robbins. I guess I didn't see it and.
• 1:26:49
  It was a It was a big Lebowski Hudsucker proxy crossover.
• 1:26:52
  And I will say I love. That though?
• 1:26:54
  Sure, I wish. I will say it was also not one
• 1:26:58
  18118 was. Is this a return release 'cause
• 1:27:07
  I thought this movie did better than that.
• 1:27:09
  Hold on, no I guess it didn't. On 1/18 on the list is the
• 1:27:16
  Rugrats movie. Whoa, whoa, Becca, you are
• 1:27:20
  looking at calendar grosses, not in your release.
• 1:27:22
  Correct. That's what I'm saying.
• 1:27:23
  That changes it. I think I'm a lot closer then.
• 1:27:26
  OK, hold on. In your releases, and then you
• 1:27:32
  know what? No.
• 1:27:35
  Hold on, Hold on. Thank you.
• 1:27:40
  'Cause I hate that about Box Office Mojo that it defaults to
• 1:27:42
  calendar grosses. I hate that about it.
• 1:27:45
  Now this is going to change our answers in this is anybody's
• 1:27:50
  game now because I don't even know the answer now.
• 1:27:54
  Thank you. What number did you say,
• 1:27:59
  Anthony? I said 83, OK.
• 1:28:05
  Whoa, I'm. This is exciting.
• 1:28:07
  Even I don't know who won. You said 83 doing some math.
• 1:28:20
  All right, well, let's take that again.
• 1:28:24
  Or we we aren't going to edit this out because this is too
• 1:28:26
  interesting. Film 83 was the Bachelor, so not
• 1:28:31
  Muppets from space and film 1/18 was chill factor.
• 1:28:37
  No, The The Bachelor is the remake of Buster Keaton's Seven
• 1:28:40
  Chances starring Chris O'Donnell.
• 1:28:42
  Is it really? To be clear, that's what the
• 1:28:44
  Bachelor is. Oh my God.
• 1:28:46
  Oh boy. And I bet it was better than the
• 1:28:49
  Buster Keaton version. Yeah, I'm sure, Yeah.
• 1:28:52
  Yeah. Yeah, comedy legend Chris
• 1:28:54
  O'Donnell. Hey, hey, that's Robin to you.
• 1:28:58
  That is, no. But Muppets from Space was
• 1:29:03
  number 95 on this list. So I'm way so I'm way.
• 1:29:07
  Closer to that. So Anthony is way closer.
• 1:29:11
  Swinging it around. Anthony Anthony by correct, by
• 1:29:16
  telling me to use the correct list.
• 1:29:19
  Because you are right. Because I was sitting here and I
• 1:29:21
  was saying there is no way the Rugrats movie did that poorly.
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  Right. Yeah, Yeah, it was a hit.
• 1:29:27
  Everyone saw it like. Yeah.
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  So thank you, but that came out in 98 and I.
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  Yeah, in like November, December.
• 1:29:37
  Yeah. And it just stuck around.
• 1:29:39
  Yeah. So thank you for that, for
• 1:29:42
  saving yourself here. Because Anthony, this is now the
• 1:29:47
  first actual episode of Hubba Wah you have ever won.
• 1:29:53
  This is my 4th appearance. This is your 4th appearance,
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  Anthony. I don't believe anyone has
• 1:29:59
  appeared more times than you. That's.
• 1:30:01
  Probably. True.
• 1:30:02
  Possibly Joe Hennis? Joe, I think Joe's been on
• 1:30:04
  floor. I think maybe.
• 1:30:06
  Possibly Joe Hennis, but it's certainly one of you two and you
• 1:30:10
  two are truly two of my all time favorite guests.
• 1:30:14
  But Anthony, you have finally pulled through.
• 1:30:19
  That was the most thrilling way to win by pedantically being
• 1:30:22
  like Becca. You're looking at the wrong
• 1:30:23
  list. But no, this is this is the one
• 1:30:25
  I wanted to look at again. I didn't right.
• 1:30:28
  I didn't realize like I understand the difference, I
• 1:30:30
  just didn't realize that it defaulted to Calendar.
• 1:30:33
  Because it's dumb. Like it bothers me every time.
• 1:30:35
  That's why I. Yeah, I I again, I didn't even
• 1:30:38
  think. But like, no, that doesn't make
• 1:30:40
  any sense Anyway, Anthony, even if I take away one point from
• 1:30:47
  you, you absolutely still win with a score of 180 points.
• 1:30:55
  Anthony, you win. You know what, Anthony?
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  You know what? So I finished writing this
• 1:31:04
  episode 2 hours ago, so I haven't had time to make a
• 1:31:09
  prize. So, Anthony.
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  Anthony, you are, you are, you are one of my one of my close
• 1:31:16
  tough pigs pals. Right back at you.
• 1:31:19
  You name You name a Muppet and I will draw that Muppet.
• 1:31:26
  All right. Do I have to let you know today?
• 1:31:28
  Can I think about it? You can.
• 1:31:29
  Think about it. You can think about it, but it
• 1:31:31
  makes. It gives the episode a much
• 1:31:32
  better ending if you say what it is, though.
• 1:31:34
  All right, well, you know what? Let's just call it digit.
• 1:31:38
  OK, I will draw you a digit. Star, yeah.
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  He's. Not in Muppets from space, no.
• 1:31:45
  But it kind of feels like he should be.
• 1:31:47
  So that's why I Yeah, yeah, I wish.
• 1:31:50
  He could probably, probably would have fit into the Joey
• 1:31:53
  Mazzarino script for Muppets from Space that apparently well,
• 1:31:57
  no. He also cause Kirk Thatcher's
• 1:32:00
  was Muppets in. Space.
• 1:32:02
  Joey Mazz had one that was all just sci-fi movie parodies.
• 1:32:06
  Because I don't know if you know this about Joey Mazzarino.
• 1:32:11
  He likes writing parodies. I.
• 1:32:14
  Did of existing films. I did know that because Digit
• 1:32:20
  also receives transmissions from outer space in the first
• 1:32:23
  episode. Sure.
• 1:32:24
  Anyway, that brings he's not getting any more points the
• 1:32:28
  game's. Done.
• 1:32:29
  That brings us to the end of another one.
• 1:32:32
  And what a what a wild, wild ride it's been.
• 1:32:37
  I oh boy, I can't believe that I was wrong and then right and
• 1:32:41
  then right and then wrong. And and knowing how Box Office
• 1:32:45
  Mojo works was the secret secret to everything.
• 1:32:50
  So because here's the thing, Patrick was closer by the
• 1:32:56
  calendar gross listing. So Patrick would have been right
• 1:33:00
  had we not change to the accurate listing.
• 1:33:04
  So anyway, Patrick, here's one prize I will give you.
• 1:33:08
  Why don't you tell us where you can be found if you wish to be
• 1:33:11
  found of? Course, listen, Becca, I really
• 1:33:14
  appreciate you being the Electoral College of this show.
• 1:33:21
  You can find me on. Oh.
• 1:33:24
  X. Patrick Kotner, PATRICKCOTNOIRI
• 1:33:29
  don't know if anyone's still on there, but you can definitely
• 1:33:31
  find me there. I'm also on Instagram at
• 1:33:33
  COTNOIR. You can watch the George Lucas
• 1:33:40
  talk show. All the episodes are online.
• 1:33:41
  We did an episode that's like 20 hours long where we watched all
• 1:33:45
  of Muppets tonight. Brian Henson was on.
• 1:33:48
  Bill Beretta was on. Kevin was on a bunch of writers,
• 1:33:51
  other performers, Leslie Paul Rudolph for all.
• 1:33:54
  Like so many people run, It's great, You should go watch it.
• 1:33:57
  We're also cited a bunch on Muppet Wiki because of that.
• 1:34:00
  And it makes me truly I was reading an article the other day
• 1:34:03
  on there and I went, wow, that's an interesting fact.
• 1:34:06
  And I clicked on the citation and it was for my own show and I
• 1:34:09
  did not remember that happening. It was 20 hours long.
• 1:34:13
  It was 20 hours long. It's a very long show, but it's
• 1:34:16
  it's worth it. It's very fun.
• 1:34:18
  You can, you know there's a bunch of crazy insane people on
• 1:34:21
  there that you can watch Seth Meyers, Weird Al Whoopi, so many
• 1:34:23
  Muppet adjacent people have been on and I think you will find
• 1:34:28
  something that you like. We're also going to be, I'll,
• 1:34:30
  I'll give a couple ideas. I don't know when this goes out.
• 1:34:34
  Do you have an idea? Probably December, probably
• 1:34:37
  December. OK.
• 1:34:37
  Well, then if if it's out before December 16th, we have a show in
• 1:34:41
  New York at Caveat. I will try to get this out.
• 1:34:45
  Before December 16th, at the first weekend of February, we'll
• 1:34:50
  be at San Francisco Sketchfest San Francisco trying to get a
• 1:34:53
  Muppet related guest. I'll say that.
• 1:34:55
  We'll see if it happens, I don't know.
• 1:34:58
  And then? Huxley, it's.
• 1:35:00
  Going to be Huxley? Yeah.
• 1:35:04
  But other shows, other live shows throughout the year, Keep
• 1:35:07
  an eye out. And then if you're in the Los
• 1:35:09
  Angeles area, you can come see ASCAT every week, every Saturday
• 1:35:12
  at the UCB Theater, and the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month as
• 1:35:16
  well. But that's it.
• 1:35:19
  Good stuff, Patrick and Anthony. Where can people find you if you
• 1:35:26
  want them to find you? I am, I am once again out and
• 1:35:30
  about. I've been using blue sky or blue
• 1:35:33
  ski as I usually pronounce it, 'cause it's one word a lot
• 1:35:37
  lately, and so you can follow me there at Derwood Clapper.
• 1:35:42
  And that's true. And I have been choosing the
• 1:35:46
  sensational character find of every year starting with 1924,
• 1:35:51
  and I'm currently up to 1953. So if you want to see what dumb
• 1:35:54
  character from some random thing I enjoy the most for each
• 1:35:58
  calendar year. Honestly, that's a terrific idea
• 1:36:02
  for social media. And I'm not.
• 1:36:04
  I don't always. I don't check my blue ski
• 1:36:06
  enough. I gotta.
• 1:36:07
  I gotta be paying more attention to your listing.
• 1:36:10
  Yeah, it's pretty fun. So, so I'm hopefully I'm way
• 1:36:13
  past 1953 by the time this goes out, but that's where I am right
• 1:36:18
  now. So yeah, Derwood Clapper, dot B,
• 1:36:22
  Sky Social or dot B Sky, dot Social.
• 1:36:25
  And I'm on. I'm on moving right along a
• 1:36:28
  podcast that might come back sometime to talk about Muppet
• 1:36:32
  Treasure Island. I am waiting.
• 1:36:34
  Waiting with bated breath. I listen.
• 1:36:36
  I know you guys. Your show is real bear to
• 1:36:41
  produce, pun intended a a country bear to produce.
• 1:36:45
  No, it's actually a bear with a man in his.
• 1:36:47
  Finger a bear with a a man in his finger to produce.
• 1:36:52
  But I'm I'm so excited for it to eventually return.
• 1:36:56
  It's it's really, it's really a special shot do.
• 1:36:59
  You know what happens if we don't come back?
• 1:37:04
  The bad guys win. The devil himself win after call
• 1:37:08
  a scum. That's all.
• 1:37:14
  And yeah, you know, Speaking of tough pigs, you can find
• 1:37:17
  toughpigs@toughpigs.com or tough pigs on On X or Blueski or
• 1:37:25
  Facebook or Instagram in theory on Tumblr.
• 1:37:28
  Although I updated the Tumblr like five times, I made a post
• 1:37:32
  saying I'm back and updating the Tumblr, and then I got busy and
• 1:37:36
  didn't update the Tumblr anymore.
• 1:37:38
  So are. They are they on Hive?
• 1:37:42
  You know, technically we are on Hive.
• 1:37:44
  We're on Hive. Yeah.
• 1:37:45
  No one threads. Well, we have an Instagram, so
• 1:37:48
  we're on threads by default. But yeah, and you know where you
• 1:37:53
  can actually really help us is by donating to the Tough Pigs
• 1:37:56
  Patreon, where you could get even more exclusive free stuff
• 1:37:59
  like maybe some Boko of of Patrick asking me other
• 1:38:04
  questions about the year 1999. We also, of course have Tough
• 1:38:09
  Pigs T-shirts, including a Hubble Wash shirt.
• 1:38:12
  I made a monster at the end of this book shirt that I made, a
• 1:38:17
  Tutter St. Trumpet Company Lips T-shirt
• 1:38:20
  that I made, some Pride T-shirts that I made, and also shirts
• 1:38:24
  that people other than me made, including some Christmas shirts.
• 1:38:28
  Tis the season or maybe was the season.
• 1:38:31
  We'll see when this episode comes out.
• 1:38:35
  But you should check them all out on our Tough Pigs Tea public
• 1:38:37
  because they're all really cool. I'd like to thank some people
• 1:38:41
  for helping us out. Of course.
• 1:38:43
  Both of our guests, thank you so much.
• 1:38:48
  Thank you to Stacey Rosen for writing the theme music to the
• 1:38:51
  show. Thank you to Richard Gomez for
• 1:38:53
  doing our host artwork. Thanks to Katie Lynn Miller for
• 1:38:57
  writing transcripts for the show.
• 1:39:00
  Thanks to Joe Hennis, The Tough Pigs Muppet Fan Podcast
• 1:39:04
  Executive Producer. Thanks to me for writing and
• 1:39:08
  hosting and editing and all the other stuff this show because
• 1:39:15
  it's always good to thank yourself.
• 1:39:19
  And thanks to Rainbow for driving Bunsen and Beaker to the
• 1:39:23
  beach. I should have also mentioned if
• 1:39:28
  you want to find me on social media, technically I'm on X at
• 1:39:33
  Uncle Petunio. But I'm gonna be real with you
• 1:39:36
  guys. I don't like going on X anymore.
• 1:39:43
  You can find me a lot more on the other social medias where I
• 1:39:46
  am at Tall Girl Petunia but really Tough Pigs is a great
• 1:39:51
  place to find me. So with all those thanks and
• 1:39:55
  with all those plugs, I want to thank you at home for being with
• 1:39:59
  us on Hubba Wah, The Muppet Quiz Show.
• 1:40:03
  And as always, get out. The Blair Witch Project is a
• 1:40:07
  good movie. You should know that.
• 1:40:11
  Good night everybody. Again.
• 1:40:17
  Ernie. Ernie.
• 1:40:18
  What now? Bert.
• 1:40:19
  Ernie, this is terrible. Elmo didn't get his blanket
• 1:40:22
  back. How can it end this way?
• 1:40:24
  It's so sad. Bert.
• 1:40:25
  Bert. Bert.
• 1:40:26
  No, Sir. Bert.
• 1:40:27
  Listen, don't. Don't Bert.
• 1:40:28
  Me. No, it's OK, Bert.
• 1:40:29
  The movie's not over yet. Oh, you mean good things could
• 1:40:33
  still happen? Of course they can, Bert.
• 1:40:35
  In fact, I'm sure good things will happen.
• 1:40:37
  Because who would want to see a movie with a sad ending?
• 1:40:41
  Bert. Titanic.
• 1:40:43
  What? Titanic had a sad ending.
• 1:40:45
  No Bert, roll the film. Come on, Bert.
• 1:40:47
  Come on. Down with the wind.
• 1:40:49
  No Bert. No Doctor Chavano.
• 1:40:50
  Quiet. Bert.