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Hubba-Wha?! Episode #12 - Family Dinners · Muppet Fan Podcasts with ToughPigs.com

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Yeah. Oh, Cookie Monster would share
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his cookie. Yep, it against me Primal
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Instinct, but you share with me and me.
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Share with you, okay. What do you say?
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We eat these Cookie Monster Style
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Welcome to hubba-wha a muppet quiz show brought to you by
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tough pigs.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 One in between competes, for fabulous prizes,
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and to see who's this week's toughest pick.
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I'm your host. Becca petunia of tough pigs.com.
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You know, I've been thinking about one of my favorite Sesame,
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Street lines, family, dinners are really great, we eat the
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food and then the plate. So today on hubba-wha, we are
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going to have a great family dinner.
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As we think about Gathering our relatives, cooking a meal,
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eating that meal and sitting back.
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To watch a parade, folks. That's right.
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It's time to talk about all of these great Thanksgiving
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Concepts. It's a Thanksgiving episode.
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But wait, you asked Thanksgiving, is it for a couple
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of months? Yes.
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Listen, if Ryan and Anthony are allowed to talk about Christmas
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all year long on Movin right along this year, then I can talk
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about Thanksgiving. Now that was the idea all along
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and it totally isn't that our release schedule got a little
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messed up. As always, these questions were
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written by me with help from that amazing Muppet resource
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Muppet Wiki. Speaking of, let's agree to play
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fair today. Please don't look at Muppet Wiki
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or any other resource. It's during this game, you
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shouldn't need Muppet Wiki to tell you that the turkeys, the
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turkey you turkey. So let's start things off by
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setting the table in a game. I like to call to tell a face
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contestants buzz in to answer three questions about yourself.
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Whoever buzzes in first will get introduced first ready.
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Go All right, that's Matthew. So, Matthew, my first question
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for you. What is your name?
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My name is Matthew. So Berman, is that correct?
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Did I get that right? Yeah, I have to check.
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I'm gonna have to check Muppet Wiki, but I think according to
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Muppet Wiki. That's correct.
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At least starting in season 2. Okay.
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Next question, what's your history with the Muppets?
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Well, like most people I was kind of raised on Muppets stuff
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than, you know. My parents fought a lot of the
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VHS tapes, when I was a kid, my sick, my home sick from school
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movie was the great Muppet, Caper, which I must say, is it
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in the last couple of years has proven very beneficial to my
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mental well-being. I you just been in a muppet fan
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for life and I sort of rediscovered it like freshman
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year of college. And that's, and then a few years
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later, I joined, tough eggs. Yeah.
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And you, you still write for tough pigs?
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Correct. I do.
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I just wrote literally every review we did pertaining to Holy
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Moly. I will tell you the only thing I
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saw of holy moly was an animated gif of Lucille and throwing
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Kermit. Then you saw the best of it.
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I did not see anything else. I never turned on my television
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or Hulu or however, I'm supposed to watch it.
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Did not do that and you missed little to nothing.
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That's what I hear from your reviews which I did read.
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They were excellent very thoughtful.
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Everyone should check them out. And my third question, which
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Muppet would you most want to invite to a Thanksgiving dinner?
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Ooh, because it's Thanksgiving. Yeah, I know.
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And it's like which Muppet am I most thankful for?
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Yeah. Oh I mean I don't want to sound
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basic but I think it would have to be Kermit because great
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conversationalist very helpful. You know.
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Just just an all around Good Egg.
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Yeah. With a with like some of these,
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I will say this, if it can't be Kermit, probably Fozzie.
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That way, you only have to worry about him stealing like a candy
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dish. If you're in jail, Leno's house
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and I don't think I'm going there for Thanksgiving.
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I usually do, but we have to see this year, you know, things are
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a little, you know, got a visit, got to visit the in-laws now.
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All right, and very good. That's 20 points, right there
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and we're gonna move on to our second contestant.
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My only lead of the show. Is it?
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You're in the lead? Shane, what is your name?
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Does it count if you've already said it?
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I mean if it's your name it's still the right answer.
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Okay. Well I think it's Shane Keating
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it is. All right, and Shane what's your
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history with the Muppets? I think, like, Matthew and like
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everybody else, it was just something we saw as very young
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children and I stuck to it all these years.
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And now I'm also a writer Therefore tough pigs, ho ho,
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that's true. And also, for Muppet Wiki.
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Yeah, I know you're saying, you know, don't don't look at Muppet
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Wiki during the show, one of us is Muppet Wiki personifies that
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pretty much. But, uh, I mean, I may have
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written some stuff that you based questions on, who knows.
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Well, almost, definitely in some of the cases, but you'll figure
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that out when we get there which of the Muppets Shane.
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Would you most want to invite to a family dinner, a Thanksgiving
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family? A dinner because it's
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Thanksgiving, I miss it. Maybe boober because boober can
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cook, strong can't cook so he would make some pretty you know,
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good food. I bet some lima bean soup or
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well maybe not that but yes pea soup piece soup.
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Yes that's right I remember that wasn't that long ago?
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Yeah well speaking of inviting people to dinner, let's talk a
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little bit. About families in this round
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which we are calling, can you guess we all have families and
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Muppets are no different? While some Muppet relatives are
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well-known, like Kermit's nephew Robin or scooters sister.
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Skeeter. Others are a little more obscure
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but everyone has someone they're related to.
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And in this game we're going to explore this.
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I'm going to name a Muppet or Henson.
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Her relative, your job is to buzz in and name the more famous
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character. They're related to, you will
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also score a bonus point if you can name how they're related.
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For instance, if I said traveling Matt, you would buzz
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in and say Gobo you'd earn an extra point.
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If you said that Matt was gobos Uncle or yeah, you could frame
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it, as gobo Matt's nephew and score the point as well.
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Yes, real Muppet Wiki Wise, Guys could say uncle Gobo as a
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relative of traveling Matt, but I did ask for more famous
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characters, less famous characters, but I mean in
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universe is Uncle Gobo more famous than regular Gobo.
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This is why we need a season 2 of back to the rocks.
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Oh yeah, there we go Florida's. Oh, yeah, that's right.
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New timeline now. Yes.
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Please wait until I finish saying the character's name or
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names to buzzin. So our family at home can play
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along, are we ready? You got it.
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All right. Yeah, and that I should just say
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sometimes there will be two relatives mentioned like in this
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1 question 1, Andy and Randy Matthew, that would be Miss
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Piggy and she is their aunt. They are her nephew's correct?
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That's two points. This job wasn't too hard.
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Second question. Louis and May Shane that they
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are Elmo's parents. They are Elmo's parents, I
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forgot Elmo's mother's name. She doesn't show up as much.
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Yeah, question 3, Rudy Shame. He is related to Abby Cadabby
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and he is her stepbrother. Correct?
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I guess I'm counting that as a relative.
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A let's be clear by marriage. Hmm question.
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For Vinnie linguine, do we lose points if we get it wrong no.
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And I've nothing to lose shame. I'm gonna say he's related to
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Rizzo. He is related to Renzo that's
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that sounds like a Rizzo kind of name.
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Cousin, you would think he would be his cousin Vinnie, but he is
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not his cousin Vinnie. Matthew D of a guess.
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I know he has Brothers, you know, at least in the tens of
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thousands, I'm going to say his brother.
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It is his brother. Hold on the new Muppet Babies.
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That's right on the new Muppet Babies.
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He is Rizzo's brother, who is a pop star.
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Our question 5, flutter. Shane.
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Aha, this one I do know she is Cutters on from bear.
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The Big Blue House. She is his grandmother, correct?
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I do want to say that is the first Bear in the Big Blue House
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question. On two seasons of hubba-wha,
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there's not going to be a whole Bear in the Big Blue House
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episode. I would want there to be, but I
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feel like it'd be tough. Tough to find guests who are
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capable Maybe when it drops on Disney Plus at whenever the
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whole series is out there so people can watch it.
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I feel like no McNeil keep saying that this is gonna be a
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real good year for for Bear in the Big Blue House.
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So question 6, Baron Petrie. Shane.
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Baron Petrie. Von honeydew.
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Is dr. Bunsen Honeydew.
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Dues, Oh, I'm great uncle I'll give you a point for knowing
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that he is related to Bunsen Honeydew but he is not a great
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uncle. Is he just a regular Uncle?
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I mean I was going to let Matthew guess.
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Oh, is he just a regular Uncle? He sure is Matthew.
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He's just a regular table scraps and of course this was
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established we're not for any points but I wouldn't know about
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that monster adventure minigame. Not minigame video game that
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wasn't for points, right? Because I saw he does, but that
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no, that wasn't for points. The games fun.
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So I don't know. I've never played it.
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I've just seen playthroughs. It kind of looks like Spiral but
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with Muppets, it's basically a Spyro clone.
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And frankly with not enough Muppets to justify it but Spyro
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is fun. So there you go, question, 7,
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Nani, Matthew That is Big Bird's Aunt correct.
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As established in the Sesame beginning, these tapes I have
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never watched any of those me either, but I've read Muppet
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Wiki question, 8 flange. Shane flange is the father of
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cotterpin doozer. Correct question.
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Nine Laverne. Shane, that's animals.
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Mother. That is animals, mother, as
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established in the book, The Case of the missing mother,
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which we once did as a tough Pigs book club and you can
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probably still fine. I think she also had some sitcom
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with some guy named Squiggy illallah learn.
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It was actually more. Um, oh question. 10 flossie.
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Matthew. Isn't that Elmo sister?
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It is a sister. I will actually give you a point
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for sister in the spirit of Thanksgiving, but it's not
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Elmo's. Elmo sister?
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Was, of course, named easy Maisie.
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No Daisy. Daisy.
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Like Daisy, Shane. Do you want.
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Do you know whose sister flossie is glossy?
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I'm just going to take a stab hairy monster.
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It is hairy monster established in a couple of storybooks, she
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like existed for a bit there. There isn't a question about his
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other sister is there. No.
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Okay as I know he has he has another sister named Harriet and
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a twin brother named Jerry monster and he also they also
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gave him another sister a few seasons ago.
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She didn't have a name but but she's not blue either.
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So that was I mean it cannot be adopted or also through marriage
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stepsister. Question 11, composter Heap?
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Matthew. My ring again.
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Um, Oh, I thought you did compost to he, do you not know?
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I'm gonna guess. It's the sister of Marjorie the
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trash. Great guess, not correct?
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No, no. You know, it is a sister though
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or something else. It's two things but I will give
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you a point for sister. Again in the spirit of
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Thanksgiving Shane. Can you steal?
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I can steal that is mulch. His sister from Muppets tonight.
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All right, that is pure filth and neuter.
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Does the Thomas Dolby cover that is that is mulches sister.
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Who else is she related to? We can buzz in again for this.
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Oh, dope. I just gave it away.
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Didn't I? Shane dr.
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Phil Van neuters wife. Yes, question. 12 Athena Shane,
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that is Hoots the owls granddaughter that is Hoots the
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owls granddaughter question, 13 dusk, Oh, I stomped even these
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two with this one. I'm just going to take a guess,
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Shane. Now dusk is a part of the is
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something you say about the sky and who lives in the sky, Luna
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from fair, in the Big Blue House.
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So I'm going to say dusk, is the niece of Luna from Bear in the
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Big Blue House. I wish they'd spent more time on
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Lunas family. Luna had other Celestial.
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Family members. It is not.
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Not Luna. I will say you're thinking along
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the right path in some ways. Matthew Honestly the only thing
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I can think of is dusk is the opposite of dawn.
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So I'm going to say, prairie Dawn's brother.
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It's Prairie Don's Aunt. You know, I was also thinking
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Perry done because Dusk and Dawn, but I just went for the
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stupid route instead. Yeah, when in doubt go
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ridiculous question, 14 bobbin. I will spell this for you
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because it might make it a little easier B.o.B be ' and I
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got nothing to lose. Shane desk.
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All right, so Bob from Sesame Street, his brother Minneapolis
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Johnson, that's played by Jeff Goldblum.
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Yep, Minneapolis is third cousin, twice removed his body.
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Barbara's street cleaners, nephews.
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Godchild Shane, I can't believe that you did it again.
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I got it wrong. Yes.
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Matthew Matthew, any guesses. You can guess a relation I've
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been given points for that. I'm gonna say, The father
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because we haven't done father's yet.
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Father of bobbing hip-hop. Yeah, we'll go.
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I'll go with Bob. No, it's actually deeps brother
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from each of resistance. See, I feel I have not
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re-watched any of that since it came out.
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And I did not retain any like world-building information from
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that show. There was a lot of
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world-building information in Show.
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But And last question of this round, Tommy a human man who
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looks exactly like famous actor and Muppets tonight guest star
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Dennis Quaid Shane. He is telling monsters Uncle
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correct it from that VHS telling the truth.
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I found that on Muppet Wiki and I thought that was the funniest
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thing anyone had ever written. And I Watch to that entire VHS.
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It's on YouTube. It is not good.
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The story of the boy who cries wolf has absolutely nothing to
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do with Telly's story of lying that his uncle works in the
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circus, but it is worth it for the end when it is revealed that
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spoilers for telling the truth, a 90s Sesame Street VHS.
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It is revealed that tele lied about his uncle working in the
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circus because he wanted to sound cool when In reality his
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uncle is looks like Dennis Quaid and is an astronaut with his own
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jet pack that he blasts off and spends the duration of the
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credits of telling the truth. Just flying through space.
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Just like he does in the right stuff.
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I got I got a Matthew. Well thank you both for helping
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me, prove my theory of relativity now that everyone is
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here. Here.
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Let's start cooking and we all know one of the most okey-dokey
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Chefs of all is our pal. The Swedish, Chef not Angela.
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So we are going to play a Swedish Chef version of our
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finish. The sketch game from last
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season, which we called then, what's prairies problem in this
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game, I'm going to describe the Inning of a Swedish, Chef sketch
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from The Muppet Show. Your job is to tell me the
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ending or the punch line. In other words, not from
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Muppets. Now know, these are all from the
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Muppet Show. I am not a fan of Muppets now in
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general and the Swedish Chef components of Muppets now in
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specific. But are you a fan of Danny
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Trejo? Yes, but I preferred him in
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Muppets Most Wanted. So your job is to Tell me the
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ending or the punchline of the sketch.
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In other words, how the Swedish Chef solves his problem, or more
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often than not how the Swedish Chef makes the problem worse.
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So for instance, if I said that the Swedish Chef was making
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Flapjacks and they got stuck to the ceiling, you'd tell me.
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He solved that problem by shooting them with his
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Blunderbuss gun. Each of these questions is worth
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one point as always, wait, until I'm done.
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Having the sketch to buzz in. Here we go.
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question, 1, the chef tries to make Lobster Thermidor but is
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stopped when Matthew he is a hijacked by a group of lobster,
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Red Lobster. Bandidos, he is absolutely
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hijacked by the lobster Banditos question to the chef shoots, an
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English muffin with his Blunderbuss which creates
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Matthew a donut correct question 3, the chef wants to make
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chicken in the basket. This is easy.
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You takes a chicken and Shane he throws it into a basketball hoop
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basket. He sure.
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Does know, is that one point or two points?
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In the sketch, he says it's 2.0. Okay.
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I mean, I got that. It was a basketball joke, I just
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didn't remember that part of its sketch question for the Chef
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makes chocolate cake with cream and fruit, which apparently
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turns it into a samurai, he defeats it with Matthew a
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baseball bat correct of the cake and smooth.
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Sure, I believe question 5, the chefs meet loafers are a Twist
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on Meatloaf where the meat is. Shane he puts it in a loafer
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like the shoe not a lazy person. He sure does.
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Question 6, the chef wants to make turtle soup but the turtle
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keeps hiding in its shell the chef brings out his Blunderbuss
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but Shane the turtle shell turns into a tank and he shoots them.
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It sure does. He kind of looks like a
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Blastoise from, come on. Yeah the kids love that.
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The kids of 1982 love that to question seven the chef wants to
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make eggs so he gets a chicken to lay some however the chicken
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Shane. Well now there's two different
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bits there. Sure are.
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He's done this there. Sure is.
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Are they both acceptable? Yes.
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So one of them the chicken just lays ping-pong balls so the chef
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chase him around hit by her because you know chickens it
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lays on tickets legs and the other one.
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Well pause pause Matthew. Do you know the other one?
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Oh Hey, I don't follow, I'm gonna say the chicken lays a
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hand grenade. You know, that's so close, I
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guess. It's a bomb, isn't it?
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It's just one of those little black bombs with the fuse on it
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like, you know, in the cartoon. Yeah, but a hand, grenade is
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shaped like an egg. Yeah, actually, that's true.
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A hand grenade is shaped more like an I've got gave you the
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point. Thank you some sort of explosive
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device. And then there was the one with
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the ping-pong balls as well. Question, 8, the chef wants to
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open up a coconut and struggles to find a hammer and saw
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unfortunately, inside the coconut, he finds Shane a bomb.
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Also, a bomb. Yes.
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Question, 9, the chef wants to make frogs legs.
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So he grabs Robin and starts menacing him with a cleaver
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Permit runs into stop the sketch, but Rob it objects to
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the way. His uncle is trying to end
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things. Since Kermit is yelling.
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Matthew cut. Correct, don't say, cut?
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Say, stop. Hmm.
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And last question in the kind of thanksgiving-themed Arlo Guthrie
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episode of The Muppet Show, the chef wants to make a big
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home-cooked meal for everyone, but the turkeys pigs Hours and
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even the vegetables refused to let him cook them.
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So instead he serves everyone Matthew, I'm gonna say popcorn.
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It is not popcorn. Good?
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Guess. Shane.
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Do you know vitamin pills? It is vitamin pills.
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All right. Well now that we've done all of
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that cooking as my other favorite Chef donger would say.
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And speaking of the monster Foodies, it's time for a very
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special round of our classic head-to-head Game.
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Beat the top. I'm which today we are calling
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eat the time. That's right.
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It's time to eat up with kongers.
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Best friend Cookie Monster, maybe you've heard of that guy.
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Well, if you haven't, let me tell you, this guy is this furry
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monster. He's blue and he's just wild
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about eating cookies. It's his favorite thing, but
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he's no stranger to controversy in the 2000s.
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People worried that Cookie Monster would become the veggie
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Monster and start only eating healthy, food Muppet fans like
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us. We're never worried though
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because we know Cookie Monster has always had a balanced diet.
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Of course, he munches some carrots and beans, and poultry,
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and greens along with his chocolate chip since bananas,
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and plums make him go, yum and nutrition is really hip word.
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Thank you. But Cookie Monster eats a lot of
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cookies and a lot of healthy food but he also has eaten a lot
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of other Things that absolutely unquestionably aren't food.
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So in this game you are going to take turns naming things other
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than food, eaten by Cookie Monster.
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I checked the exhaustive list on Muppet Wiki and I was able to
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consolidate it into 55, distinct things or categories of things
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55. This is the biggest game.
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Game we ever had, although I sincerely doubt anybody is going
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to be able to get all of that. Your job is to get as many as
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you can, your stomach's not as big as your eyes, you can only
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eat so many copies of the script for dr.
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Zhivago, that's the 56th one. I'm not counting that one but it
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was on the list. Starting with Matthew, your
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name, an object cookie Monster. Ate that isn't a food, then
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we'll pass to shame, you'll take turns until neither of you can
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name something, if you get it wrong or you answer to slow,
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your opponent will have a chance to steal and folks, maybe you
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think this jobs too hard, admittedly.
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I don't remember all this stuff either, but worse comes to
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worst. You can just name things.
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You see around your house and you've got a pretty good chance
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of Status, this guy loves eating.
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Are you ready? Because me, Born.
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Ready? How abunda Matthew?
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I'm gonna say the Volkswagen from Follow.
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That Bird the Volkswagen from Follow, That Bird is on my list.
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Shane a safe journey, safe to be exact.
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It is Ernie's safe on the list. Matthew eats a typewriter in
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Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. Sure, does.
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He also eats a pencil. He sure does Matthew.
29:57
He eats a telephone. That's the last of the three
30:00
events that is the last of the three B.
30:02
Shane a manhole cover, a manhole cover, correct.
30:08
Matthew, I Believe In A Brief History Of Motion Pictures.
30:12
He eats Rosebud, the sled from Citizen Kane.
30:15
He absolutely does. And that's on my list, Shane.
30:19
Bicycle, he Does eat a bicycle. He shares it with hairy monster
30:25
they make they make a wish on the handlebars.
30:27
Matthew, does he eat a computer Matthew?
30:33
I don't think Cookie Monster has ever eaten a computer.
30:37
Really, he's eating something that's similar to a computer but
30:41
not similar enough that I would give you a point for it.
30:44
Unfortunately, Shane the letter M.
30:50
I had letters just as one grouping so we didn't have to go
30:55
through everything. Matthew, well, he said letters,
31:00
I'm gonna say numbers. He has eaten those as well.
31:04
Yes. Shane I'm going to this is
31:07
different than the Volkswagen but a truck.
31:10
He did eat a truck. Correct.
31:14
Matthew he wants a julienne. A shoe a shoe.
31:18
Absolutely, Shane. And that same bet.
31:22
He ate a Candlestick, a Candlestick.
31:25
It was lit. Matthew.
31:29
He's also eating a stick of dynamite in that same sketch.
31:32
Absolutely, Shane. Her feather boa was also in that
31:39
correct had to see if I had that written down as boa or feather
31:43
boa. But yes, Matthew He's eating
31:47
part of a pyramid, the prop pyramid when the opera singer
31:51
saying C is for cookie. Isn't that a proper?
31:55
Is that a an actual cookie know. I considered that to be a cookie
31:59
because it's a pyramid made of cookies because it's a pyramid
32:02
made of cookies. Matthew.
32:04
I will I will let you. I will let you guess again boy
32:10
I'm running out a lot faster than I thought he eats a glass
32:15
at some point, he sure. US Shane as Alistair Cookie,
32:20
he's eaten his pipe, correct, Matthew has eaten the book.
32:26
He has eaten a book. Shane our cell phones different
32:31
than telephones. I did not count them
32:34
differently. I will let you guess again.
32:40
He's eating a boom mic microphone.
32:44
Yes, yeah, I just had to again, figure out what I had it written
32:49
as because I had to consolidate some similar objects.
32:52
Matthew, he's eating the Christmas tree.
32:55
He has eaten a Christmas tree. Correct, Shane.
32:59
He has eaten Sesame Street itself.
33:02
He did once eat Sesame Street itself, Matthew has Eating the
33:08
Sesame Street sign. You know, I should have had
33:12
signs written down. He eats the Sesame Street.
33:17
Yeah, I do have sign written down because he eats the sign
33:19
Sesame Street sign in like one of the openings for an animated
33:24
video storybook video. He definitely does but I'll give
33:29
it to you for signs. Oh Shane he eats the like the oh
33:37
award envelope in the monster Hits video.
33:43
I don't know if it's that I don't know if that's on your
33:45
list but I am counting that as paper.
33:49
Okay. Which has not been named yet
33:51
Matthew or a snow globe. Surprisingly.
34:00
No. Oh Shane he has eaten snow.
34:06
He has eaten snow. Not a food Shane.
34:10
I mean Matthew Oh, is he in the balloon?
34:16
No boy, huh. Okay, starting to fade.
34:21
All right, shame eventually. I'll call it a plate.
34:27
I'll plate that car might that's on my list.
34:31
Matthew is eating a necktie. He has eaten a necktie.
34:36
Same. Oh, he's eating the, A Streetcar
34:41
Named. Stir like poster thing.
34:46
I don't know if that's on your it does that.
34:48
I don't know if that counts as paper as well.
34:50
I think that's paper. I don't have poster as being
34:53
separate from paper. Sorry.
34:55
Oh, Matthew has he eaten a surfboard?
34:59
You would think but no only mr. Hooper gets to Surf.
35:04
Shane got to call it soon. A brick wall bricks is on the
35:10
list. Matthew.
35:14
A pair of glasses. Groucho Marx glasses.
35:18
I'll give it to Shane a table. No, Matthew.
35:29
I'm gonna a blender. No you guys get, if you get the
35:33
next to wrong, I'm calling it. Shane and napkin which I hope
35:39
does not qualify as paper because there are pay didn't
35:42
count it as separate from paper. I'll let you guess again, salt
35:48
and pepper shakers. I may have counted that as glass
35:52
because what's inside, it is food.
35:54
Oh, that's true. It is technically food.
35:57
You sitting not food, okay? No.
36:01
Matthew Seeing a remote control, she has eaten a remote control.
36:09
Shane back to you, two people didn't get it wrong.
36:17
A camera. A camera.
36:19
Correct. Matthew has, he eaten?
36:27
What? A tire count separately from a
36:29
car. I would count Tire separately
36:32
from a car. Has he eaten attire that I don't
36:35
actually know if he's eating the tire separately from eating the
36:38
whole car. So what I said, he had eaten
36:41
Sesame Street himself itself. There are a lot of things.
36:44
Oh no, oh no, I ain't that special that are The virtual
36:48
items. I'm not, I'm not tire swing is
36:51
one of those things so I don't know Matthew to have another
36:54
guest. I'm not playing rules lawyer
36:56
here. I'll just give you another
36:57
guess. I'm gonna say a jungle gym, he
37:00
has not eaten a jungle gym Shane.
37:03
If you get this wrong I'm calling it.
37:05
I'm gonna say a whistle Not on my list.
37:09
I don't think he ate that. So here we're other other
37:12
possible answers. I will go through them.
37:15
Quick balls. A blindfold, a box chains, a
37:21
chair Checkers, a clock Sesame, Street's Emmy Award feathers
37:28
film. A film canister, flashlight
37:32
flowers. A frisbee, a frying pan a
37:36
guitar. Hat, hot, dog, stand a toy
37:40
house. That was previously.
37:42
On top of Prairie, Dawn Kaleidoscope, lamp leaves a
37:48
magic wand, a mailbox, a mattress.
37:52
The moon painting. I like I guess I'll painting
37:57
shade. I will give you back a point
37:58
because poster and painting are closer and I counted that
38:02
separately, but he didn't eat the pictures.
38:05
He didn't, Stephen Colbert's Peabody Award a pillow, a
38:11
pocketbook and Aretha. Franklin record ring, like a
38:17
ring. A rock a speaker, a sponge, a
38:22
spoon, a suitcase, a tray, a trophy, distinct from an Emmy,
38:29
or a Peabody, a ukulele distinct from a guitar.
38:32
A vacuum cleaner. Wires yarn a Yo-yo.
38:38
And the thing that is like a computer but not a computer and
38:42
Xbox 360, okay? Say a typewriter is like a
38:47
computer. But there's refresh my memory
38:50
but in Elmo and Grouchland doesn't he eat the jail bars?
38:54
No not remembering. That movie correctly.
38:56
No there there was a deleted scene where they he eats the
39:02
keys that they were going to try and get out with.
39:08
Oh, self-sabotaging Cookie Monster.
39:11
Otherwise he has no purpose in that movie.
39:14
He's funny. I'll tell he's funnier though.
39:18
Yeah, so the Telly is 100 great Telly stuff.
39:22
I mean I'm on the record is actually liking Elmo in
39:24
Grouchland but you have that article in defense of it I do
39:28
everyone should go read it right now, pause the episode, read the
39:33
article and then come back. All right, so let's move into
39:36
our final. Her rounds.
39:38
Before we say goodnight, we would be remiss if we forgot
39:42
about the most Thanksgiving thing of all the Macy's,
39:45
Thanksgiving Day Parade in this round, which I call, I love a
39:50
March, we are going to celebrate that famous annual event by
39:55
answering questions, about the Muppets presence in the parade
39:58
throughout the years. Each of these questions is worth
40:01
two points as always wait until I finished asking the question
40:06
to buzz in. So So everyone gets a chance to
40:08
play along at home and A-One and a-two.
40:12
And A-One, two, three, four question.
40:15
One. Kermit, the Frog was the first
40:17
Muppet balloon in the parade in what year did he debut?
40:25
Matthew, would that be 1977? It is 1977 a good year for
40:31
Kermit and a good year for Talking Heads.
40:34
Question, 2, what are the other three Muppet characters who have
40:39
had balloons in the parade? Now, we're getting closer.
40:46
That is Matthew though, Super Grover.
40:51
Abby Cadabby and the third one big bird.
40:55
Correct. I was going to say Elmo but then
40:58
I remembered as Elmo was escaping my mouth, that it was
41:01
Big Bird, gather never worried. I was gonna say mr.
41:04
Poodle pants. There never was an Elmo balloon,
41:08
which is a little odd, considering how big he was in
41:14
the 90s. Question 3, The Big Bird,
41:16
balloon was redesigned in 2001. What was he holding in this
41:21
version? Matthew symbols.
41:28
It is symbols. Everyone knows Big.
41:30
Bird loves playing the cymbals question, 4, 1976 was the second
41:36
year there was a Sesame Street float.
41:39
The Muppets on that float were a little unusual though, as the
41:42
only ones who appeared were Big Bird, Oscar Ernie Bert and which
41:48
Jerry Nelson character. Shane Rodeo Rosie.
41:56
It was Rodeo Rosie. So weird question, 5 in 1979.
42:04
Most of the usual, puppeteers were busy elsewhere.
42:07
So new puppeteers had to be brought in for the Sesame float.
42:11
What feature of the parade was? Keeping Jim Frank and everybody
42:14
else busy Shane. They were on the Electric Mayhem
42:23
bus. They absolutely were.
42:25
I wish there were video of that. I have not seen that.
42:28
Yeah, I haven't either maybe someone knows question six.
42:32
Kevin Clash was one of the new puppeteers who was brought in,
42:36
which Sesame Street Muppet, did he perform?
42:39
And apparently blew out his voice in the process.
42:45
Shane that would be the Cookie Monster, that is the Cookie
42:50
Monster. I've heard of that guy.
42:52
I hear he once ate an Xbox the the 2021 cookie month. 2022
42:56
Cookie Monster as opposed to the 1989 Cookie Monster.
43:01
Oh, I understand. Yes, with with Robert Pattinson
43:04
as the Cookie Monster, and then you have like, the blue furry,
43:09
the blue furry Rises like somewhere in there.
43:12
Yeah, of course, of course. in seven, in 1984, the Sesame
43:17
Street parade, float did not appear, which to Sesame Street
43:21
Vehicles appeared instead Shane, Oscar, sloppy jalopy and the
43:30
count mobile, correct? Because Follow That Bird came
43:34
out that year, was that 84? I thought Follow That Bird came
43:37
out in 85, it might have been in promotion of the movie cuz they
43:43
probably wouldn't come out before November.
43:45
Yeah, 85 question 8, in 2002, International Sesame Street
43:51
characters appeared on the Sesame float.
43:54
Because boy, did we Need to Foster respect for other
43:57
countries in 2002, which appropriate Jeff Moss song.
44:01
Did they sing that year? Matthew, I'm going to say saying
44:10
no to Joe raposo so that is a joe raposo song, but it wasn't
44:14
sing. Shane, do you have a guess?
44:16
We are all earthlings. It was we are all earthlings.
44:20
Question 9, despite rarely appearing on the show after
44:24
2000, which female Muppet was featured prominently in the
44:28
parade for another eight years after that.
44:35
Matthew, I'm going to say over heater, not over heater over
44:40
about despite appearing, rarely on the show after 2000.
44:44
Overheated doesn't Premiere until like right and as a 9.
44:48
Um sorry. Good guess though, Shane.
44:51
Do you have a guess that is Alice Snuffleupagus?
44:55
It is Alice Snuffleupagus. She stuck around in the parade
44:58
until 2008 and now we know why she wasn't in the relatives kit.
45:02
Category. Correct question. 10 in 2016,
45:07
the Muppet gang appeared. Pretty prominently in the parade
45:09
kicking off. The event was a parody of one of
45:11
their own songs, which Muppet song was Rewritten to celebrate
45:15
the Thanksgiving Day Parade. Matthew, but is hey, a movie?
45:23
That is, hey, a movie question 11, in 2013, Sesame Street, had
45:28
an episode, where Oscar, the Grouch ran the trash, Giving Day
45:32
Parade, which was sponsored by mr.
45:35
Disgracey, that's a great pun. Anyway, which ironically named
45:41
comedic actor, played this role. Shane that would be Bing Bong
45:50
himself Richard. Kind it sure was the other
45:54
Grasshopper And Bug's Life himself.
45:56
Richard kind a guy from Spin City.
46:00
John mulaney's guest star himself, Richard kind, what's he
46:06
on the mulaney's that come no on sack lunch, Bunch.
46:11
Oh, I haven't seen that yet. So in the theme song, Just
46:14
There, being many guest stars. In the theme song, the only
46:18
guest star, they name is Richard kind it's there's a whole verse
46:21
that's like the guest stars name is Richard, kind question, 12.
46:27
And let's not forget about our friends.
46:28
The fraggles how many years did the fraggles appear in the
46:32
Thanksgiving Day? Parade on a float.
46:38
Matthew I'm gonna say one incorrect Shane.
46:43
I'm going to say one plus one correct which for the people at
46:48
home who don't have calculators that is too good.
46:51
Good math. And speaking of math I got to do
46:54
some arithmetic before the next game.
46:56
So contestants get your questions ready.
46:58
As I do some adding now it's time for you two to share your
47:04
knowledge with me, I guess. Wait, actually, you've already.
47:08
Why did I write that? You were doing that the whole
47:10
time now. It's now it's time for you.
47:14
Now, it's time for you two to ask some questions to me.
47:18
That's really that in, I will. That's right.
47:21
It's time for the anything in the world, prize game because
47:26
you two are now able to ask me anything in the world or at
47:30
least anything in the world of Muppets.
47:32
If you stumped me, you'll earn 10 points.
47:36
Our current Yours. Matthew, you have 57 points and
47:41
shame. You have 68 points, you, you
47:45
really pulled ahead on those relatives is where you really
47:50
got Matthew. I remind you.
47:52
Shane is Muppet Wiki personified.
47:55
Well, listen, that's still pretty close. 57 has.
47:58
I'll admit, I didn't think it would be this close.
48:00
That's, that's not bad. So Matthew we're going to start
48:04
with you. Do you have a question for me?
48:07
I do. Yes, you did.
48:10
Tell us that it was food and Family theme.
48:12
So I did try and come up with a food-themed question.
48:15
So, my trivia question to you is, as always, if you, if, you
48:19
know my stuff, if you've read, if you've read my work, you've I
48:24
have my interviews, you know, I'm a Disney Parks fan in 2020.
48:30
The Muppets took over the restaurant at the American
48:33
Adventure Pavilion at Epcot. To get, get Regal, Eagle
48:38
Smokehouse. What was the name of the
48:41
restaurant before? The Muppet?
48:43
Take over the Great American cookout.
48:46
That is incorrect. I have successfully stumped.
48:50
You victory. Is mine.
48:51
Well, that's 10 points. What is the right answer?
48:54
The correct answer is Liberty in, hmm.
48:58
Good question. Fair question.
49:00
Makes me hungry. I haven't eaten dinner yet and
49:03
Shane. Do you have a question for me
49:05
that I do? So on The Muppet Show Marvin
49:10
Suggs and his all food Glee Club audition performing.
49:14
Yes we Have No Bananas during the instrumental break Marvin
49:19
and the food's trade, some puns. What are the four foods that
49:24
deliver food puns with him? So, I've seen this episode
49:28
obviously, and it's very funny, but I do not know.
49:33
So I'm going to see if I can, you know, yes, speaking of
49:36
basketball, like three point this, you know, from from, from
49:40
from downtown. Yeah.
49:42
From downtown, like, Benny rabbit, I'm going to go downtown
49:46
and then then shoot from there. Wow.
49:48
That was, that was nerdy even for for this group second time
49:54
in this season, I've made that joke potentially first time.
49:57
Pending on when I choose to release these episodes.
50:00
So let's see. A tomato the thing that's like
50:04
an onion or scallion. It's green with like white
50:08
things coming out of it. That's always there.
50:10
Ali leak. That's maybe I don't know.
50:15
You'll have to count that if I get this right otherwise grapes
50:21
and broccoli. All right so it's not leak their
50:26
Scalia. Ins.
50:27
Okay, got it right. You got one of them, right?
50:30
Okay, you got tomato. Okay.
50:33
Marvin tells the Tomato they're slow and she says she will catch
50:38
up. Hmm.
50:40
I can do it this way. So the other foods are a
50:43
cabbage, he's getting ahead. Hmm.
50:46
The artichoke is singing his heart out.
50:48
Yep. And the asparagus feels naked
50:51
without his hollandaise. Wouldn't have gotten that last
50:54
one even if you told me the vegetable, so, Ten points.
50:58
And now it's time for me to make things even more difficult in
51:01
our final round. Say the word.
51:05
So, as you guys know in this round, you can wager any amount
51:09
of points. The winner gets those points and
51:12
the loser loses them. You will get to hear the
51:15
question before you wager. So let's check the scores.
51:20
Matthew you've got 67 points and Shane you have 78 points.
51:26
So, Let's return to the Macy's. Thanksgiving Day Parade for this
51:30
one or at least. Let's kind of return to that one
51:34
Muppet part of the parade. I didn't mention was that in
51:37
1981 Beauregard appeared in the parade driving his taxi.
51:42
This was not the Beauregard puppet.
51:44
However, but Muppet Builder and designer Ed Christie in costume.
51:50
While Ed Christie might not be a household name.
51:54
He designed several major, Characters who were introduced
51:58
to Sesame Street in the 90s and 2000's?
52:02
Some of these are characters that you definitely know others,
52:07
maybe not According to his credits on Muppet Wiki, there
52:12
are six total characters. He designed for Sesame Street in
52:17
the 90s and 2000's. You guys are going to name as
52:21
many of those characters. As you can, whoever names more
52:26
will win, the bet and win this round.
52:30
You do not have to get all six. You just have to do better than
52:33
the other one. So again, you are naming as many
52:38
of these six. Sesame Street.
52:40
Muppets designed by Ed Christy. They're all characters from the
52:45
90s and the 2000s. Worst comes to worst just named
52:49
six characters from the 90s and 2000's and see how you feel.
52:53
You don't have to get them all to win, you just have to do
52:55
better than the other person. Shane is entering his answer one
53:06
at a time. That is fine.
53:11
I was not aware that you had to put them all in at once.
53:14
No, it's okay. I don't care.
53:18
I make up the rules. But it's X.
53:22
We have the name sex, right? Well if you can't think of six
53:25
characters you could name fewer than six and tell me but we
53:28
can't guess like more than six and a half.
53:31
No, I'm not gonna let you guess more than sex.
53:34
Okay. And I think you can at least
53:36
Name six characters. Oh yes, I can.
53:40
But yes, the question is, do you when they're all are these all
53:43
domestic characters? Yes.
53:45
I'm only counting domestic Sesame, Street characters.
53:48
Great question because he did work a Lot on the international
53:50
Productions. So neither of you successfully
53:59
named all six characters, which admittedly would be impossible.
54:04
Oops. However you both named six
54:08
characters and some of these characters are correct.
54:12
So, Matthew, how many points did you bet?
54:16
I bet 12 points. And Shane, how many points did
54:19
Bat, I bet one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
54:23
nine, ten, eleven twelve as well.
54:27
You guys are twins. Well, that's because Shane's not
54:29
wearing his hat. Shame.
54:30
Put your hat on there. Oh, they can't see that.
54:36
Can they? Well, I can somebody called
54:38
trivia Twins and that's us. We don't, we we both hate
54:43
pepperoni. So Shane, would you like to read
54:47
the six Muppets that you listed? I've 50 you're right five I
54:52
miscounted. I said Rosita Zoe and then the
54:57
squirrels which are three squirrels based on The Shirelles
55:02
there are three squirrels based on The Shirelles because kids in
55:05
the 90s loved The Shirelles and squirrels Matthew which six
55:11
characters did you name? I put Murray monster Benny
55:15
rabbit, ovejita Ingrid, Humphrey and So the six characters that
55:23
according to Muppet Wiki Ed Christie, designed at this in
55:29
this era are Abby, Cadabby, curly bear, Horatio, the
55:37
elephant's Lulu, the short-lived female Muppet, female Muppet
55:43
monster, who was blue and other than a be the other two
55:47
best-known characters Rosita. And Zoe.
55:50
I thought Abby was like a rolly crewson special.
55:53
I'd like Zoe was Raleigh crewson according to Muppet Wiki.
55:57
I mean, listen, unless you guys are wrong Shane but no i-i'll
56:02
take the Wiki's word over it. I was just assuming that by that
56:06
point at Christie kind of was not like around as much and
56:09
Christie for Sesame Street 1978 to 2004.
56:15
Abby Cadabby curly bear, Rosita Zoe the elephant Lulu.
56:19
And he built Aristotle but that is before the 90s and also not
56:25
designed built so assuming Muppet Wiki is, right?
56:28
I mean and we have to I also forgot curly bear was real
56:33
curly. Bear is real yet.
56:35
Another sibling that I get another run that I left off for
56:39
this reason for this reason because she was gonna show up
56:42
here Scott if you want to confirm, but it looks like
56:46
Raleigh crewson built, curly bear, but Ed Christie.
56:49
Signed her. So with that our winner, this
56:55
week and this week's toughest pig is Shane.
57:01
I'm two for two. Congratulations.
57:03
Shane, you win your choice of an monster meal or this magnet of
57:11
my favorite character. In the Thanksgiving Day Parade
57:15
Super Grover. It says, and I am cute too.
57:20
Because he is. Well, I have not eaten dinner
57:24
yet, so a monster meal would be very good.
57:28
I don't know how tasty a magnet would be but I'm sure it has
57:32
non-edible of, what's the word I'm looking for?
57:35
It uses that I could probably fight for it.
57:38
Yeah. And I will say, I'm gonna have
57:41
to send this to you via mail and a meal is not going to be so
57:45
Good. By the time I get to the post
57:47
office and get it out to you, you don't do.
57:49
I can't doordash or ubereats. You can't.
57:52
You Uber Eats and monster meal, who would have thought?
57:57
Well, I will send you the magnet and that brings us to the end of
58:01
another one so guests. Where can people find you?
58:04
If you wish to be found, let's start with Matthew, you can find
58:08
me currently in a pit of despair.
58:12
No, you can find me on Twitter at Matthew.
58:15
So Berman, that's about it. Yeah, you can read me at tough,
58:21
pigs.com. Tom WWNT.com for Disney Parks
58:26
news. That's it.
58:27
Good stuff. And Shane.
58:29
Where can people find you? You can find me on the top of
58:33
Victory mountain or on the internet, I am as sock drawer on
58:39
Twitter letterboxed. If you want to follow me there
58:43
and also follow one Muppet shot on Twitter and you can also find
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my stuff on tough Pigs and The Muppet Wiki.
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Yeah. And of course, So, you can find
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tough pigs in general, at tough pigs.com, or at tough pigs on
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Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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And hey, if you like our work consider donating to the tough
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pigs patreon, where you can get even more exclusive free stuff.
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We also have tough pigs t-shirts for sale on tough pigs,
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including hubba-wha t-shirt. So, if you want to let people
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know about your very normal taste in podcasts, you can also,
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I'd like to thank some people for helping out me for Or
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writing the questions and editing and recording and all
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that stuff. But also our guests.
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Thank you both. Thank you.
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Thank you for having us. You're welcome, I am stuffed
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with Muppet trivia, the greatest meal there is and also thanks to
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Stacy Rosen for writing our theme music.
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Thanks to Richard Gomez for doing some new artwork for the
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show. Thanks to Johannes the tough
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pigs Muppet fan podcast executive producer.
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And also thanks to giving or thanks for giving whatever.
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And lastly thanks to all you for being with us on hubba-wha the
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Muppet quiz show. And as always remember, Muppets
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from space, family is what you make.
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It, find the folks that love you at your weirdest.
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Mon Cher lunch meal.