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Hubba-Wha?! Episode #21 - Betty Lou's World · Muppet Fan Podcasts with ToughPigs.com

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  I can clip all my hair clips almost all by myself.
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  I can pick up my dollies, put them up on the higher shelf.
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  I can bring the whole juice pot in 30 seconds.
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  Flash, OK, we can do anything in man world, 'cause I'm a girl
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  girl girl. A girl, Girl
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  Welcome to Hobo, a Muppet quiz show brought to you by
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  toughpigs.com. It's your favorite quiz show
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  that's not like the others here. Muppet fans, Muppet
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  Professionals, and everyone in between competes for fabulous
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  prizes and to see who's this week's toughest pig.
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  I'm your host, Becca Petunia of toughpigs.com.
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  You know, as the host of the Internet's most popular Muppet
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  Quiz Show podcast, people are always asking me a ton of
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  questions. Questions.
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  Like who are those two old guys in the balcony?
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  And when did Cookie Monster stop being the Veggie Monster?
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  And why won't you stop talking about Grover for one minute and
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  let me go to sleep? But one question I don't get
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  asked enough is what is the best question you've ever asked on
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  Habala? So please can somebody ask me
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  that? Hey, Becca.
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  What's the best question you've ever asked on Havala?
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  I'm so glad you asked me that question.
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  Well, I think everybody knows that it's obviously the final
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  question of the Just happy to Be then game from the Season 2
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  Sesame Grab Bag episode. That's the one where I stumped
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  both my guests and the entire Internet by asking about Betty
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  Lou's interests. It went a little something like
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  this. Their goldfish is Talbert, their
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  best friends Luis. They love the xylophone and
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  orange juice and baseball and overalls with lots of pockets,
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  and their dream is to build a go Kart.
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  I think this is going to be so someone we're not expecting and
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  it's gonna be written. I mean that's clearly what I'm
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  building up to. Yeah.
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  Yeah, I'm I you cuz I also just you get the.
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  I don't remember. This is like one of those ones
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  that was written by some guy that never watched the show and
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  it's just like like, OK, well, the only other clue I can give.
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  Oh, Joe. OK, Farley, have we said Farley?
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  If you haven't said far, I mean you guessed him, but he was
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  wrong. But it also isn't Farley.
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  It is not Farley. Final clue.
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  They live at 456 Sesame Street. This is the last clue I can
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  give. This is remarkable.
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  We have exhausted the characters.
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  Is it is it Dawn music. It is not great.
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  Guess this is, I just it kind of a gog.
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  I didn't think a Sesame Street trivia question could really
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  leave me this. Well, I will tell you this
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  character, ostensibly a well known character because
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  literally I am looking right now at Sesame Street Merch that I
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  have in my living room from the 80s and this character is on it.
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  There's Ernie and Bert and Snuffy and Cookie Monster and
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  Grover and Sherlock, Hemlock and Louise's best friend, Betty Lou.
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  Well, of course, of course Betty Lou.
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  Since then, I've considered Betty Lou to be the unofficial
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  mascot of Habawa, which is kind of confusing since the almost
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  identical Prairie Dawn is the unofficial mascot of my life.
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  But I digress. Well, we had so much fun
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  learning about Betty Lou that I think we can all agree that it's
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  time to learn even more about her.
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  So rather than ask one question about Betty Lou, folks, it's
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  time for an entire episode about her.
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  Are you serious? That's right.
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  I've brought you here for an entire Sesame Street grab bag
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  episode, inspired by the Life and Times of your friend and
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  mine, Betty Lou. I will say this will make more
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  sense as we keep going. Don't don't panic too much yet.
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  This will make more sense as we go.
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  But yes, I wanted to see challenge myself to see if I
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  could write an entire Betty Lou episode.
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  And here we go. I mean, if anyone could, as
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  always, today's questions were written by me with help from
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  that amazing Muppet resource, Muppet Wiki.
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  And Speaking of let's agree to play fair today, please don't
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  use Muppet Wiki or any other resource during this game.
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  I've decided that Betty Lou, one of her character traits is that
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  she hates it when people are unfair.
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  That's her thing. I I decided anyway, before we
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  can learn more about Betty Lou, we need to learn a little bit
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  more about both of our guests. That's right.
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  It's time for our first game to tell a face.
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  Contestants, you're going to buzz in to answer some questions
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  about yourself. Whoever buzzes in first will get
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  introduced first. Ready.
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  Go. All right.
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  Alicia, you buzzed in first, so I'm going to ask you questions
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  first. Aletheia, what is your.
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  Hi there. What is your name?
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  Oh, it's Aletheia. There we go.
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  And this season, it's about time I'm finally asking this question
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  as well. What pronouns should we use for
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  you? I use she, her pronouns.
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  OK, Now, Alicia, you're a first time guest not only on this
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  podcast, but a first time guest on any of the Tough pigs
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  podcasts. So yeah, no, this is this is a
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  scoop I just recorded yesterday with a with another first time.
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  This is my third episode this season with first time Tough
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  Pigs podcast guests. I'm nice.
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  I'm spreading out. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Anyway, so this is your first
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  time on any of the Tough Pigs podcast, so I do want to ask you
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  what's your history with The Muppets?
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  Sure. So when I was a kid, I was
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  really scared of most of The Muppets.
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  I I think I so, like probably play with me.
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  Sesame was like my introduction to The Muppets and Sesame
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  Street. My dad does really good Muppet
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  impressions, like to the point where it also did not help my
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  fear of The Muppets. So I liked Ernie, OK.
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  I think I liked Prairie Dawn and I liked Zoe a lot and Big Bird.
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  But. Bert terrified me, and my dad
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  did not help that. By doing Bert impressions at any
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  time of the day and showing me the mysterious No Snap Snatcher
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  skit did not help with the nightmare fuel at all.
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  So I was pretty afraid of Bert for a good portion of my
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  childhood. But then COVID hit and I kind
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  of, like went back into like some of my childhood stuff and.
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  Was rediscovering The Muppets. I had like, watched the The
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  Muppet movie for maybe the second time in my life, like the
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  beginning of COVID. And then I maybe watched it like
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  15 more times in the first six months of COVID.
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  And I just, I like, got into the Muppet fandom.
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  I got into Fraggle Rock again, which I had watched when I was
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  like 6. We picked up the DVD box sets
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  from F FYI. FYE is it FYE?
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  Yes, sorry. I've never been sure if it's
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  pronounced Fye or Phi I. Think it's FYE right?
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  You're probably right. I don't know.
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  I mean, I for your entertainment is what it stands for.
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  Yeah, so I'm sure it's FYE. I know that that's a useless
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  trivia fact. That I know.
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  How many points do you get for that?
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  Five And then Sesame Street I kind of got into.
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  The most recently out of the three of them, like again as you
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  know, a late teenager and I just kind of like re fell in love
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  with it. Like, I watched Follow that bird
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  again and I had, you know. Memories of watching that on a
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  VHS over and over again, jumping up and down on my basement
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  couch, like for some reason that's ingrained in my memory
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  and my dad is like, no, that didn't happen.
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  We didn't have that couch and we didn't have a VHS and we didn't
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  have the VCR. And then I found the VHS and I
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  was vindicated in my memory. That's not important.
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  But what's important is that I sort of just like.
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  We fell in love with Sesame Street and watched St.
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  Gang a million times and read the book and very, very much
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  became like entrenched in the moral values of Sesame and like
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  learning more about it all the time.
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  And so for that reason, I would consider myself kind of a new
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  Sesame Street fan, even though I run a Sesame Street history
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  account. I just love it so much.
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  But I'm not extremely confident in how much I know Betty Lou
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  well, well, I will say I love Sesame history.
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  That's the account that you run on Twitter and Instagram right.
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  And that's that's that's really great.
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  And I I always say there's plenty of room for new fans as
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  well. It's funny.
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  This is how I know that you're from Canada and about the same
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  age as our Canadian friend Iffy. Because Iffy also was introduced
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  to Sesame Street via Play With Me Sesame because that's that's
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  what was on. Oh, is it, is it Sesame Park?
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  Is the Co production up there so?
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  You wouldn't have seen. The American Sesame Street as
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  much. I am too.
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  About to be like I'm so young. I think I'm one for Sesame Park.
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  Sesame Park I don't think was was on air when when you and
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  Iffy were were were children. That's what I know.
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  I'm already losing at this. That's fascinating, though.
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  That's a really cool story. See, I know this, I know this
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  from talking to Iffy. But yes, if he, if he learned
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  about Ernie and Burt and all of that from from play with me
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  Sesame as well. And yeah, so my last question
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  that I'm going to ask you, seeing as we're focusing today
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  on Betty Lou, the the, the character that maybe I wish got
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  a little more attention, which Sesame Street character do you
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  wish got some more attention these days?
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  I think you're probably going to guess my answer to this.
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  The answer for me is Zoe. I miss Zoe.
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  I mean, like, I'm biased because she was very much like a part of
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  the early 2000 Sesame Street. You know, like kid culture and
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  merchandising. But how?
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  You know, I always like, have a soft spot for Zoe, Both because
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  of like, I love Fran Brill and I love the way she does the voice
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  and like the mannerisms and the way Zoe's like catch phrases.
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  Don't joke me like that's such a cute little.
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  That's such a thing that like a three-year old would say.
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  And like, I think that it's true that she like picked it up, like
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  from hearing like 3 year olds talking to Playground, Yeah, I
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  believe. I believe that was in sesame
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  unpaved. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  And I have this whole anti capitalist rant that I go on.
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  When I talk about Abu Khadabi, who a lot of people really love,
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  I can't personally get behind it.
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  I stand with the people who love Abu Khadabi.
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  But I do believe that Abby Kadabi is 1 big merchandising
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  employee. You're you're not wrong it it is
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  literally stated that they I mean you know and I've seen you
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  go on this rant but like they they were thinking of
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  merchandise when they designed that character and I I do think
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  she's grown beyond that And you know Leslie does a great job
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  with Abby. I actually I met.
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  I met Abby two days before the pandemic shut everything down.
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  I I I was lucky enough to visit the Sesame Street set on March
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  11th, 2020. That's crazy.
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  Yeah, I I think both things can be true that her design was very
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  specifically calculated to be easily merchandisable and that
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  that she's performed you know that has a talented.
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  Performer and she's. Become a a fun character.
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  Yeah, for sure. Zoe's a great choice, though.
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  And you know, I there. You're right.
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  You're right about Fran. And I'm obviously a big Fran
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  Brill fan as well, for obvious reasons.
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  And you know, really, there's there's no one, no one can do it
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  like she did. You know?
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  Again, I love that they're they they're trying to keep using Zoe
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  sometimes, but it really just isn't the same without without
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  Fran. All right, well, Alicia, you've
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  earned 20 points for answering those questions.
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  So look at this. Look at this.
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  No matter how anxious you might be, you definitely aren't going
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  to walk away from here with 0 points.
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  And let's move on to our next contestant.
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  Our next contestant? What is your name?
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  My name is Ryan Rowe, all right. And Ryan, I'm going to ask same
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  question. What pronouns should we use?
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  Yes, he him is good for me. OK, now Ryan, everybody knows
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  you. You're one of the Co owners of
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  toughpigs.com, the host of our flagship podcast.
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  Moving right along, I'm trying to think of something funny.
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  Co creator of the superhero named Captain Google.
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  So everybody knows all of this about you already.
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  So I'm going to ask you another important question.
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  Where do I park my bicycle? In Buffalo Okay, sure.
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  I don't know. Last question.
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  What Sesame Street character do you wish got more attention?
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  I am. Going to say it might be a
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  different answer if you ask me. You know, any other day of the
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  week today I'll go with Snuffy because I have noticed recently
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  people lamenting a lack of Snuffy and in recent episodes of
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  Sesame Street. I understand that some of that
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  is probably because of COVID precautions of having two
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  puppeteers trapped inside a little tent of a puppet.
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  But yeah, Snuffy's great and I I hope that.
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  Today's Sesame watching kids actually know who he is and love
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  him as much as we do. Well, you know, there's an easy
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  answer to this question, which is they could bring back Alice
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  Snuffle up, I guess. Yeah, it's just one person.
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  They should do that anyway. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Anyway, Ryan, you've also earned
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  yourself 20 points. And let me tell you, both of
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  you, for doing so great there, you've made me feel as happy as
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  Betty Lou would feel if she got to build a go Kart.
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  Again, I'm going to remind you, that's her dream according to
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  the according to the Sesame Street Treasury.
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  Yes, of course. Anyway, so let's get things
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  started with our first real trivia game.
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  Now one of the Betty Lou puppets first appearances was in a game
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  show sketch called Pick Your Pet.
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  Here she was called Lucy Jones and had to choose a favorite pet
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  between three choices. Little Bird, Baskerville, the
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  Hound, and the Beautiful Day Monster.
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  All of these would make perfect pets.
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  Let's be honest. Anyway, thinking about that game
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  got me thinking about Sesame Street Pets.
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  A lot of our favorite furry friends have furry friends of
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  their own. So we're going to play our own
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  version of Pick Your Pet Right now.
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  I will name a Sesame Street pet, you'll buzz in and name the
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  owner. So if I said Talbert the
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  goldfish, you'd buzz in and say Betty Lou, of course.
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  But if I said Hal but the goldfish, you'd buzz in and say
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  Bert. Wow, it's simple.
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  They won't be as hard as those two.
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  Each of these correct answers is worth 2 points.
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  And as always, wait until I finish naming the pet before you
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  buzz in so our friends at home can play a lot.
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  Are you ready? Pick your pet.
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  In just a few moments, a lovely little girl will get to choose
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  one of these animals for her very own pet.
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  OK, question 1. Dorothy the goldfish.
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  Alicia. That's Elmo.
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  That is Elmo, even if Elmo only cares about tango these days.
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  Oh yeah, we're stormy. No, no, just tango.
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  We're only we only care about Tango now.
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  Didn't the Dorothy appear in animated form in the The Tango
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  animated special? Yeah, yeah.
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  Anyway, question to Bernice the pigeon Ryan.
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  Bert, That is Bert. Question three.
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  Fluffy the elephant. Ryan.
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  Oscar the Grouch That is Oscar the Grouch, one of his other
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  pets other than Slimy Question 4.
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  Fata Tita the Cat Ryan. That would be the count, that is
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  count von count. I'm glad you didn't ask any
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  either of us to spell that cat's name.
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  Yeah, no. We just recorded our Halloween
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  episode yesterday. And my good friend Mike
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  Westfall, host of the Advent Calendar House podcast.
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  Was like, I don't remember the name, It's like fatta ta ta ta
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  ti ta ta ta ta. And I'm like, you know what,
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  I'll give it to you. You're close enough.
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  And interestingly enough, he also has a bat named Fata Tita.
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  Not a very creative namer. He's into numbers.
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  Yeah? No, he likes numbers.
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  Surprised his cat's name isn't like 12.
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  Yeah. Then he would like name them for
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  each. Yes.
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  Question 5. Watson the dog, Alicia.
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  I'm gonna guess Sherlock Hemlock.
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  It is Sherlock Hemlock. Literary references in the 90s
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  In the 90s he had a dog named Watson.
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  Question 6. Chucky Sue the hamster Ryan.
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  OK, I know this one. It's Telly.
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  This one is Telly, Correct. Question 7.
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  Barkley the dog. Yeah, Alicia.
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  Well, so I heard. Technically, I heard bark, bark,
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  bark because my Internet glitched out and you repeated
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  yourself. So I heard.
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  I heard Barkley and I was thinking who I was talking
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  about, yeah. I was thinking about Barkley the
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  fish, OK? Who is owned by Elmo?
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  That is true. Bar Elmo does have a fish named
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  Barkley before Dorothy. Yes, I was asking about Barkley
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  the. Dog but I will give you 2 points
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  for Barkley the fish thank. You.
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  I had never heard of Barkley the fish.
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  It's in like 1 episode. OK, Ryan, do you who, who, who
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  owns Barkley the dog? Well, I don't know if they've
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  established a new. Owner.
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  But Linda, traditionally, yeah, Linda's the only one who I think
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  they've officially said ever owned him, other than in the
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  book, a bird's best friend where Big Bird has Barkley, I would
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  have accepted that. Well, yeah, and Big Bird went on
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  international trips with Barkley, so Big Bird went all
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  over. I feel like Alan probably took
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  in Barkley. That's a nice thought.
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  Well, Speaking of Zoe, there's an episode right where Bob is
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  walking the last episode to ever have Barkley.
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  I believe Bob is walking Barkley and Zoe is afraid of Barkley.
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  They need to, they need to talk about that.
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  So maybe maybe Bob has it because you know, he and Linda
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  were an item. Yeah, they were.
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  I mean, we also don't know. Like, maybe Linda still lives on
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  Sesame Street. We just never see her on the
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  show anymore. Who knows?
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  True. True.
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  Also, we haven't seen Barkley in a long time either, for what
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  it's worth. Saying that's only one
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  puppeteer. Right.
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  He could come back, meet Tango, the crossover we all wanted.
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  Speaking of dogs, question 8 Itchy the dog Ryan.
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  That sounds like an Oscar pet. It is not an Oscar pet.
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  Alicia, do you want to try to steal?
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  I I'm. I'm like, blanking.
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  I was going to say Oscar, but now Crunchetta.
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  It is Grungetta correct? Correct.
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  Oh my God, I was about to say. I mean, I wasn't going to give
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  this clue. I was going to wait until after
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  you guessed. But like, if it's not.
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  If it sounds like Oscar, but it's not Oscar, it's it's
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  Brungetta, OK? Great minds think alike.
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  Question 9. Ralphie the Parrot, Ryan.
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  Something in the back of my brain is telling me Baby bear.
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  It is baby bear. Correct.
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  Nice word Question 10. Sammy the Snake.
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  His body looks like a letter S You might remember that song,
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  Ryan. Well, Carol Channing in that
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  song. I don't know if he's her pet.
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  No, okay, don't count that. But yeah, okay.
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  I didn't know he had an owner. Yeah, yeah.
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  Who would own a letter S snake? It's not Carol Channing.
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  It's not Carol Channing the answer to these.
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  None of the answers to these questions are Carol Channing in
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  this entire episode. Good to know.
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  Thank you. Has Carol Channing ever been an
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  answer to a question on Habala? Not yet, but there's no reason
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  she couldn't be. I asked about celebrities all
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  the time. Yeah, all right.
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  The correct answer, weirdly enough, established in one
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  definition in the Sesame Street Dictionary, Prairie Dawn.
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  Wow, was it a definition for the word snake?
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  I believe it's the definition for the word skin.
• 25:08
  It's a picture of Prairie holding Sammy the snake and she
• 25:11
  says my pet snake, Sammy has pretty stripes on his skin.
• 25:16
  I do not have stripes on my skin.
• 25:19
  Okay, next question, Rufus, the Firefly, Ryan.
• 25:31
  That's Ernie. That is Ernie.
• 25:34
  And I would be remiss if I did not point out that as a
• 25:36
  reference to Groucho Marx's character in Duck Soup, I
• 25:42
  believe his name is Rufus T Firefly.
• 25:45
  Oh. Very nice.
• 25:47
  Wouldn't have, should have put that together.
• 25:49
  I've seen Duck Soup. I guess I just didn't remember
• 25:52
  Groucho's last name. And no, I would.
• 25:55
  You and you watch those movies and you just call them Groucho.
• 25:58
  Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
• 25:59
  He's always just playing Groucho.
• 26:00
  Yeah. Anyway, Question 12.
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  Teeny tiny and sweet. Pea the fish, Alicia.
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  It sounds like an Abby cadabi thing.
• 26:15
  I think it's probably wrong. It's not Abby Cadabi.
• 26:18
  Good guess. Teeny, tiny and sweet Elmo.
• 26:26
  It's not Elmo. It is actually Snuffy.
• 26:29
  Oh, OK. He has three very small fish.
• 26:34
  That's cute question. 13 night train the dog.
• 26:39
  It's. A cool name, whoever it is.
• 26:44
  Ryan. Take a wild guess that maybe
• 26:47
  it's a human character. I'll say David, it is not David.
• 26:50
  Good guess, Alicia. Care to guess?
• 26:53
  Well, after you said it's not David, but he said a human
• 26:57
  character. Now I feel like it's human
• 26:58
  character, but I was gonna say Biff or Sully.
• 27:01
  Well, it's not Biff or Sully or a human character, but it is a
• 27:05
  very cool character because it is, of course, Roosevelt
• 27:10
  Franklin. Oh, OK.
• 27:13
  Yeah, as established in a comic from like the Sesame Street
• 27:19
  Bedtime Book. It's reprinted in the Sesame
• 27:22
  Street treasury. I have that book, but I have not
• 27:25
  opened it in many years. Question 14.
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  Little Murray Sparkles the cat Alethia.
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  Murray It's not Murray. Good guess, Alethia.
• 27:40
  Alethia is Little Murray Sparkles before your time.
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  I don't know. I am not recognizing the name
• 27:46
  Little Marie Sparkles. You're going to love little.
• 27:48
  We're going to introduce you to Little Marie Sparkles when this
• 27:51
  is over, Ryan. Yeah, that's Elizabeth.
• 27:54
  That is Elizabeth. She should be my answer for what
• 27:57
  character should that you want. We need we need more Elizabeth.
• 28:01
  We. Should bring back Elizabeth.
• 28:03
  We need more Elizabeth. Elizabeth was Stephanie
• 28:05
  Debruzzo's character in like the early 2000s, who was just a girl
• 28:10
  with a really, really thick, like New York accent, I guess.
• 28:14
  I think. So yeah, just kind of a brassy,
• 28:16
  boisterous little girl. And she had.
• 28:19
  She had a cat named Little Marie Sparkles.
• 28:22
  Oh, probably somewhere in the deep recesses of my Thank you so
• 28:26
  much for finding sparkles for me.
• 28:28
  You've made me so happy. Yeah, you're welcome.
• 28:34
  And last but not least for this round question 15 Wolfgang the
• 28:38
  SEAL. He's owned.
• 28:40
  That's right, someone owned Wolfgang the SEAL.
• 28:47
  Ryan, do you have a guess? Yeah, My guess is Gina.
• 28:51
  It is not Gina. Good guess.
• 28:52
  Alicia, do you have a guess? I was just thinking like, maybe
• 28:57
  like Bert was randomly walking Wolfgang.
• 29:02
  Sure. I mean, listen, I'm pulling from
• 29:04
  sources like that, but no, it's actually Uncle Wally.
• 29:08
  Wow. Very interesting, yeah.
• 29:12
  Wolfgang was originally introduced as Wally's pet seal
• 29:16
  and then Uncle Wally left the show and Wolfgang did not leave
• 29:21
  the show so. Did Uncle Wally train Wolfgang
• 29:24
  to do tricks that that sounds like?
• 29:25
  My guess is that was an Uncle Wally thing.
• 29:29
  Uncle Wally, for our our younger listeners and or contestants is
• 29:35
  was a a human character on the show who was just like a
• 29:40
  whimsical old man. He was Bob's uncle.
• 29:43
  That's right. He was Bob's uncle.
• 29:45
  OK All right. Well, that's it for pets.
• 29:49
  Nice work. And now let's move on to another
• 29:52
  one of Betty Lou's early appearances.
• 29:54
  And that's, of course, in the classic Sesame Street song on
• 29:58
  the subway. I love this song because it's a
• 30:02
  real catchy song, but also because it reminds me of one of
• 30:05
  my absolute favorite types of public transportation.
• 30:09
  Listen, since there isn't any room in this town, we put all
• 30:12
  the trains down under the ground, and the subway is, of
• 30:16
  course, the greatest way to explore the greatest city in the
• 30:20
  world, New York City. Baby Sesame Street has always
• 30:25
  been filmed in New York City and is set in New York City, which
• 30:29
  makes it one of the most New York City shows of all time.
• 30:33
  That's why we're going to take the express right by our local
• 30:37
  address in a New York City game I'm calling on the subway.
• 30:42
  I'm going to read a Sesame Street themed fact about a New
• 30:47
  York City landmark. Your job is to buzz in and name
• 30:53
  the landmark. You'll get two points for each
• 30:56
  correct answer. Please wait until I finish
• 30:59
  reading the fact before you buzz in.
• 31:03
  Excuse me? Watch it down below the street.
• 31:08
  Can you just get a beat at the subway?
• 31:10
  Subway question one? This New York landmark was the
• 31:16
  setting of the special Don't Eat the Pictures, Alicia.
• 31:26
  The Met. It was the Met, the Metropolitan
• 31:30
  Museum of Art for for any any listeners who needed that
• 31:34
  clarification, question two. In this long running 1992 Sesame
• 31:40
  Street animated credit sequence, this icon of New York City
• 31:45
  shakes her hips to start and end the segment.
• 31:52
  Alicia, it is the Statue of Liberty, correct?
• 31:56
  I once wrote when we were doing our sesame 50 reviews in 50
• 32:01
  weeks. My review of the 1992 season was
• 32:04
  entirely talking about that credit sequence.
• 32:07
  It's a good one, yeah. Question three.
• 32:11
  In a season 10 episode filmed on location, we learn that Snuffy
• 32:16
  comes to this location every day to listen to the singers Alicia.
• 32:26
  Is it? I can't remember the the name of
• 32:28
  the Opera House, but is it the Opera House It is.
• 32:31
  OK, I'll give you a point, Ryan. What's the Opera House named?
• 32:35
  The big Opera House in New York City.
• 32:37
  Is it Lincoln Center? Yes, the Metropolitan Opera
• 32:40
  House at Lincoln Center. Would you have accepted the Met
• 32:44
  again for that? Sure.
• 32:46
  I would have also accepted the Met, although I don't feel like
• 32:49
  anyone calls just the Opera House the.
• 32:52
  Probably not. I don't.
• 32:53
  Maybe I'm wrong. And hey, Ryan, maybe this is an
• 32:57
  unfair question. I didn't realize that you were
• 33:00
  going to be here when I wrote this question, because bonus
• 33:04
  question for this tough pigs once hosted an official Muppet
• 33:09
  Vault at Lincoln Center to celebrate which event?
• 33:14
  Is that a question specifically for me?
• 33:16
  No. Either of you can buzz in, but I
• 33:18
  I think one of you is more qualified to answer, Ryan, what
• 33:23
  were you doing on that day? I feel bad.
• 33:27
  I shouldn't have buzzed in even well.
• 33:30
  I think it was the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street.
• 33:33
  It was not the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street.
• 33:36
  Incorrect. Was it 50?
• 33:39
  It was not the 50th. Either y'all are on.
• 33:43
  Base what were we doing? There it was.
• 33:44
  The 45th anniversary, guys. Come on, Ryan.
• 33:50
  That's right. No that.
• 33:51
  Yeah, OK. I remember I was living in the
• 33:55
  city at the time and I was very upset that I could not make it
• 33:59
  because I had like a grad school final that day.
• 34:04
  Yeah, that's. You should have skipped it.
• 34:06
  I should have, but I bet it was good.
• 34:09
  Yeah, yeah. It was a good one, yeah.
• 34:12
  That was. Also, they had a great sesame
• 34:13
  exhibit at Lincoln Center at the same time.
• 34:16
  Snuffy was there. I got my photo with Mr. Johnson.
• 34:20
  They had, they had Super Grover hanging, like, at the very top
• 34:24
  of the ceiling. Yeah, no, it was great.
• 34:26
  And they had like, I remember, going in and crying because they
• 34:29
  had just the script to. We'll miss you, Mr. Hooper.
• 34:33
  Just printed out on on display. Oh my God.
• 34:38
  I mean, they should bring that bring that exhibit back.
• 34:41
  Anyway, question 4. Elmo learned what love means
• 34:46
  from a beluga whale at this landmark.
• 34:53
  Alicia. Central Park Zoo is not Central
• 34:56
  Park Zoo. Good guess, Ryan.
• 34:59
  Is it I'm trying to remember? The name of this place, If in
• 35:04
  fact, I have it correct. The Brooklyn Aquarium.
• 35:08
  No, it's the New York Aquarium. Is the name Question 5.
• 35:12
  Both Gordon and Snuffy competed in this annual New York City
• 35:17
  athletic event. Ryan.
• 35:23
  The New York Marathon. That is the New York Marathon
• 35:26
  Question 6A bench dedicated to Jim Henson can be found in this
• 35:32
  Manhattan area that was Alicia, Alicia.
• 35:39
  Central Park, that is Central Park, Alicia.
• 35:42
  Did you visit that when you were when you were in the city?
• 35:44
  I wanted to find the bench. I also wanted to find I've been
• 35:47
  obsessed with the Netflix show. Somebody feed Phil.
• 35:50
  I wanted to find his bench too, for his wife, but at the time I
• 35:55
  was. It was the end of a long day.
• 35:57
  I was trekking through Central Park to get to the other side
• 36:01
  and I unfortunately I I I said Jim Henson lives in my heart,
• 36:08
  but unfortunately I was not going to find his bench on that
• 36:12
  day. That's fair.
• 36:15
  And Speaking of which important Sesame Street crew member has a
• 36:19
  bench next to Jim's Ryan Johnstone.
• 36:27
  That is Johnstone, correct? Question 7 establishing shots of
• 36:33
  the Count's castle are footage of this Central Park landmark.
• 36:42
  Ryan, do you know what it's called?
• 36:44
  Yeah, that's Belvedere Castle. It is called Belvedere Castle.
• 36:48
  Good. I lived in New York City for 15
• 36:50
  years and never went there and then.
• 36:53
  When I came back to visit a few months ago, I I was like, I'm
• 36:56
  finally going to go to Belvedere Castle and I went and it's
• 36:58
  pretty cool. Have you been inside?
• 37:00
  No, it was closed, OK, because I've never been inside.
• 37:03
  I was fortunate enough to live in a shoebox apartment that was
• 37:07
  not too far from Central Park. So I used to spend time in
• 37:10
  Central Park. Yeah, it was about the size of a
• 37:13
  twin bed, my bedroom. Oh, I believe you.
• 37:15
  Yeah, That was like I had room for a twin bed and a closet.
• 37:20
  That was it. Did you go see his bench?
• 37:23
  I did. Oh, I've.
• 37:24
  I've seen the bench. Question 8 when he's not helping
• 37:27
  Forgetful Jones. Buster the Horse is a tour guide
• 37:31
  at this sister park to the New York Aquarium.
• 37:38
  Ryan. I have two potential answers in
• 37:44
  my head. I'm going to say Prospect Park.
• 37:47
  It is not Prospect Park. Good guess.
• 37:51
  Alethea cared. A guess?
• 37:53
  This is in one episode, so I don't.
• 37:55
  Washington Square? No, it's the Bronx Zoo.
• 37:59
  Oh, makes sense. This episode used to be on HBO,
• 38:02
  but you know. Not anymore, But Elmo, Gordon
• 38:06
  and Miles visited the Bronx Zoo in an episode, and their tour
• 38:10
  guide was randomly Buster the horse.
• 38:13
  That's fun. You never know who has hobbies.
• 38:15
  Yeah, exactly. A side gig?
• 38:17
  Yeah, Question 9 for the 2008 Just Ask the locals New York
• 38:24
  City tourism campaign. Big Bird and Elmo appeared in an
• 38:28
  ad in front of this iconic Manhattan skyscraper.
• 38:36
  Alicia the. Empire State Building.
• 38:38
  Not the Empire State Building. I'm sorry.
• 38:40
  You. You.
• 38:41
  You chose. You chose the wrong it was.
• 38:44
  It was a guess. Ryan, what do you think it is?
• 38:46
  The Chrysler built It is the Chrysler built.
• 38:49
  It's always one of those two. It's one of those.
• 38:52
  And Question 10. This is the name of the Queen's
• 38:56
  studio where Sesame Street has been filmed since 1993, the year
• 39:01
  they expanded to include Around the Corner, Ryan.
• 39:09
  Kaufman Astoria. It is Kaufman Astoria Studios.
• 39:13
  And what other Henson TV show filmed at Kaufman Astoria
• 39:18
  Studios, also in the early 90s? Alicia Jim.
• 39:26
  Henson hour. Not the Jim Henson hour.
• 39:28
  Good guess. Ryan, did you buzz in?
• 39:30
  Yeah, bear in the Big Blue house.
• 39:32
  It was bear in the Big Blue house.
• 39:35
  And I should say again, for our, for our audience or anybody
• 39:40
  else, obviously you can't get in to Kaufman Astoria Studios
• 39:46
  unless you have an appointment. But it's like 10 feet away from
• 39:51
  the Museum of the Moving Image. So next time you visit the
• 39:53
  Museum of the moving image, you can wave to the gate.
• 39:57
  Just go look at it. Also, if you're a fan of Orange
• 40:00
  Is the New Black, that's where they film that.
• 40:02
  No, I didn't know that one. Yeah, that one wasn't on Muppet
• 40:06
  Wiki. Question 11 Big Bird, Cookie
• 40:09
  Monster, Elmo and Prairie Dawn are on permanent display at this
• 40:15
  New York City location, Alicia. Museum of the moving image.
• 40:22
  That is the Museum of the moving image.
• 40:24
  You were just there. They are still there.
• 40:27
  Those are the only Sesame Street characters on permanent display,
• 40:30
  right? There's a whatnot, I think.
• 40:32
  Also, or I mean an anything muppet.
• 40:35
  Oh, and Honker. Oh right, the Honker is at the
• 40:41
  front of Yes, yes, but they're they're the only ones in like
• 40:46
  the Sesame exhibit that I was just basing off of my memory
• 40:50
  Question Twelve. Since 2019, there has been a
• 40:54
  permanent Sesame Street Street sign hanging on the intersection
• 40:59
  between 63rd St. and this famous Ave.
• 41:07
  Ryan Broadway. It is Broadway Baby Ryan.
• 41:12
  You were there at the at the hanging of that sign.
• 41:14
  Right. I was not.
• 41:15
  Actually not I was. Not able to make it to that one.
• 41:18
  I think Joe was and and and Matthew and Louie.
• 41:22
  Yeah, yeah, a few of our tough pics friends.
• 41:24
  I couldn't make it out there either.
• 41:27
  Anyway, this is our stop. Everybody off right here at Beat
• 41:32
  the Time. Stand clear of the closing
• 41:34
  doors, please. That's right.
• 41:37
  Now it's time for everyone's favorite headtohead game.
• 41:40
  Beat The time. Today's Beat The Time is
• 41:45
  probably my favorite one I've ever assembled, and the one that
• 41:49
  I was probably the most ridiculous for even trying to
• 41:53
  assemble. You want to see Silly Monty?
• 41:58
  I will show you silly. Stand back.
• 42:00
  You see, we can all probably agree that the best Betty Lou
• 42:04
  song of all time is I want a monster to be My friend.
• 42:11
  It's a swinging number that gets stuck in my head all the time
• 42:14
  and basically explains my worldview.
• 42:16
  After all, who wouldn't want a monster to be their friend?
• 42:20
  Well, if you do, I know the place to look.
• 42:23
  Over the past 54 years, Sesame Street has been home to a lot of
• 42:29
  monsters. Like a lot of monsters.
• 42:34
  So I went to Muppet Wiki and I counted up every single
• 42:39
  recurring monster who has a name, and I got a list of 72
• 42:45
  names, so I don't expect anybody to get all of them.
• 42:50
  That's not how Beat the Time works, as as you know.
• 42:54
  But in this game, yes, you are going to take turns naming all
• 42:58
  of the monsters on Sesame Street.
• 43:00
  Oh boy. OK.
• 43:00
  Can you recurring does that, well we're going to, I'm going
• 43:03
  to give you some ground rules. OK, thank you.
• 43:04
  I'm going to give you some ground rules.
• 43:06
  So first of all, I am only counting specific named
• 43:11
  characters. And this means that I am not
• 43:14
  counting, for instance, Grover's mommy as a character because
• 43:19
  that is not a name that is like a job or a lifestyle.
• 43:26
  I'm also not counting monsters who only appeared once, even if
• 43:32
  they were given a name in one episode.
• 43:35
  However, if that puppet appeared frequently but was only given a
• 43:39
  name in one episode, I will count that.
• 43:42
  I wish I could give you an example of that, but that would
• 43:45
  give away some of the answers. Again, I'm aware we're not going
• 43:49
  to name all 72 of these, but we're going to go for as many as
• 43:55
  we can, starting with Alicia. Name a Sesame Street Monster.
• 44:01
  Grover. Oh well, give me a second to
• 44:04
  finish explaining the rules. Although yours, yours can be
• 44:07
  Grover. That's good.
• 44:09
  Keep that in mind. Grover.
• 44:10
  Grover is on my list. You're we're going to go back
• 44:13
  and forth between the two of you to see who can name more.
• 44:17
  If you can't remember a monster, or you get the name of a monster
• 44:21
  wrong, your opponent will have a chance to steal.
• 44:24
  If neither of you get the question right, the round ends.
• 44:30
  Or if neither of you can think of anything to say.
• 44:33
  All right, here we go. Let's meet our new friends.
• 44:37
  I need a very special friend. Won't you help me?
• 44:42
  Please, Alicia? Give me a monster.
• 44:47
  Rover. Rover.
• 44:48
  Correct, Ryan. Cookie monster, Correct, Alicia.
• 44:54
  Elmo. Ryan.
• 44:56
  Telly. Correct, Alicia.
• 44:58
  Ozita correct, Ryan. Zoe.
• 45:02
  Zoe. Correct.
• 45:03
  Alicia. Razzle.
• 45:05
  Razzle. Correct, Ryan.
• 45:08
  Harry. Harry.
• 45:09
  Correct. Alicia I'm.
• 45:11
  Thrown off my game now. Oh, this is awful.
• 45:17
  It's OK. This is hard.
• 45:19
  Even though you know these characters, it's still hard.
• 45:22
  Can he steal it? Yeah, Ryan, you want to steal?
• 45:24
  Give me a monster. Murray Murray Monster, Correct.
• 45:28
  Alicia, you want to try again? Does Ruby count Ruby.
• 45:32
  Ruby is absolutely on my list. Of course, Ruby counts Ryan.
• 45:37
  I think did you actually say Rudy?
• 45:40
  I think I said Rudy. Cuz I'm gonna say Rudy, though I
• 45:44
  thought you said Ruby, which counts, but Rudy also counts.
• 45:48
  So you know what? We're back to you.
• 45:51
  Ruby was a short lived, weirdly enough, yellow monster.
• 45:58
  Don't know why they made that choice in the Was it the late
• 46:02
  80s, Ruby, They were trying to. They're always trying to add
• 46:06
  more female characters. That never worked.
• 46:08
  And of course, Rudy is Abby's stepbrother.
• 46:11
  Alicia, I believe we're back to you.
• 46:13
  I had to like climb into the my sister's era of like the sex
• 46:18
  bedtime podcast for Rudy. So I will say to make this
• 46:24
  easier for myself, I broke this down into 3 sub lists of
• 46:30
  extremely well known monsters, moderately well known monsters,
• 46:35
  and monsters I didn't think you guys are going to get.
• 46:37
  I bring this up because there are 1234 monsters still
• 46:42
  remaining on that first list of well known monsters.
• 46:46
  You have a guess, Aletheia. My brain is not working with me
• 46:50
  today. That's OK, Ryan.
• 46:54
  I'm trying to think who else could.
• 46:56
  Be on that extremely well known list, but nothing's coming to
• 46:59
  me. But I will say Leo the Party
• 47:01
  Monster. Leo the Party Monster is on my
• 47:04
  list. You gotta have potato chips at a
• 47:07
  party. Party.
• 47:09
  I have one now. OK, Alicia.
• 47:11
  Beautiful day monster. The beautiful day monster is on
• 47:15
  my list. I guess that shouldn't count cuz
• 47:17
  he's not really named on Sesame Street.
• 47:19
  But you know what? He's on my list.
• 47:22
  How can he not be? Ryan, Natasha, Natasha, baby
• 47:27
  Natasha, Alicia. Louie is his name, right?
• 47:31
  Louie is his name, correct. Louie is Elmo's dad, Ryan.
• 47:36
  Ingrid. Ingrid, baby.
• 47:38
  Natasha's mother. Yes, Alicia.
• 47:41
  Humphrey Humphrey, Baby Natasha's father.
• 47:44
  Yeah, Ryan. Well, that was going to be my
• 47:47
  next one, Dexter. Dexter is on my list.
• 47:55
  Dexter the Juggling monster. Folks, I will post a video of
• 48:00
  Dexter on on social media. If you haven't seen Dexter the
• 48:03
  Juggling monster, this was a giant monster.
• 48:08
  A professional juggler performed the hands of the monster and
• 48:12
  then Kevin Clash, stretching his arm as high as it would go.
• 48:17
  Performs his head above the juggler, and he could only just
• 48:22
  stand in place and juggle. That was in in Kevin Clash's
• 48:27
  memoir. He devoted a few paragraphs to
• 48:29
  talking about what a failure that character was, cuz he
• 48:31
  couldn't do anything. That's all he could do is just
• 48:33
  stand there and juggle. Yeah, he couldn't walk around
• 48:36
  because there were like multiple.
• 48:38
  You'd see Kevin clash if he even moved slightly to the side
• 48:42
  anyway. Is it my turn?
• 48:45
  Yes, it is, Alicia. Does Cousin Monster count as a
• 48:49
  name? I didn't count Cousin Monster as
• 48:52
  a name because I counted that as being in the same category as
• 48:58
  Grover's mommy. However, I will say since it
• 49:02
  doesn't need the name of another character in its name, I will
• 49:07
  give you Cousin Monster. Whose cousin is that?
• 49:10
  Whose cousin was he? That's.
• 49:12
  Cookie Monster's Cousin Who doesn't Like Cookies?
• 49:14
  Oh, yeah, yeah. OK, Yeah.
• 49:16
  No, I'll accept that. Yeah, I'll accept that, because
• 49:18
  it doesn't. It's not called Cookie monster's
• 49:21
  cousin. That might be on her birth
• 49:23
  certificate for all we. Know it might be Ryan.
• 49:26
  Do you have a guess? Yes, I should have thought of
• 49:28
  this one sooner. The two headed monster.
• 49:31
  Oh my God. There is only one more on my
• 49:35
  list of well known monsters, Alicia.
• 49:39
  We already said Murray. We already did, Murray.
• 49:41
  Yeah, my personal favorite. Maybe Bear is not a monster.
• 49:45
  No, no, he's a bear. It's in his name.
• 49:51
  I'm gonna surrender this. OK, Ryan, any other guesses?
• 49:55
  Oh, Sherry Netherlands. Sherry Netherlands, Correct.
• 50:01
  Another of my favorites. Anybody else, Alicia, you give
• 50:05
  up still or? Is the serial girl.
• 50:09
  Is that a monster? Is that a girl?
• 50:10
  The serial girl is considered a monster, and I did count that as
• 50:14
  a name. Nice work.
• 50:17
  That's Olivia. You have gotten the first one
• 50:19
  from the third list of ones that I didn't think anyone would get
• 50:23
  with the serial girl. Ryan, I guess we're back to you.
• 50:36
  Mona Mona Monster correct the same puppet as Ingrid.
• 50:41
  Ingrid. Yeah, yeah.
• 50:43
  Was she Telly's sister? Yeah, sister.
• 50:47
  Cousin. I think she was a sister,
• 50:49
  actually. A sister, yeah.
• 50:51
  Equally neurotic. Does deli count?
• 50:53
  Is her name Deli's Telly's like Z, not Cousin Friend.
• 50:58
  Oh you know so doesn't count. And also the reason I didn't
• 51:02
  count Cousin Monster was because Cousin Monster is only in one
• 51:06
  episode, like Zelly. But I'm still going to give you
• 51:09
  a point for for Cousin Monster. But I'm not for Zelly because I
• 51:12
  said I would give you a point for Cousin Monster.
• 51:14
  It's a it's a one episode because I said it needs to be in
• 51:17
  more than one episode. So because then I would be here
• 51:20
  all day and we're already going to be here all day.
• 51:23
  Ryan, any other guesses? Mary Monster?
• 51:29
  Yes. Mary Monster.
• 51:31
  Different than Murray Monster, although the same performer as
• 51:34
  Murray Monster? Oh yeah.
• 51:37
  The The rap with Queen Latifah. That's true, Alicia.
• 51:42
  Gray monster wouldn't count because his name is not Gray
• 51:45
  monster presumably, right? What is Gray Monster?
• 51:48
  You know, like the We're all monsters like the Kermit the
• 51:51
  Forgue. Oh, Kermit, the Forgue is on my
• 51:54
  list as a name, which I will tell you is going to unlock a
• 51:58
  couple other ones, Ryan. Yeah, You know, you left it open
• 52:02
  now, so that. So.
• 52:04
  Kermit the Gorf. Kermit the Gorf, Correct.
• 52:07
  Also known as Maurice. Monster.
• 52:09
  Kermit the Gorf. OK.
• 52:11
  And Alicia? I stumped myself with that one.
• 52:15
  So how could you start with? There's one more.
• 52:18
  I know and I don't know it. OK, OK.
• 52:25
  I mean, I could guess that's probably not gonna be Kermit the
• 52:29
  like, Roark or Roarf. It's not Kermit the Roarf.
• 52:34
  No. I'm sorry, Ryan.
• 52:36
  You know what it is. Kermit the Groff it is.
• 52:38
  Kermit the Groff, Also known as Bruce Monster?
• 52:43
  Really. According to Muppet Wiki.
• 52:45
  OK. Alicia, any other ones?
• 52:50
  Not that I can think of right now, Ryan.
• 52:53
  Oh, OK. OK.
• 52:59
  Phoebe. Phoebe, correct.
• 53:01
  Also known as Groogle. Right.
• 53:06
  I wasn't sure if that was the one who had two names, Olivia.
• 53:10
  No, Barkley is a dog. Barkley's a dog.
• 53:13
  Yeah. That's not in his name, no.
• 53:16
  Not, not as consistently as baby bear, at least.
• 53:20
  And due to his size, maybe. Yeah, I mean, he's pretty
• 53:23
  monstrous. I forfeit again, Ryan.
• 53:31
  Narf. Narf, correct.
• 53:34
  Phoebe's friend Narf, yeah. They have two other friends.
• 53:37
  What do they do? You have two other friends,
• 53:40
  Alicia. I take it you don't know they're
• 53:42
  two other friends? I don't know.
• 53:43
  They're two other friends. I wish I did.
• 53:45
  I wish I had the pleasure. Oh, you.
• 53:47
  No you don't. Oh no, I don't.
• 53:50
  This was a bad there were four annoying monsters.
• 53:54
  Monster clubhouse. The monster clubhouse.
• 53:56
  Exactly. Monster clubhouse.
• 53:58
  That's what we do. And if you wanna play, be a
• 54:01
  monster too. That sounds like separationism.
• 54:08
  Going a little to literary theory on this.
• 54:13
  Teaching kids the wrong lesson there.
• 54:16
  Well, I mean, these are annoying monsters, right?
• 54:19
  So we're Yeah, yeah, true. We're learning the wrong lessons
• 54:23
  from there, Ryan. Anything else?
• 54:26
  Yeah. OK, JJ is on my list.
• 54:30
  I. Think that was the the third
• 54:32
  identity of of the Ingrid. I believe you're right.
• 54:37
  That was the of the third identity of Ingrid.
• 54:40
  OK, either of you can just shout out any you know at this point.
• 54:43
  Lulu. I will take Lulu.
• 54:45
  Another Stephanie Debruzzo character that did not last.
• 54:49
  Sorry, sorry, Stephanie. Yeah, gone too soon.
• 54:53
  How many have you? Don't know how many we've done
• 54:56
  so far so there's one left from the one that I thought would be
• 54:59
  easy. Then there's 1-234-567-8910 left
• 55:07
  from the list that I thought would be medium.
• 55:11
  And then 30 left from the hard list.
• 55:14
  Don't even. We've said Rosita.
• 55:18
  We did say Rosita. I'm trying to think of other
• 55:22
  other. More well known monsters that
• 55:25
  have family members that have names.
• 55:27
  Well, I will say this is not anybody's family member, the
• 55:30
  well known one. But this is a character who
• 55:32
  still appears still appears on the show with some amount of
• 55:36
  regularity. We're going to be so ashamed if
• 55:38
  we don't get this one. One of my favorite characters.
• 55:43
  One of one of our friend Joe Henness's favorite characters.
• 55:46
  Prairie Dawn's not a monster. Prairie Dawn is not a monster.
• 55:48
  Although she she she did work for the Monster News Network
• 55:52
  because it was a job in journalism.
• 55:54
  That's a line. We said telly.
• 55:57
  We did say telly. This monster is on my on my
• 56:01
  Christmas tree. I mean that you can't see it now
• 56:04
  because it's August, but on my Christmas tree.
• 56:08
  I'm gonna be so upset when I when I don't get it.
• 56:10
  Yeah. Frequently.
• 56:12
  Like, frequently on the show now?
• 56:13
  Yeah, frequently. The count doesn't count as a
• 56:15
  monster. No, I don't count the count as a
• 56:17
  monster. OK, Abbey Khadabi is a Fairy.
• 56:19
  Abbey Khadabi is a fairy, which is apparently different than a
• 56:22
  monster. Well, if it's one of Joe's
• 56:26
  favorite characters, he's gonna be yelling at us when he listens
• 56:28
  to this. Yeah, yeah.
• 56:30
  On the show a lot. I I have a toy of this
• 56:35
  character, although it isn't in arm's reach of my desk.
• 56:38
  It's on top of my dresser in the in the other room, but not that
• 56:43
  our friends at home could see this.
• 56:45
  Right. I mean, can I just call it or
• 56:48
  are we are we good? I want.
• 56:49
  To be so sad. When I.
• 56:51
  I know, I know it. But Brian, do you have a frantic
• 56:54
  list of other other weird 80s characters you remember?
• 56:59
  I I'm actually oh, Aristotle. Aristotle Speaking of weird 80s
• 57:03
  characters, Telly Monster's blind friend Aristotle, one of
• 57:08
  the only monsters with ears. Of course, Bill the Frog has
• 57:12
  ears. That's true.
• 57:14
  But he's not a monster. No, he's not on Sesame Street.
• 57:17
  Yeah, I can't remember the other monster clubhouse.
• 57:22
  I'm being such a good kid right now.
• 57:23
  I have like the serial. I don't know which serial one it
• 57:27
  was, the little tiny mini bean Sesame Street characters.
• 57:31
  I have them on my wall behind me and I'm not looking at well,
• 57:34
  you've named every single mini bean you've at least all of the
• 57:38
  all I. Was wondering there was one that
• 57:39
  I forgot. Do you do you have all of them,
• 57:41
  Alethea? I do.
• 57:42
  I do. Oh wow.
• 57:43
  Are they like the display rack or yeah?
• 57:47
  I got it for crazy deal, like $30.00 on eBay.
• 57:50
  You gotta you gotta, you gotta send me a picture of that.
• 57:52
  Yeah, I wouldn't. I love those.
• 57:53
  Betty Lou's there. Yeah, no, I know.
• 57:56
  But not Prairie Dawn. They did not make a Prairie
• 57:59
  Dawn. They just made Betty Lou.
• 58:00
  And then they made like rubber ducky.
• 58:02
  They did make Rubber Ducky. That's such a cool,
• 58:06
  self-contained collection. Benny Rabbit, Natasha.
• 58:09
  It's got all my. Amazing.
• 58:11
  Mumford. Yeah.
• 58:12
  Anyway, so the full the full list.
• 58:14
  I thought of two more. Oh, OK, and I think.
• 58:16
  I'm done. Deena and Pearl.
• 58:18
  Deena and Pearl. The the weirdest of the weird
• 58:21
  80s monsters, so I'll save the obvious one for last.
• 58:28
  We're going to go from hard the hard list to the easy list, as I
• 58:31
  just read through these real quick.
• 58:33
  So on the hard list, and I didn't write look down what some
• 58:35
  of these look like or did, so I don't even remember many of
• 58:39
  these. But Andre?
• 58:41
  Monster. Arlene.
• 58:43
  Frantic. So then Bennett Snurf will be
• 58:46
  Bennett Snurf is on here too. Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk,
• 58:50
  Big V, Billy Monster, and Billy, also known as Fred's son Karina,
• 58:59
  the ballerina who was a friend of Zoe's Clancy, Fenwick, the
• 59:05
  Flute, Snatcher, Fred, Harry, Not Harry, but Harry Harvey,
• 59:11
  Helena, Imogene, Jesse, Max, the Magnificent, Norman, Old
• 59:17
  MacDougall, Parker Radon, Rocky Scudge, the Snurfs, Nerk,
• 59:26
  Snitch, Spalding Monster and Zoftig.
• 59:31
  And then our middle list remaining from the maybe you
• 59:36
  know these characters. Abby's Stepdad Freddy.
• 59:42
  Monster Monster. Clubhouse, Coconspirator,
• 59:45
  Google, aka Mooba. Wow wait, wait.
• 59:49
  So there was a Google, and then Phoebe also used to be called
• 59:52
  Groogle. They.
• 59:54
  But here's the thing, When it was Google, it was Phoebe.
• 59:58
  When it was Mooba, it was Groogle.
• 1:00:01
  Okay, that's. It's not confusing at all.
• 1:00:04
  Yeah, and now we get chased by an elephant.
• 1:00:07
  Carly. I don't know what Carly is.
• 1:00:09
  I didn't write that down, but I guess it was obvious.
• 1:00:13
  I don't know. May, who is Elmo's mom, has a
• 1:00:17
  name. Max Monster who sings Comb Your
• 1:00:22
  Face. Mel, who is the 4th monster
• 1:00:27
  clubhouse member, Yeah, the one he spoke gibberish.
• 1:00:30
  Yeah, he talks like Lips. Rosita's dad, who is named
• 1:00:34
  Ricardo, the only one of Rosita's family members who has
• 1:00:38
  a name. And of course, from the original
• 1:00:41
  1975 clip of Fur Stewie Monster, Stewie Monster, of course.
• 1:00:47
  And last but certainly not least, Gonger.
• 1:00:55
  Wow. Yeah, no, that's embarrassing.
• 1:00:58
  No longer the the best new Sesame Street character of the
• 1:01:02
  last 20 years. 15 years at least.
• 1:01:06
  Quite possibly. Murray doesn't even count in the
• 1:01:09
  last 15 years, does he? No.
• 1:01:11
  Probably not at this point. Because he was definitely around
• 1:01:14
  for the for the maybe it's 15 almost exact.
• 1:01:17
  Cuz he was around for the 40th anniversary.
• 1:01:19
  Yeah, at least. Because that was, of course, the
• 1:01:21
  heyday of Joey Mazzarino. Anyway, I'm totaling these up
• 1:01:24
  123456. OK, We've got some points
• 1:01:29
  totaled there. Thank you for for putting up
• 1:01:32
  with that, that monster of a round.
• 1:01:35
  That was such a challenge, but so satisfying.
• 1:01:41
  I'm so enlightened now. I'm impressed.
• 1:01:44
  We got as many as we did. I I mean, listen, you got two
• 1:01:47
  from the hard list. Serial Girl and Juliet were both
• 1:01:52
  on the hard list that I made. Not bad.
• 1:01:56
  Well, we're going to end things out with one more trivia game
• 1:02:00
  before our final two shorter rounds.
• 1:02:03
  And to make sure that everyone is happy, we're going to end
• 1:02:06
  this with one of my favorite games.
• 1:02:09
  The triangle is right. That's right.
• 1:02:12
  Buried on the triangle is right. That is a game.
• 1:02:18
  OK, now let's start playing our game.
• 1:02:21
  Not much of A game. And also, since we're choosing
• 1:02:25
  something that we all love, we're going to theme this game
• 1:02:29
  after something we can all agree on.
• 1:02:31
  Ice Cream. Or I guess more specifically,
• 1:02:34
  the Betty Lou song. Everyone likes Ice Cream.
• 1:02:39
  In this song, Betty Lou and two other Anything Muppet kids
• 1:02:43
  explain how even though people can be very different.
• 1:02:46
  They're often the same in key ways, such as liking ice cream,
• 1:02:53
  which got me thinking about two things, Anything Muppets, and
• 1:02:57
  ways that anything Muppets are the same and different.
• 1:03:00
  We all know the anything Muppets.
• 1:03:03
  They've got stock puppet colors and shapes that, with a change
• 1:03:06
  of a few facial features and performance quirks, can become
• 1:03:10
  vastly different. Characters take for instance.
• 1:03:15
  The small hot pink anything Muppet pattern.
• 1:03:19
  This pattern could become Prairie Dawn or Gunger or the
• 1:03:24
  Bubbsy Twins or of course Betty Lou.
• 1:03:28
  In this game I am going to name an anything Muppet color and
• 1:03:34
  pattern. You'll buzz in and name 3
• 1:03:37
  characters constructed from that.
• 1:03:40
  Anything muppet? For each of these, there are
• 1:03:44
  more than three possible answers, but we're keeping it to
• 1:03:47
  three because we just did all of the monsters.
• 1:03:50
  I don't have time to do all of the hot pink things.
• 1:03:56
  Remember, buzz in. Even if you don't know all three
• 1:04:00
  answers, you'll get points for whatever you can name.
• 1:04:04
  However, of course your opponent will have the chance to finish
• 1:04:08
  off whatever. You can't, all right.
• 1:04:12
  So here we go. OK, our first anything muppet is
• 1:04:16
  fat blue Alicia. Mr. Johnson.
• 1:04:24
  Mr. Johnson is the fat blue anything Muppet.
• 1:04:28
  Oh, man, it's OK All right. You can have it.
• 1:04:33
  Ryan Name. Another name.
• 1:04:34
  Another fat blue Simon Soundman. Simon Soundman correct.
• 1:04:39
  And can you name one more? You're asking me right?
• 1:04:42
  Yeah, I think Papa Twiddlebug. Papa Twiddlebug.
• 1:04:46
  Correct. Other ones on my list.
• 1:04:49
  And this is not all of them, but ones that I thought maybe there
• 1:04:52
  was a chance you'd say were Little Chrissy.
• 1:04:55
  Professor Hastings and. Big Jeff, Question 2, Green,
• 1:05:05
  Alicia. Farley is 1.
• 1:05:08
  Farley is absolutely one of the green.
• 1:05:12
  If he would be proud of me for that.
• 1:05:13
  One, Yeah. No, no, no.
• 1:05:14
  He's listening and beaming that you remembered.
• 1:05:17
  You remembered his son Farley. I don't know Others is the J
• 1:05:27
  song. Is one of those the green
• 1:05:30
  anything Muppet? The J's I know what you're
• 1:05:33
  talking about. Let me see.
• 1:05:35
  Because I didn't have that written down, but that is a
• 1:05:38
  song. And I know they have names
• 1:05:40
  because they say their names. They do it.
• 1:05:42
  One of them is green. And I will give you, I will give
• 1:05:49
  you 2 points for bringing up such a specific thing as the J
• 1:05:53
  friends, the one performed by Frank Oz, who I think was Joe.
• 1:06:03
  Is is is the green one. OK.
• 1:06:06
  Any other ones? I forgot that we were.
• 1:06:09
  I was. No it's okay.
• 1:06:10
  You can you can go for three or you can you can let Ryan have
• 1:06:13
  the 3rd I'm. Gonna let Ryan go.
• 1:06:17
  All right, Ryan. Name another name, another
• 1:06:18
  Green, anything. Muppet.
• 1:06:20
  Yeah, I actually. OK.
• 1:06:25
  Which one of them, I think Arlene frantic?
• 1:06:30
  See you guys. Keep choosing ones that aren't
• 1:06:32
  on my list. Arlene Frantic is the green
• 1:06:37
  anything Muppet, I will. I will give it to you, Ryan.
• 1:06:41
  Only because we mentioned her earlier, yeah.
• 1:06:44
  Other more obvious choices, Alicia, look up at your mini
• 1:06:48
  beans, because Sherlock Hemlock is the green.
• 1:06:52
  The green anything muppet, as is Lefty the salesman.
• 1:06:59
  Little Jerry Ryan, your favorite character.
• 1:07:03
  Forgetful Jones. Girlfriend Clementine.
• 1:07:06
  Oh yeah. We mentioned her earlier,
• 1:07:10
  Elizabeth. Oh yeah.
• 1:07:12
  It has little Murray Sparkles and JP from the Miami mice.
• 1:07:18
  I had written down question three large lavender Alicia.
• 1:07:28
  Count. OK, the count.
• 1:07:30
  That's the easy one. Countess Natasha.
• 1:07:34
  I will give you Countess Natasha.
• 1:07:37
  And then I can't remember her name, so like count backwards or
• 1:07:41
  something. There is a Countess backwards.
• 1:07:44
  I will give it to you. All right, that's that's three.
• 1:07:48
  But I also had amazing Mumford. Yeah.
• 1:07:52
  Forgetful Jones, Beth and Harvey Kneeslapper.
• 1:07:57
  Harvey Knee Slapper really scared me and to be honest is
• 1:08:01
  scary to me. Oh no.
• 1:08:02
  The Harvey Knee Slapper is a little scary.
• 1:08:05
  Frank Oz hated being Harvey Knee Slapper.
• 1:08:07
  That's a famous story. I would question 4 Orange gold,
• 1:08:17
  Ryan, Guy, Smiley. Guy Smiley is the orange gold
• 1:08:21
  puppet Prince Charming. Prince Charming, who is
• 1:08:29
  basically the same as Guy Smiley and another character whose name
• 1:08:43
  is. I don't know.
• 1:08:46
  OK, Alicia, could you name another orange gold on?
• 1:08:50
  Music. Don music, of course.
• 1:08:54
  Ryan, you'll never get it. No, I'm banging my head on the
• 1:08:57
  keyboard right now. Also, would have accepted one of
• 1:09:00
  my favorites, Monty. Oh yeah.
• 1:09:04
  And Vincent twice, Vincent twice.
• 1:09:08
  There's other ones too, but again, these are just the ones I
• 1:09:10
  wrote down. Question five small Lavender.
• 1:09:19
  Ryan. Roosevelt.
• 1:09:21
  Franklin. I'm sorry, Roosevelt.
• 1:09:24
  Franklin is not considered to be small lavender okay.
• 1:09:28
  He's not lavender. Is he?
• 1:09:29
  No, cuz he's not lavender. Well, no, Okay.
• 1:09:33
  Alicia. I can't do the J friends again,
• 1:09:38
  can I? Is one of them small and
• 1:09:41
  lavender? Maybe.
• 1:09:45
  Yes, hold on. Is this what I consider to be?
• 1:09:49
  They consider to be small lavender?
• 1:09:51
  Yes. OK, you know what?
• 1:09:52
  I'll take a J Friend. One of them is lavender.
• 1:09:56
  One of them is lavender. I don't know which J friend it
• 1:09:59
  is. It appears to be the one who is
• 1:10:02
  voiced by Fran Brill. So it's either it's either Jane
• 1:10:07
  or Joan. I don't.
• 1:10:08
  I don't know what. Any other ones?
• 1:10:11
  As are any of the The Beatles. A purple, any lavender or small,
• 1:10:17
  anything like that. One of the Twiddle Bugs or The
• 1:10:19
  Beatles or the Twiddle Bugs. Well, I was the.
• 1:10:22
  Beetles are all green, right? That's right.
• 1:10:25
  Well, you can pretend I said. Twiddle bugs.
• 1:10:27
  But I would have needed a name for Twiddle Bug.
• 1:10:30
  I'm not just giving it to you. All right.
• 1:10:32
  Lavender ones on this list. Herbert, Bird's Foot.
• 1:10:38
  Polly Darton. Sammy the Snake.
• 1:10:44
  OK, Captain Vegetable and Roxy Marie, Captain.
• 1:10:49
  Vegetables, not a large lavender.
• 1:10:51
  No, he's small, OK? At least according to Muppet
• 1:10:56
  Wiki. Yeah, no, I'm I'm surprisingly
• 1:10:58
  bad at this. OK, and this is the last one.
• 1:11:01
  And this is the hardest 1 pumpkin Ryan Brazzle.
• 1:11:09
  Brazzle was originally the pumpkin.
• 1:11:11
  Anything muppet correct? Can you name two other ones,
• 1:11:15
  though? Probably not pumpkin.
• 1:11:29
  Is it Richard from Little Jerry and the Monotones?
• 1:11:37
  You know I can't give you that because.
• 1:11:40
  Because we, and this is fascinating to me, do not know
• 1:11:46
  which member of the monotones is Richard and which one of them is
• 1:11:51
  Chrissy. It has never been established.
• 1:11:59
  We only know that Little Jerry is the green one and Big Jeff is
• 1:12:04
  the blue one. According to Muppet Wiki.
• 1:12:07
  We are not sure which one is which.
• 1:12:10
  OK, yeah, I got nothing else. Alicia, any guesses for for
• 1:12:14
  pumpkin? Same one as Frazzle.
• 1:12:17
  All right. There aren't many good choices
• 1:12:20
  here. This is the hard one, but one of
• 1:12:22
  the ones that I thought you guys would get was Sully.
• 1:12:27
  I love Sully. And also, Dr. Feel, everyone's
• 1:12:32
  favorite Doctor Phil parody Muppet.
• 1:12:34
  Yeah, that was a weird thing. That was.
• 1:12:39
  He showed up, like, repeatedly, too.
• 1:12:41
  Yeah. And it was, it was Steve
• 1:12:42
  Wittmeyer. Yeah.
• 1:12:44
  Whitmeyer is at least. I mean, he's from the South.
• 1:12:46
  So I guess that, I think that's probably why.
• 1:12:48
  Yeah. They're like, can you play this,
• 1:12:50
  this other guy? Yeah.
• 1:12:51
  Like, all right, let me let me total up the scores while I'm
• 1:12:55
  doing that. First of all, are you both OK,
• 1:12:57
  we're almost done. We're in the tail end here.
• 1:13:00
  And second of all, make sure that you've got your questions
• 1:13:03
  ready because we're going to do that round.
• 1:13:05
  I feel as good as Betty Lou that time she was hanging out with
• 1:13:09
  her best friend Louise. Nice work there.
• 1:13:11
  I wish I could give you both a nice big bowl of ice cream, but
• 1:13:15
  instead I'm going to give you our next game, the Anything in
• 1:13:18
  the World Prize game. This is our classic Stump the
• 1:13:22
  host game. As you know, in this round you
• 1:13:25
  will be able to ask me anything in the world about Sesame
• 1:13:29
  Street. Yours does not have to be about
• 1:13:32
  Betty Luke. I I will, I will clarify.
• 1:13:36
  If you stump me, you will earn 15 points.
• 1:13:39
  Here's the scores right now, Aletheia, you have a score of 63
• 1:13:44
  points. Ryan, you have a score of 95
• 1:13:50
  points. I will say remembering those 80s
• 1:13:54
  monsters really helped you pull ahead.
• 1:13:57
  You got three times as many monsters as Alicia did.
• 1:14:02
  I watched so much Sesame Street. Yeah.
• 1:14:04
  So that's that's exactly where you pulled ahead because that's
• 1:14:07
  the difference in the point scores right here.
• 1:14:11
  Thanks, Juliet. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:14:13
  For your memory of Juliet Monster and Aristotle Monster.
• 1:14:19
  So Alicia, if you stumped me with this question, you will
• 1:14:23
  earn 15 points. Alethea, what is your question
• 1:14:27
  for me? OK, I'm not sure about the
• 1:14:31
  difficulty level. Of this it's OK.
• 1:14:33
  But. Everyone's a winner.
• 1:14:35
  Who is not a Sesame Street parody character?
• 1:14:40
  A Neil Cowherd B eel sedaka C triangle Bob triangle pants.
• 1:14:50
  Or D Mia Sparrow. The only one I know for a fact
• 1:14:54
  is Triangle Bob. Triangle Pants because we had
• 1:14:57
  that great article a while ago. Where was it?
• 1:14:59
  Shane. Who put photos of every Bob
• 1:15:02
  costume? Or was it you, Ryan?
• 1:15:04
  It wasn't me then. It was probably Shane.
• 1:15:07
  Yeah, Bob wore a lot of ridiculous costumes.
• 1:15:09
  I'm. Going to guess eel sedaka
• 1:15:14
  because I feel like I would remember an eel puppet if there
• 1:15:17
  was an eel puppet on Sesame Street.
• 1:15:20
  But I guess it could just be the Sammy the Snake puppet again.
• 1:15:23
  But my guess is still eel sedaka.
• 1:15:27
  You are correct. Will Sedaka is an eel I made-up
• 1:15:31
  in the recesses of my own imagination.
• 1:15:33
  Well, listen, that's a great character and they should, they
• 1:15:35
  should look you up. Can I can I just ask when would
• 1:15:39
  when did they use Mia Sparrow? I'm gonna guess like the 80s.
• 1:15:46
  I don't, actually. OK.
• 1:15:49
  I would guess that too. Oh, Mia Sparrow, 1989.
• 1:15:54
  She is a bird as well as an actress who appears in episode
• 1:15:58
  2540. During an interview with Flo
• 1:16:01
  Bear, she talks about her gratitude for her new role in an
• 1:16:06
  upcoming movie, I'm Alive. And Alicia, what was the the
• 1:16:11
  first one that you said? Noel Cowherd Is that a cow or a
• 1:16:16
  cowboy? It's a cowboy from 1991.
• 1:16:19
  He's the fastest draw in the West because he is very good at
• 1:16:24
  drawing. Wow.
• 1:16:28
  He's appeared multiple times. Really.
• 1:16:30
  Does he deliver witty Bun motts? No cowboy life.
• 1:16:37
  No. Maybe he's an old friend of
• 1:16:40
  Forgetful Jones. He defeated Billy the Grown Up
• 1:16:43
  in a square fight. Which was a fight to see which
• 1:16:47
  two people could draw. Which person could draw squares
• 1:16:51
  fastest. He appeared alongside Johnny
• 1:16:56
  Cash and is on the album's Elmo's Lowdown, Hoedown, and
• 1:17:01
  Kids favorite songs. That's a lot of null Cowherd
• 1:17:08
  material considering considering it's a parody of.
• 1:17:14
  An English playwright wrote private lives like Yes, that's
• 1:17:22
  pretty specific. And dude, I did my I tested my
• 1:17:26
  parents with this one and they both thought I made that null.
• 1:17:28
  Cowherd. Yeah, I mean that is it was
• 1:17:32
  between those two because I was like they didn't do a null
• 1:17:36
  coward already character what? But no, apparently they did.
• 1:17:44
  So I'm sorry, Alicia, you do not earn 15 points there.
• 1:17:48
  I'm proud of you. Ryan Yeah, So those, yeah, that
• 1:17:54
  I was thinking about trying to figure out a way to tie this
• 1:17:56
  back to Betty Lou, but I don't think I can.
• 1:17:58
  Also, I based on the pet round. I am suspicious that you might
• 1:18:04
  have come across the answer to this in your research, but I'm
• 1:18:08
  going to go with it anyway. There are at least three Sesame
• 1:18:13
  Street Muppets who have faithful horse companions.
• 1:18:18
  They are Marshall Grover, Forgetful Jones, and Prince
• 1:18:21
  Charming. Can you name all three of their
• 1:18:24
  horses? So Buster is Forgetful Jones
• 1:18:30
  horse. Yes, Fred the Wonder Horse is
• 1:18:35
  Grover's horse. Yep, you got his full name.
• 1:18:37
  Good. You know you gotta.
• 1:18:41
  I did not know Prince Charming had a horse.
• 1:18:45
  Harpo. No, That would be a good name
• 1:18:48
  for a horse. Yeah, Harpo the horse.
• 1:18:51
  No, it was Duke. Oh, see, that's that's funny.
• 1:18:56
  Sure, yeah. I don't.
• 1:18:57
  I have not seen any clips of him, actually, but I I assume he
• 1:19:02
  talked in a John Wayne voice. It was Richard Hunt, apparently.
• 1:19:05
  That feels like something that Richard Hunt would do.
• 1:19:09
  And this is, I think, a relatively recent wiki discovery
• 1:19:12
  that Prince Charming actually appeared in several St. stories,
• 1:19:16
  I think in the late 70s. Yeah, so.
• 1:19:18
  So he usually had Duke with him. Duke.
• 1:19:20
  Yeah, this seems like he was only in only in street stories,
• 1:19:27
  which means that these weren't re aired and I wasn't alive in
• 1:19:31
  1975 to see them, but I had to stump you.
• 1:19:35
  Although interestingly enough, he did show up again in 1990 as
• 1:19:40
  a different characters horse. They're performed by Marty
• 1:19:45
  Robinson. Now would you have accepted
• 1:19:49
  Lance, which is what Prince Charming's horse was referred to
• 1:19:53
  in the Who's Who on Sesame Street coloring book according
• 1:19:57
  to Muppet Wiki? I did see that that was on the
• 1:19:59
  wiki page. I would have accepted that.
• 1:20:02
  OK, Lance was a. Lance was a You got me.
• 1:20:05
  And hey, it wound up being themed to our first Grant.
• 1:20:09
  Ryan, you earned 15 points. Thank you.
• 1:20:12
  We are going to move into our final game, which is, of course,
• 1:20:15
  say the word. So here's our current score.
• 1:20:20
  Alethia, you have 63 points. Ryan, you have 110 points.
• 1:20:26
  Well, it's still anybody's game though, because that's how say
• 1:20:31
  the word works. In this round, you can wager any
• 1:20:35
  amount of points. The winner gets the points, the
• 1:20:39
  loser loses them. You will hear the question
• 1:20:43
  before you wager. So here's the question.
• 1:20:47
  As we've seen throughout this episode, Betty Lou is an enigma.
• 1:20:52
  She's been so many things to so many people.
• 1:20:56
  She's had many names, many forms.
• 1:20:59
  She loves Go Karts and monsters and Subways and Talbert and
• 1:21:04
  Louise and Cinnamon Toast. Unlike her hot pink pier Prairie
• 1:21:10
  Dawn, who has a clear, understandable personality and
• 1:21:14
  really only two performers, Betty Lou didn't have a regular
• 1:21:19
  performer until the 90s. Muppet Wiki lists six different
• 1:21:25
  performers in her casting history.
• 1:21:29
  Name as many of these performers as you can.
• 1:21:33
  Whoever gets more correct will win the points that they
• 1:21:39
  wagered, so you do not have to get all six right to earn your
• 1:21:43
  points. You know if Ryan gets three of
• 1:21:46
  the performers right and Aletheia gets four of the
• 1:21:49
  performers right, Ryan you will lose your bet and Aletheia, you
• 1:21:53
  will gain your bet. I mean, worse comes to worse.
• 1:21:56
  Guess 6-6 puppeteers I have written down here where each of
• 1:22:05
  these performers performed her, but you do not need to know that
• 1:22:10
  okay. So neither of you got all six
• 1:22:15
  correct answers. However, both of you did get a
• 1:22:18
  bunch correct, which is good. Both of you and I I haven't
• 1:22:23
  actually counted how many you've got right?
• 1:22:26
  So let's start. Ryan.
• 1:22:29
  You bet 20 points. Which six puppeteers did you
• 1:22:33
  name? I named Frank Oz, Fran Brill,
• 1:22:38
  Jerry Nelson, Carol Spinney, Lisa Buckley, and Cheryl
• 1:22:42
  Blaylock. OK, Alicia, you guessed 10
• 1:22:47
  points and you named 6 puppeteers as well.
• 1:22:50
  Who did you name? I got the note I named Fran
• 1:22:53
  Brill, Frank Oz, Richard Hunt, Loretta Long with a question
• 1:22:57
  mark. Hudson was a joke.
• 1:23:00
  And then I remembered I could only, well, Jerry Nelson.
• 1:23:06
  OK, well, listen, so like I said, you each got some of those
• 1:23:10
  correct. Let's walk through who performed
• 1:23:14
  Betty Lou according to Muppet Wiki and I will tell you whether
• 1:23:17
  you got that right. So both of you named Frank Oz.
• 1:23:23
  Frank Oz is listed because Frank Oz performed Betty Lou in Pick
• 1:23:28
  Your Pet, although she was called Lucy Jones there and in
• 1:23:33
  everyone likes ice cream. So you each got Frank Oz
• 1:23:38
  correct. Second one on my list was
• 1:23:41
  Franbril. You both guessed Franbril.
• 1:23:44
  That is the obvious guess, seeing As for a long time she
• 1:23:48
  was the only female puppeteer I. Grew up listening to a like a
• 1:23:53
  read along book and tape. That was Fran Brill as Betty
• 1:23:57
  Lou. Fran did Betty Lou on all of the
• 1:24:00
  books at Book and Tapes. OK And of course Betty Lou
• 1:24:03
  appeared, as we've talked about a lot more often in books than
• 1:24:07
  ever on the show, right. She also performed her in the
• 1:24:11
  original exercise sketch Amigo, beginning, middle, and end, when
• 1:24:17
  the Ice Follies, Sketches were given, narration, all sorts of
• 1:24:22
  things like that. The next person on my list is
• 1:24:25
  Jerry Nelson, who you each guest as well, specifically in the
• 1:24:30
  song Clubhouse Cooperation. Which I definitely now next
• 1:24:35
  person on my list. Neither of you wrote, and this
• 1:24:40
  is this is who I consider to be the definitive Betty Lou Marilyn
• 1:24:44
  Sokol. Yeah, those two songs.
• 1:24:50
  I want a monster to be my friend and on the subway.
• 1:24:54
  Yeah, again, Marilyn Sokol. Wish she did more with The
• 1:25:01
  Muppets. She's so good in Emmet Otter and
• 1:25:04
  so good on both of those songs. I guess mostly on I Want a
• 1:25:07
  Monster to Be My friend. She's got like one line in
• 1:25:09
  Subway but. I realize now I was thinking too
• 1:25:13
  narrowly, because I wasn't. I wasn't taking into account
• 1:25:16
  voice like vocal dub performances.
• 1:25:20
  It's listed on Muppet wiki. Yeah, no, it would be, yeah.
• 1:25:22
  Cuz Marilyn Sokol didn't do the puppetry.
• 1:25:24
  She was the voice, but she did it, Yeah.
• 1:25:26
  I don't. Do we know that she didn't do
• 1:25:29
  the puppetry on Sesame Street, though?
• 1:25:32
  Oh, I mean, I guess she didn't. She didn't.
• 1:25:35
  For Emmett Otter, she didn't. For Emmett Otter OK, no, it was
• 1:25:39
  it was voice only. She only did puppeteering and it
• 1:25:44
  looks like Santa Claus Switch, but no, she yeah.
• 1:25:50
  So next person on my list. Richard Hunt, which Alethia
• 1:25:56
  guest but Ryan did not. Richard seems to have performed
• 1:26:00
  her in the song. It's funny and looks like
• 1:26:02
  nowhere else. And the last person on my list
• 1:26:07
  is Lisa Buckley, who was, of course, Betty Lou's regular
• 1:26:11
  performer from seasons 25 through 29 when they desperately
• 1:26:15
  tried to make Betty Lou a major character who loved collecting
• 1:26:20
  dolls. That was her thing.
• 1:26:23
  And I will. I'm going to say this wore a
• 1:26:27
  really ugly dress. That really bothers me, Ryan.
• 1:26:34
  You also guessed Cheryl Blaylock not on my list.
• 1:26:37
  And I that was just a guess. Harold Spinney Not on my list
• 1:26:42
  and. Those early things, Alicia?
• 1:26:44
  You guessed Loretta Lynn. Not on my list.
• 1:26:48
  Good guess, though, considering not Loretta Lynn.
• 1:26:54
  Who was on Sesame Street? That's true.
• 1:26:56
  That would have been cool. You guessed Loretta Long, which
• 1:27:00
  made sense as a guest, seeing as Gordon voiced Roosevelt
• 1:27:04
  Franklin, and they're they're kind of similar characters.
• 1:27:08
  She voiced Roosevelt, Franklin's mother.
• 1:27:10
  Oh, right, of course. And so not Betty Lou, though.
• 1:27:14
  And you guessed Jim Henson, possibly as a joke.
• 1:27:18
  Not, not on my list either. So weirdly enough, you both got
• 1:27:22
  the same number of performers, correct?
• 1:27:25
  Just different performers or I guess three of the same
• 1:27:30
  performers. And Ryan said Lisa Buckley and
• 1:27:33
  Alicia said Richard Hunt. So you each get your points,
• 1:27:38
  your points back because you tied on that.
• 1:27:41
  But of course, Ryan's lead was a little a little too too high to
• 1:27:48
  to surmount. So our winner and today's
• 1:27:52
  toughest pig is Ryan Rowe. Once again, Ryan.
• 1:27:56
  Thank you. This is a great game.
• 1:27:59
  Well, thank you. Congratulations.
• 1:28:02
  You of course win your choice of a Metro card, which is great for
• 1:28:07
  getting on the subway, the longest running show underground
• 1:28:12
  or I I've started, I got a little board making magnets.
• 1:28:15
  So I started making these like little little picture cards.
• 1:28:20
  And so here's a little picture of Betty Lou and the Beautiful
• 1:28:23
  Day Monster together. Together at last.
• 1:28:27
  After, pick your pet and I will happily send you this way.
• 1:28:32
  Send you this if you'd prefer this to a subway.
• 1:28:36
  Card. You know, the Metro card might
• 1:28:38
  be useful the next time I'm in the New York area, but I yeah, I
• 1:28:42
  think I gotta go with the picture card.
• 1:28:45
  I will. I will send you send you my
• 1:28:46
  little picture card of of Betty Lou.
• 1:28:49
  Thanks, and now you understand the reference because you know
• 1:28:53
  all about Pick your pet where she picks the Beautiful Day
• 1:28:56
  monster over Little Bird and Baskerville the Hound.
• 1:28:59
  What's her reasoning for that? The game is like she's
• 1:29:04
  blindfolded and it's like the dating game where they each she
• 1:29:10
  gets to ask a certain amount of questions and doesn't actually
• 1:29:14
  get to ask the beautiful Day monster any questions.
• 1:29:18
  But she clearly wants a cat so she isn't happy with a bird or a
• 1:29:23
  dog. So she guesses the third one and
• 1:29:26
  then is very happy to learn that the Beautiful Day monster has
• 1:29:30
  soft silky fur and purrs and wants to drink milk.
• 1:29:36
  So she she got the pet she wanted after all.
• 1:29:39
  Well, that's nice. And now you get that reference.
• 1:29:44
  So that brings us to the end of another one.
• 1:29:46
  So guests, where can people find you If you wish to be found?
• 1:29:52
  Ryan, let's start with you. Toughpigs.com Always the Moving
• 1:29:58
  Right Along Muppet Movie podcast has a bonus episode.
• 1:30:02
  We're in between seasons as we record this.
• 1:30:05
  We do have a bonus episode coming soon, possibly out.
• 1:30:07
  By the time you hear this, our guests on that episode is.
• 1:30:11
  Becca Petunia, the host of this podcast.
• 1:30:14
  That's true. And we're talking about the the
• 1:30:17
  1994 Muppet album Kermit Unpigged.
• 1:30:19
  And it's a really fun episode, so everyone should seek that
• 1:30:22
  out. I'm I'm not really on Twitter
• 1:30:26
  anymore, or X or whatever it's called, because that's just a
• 1:30:30
  disaster. Yeah, I have been a little more
• 1:30:33
  active on Blue Sky recently, actually.
• 1:30:35
  You gave me my blue sky, and I sure did give you your I.
• 1:30:38
  Really like it there. I hope it catches on.
• 1:30:40
  I hope everybody uses Blue Sky forever now.
• 1:30:42
  So I am at me, Ryan Rowe over there and Alicia.
• 1:30:48
  So I am my personal like. You know Alethia account is at
• 1:30:53
  Alethia Shirilan. SHIRILAN is my last name and
• 1:30:59
  then I have a link tree in that bio with like my website and
• 1:31:03
  like you can find some of the links to my plays and stuff
• 1:31:07
  there and then for Sesame history, I believe my Twitter
• 1:31:12
  handle is Sesame History. I'm trying to make the migration
• 1:31:16
  to blue sky. Right now I just got a blue sky
• 1:31:19
  code, so I think it's also sesame history there.
• 1:31:22
  But if you have trouble finding me, a few searches should do it.
• 1:31:28
  Or like a look through the Muppet Twitter community, I'll
• 1:31:31
  tag you in this post. You're fine.
• 1:31:33
  You're fine. And again, it's a delightful,
• 1:31:36
  it's a delightful little little page, a lot of just funny posts
• 1:31:42
  and like good memories and weird, creepy early sleeping
• 1:31:47
  dolls and and everything, everything you could want.
• 1:31:52
  And of course you can find me on Tough Pigs.
• 1:31:56
  Tough Pigs, of course. Still the the best place to find
• 1:32:00
  me or Ryan or any of us, because Tough Pigs has lasted 22 years
• 1:32:06
  without exploding. And that's more more than I can
• 1:32:10
  say about any of these other social media websites.
• 1:32:14
  Well, in my defense, I wasn't writing for it 22 years ago, so
• 1:32:17
  I don't have to feel that old. I've only been writing for it
• 1:32:19
  for 9 years. But of course you can find tough
• 1:32:24
  pigs. If you do want to go on social
• 1:32:26
  media, you could find tough pigs on Twitter and Facebook and Blue
• 1:32:31
  Sky and Instagram. And we are on Patreon.
• 1:32:36
  If you want to support us, you could give us some money on
• 1:32:39
  Patreon and get some exclusive free stuff.
• 1:32:43
  I should also mention you can support us on the Tough Pigs T
• 1:32:46
  public page. We've got a bunch of designs,
• 1:32:50
  some of which I designed, including a Hubble Wash shirt,
• 1:32:54
  some Pride shirts still available, Monster at the end of
• 1:32:58
  this book shirt I designed. Number one seller, I'm pumping
• 1:33:02
  my fist. I'm pumping my fist.
• 1:33:04
  You can't see it. Audience at home.
• 1:33:06
  But I would say 90% of the time we get a notification from T
• 1:33:09
  public like you've made a sale. Almost every time it's it's the
• 1:33:13
  monster at the end of this book shirt.
• 1:33:15
  I gotta say. I mean, listen, I'm proud
• 1:33:16
  because I worked hard on that and I think it's a wonderful
• 1:33:19
  shirt and all of those different things.
• 1:33:21
  Yes, sure. But I gotta say some of the
• 1:33:23
  newer designs, the the Muppet Movie inspired designs I in
• 1:33:27
  love. And the only thing that's
• 1:33:29
  keeping me from getting them is because I can't decide which one
• 1:33:32
  to get. And I know I can't get like all
• 1:33:35
  ten of them. Anna, there should be a new
• 1:33:39
  design by the time this episode is out.
• 1:33:42
  A new design I made should be should be available.
• 1:33:45
  No. I made I made Lips Tutter St.
• 1:33:47
  Trumpet Company. Sure, I made a I made a replica
• 1:33:50
  of it. Yeah, that looks great.
• 1:33:52
  So that'll that should be up. And if you want to find me on
• 1:33:55
  social media, boy this is going long.
• 1:33:57
  If you want to find me on social media at Uncle Petunio on
• 1:34:02
  Twitter, that's Uncle like the kind of person who might own
• 1:34:07
  Wolfgang the seal. And Petunio is like the flower
• 1:34:11
  but with an O instead of an A. And I'm on all of the other
• 1:34:14
  socials, Instagram, Blue Sky Tumblr threads at Tall Girl
• 1:34:21
  Petunia. That time Petunia is spelled
• 1:34:24
  like the flower. I'd like to thank some people
• 1:34:27
  for helping out. Of course, our guests thank you
• 1:34:30
  both. Seriously.
• 1:34:33
  Well, thank me for writing and editing and producing and
• 1:34:37
  hosting the show. Thanks to Stacy Rosen for
• 1:34:40
  writing the theme music for the show.
• 1:34:42
  Ryan, how's Stacy doing? She's she's good.
• 1:34:46
  I could run downstairs and ask her, but the last time I saw
• 1:34:48
  her, she was playing Tetris and doing very well.
• 1:34:51
  OK, well, hey, that's great. Yeah.
• 1:34:53
  Thanks to Richard Gomez for doing the host artwork for the
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  show. Thanks to Katie Lynn Miller for
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  writing our transcripts. Thanks to Joe Hannis, The Tough
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  Pigs Muppet fan, podcast executive producer.
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  And of course, thanks to Betty Lou.
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  And lastly, thanks to all of you at home for being with us on
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  Habawa, The Muppet Quiz Show. And as always, Betty Lou loves
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  the xylophone, orange juice, baseball overalls, Go Karts and
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  her best friend Luis. Good night everybody.
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  Good night, Betty Lou. But there is one thing special
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  which everyone agrees except for me.
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  And I don't agree. Oh, you do so.
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  I do not. You're just silly.