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I got it. Not a Joe backstage, Las Vegas.
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Welcome to hubba-wha a muppet quiz show brought to you by
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tough pics.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 pick.
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I'm your host. Becca petunia of tough pigs.com
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today on hobo wha our contestants will be kicking it.
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Talking houses style for an episode themed around season 1
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of The Muppet Show. That's right.
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Last year, we had a podcast about the show as a whole but
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this time we're focusing in on just one season.
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It season 1 of The Muppet Show, which is absolutely the worst
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written season of The Muppet Show, but it does feature the
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most Wayne and Wanda. So I guess it's got pros and
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cons, As always, these questions were written by me with help
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from that amazing Muppet resource Muppet.
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Wiki. And speaking of, let's agree to
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play fair today, please don't, look at Muppet Wiki or any other
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resource during this game. Anyone who cheats will be cut
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from the show, just like Hilda. So as Kermit sings in this
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season and only in this season, let's introduce our guest stars
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in a round. We like to call 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 okay, Matthew Matthew, what is your name?
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My name is Matthew gaydos. All right, and Matthew, what's
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your history with the Muppets? I've just get they've kind of
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always just been in my life since it's like as long as I can
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remember. I was never like a big die-hard
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Muppet fan as a kid. My parents weren't really into
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them, so I didn't really know they existed, but I was always
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very interested in the puppetry itself and used to watch a lot
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of Muppets tonight. And when I was growing up so
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that was sort of my First like, introduction to The Muppets.
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Themselves was really being into Muppets tonight and, you know,
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now I do a muppet podcast like everyone else here.
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That's true. The commitment podcast, correct?
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Yes, I should. Probably, I got saying the name
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of it is probably helpful to letting people know that they
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should go listen to it. I mean, we plug at the end, but
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listen, if people want to pause and listen to Commitment,
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Kermit, let me take that again. It's a hard word to say, you
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know, you it takes a while to get used to.
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Yeah. If people want to pause and
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listen to commitment now maybe to study up just as long as you
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come back, I don't mind. And Matthew last question, who
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is your favorite of the sort of minor Muppet Show characters?
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Who I mean, at least who's your favorite today.
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Yeah, I'm going to say because you already mentioned her and
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she's on my brain. I'm going to say Hilda, I really
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wish Hilda had stuck around a little bit longer.
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It was a lot of fun and, you know, re watching some of these
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season 1. It's to get ready for this.
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They should have kept her around.
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I feel like there's some fun like backstory with Hilda that
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like Hilda leads a pretty good life outside of the Muppet
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Theater that we don't ever get to see or hear anything about?
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Well, she's from Transylvania, which is also interesting.
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There's there's a lot of backstory.
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We can get there. She tells us that and Vincent
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Price episode. Yeah, I feel like when everyone
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else is going out for drinks together on the weekend Hilda's,
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like I got my own stuff going on.
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See you guys on Monday. Excellent.
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So that's 20 points for correctly.
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Answering those questions. Let's move on to our second
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contestant. Adam, Adam, what's your name?
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My name is Adam Rose worth. All right.
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And Adam, what's your history with the Muppets?
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Well, I mean, like, all of us. I grew up with the Muppets.
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I'm guessing from that Muppets tonight.
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Answer that. I'm a little older than Matthew.
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It's I watch The Muppet Show partially in first-run that I
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remember. And then, you know, reruns
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Forever saw the great Muppet Caper in the theater.
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Had those Burger King glasses, you know?
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And then they just drink out of them.
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No, I've heard that I only have one left but it is on the Shelf,
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not being drunk out of it. I'm gonna need some explanation
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because I definitely had and drank out of those glasses
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though. The paint has led the paint.
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Oh awesome. 100% you guys gotta get a doctor.
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Now I think it's fine. As long as you don't like, put
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them in the dishwasher but you know better better put on a
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shelf you probably. Yeah, I'm yeah.
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So we didn't, we didn't have a dishwasher so I feel.
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Okay. Anyway, you know, then I like
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air quotes outgrew them and then, you know, later on was
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like, wait, you can't outrun The Muppets, they're amazing.
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I too have a podcast because that's the law now.
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Apparently, everybody has to podcast.
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Also slightly hard to say the Muppet turgi podcast.
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We're going through Episode by episode recapping and
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researching and having dirty fun.
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Alright. And Adam, who's your favorite of
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the minor Muppet? Show characters held as a great
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choice. She's probably my second choice
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but no question droop. Another season one cast off is
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by far, my favorite and his sort of become our unofficial Muppet
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Reggie mascot as well. All right, and I can't argue
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with any of those answers so that's 20 points, right there
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for you as well. Now, let's get things started in
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our first regular game, which we are Going to call the first time
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it happens, obviously, since this is the first season of The
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Muppet Show, most of our favorite characters had their
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first major vocal Solo in a musical number this season.
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So, in this round, I'll name a character.
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Urinate, your job, your name is Adam and Matthew.
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Your job is to name the first song they sing, either the lead
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or a Major featured part in. I'm looking for at least a full
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solo verse. So I'm not counting things.
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Like Gonzo saying the word, Stranger in willkommen as his
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first solo number. And please note that we are
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using the production numbers of the show, which are the ones
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used by Disney plus. And I believe used by both of
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your podcasts. Now, these questions can be a
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little tough. So I'm here to help if you need
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a clue, if neither of you can. Answer, I'll tell you the
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episode, the song first appeared in, then if neither of you can
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still answer, I'll tell you some other hint about how it was
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staged, or a fun fact about the song.
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If you can get the question, right?
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Without any clues, you will earn three points.
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If you need a clue, it's going to be minus one point for each
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clue that you need. All right?
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So first, I'm just going to name the character if either of you.
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In name, their first major song. Solo on The Muppet Show.
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You will learn three points. If neither of you can, we'll
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move into some clues. Of course, please wait until I
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finish naming the characters to buzz in so the audience can play
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along. Are we ready?
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And I'm already prepared to fail miserably but yes I'm ready.
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Ready to fail. There are Clues, there are
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Clues. I back to this one up with Clues
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because I knew it was challenging.
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All right, here we go. In one Robin, the Frog.
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Adam halfway down the stairs. Correct.
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Question 2 rowlf the dog. I was first.
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Yeah. That's kind of just remain it
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again. I can give you Clues.
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Yeah, that's don't know. Alright, so it was the Juliet
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prowse episode which is the first in production order.
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Adam to, we need to get the title.
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Exactly. Right.
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Get it as close as you can as that the dancing.
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What's his name and his dancing bear.
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Oh no, he doesn't say that. He doesn't think that he's in
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the background. Well now just give it away.
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Another answer, it's probably on the thing.
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Matthew, do you have? Do you have a?
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I do not. I can't pull any of the Rolfe
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song. Okay, I will give you guys
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another clue. He performs this again on The
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Muppet Show, again, in the Arsenio Hall.
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Show and again on his album old brown ears is back.
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An album has so many random songs Kyle's gonna be so
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disappointed in me. I believe he performs this in
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season 4 of The Muppet Show. Yeah, I all of this sounds
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extremely Familiar of the idea of him repeating a song and
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every like this all sounds familiar, it just the song
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itself is escaping me. Yeah, I know somewhere McCall is
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very upset. I don't know why.
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It is you and I and George korres.
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It is force. Where were you?
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Question? Three Miss Piggy.
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You know, oddly enough, she doesn't have many songs in
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season one. Yeah I mean they were still
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messing with with who she was and she's not Frank Oz in this
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song, right? That's a bonus clue.
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This is one where I think even the clues are going to help me
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because I think I can already picture the staging of it and
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how it's happening, just what is being sung is not coming to me?
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Well, I can't. So I'll happily take the
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clothes. All right?
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The first clue. This is also the Juliet prowse
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episode. The first one, huh?
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I would have thought it was later.
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I got nothing. Hey, it's performed a cappella
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piggy has the lead lyrics. Oh, it's a, it's yes.
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Adam, it's it's Temptation. It is Temptation.
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Which is in the first episode question for scooter.
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Matthew Simon Smith in his dancing bear.
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That is also from the Juliet prowse, set up so fast enough on
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the buzzer. After I gave it away earlier to
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be fair. That was like the one in my head
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when yeah, that you stated the category.
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I was like I got this one as soon as it comes up question 5
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Wayne and Wanda. Which one is first.
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I mean, I can give you Clues. It won't matter of.
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Well, the staging of the staging will help.
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But yeah, I want you say what fell on them.
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That might help I can tell you that it is the Joel Grey
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episode, speaking of willkommen, Don't think I'm going to pull
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it. Oh, is it stormy weather?
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It is 0. Okay.
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Question 6, Kermit the Frog. Matthew Lydia, the Tattooed
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Lady. Correct?
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Also doesn't have many solo performances in season one
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there. Always some of my all of his
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solos early on like that is one of my favorite Muppet Show
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moments of all time. Lydia, the Tattooed Lady is a
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great number. It's a fun song.
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And the fact that the Lydia pig puppet is in like, every opening
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forever and she only featured. Once I feel like, there's got to
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be people who missed that episode and then just keep
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seeing this. Good pig bug bit like pop-up.
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Places are like, where is this pig from question 7?
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Floyd pepper. Matthew.
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This isn't right now. There's a New York State of
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Mind. No, that's that's later.
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Yeah. Do we need a clear or do you
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have a guess? Adam.
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I'll I need to clue. I've got nothing.
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It's the Connie Stevens episode. Which also features births
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first, major solo number 0. Yeah, I'm not going to get okay
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no third clue or second clue. Speaking of Wayne and Wanda Fats
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Waller performs this song in the film Stormy Weather.
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Adam is the Smoke Gets In Your Eyes?
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It is not any guesses. Math.
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You know I got nothing. All right.
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This one is Ain't Misbehavin. Oh yeah.
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Question 8 sweetums I'm picturing something.
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I know is wrong. Don't worry, I'm going to cut,
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cut. All this thinking.
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I do. Leave your thinking and it
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doesn't sound like sound like brain.
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Jesus is, it's gonna be great. Just adding cricket noises over
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time. The clues will give this one
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away. I'm just so bad with song titles
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to begin with that sometimes I can like what the Temptation one
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I could. I could hear it in my head.
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Yeah. I could, we hear that song
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happening and I couldn't pull the name of it.
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This is a big part of what Muppet Reggie does, but I know
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it was like a million years ago that I watched a.
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So you guys do go through like yeah.
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We don't even say the song titled sometimes on commitment.
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We just glossed right over that stuff.
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You doing for four episodes in one?
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So, yeah. Well, you know, we're like, you
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know what Muppet told you will handle that, want to know the
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details on. Music.
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Go listen to my picture G. All right, so here's the first
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clue. It is the Ruth Buzzi episode.
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Oh oh. I'm passing them because I can
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picture it, but I cannot think of what the song is.
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Can you get it close? Hey, it's there goddamn it.
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Um, I can describe it to you, what terrible song are.
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They singing? I know, you guys hated this
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episode. We hated this episode.
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We hated this number there. In a castle.
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I'm just going to help Matthew at this point.
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Was the third clue was that they're well, I know they're in
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a castle. He picks her up.
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Sure knows. It's not from Camelot.
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That's a different episode. No, because it's something and
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we're helping out each other here, this point, but it's
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something that doesn't have anything to do with the castle.
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Know, what is the song though? I'm just feeling anger but I
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can't come up with the title. I can't pull it.
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I have no idea. Unfortunately, neither of you
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were too good to be true. That's because right sweetums
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could not keep his eyes off of you two performers, I like and a
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song. I like he managed to ruin all
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three of them. That's that's why I just yeah.
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Good song. Yeah Richard hunts.
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Incredibly talented Ruth. Buzzi very funny.
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All right. Question 9, we have two more
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here. Yeah, dr.
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Teeth Matthew money. Correct.
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Excellent. Pole that was again similar to
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the Floyd one where I was like he's saying it at some point but
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is it? Is it the first song he did for
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the record for the listeners? I also knew that he was faster
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on the buzzer. He's definitely I saw it but I
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just want you know, just want to know and I knew something
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question, 10 fog. I can die now compared to this
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one, too. And can't pull the song.
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Is what the ears. That's so cute.
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I don't want to say anything else because I don't want to
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give it away to Matthew. It is the K Ballard episode.
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Oh, it's not what I thought it was them.
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I mean, still, with the years and still, very cute.
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I mean, he's still stock and that now, with the terrible
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dress, again, I can picture and I can't pull the song.
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He previously performed, this song with Julie, Andrews on,
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Julie, Andrews, short-lived, variety show.
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Well, what you guys would say is not the correct answer.
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I saw a gas. Oh babe, what would you say?
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Hmm. Wasn't that also in the
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Valentine show, he sang a song in the van?
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Yeah different membership was a real live girl in the
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Valentine's special? No, I mean, anytime fog is
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on-screen commitment, we're not a huge fan of a thug.
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So no really. Yeah.
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You know, he feels a little fake sweet at times and so my
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co-hosts am at downright hates the dog.
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I'm sort of in different on dog one that I've handled.
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I stand, this is going to come up in an episode that I'm
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recording on Monday, but most of the Muppet Monsters.
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Don't really show up past like season 3, or at least not as
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often. There is a lot less of just like
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this. Guest star is being menaced by a
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monster as a plot for a sketch as you get later.
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And later in the show, that makes a certain amount of sense.
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I think they became less impressed with their own own big
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monster suits. Like I think they started
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introducing things like Betsy, Bird and Fletcher bird, where
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was like, let's put an actual dancer in a suit and have like
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an impressive looking character as opposed to just like hey Dave
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goals go walk around as Timmy monster for a while.
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Yeah I mean it's something you know I know you you both have
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commented on the dancing for a lot of those full-body Muppets
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is not actually that good, right?
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They'll all the time. Be like, look, it's time for a
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major mutations dance break and Like okay, there you know, it is
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impressive, though. Sometimes when you think about
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like when you'll see this awful, gingerbread man dance or
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something like that because then you're just like, oh, this is so
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awful and it's so bizarre. But then you remember that,
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like, Jim Henson is like one of those men dancing around your
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Dave Builder, Richard Hunt, and then you picture them doing it.
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It's a little less scary. A little more impressive,
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considering they were not like they didn't go to dance school
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or whatever. Yeah, like I can't like picture
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them those men out of Of like monster costumes doing those
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dances. Even though I know they did
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those dances right there is some guile.
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I often forget to scroll down to the bottom of the page and
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muppet Wiki, but they've got those behind the scenes photos
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often. Yeah.
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And there's some rehearsal stuff that's really fun for some of
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those dance numbers. Anyway, speaking of dance
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numbers, it's actually time to dance to celebrate season 1 of
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The Muppet Show. We're going to play a game I
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call. At the dance.
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Oh boy. At the dance, was, of course,
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the classic Muppet Show sketch, where pairs of dancers, would
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dance in a ballroom and tell each other terrible jokes.
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In this game, I'm going to tell you the setup to a joke from a
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season. One at the dance sketch, your
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job is to buzz in and tell me the punch line.
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You don't have to get the wording perfectly, just get
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close and you'll earn the points.
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Each of these questions is worth two points.
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Please wait to buzz in until I finish the Set up.
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So our dancers at home can Waltz along.
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Here we go. Question 1.
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Mildred says she comes from an old family, George says his
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family is older. It's so old.
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It's Worst comes to worst, just write a terrible joke.
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Once again, my call is very upset and doesn't understand why
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so, Been condemned sure. Okay question two animals, dance
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partner here is that he came from a broken home animal
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confirms saying that Adam. He broke it.
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Correct. George sees Mildred's adult son
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and asks how Mildred could have a son that age?
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Mildred explains that. When she had her son.
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Her son was. Adam younger basically.
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I didn't one point because I had to give you almost all.
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Yeah, that's fair. When when she had him he was
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just a baby. Yeah.
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Oh man, I'm I'm kind of glad I blocked.
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These question. For the screaming lady, can't
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seem to hold down a job. She just got fired after 10
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minutes from her last one, which was Adam.
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There's a couple variations of this but I think it's
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Librarians. It is a library.
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Yes, yeah, she's there's a couple.
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But the one where she's fired as the librarian question.
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Five Rolf suspects. That his dance partner doesn't
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like dancing with a dog after all.
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She is wearing. Adam, a flea collar.
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I'll flea collar. Hmm.
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All right. Question six.
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Miss Piggy tells her partner, she loves history, Washington,
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Jefferson Paul Revere. Her partner asks her if she
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likes Franklin piggy admits she doesn't know because she's Never
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Frankel padam. Yes, never Frank old Question 7
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to ghosts. Explain that they can't get
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drinks here because the dance hold doesn't Matthew serve
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Spirits. Serve Spirits.
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Correct. Hey I got one.
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There you go. You guys are a little trouble.
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I knew the last 12 that was like the first one.
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I actually knew was the last one, but just buzz in a little
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too late. Question 8, Mildred thinks that
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people have a hard time believing each other George
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Adam, doesn't believe her. Yeah, doesn't think that's true.
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Yeah, that's real dumb. Real dumb question. 9, dr.
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Teeth believes that honesty is the best policy.
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Mildred tells him that Dr. Teeth is a terrible dancer.
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Honey by joke. I mean she's being honest for
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sure. It's not listen, season one's
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rough. You guys.
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Otis is that I think you thought you went though, for what it's
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worth. Last one, Mildred notes, that
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there's a lot of riffraff in this dance hall.
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She asks, if George would rather be associated with a better
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class of people, George comments, that he would rather
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be associated with a better class of people.
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But Mildred George would rather be associated with a better
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class of people. What is he doing?
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I know this is mean to Mildred and I know we were angry about
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it. I just can't remember the actual
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all. It's extremely mudslide.
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Yeah. Credit Mildred was being a
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little, you know, elitist Mildred was the only one who
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wasn't dancing. Right?
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Right. Nice work with at the dance.
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You did a better job then the season 1 writers maybe did.
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Let's move into our head-to-head round beat the time.
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Everyone knows the Muppet Show theme song which is by far one
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of the best theme songs ever placed in front of a TV show.
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People also remember the memorable staging of the song
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with arches featuring just about every Muppet, you could hope for
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But not in season one. The theme song in season one is
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staged, much less elaborate lie. There are no arches and bearing
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unnamed whatnots, monsters, and pigs, there's only 12 characters
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with names to appear in the theme song.
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Your goal, this round is to name these 12 characters.
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Starting with Matthew, you'll take turns naming characters.
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If you can't remember a character, get it wrong or take
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too long, your opponent will have a chance to steal got it.
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So, there are only twelve names Muppets in the season.
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One opening theme song, we are not About what are the names of
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what knots or pigs. These are just characters who
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have name's Matthew name a character Kermit.
26:25
Correct. Adam Fozzie, correct?
26:31
His robot arms. Oh yeah, it's so weird at the
26:34
end. There this theme song is so
26:37
upsetting Matthew scooter. Scooter is not 0 you know
26:46
weirdly enough despite being like the main character of
26:49
season 1. Oh no, Adam I'm So Gone.
26:55
So yes he hits the gong. Piggy.
27:00
All right, Matthew. Yes.
27:02
Piggy is there. Adam K.
27:05
I've reached the end of my confidence.
27:09
Let's go with Rolfe. Rolf is there Sam?
27:16
Sam is not Adam. I'm gonna go crazy and say Wayne
27:25
Wayne is in booze. I'll go with Wanda, Wanda is
27:31
also Vic. Statler.
27:37
Statler and Waldorf do not have a voice theme song in season 1.
27:43
They don't have a joke either Fozzie has the joke, right, one
27:47
theme song. So back to Matthew.
27:54
There are still five. Yeah?
27:58
Why? It shouldn't have this hard of a
28:00
time thing. You have five other Muppets.
28:03
They have names like yeah our characters.
28:15
Miss mousey, not miss mousey. Good guess though?
28:19
Yes. Feels like it should be Adam.
28:26
This is probably wrong, but Robin, no Robin.
28:29
Oh, Matthew George, No, George. All right, since you both got
28:35
that last one wrong. Let me give you a clue.
28:37
You ready? Said Rolf?
28:39
We do. See the pit.
28:41
Yeah, briefly, that was where I was going next.
28:43
Okay. So who's that?
28:47
I think it's a so, Floyd Floyd is not visible.
28:55
You see the pit but Floyd is not visible in season one.
28:58
Matthew, Nigel, Nigel is cruel. Animal animal is also visible
29:05
crazy, Harry crazy, Harry in the pit.
29:08
Really, yes, he's in ways. He's there, he plays the
29:11
triangle. Of course he does Zoot.
29:15
Zoot, not visible to things. Trumpet girl, was that kind of
29:23
the name? I am counting that.
29:25
Okay, there is one character remaining Adam Mahna Mahna no
29:35
good guess. I don't know if I can, I don't
29:39
know if I can name it. Okay, this is certainly a more
29:42
memorable character than crazy Harry died.
29:45
John Wayne or Wanda, how dare you.
29:52
So there's somebody in the main cast we are completely
29:55
forgetting correctly. You're saying correct.
29:58
That's why I'm gonna just wait for you got one of you guys to
30:01
shout this one out rather than just calling the round because
30:04
this is actually like a muppet people.
30:07
No, like this is not like I'm secretly hiding, right?
30:12
That like lunch encounter monster was, right?
30:19
Yeah, people are probably like shouting at the podcast right
30:22
now like, hey how have you not thought of this character?
30:27
All right, I'm just thinking of things, I know for sure.
30:30
It's not like, who don't show up until later.
30:32
So I'm gonna have to call a year going to have to call it.
30:36
Let us out of our misery Janice it is Janice.
30:40
Oh, I was even trying to go through like the rest of the pit
30:42
and she I got in them hit when Floyd and Zoot were wrong.
30:45
I just assumed it wasn't data. She's one of the the can-can
30:48
girls. That's right.
30:51
Okay, that's that's the trick. Janice is not not in the pit but
30:57
In season one The, you know, it's time to put on makeup.
31:01
Alright, girls that run across. Here's another bonus question.
31:07
For this round which are the three fraggles who appear in
31:12
this theme song. Are you looking for their names
31:15
or their colors? I could take either go for it.
31:18
Matthew blue frackle. The blue frackle is one of them.
31:24
Got another green Adam. Yes.
31:27
The green frackle is the is another and there is a third,
31:31
Matthew purple. I don't remember no.
31:33
The purple one shows up later in The Muppet Show.
31:37
Not season 1 to the best of my knowledge.
31:39
That was a hard one. Yeah.
31:41
Had no real guess. I don't know that.
31:43
I can name a another friend who was that?
31:44
Feels a little one. Is the snake frackle.
31:47
Who is host over again. Didn't put those in the
31:51
questions because I didn't think Guys would get them.
31:55
Definitely would have never pulled snake crackle.
31:56
No got no, no, no, no. I would have because I love the
32:01
freckles too much, but you know, that's that's me.
32:05
Oh, I mean, anyone who's watched The Great Santa Claus Switch
32:08
should be fully in love with the freckles.
32:10
They're pretty good. And now we are going to enter
32:15
our final normal round mystery guest.
32:19
Specifically we're playing a variant of the mystery guest
32:23
game. Last featured in season 1 of
32:25
hubba-wha as we talk about season 1 of The Muppet Show, I'm
32:30
going to name a sketch from an episode of season 1 of The
32:34
Muppet Show, you will earn three points if you can identify which
32:39
episode it's from if neither of you.
32:42
And I will give you an additional sketch, get it right
32:46
then and you will earn two points.
32:48
If you still can't name it. After that point, I will name a
32:52
third sketch, get it right then and you will earn one point as
32:57
always, wait to buzz in until I finish naming the sketch.
33:03
Question 1, Jump. Shout Boogie.
33:11
Adam. Oh well, I think the season two.
33:14
Is it? Teresa Brewer.
33:15
He's not Teresa Brewer. Matthew.
33:19
Do we need a second yet? Connie Stevens.
33:22
Not Connie Stevens. Here is your clue.
33:26
Second sketch, mr. Cellophane.
33:32
Adam. That's tall.
33:33
Gray. It is not Joe crying.
33:36
No, that's right. He did it.
33:38
Okay. Matthew.
33:39
Do you have a? Do you have a guess for that
33:40
one? I do not.
33:43
Okay, here's a third sketch from that episode.
33:45
Pure Imagination. Adam Ben, Vereen.
33:52
It is been getting my real life. Bob Fosse mixed up.
33:58
Okay, question to solace. Adam, this is taking on her name
34:14
is Julia. Other sketches.
34:19
I was going to name, Cowboy time and of course Mahna Mahna her
34:24
name left. My head for a second, but those
34:26
would have been. Yeah.
34:27
I easy might've actually. Yeah, I actually keep those.
34:30
I tried to do it. So the last one was.
34:33
Yeah. Yeah that's how that's how these
34:35
things work. I don't, they should work.
34:36
Yeah, we're already in the fifth season of The Muppet Show
34:39
commitment. So, like remembering who was in
34:41
the first season, is already such a big challenge for me.
34:43
So remembering the sketches of who was in the first season, all
34:46
the names are just running together.
34:47
Weather where I'm just like, I don't know.
34:49
Debbie Harry question 3, You Are My Sunshine.
34:56
What am I favorites? The guest is not in it.
34:58
The guest is not in that statutes why I better first
35:05
Nope, all right, on to the second clue, Mississippi Mud,
35:09
your favorite racist to Jug Band song, so many feet, so many,
35:13
Muppets feet, dirty, gross, moist Muppet feet.
35:20
And one of the two times that this song shows up in The Muppet
35:23
Show and I believe in this season the Entertainer Adam
35:30
open. If it's in twice.
35:31
I'll just go that Milton Berle. It is not Milton for another
35:34
one. It's the other one but it's the
35:36
one that matches with the attitude.
35:38
Yeah. Matthew.
35:39
Do you remember who else sang the Entertainer?
35:41
I do not Phyllis Diller. Specifically.
35:45
That's the one. Not where fill it?
35:46
Not we're Phyllis Diller, sings it, but we're Piggy and roll.
35:50
Question for Never Smile At A Crocodile.
35:56
I can tell you who sings Never Smile At A Crocodile, but sure
35:59
it's how it's, it's fine. Our favorite frog and alligator
36:04
loving the child. Second clue.
36:11
Nobody now, I really should have looked over the list of first
36:18
season. Lots of gas before we, my did
36:23
third third clue in the one. That might give it away a nice
36:26
girl like me. Adam Sandy.
36:32
Duncan that is Sandy Duncan. Question 5.
36:37
Rag mop clue. Number two.
36:43
I'm glad there is you Matthew, this is Rita Moreno is not Rita
36:53
Moreno, good guess. Adam to have a guest for the
36:57
second one. I don't.
36:58
Okay. Third clue, sing.
37:05
Sesame Street song. So, it is that it is that saying
37:10
it. Is that saying I can I can
37:17
picture it. Oh is this Candice Bergen?
37:20
It is not Candice Bergen. It's she does that other song
37:23
that's like saying Well, oh, and now I know what it is but I
37:28
yeah, yeah, Matthew weiner out of gas.
37:30
Yeah. I know, I say if you want to
37:32
take it if that's allowed, go ahead because I do not have
37:35
Adam. Is it Florence Henderson?
37:37
It is not Florence. Okay, so they're so Lena Horne.
37:41
It's Lena Horne. It's not what I was thinking of.
37:44
There's so many we're in the early episodes where the guests
37:48
are just sings in front of a blue back, solid color with a
37:51
bunch of Muppets around them. Question 6, I get a kick out of
37:55
you. Second Clue, love you to death.
38:05
We know what that is, you know, when the doctor is going to be
38:07
number? Oh sure.
38:08
Sure, far clue number three, SOG performs, a circus act.
38:19
Adam. That's Harvey.
38:19
Korman, that is Harvey, that's what I was thinking of earlier,
38:22
when we talked about the yeah. See when you mention that
38:25
earlier, I didn't even realize that was a season 1 episode.
38:27
I thought it was later. Sure is.
38:29
Hmm, question, 7 Java. Could be anything dude.
38:36
Oh yeah, yeah. Matthew Connie Stevens.
38:44
Not Connie, Stevens. Good guess.
38:47
Clue number 2. Miss mousey sings, Don't sugar
38:52
me? Matthew.
38:57
We did you just buzz it? No, that was from well, but I
39:00
was about I was about to again because I was just going to
39:02
guess Rita Moreno again. No, that's feel like, such a
39:06
sorry, I'm sorry. Yeah.
39:08
Adams, now There's No Business Like Show Business.
39:17
Adam that's got to be at the merman.
39:19
It is a folder man question 8. Another Jug Band classic.
39:24
You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd.
39:30
Could be anything. Yeah.
39:32
Second clue. Sunny Third clue.
39:39
Rolf sings. I never harmed an onion.
39:44
I love two out of three of these but cannot place the guests are.
39:49
You don't love this episode, that's a good girl.
39:52
That doesn't narrow it down in season 1.
39:57
Here's another clue. We actually talked about this
40:01
guest star already in the first round.
40:06
She did a duet with one of the characters as their first
40:09
number, Matthew Ruth Buzzi. It is Ruth Buzzi.
40:16
I will give you a point. Question 9, the famous sax and
40:21
violence sketch. Adam.
40:28
Is that Connie Stevens? That is the Christ is episode
40:31
but I don't want to guess for a third time just because it was
40:33
stupid because it was super early and we already did Juliet
40:36
prowse. That was all I yeah I know
40:37
that's why. I Java did the same thing for me
40:39
where I was like just feel so early that it must be one of
40:41
those two other Clues. I was going to give teenager in
40:45
love and Some Enchanted Evening, of course, Bert's big solo and
40:51
final one for this round question 10, I feel pretty
40:59
Matthew. I'm just going to go out on a
41:01
limb again and say, Rita Moreno. It is not Rita Moreno.
41:04
Correct answer. I didn't think so, but I knew I
41:06
can't laser but I knew it was a reading right now.
41:08
Yeah I didn't think it was either but I figured I might as
41:10
well take a shot. It's later than that.
41:13
I think I liked this episode but I don't know which one it is
41:15
yet. Clue number two, the
41:19
old-fashioned way. I don't know what that is.
41:26
Well, the last clue is one that I hope will give it away.
41:30
The Inchworm. The guests are in that sure.
41:36
Is he's thinking so I I can picture the setting.
41:40
I know exactly what's happening, not pole.
41:43
Yeah. Who that man is well into our
41:45
puppet. Um, I think Zelda Rose is in the
41:49
back teaching school. Sure is yep, by a tree, I
41:52
believe in. Yep, the tree.
41:54
There's a house. There's a man by it.
41:56
Is a man. It is definitely a man.
41:59
I can name a bunch of men. It's not.
42:02
He's got next sense. Not Not rich little I know
42:05
everyone has an accent but you know, thank you.
42:07
Thank you for the accent. Clue, it's Charles aznavour.
42:09
It is Charles, it is half a point for that.
42:16
Now, it's time for you guys to make my life miserable because
42:19
it's time for the anything in the world, prize game, you guys
42:23
are now able to ask me any question you want about the
42:27
world of the Muppet Show, if you stop me, you will earn 10
42:32
additional points. So, let's start with Matthew
42:36
here. All right, this is I think this
42:40
is a properly, tough one but I did about it is about season
42:43
one. I'm going to talk about a lot of
42:45
Firsts. So what is the first word animal
42:49
speaks on The Muppet? Show in production number order.
42:56
Oh, good question. This is one that I thought might
43:00
be, you know? So I'm pretty sure it's like I'm
43:04
talking through this because I'm the only one who can score
43:06
point. I mean, well, you score points.
43:08
If I don't speak means, I'm pretty sure it's like, oh,
43:12
fairly like weird word, and that's part of why you're asking
43:16
it as a question. Like, he's weirdly like eloquent
43:19
and that's one of the jokes like when, you know, like in the
43:23
great Muppet Caper when he's yelling about the red Wars or
43:27
something. At first I was like it's the
43:31
Rita Moreno episode. But the first thing that he says
43:36
in that episode is like making fun of her Spanish so I don't
43:42
think that that's the answer. Um I don't know.
43:50
Woman is, unfortunately, just the word one, because in the
43:56
Connie Stevens episode, he does a 1-2-3 dip.
44:00
And at the dance. Oh listen.
44:03
That's fair. That's a fair question.
44:04
That's 10 points for Matthew. All right.
44:07
Adam, do you have a question brought to?
44:11
Because I thought, I thought one might end up being the sort of
44:14
thing you would ask. And I genuinely can't decide
44:17
which one I want to ask you. This will give me some time to
44:20
do some arithmetic. All right, did not tally up the
44:23
scores. Speaking of The Inchworm.
44:27
All right, let's go with the the more straightforward one that
44:31
with with an assist from my mother to Georgie co-host, which
44:35
season 1 episode had an alternate sketch in the German
44:39
version who performed it and which sketch did it.
44:42
Replace couldn't just let it be the easy.
44:46
Yeah. Okay, listen.
44:47
I have no idea. I could think my way through
44:51
this, but I don't actually think.
44:53
I mean, like you said, for the sake of good, Audio.
44:56
But like I have nothing. I don't know.
45:00
They replaced Java with Sam the eagle reading the telephone book
45:07
because Germans don't understand tubes.
45:12
See that would actually make some sort of sense.
45:14
So it would well in the Twiggy episode in my life was replaced
45:21
by Mary ruse or Ross, perhaps performing Lean on Me, Only in
45:28
German and I won't try to Yeah, say lean on me in German.
45:34
So yeah. Unclear why?
45:36
And I don't think it happened in any other episode.
45:38
Everything else was just dubbed. All right, well, that's 10
45:42
points for you as well. My back was really hoping.
45:46
I was really hoping she just knew that one.
45:48
Like I'm down for heading. Well, I thought you might know
45:51
the tricky. Part was a long time ago, I
45:56
thought you might know the tricky.
45:58
Part was a long time for me as well.
46:00
Like, my backup was about the gay-pride angle here, which is
46:05
actually also from the Troika. Episode was a total coincidence.
46:08
Wait, I don't know what you're talking about.
46:09
There you go. B, the, the feather duster
46:13
puppet does a disco number that Glen.
46:17
Welcome called the gay. Prides angle are the the
46:19
terrifying feather duster terrifying for the duster with
46:22
the terrifying? Falsetto voice of Jerry Nelson.
46:25
But yeah, we were all obsessed with anyway.
46:29
Yeah. No, I can see how some of those
46:32
earlier rounds felt after that one and now one more chance for
46:37
me to make things difficult with our final round.
46:40
Say The word in this round, you will be able to wager any number
46:46
of points. The winner gets those points,
46:49
the loser loses them. You will get to hear the
46:52
question before you rager. So let's check the scores.
46:58
Matthew you have 52 points. Adam, you have 61 points.
47:05
So Adam is in the lead, but it's still fairly close.
47:09
Now your question, Of the main muppet family of characters.
47:15
And I'm considering those to be the Muppets who traveled with
47:19
Kermit to Hollywood in the Muppet movie, which of those
47:22
characters not counting Kermit, which of those characters
47:26
appeared the most often in season 1 of The Muppet Show.
47:30
And which of those characters appeared the least often in
47:34
season 1 of The Muppet Show. So some caveats.
47:39
We're not counting any characters.
47:41
Who didn't appear in season 1 of The Muppet Show.
47:44
We're also not counting the theme song or end credits
47:48
because obviously they were always the same and, of course,
47:52
we're not counting Kermit. You will win your wager for
47:57
each. Correct.
47:58
Answer, you give. So yes, since there are two
48:01
correct answers here, the most often, and the least often you
48:06
can potentially earn three times.
48:09
X, whatever you bet you are going to tell me the amount you
48:13
bet. Which of Kermit's friends in The
48:17
Muppet Movie appeared the most often in season 1 and which of
48:22
Kermit's friends in The Muppet Movie appeared, the least often
48:26
in season one. And there's a sorry.
48:28
Is there a, what's the maximum minimum bet you have 61 Point?
48:35
Okay, so it's like now they're pretty, I can do whatever I
48:37
want. Okay.
48:38
Yep. Matthew, you have 52 Final,
48:40
Jeopardy. Except you can potentially get
48:43
it twice or dead. Tit.
48:44
And right, is it, right? So like, because there's two
48:47
answers here. Yeah, well, I could I could lose
48:50
like 100 points if I bet everything, right?
48:53
Yes, we had a variable - - 50 at the end of this.
48:58
Yes. It is math involved in this and
49:01
I do not care for math. Yeah.
49:03
No. I think about two seconds to
49:04
consider the math of like can I beat him if he loses one and
49:07
gets realized that? I completely blanked and was
49:09
like you know what? I'm just gonna guess and say a
49:12
random number. The points are like money.
49:14
You don't get to walk away with them.
49:16
You might as well bad everything like like I feel pretty
49:19
confident in my answer but I don't I think I realize that
49:25
there are no actual. It's a great question.
49:27
Question, it's a great question. I realize there are no actual
49:30
Stakes here and there are a few ways is Matthew.
49:33
I have just met but I really think winning.
49:35
Yes, and I also really like winning.
49:41
Okay. I'm just going to put my guests
49:43
in. This is wagering part.
49:45
I don't like it. Don't like it at all.
49:49
Flamethrower back I always do. Okay.
49:57
See you, if both submitted an answer.
49:59
Adam, who did you say appeared the most I said, Rolf.
50:04
Okay. Matthew who did you say appeared
50:07
the most I said, Fozzie, the answer is Fozzie who appears in
50:15
all, but one episodes this season so Matthew you bet 12
50:20
points. So you are going to earn back 12
50:23
points, bringing you to 64 points.
50:27
Adam you bet 30 points you are going to lose 30 points bringing
50:32
you down to 31. Now the second part.
50:35
Whoop, here's the least often. Matthew, who did you?
50:40
Guess? I guessed piggy.
50:42
Okay, that is not correct. It is not piggy.
50:45
So you lose 12 points, bringing you back to where you started,
50:50
who did you, guess you guessed Bunsen Honeydew and that one
50:54
actually is correct. Believe It or Not, Bunsen, is
50:58
the Muppet who appears the least often, which actually then takes
51:04
you to 61 points, you both Got one and then didn't get the
51:10
other. We ended up right back where we
51:11
started. Brings you right back to.
51:13
All right. Um yeah it's Bunsen Bunsen is
51:17
not in that many episodes there weren't that many Muppet Labs
51:20
sketches because they weren't that funny in season 1.
51:23
So in a really close game and a really bizarre game, our winner
51:29
today is Adam so Adam you win your choice of a free makeover
51:36
at Venda face or This special limited edition, hubba-wha
51:42
talking houses magnet. Wow, magnet of the talking house
51:47
saying me, sweet me because that's something a house could
51:51
say, yeah, well I could use the makeover but I feel like it
51:55
would hurt. So I will, I will go with the
51:57
Magna. Thank you very much and Matthew,
52:01
I'll be sending you a magnet as well.
52:03
All right. Well sir, I was like Forest to
52:05
get the makeover. It was like that's what yeah.
52:08
You have your face rearranged you've earned it.
52:11
You've earned it we're actually gonna swap faces because I have
52:15
to make another magnet but I will do that and that brings us
52:18
to the end of another one so guests.
52:21
Where can people find you? If you wish to be found Adam?
52:25
I am personally on all the social medias, Adam 807 and
52:31
muppet energy is also on all the social medias at Muppet Reggie,
52:34
and on the web at Muppet ready.com, that's Muppet.
52:38
You know how to spell that urg, why?
52:42
And we're having a lot of fun. We just started season 3,
52:45
episode by episode, and you can find all our backup assistance
52:48
on our website, or anywhere you get podcasts.
52:51
And I assume the 807 in your username is because you were
52:54
born in August 2007. That's exactly right.
52:58
I have a tiny baby. And Matthew.
53:01
Where can people find you if you wish to be found?
53:04
Well, first, I feel like I need to say, like, happy early 15th
53:07
birthday. Yeah, yeah, coming up.
53:14
But yeah, you can find me everywhere on the internet at
53:17
Matthew gaydos, but you can find my podcast commitment on the
53:21
internet at commitment pod on Twitter and Instagram or at
53:25
Kermit mint.com. We are also obviously a muppet
53:29
podcast. But what we're doing is we are
53:32
trying to watch every single thing The Muppets have ever done
53:36
from beginning to now. Ontological order.
53:39
So we started off about a year and a half ago, back in the
53:42
mid-50s and we are currently up to 1980.
53:47
And yeah, it's a lot and you know, it just, it just keeps
53:51
getting more. They just keep doing more stuff
53:54
and we're going to hit the mid 80s soon and we're going to be
53:57
there forever and it's once you get past the mid-80s It Is
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tragically all downhill for the other day in the quality just
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keeps increasing. Well.
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We're gonna spend a lot of time in that Fraggle, Rock Muppet
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Babies era, where they're both on at the same time and we have
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talked about all of the episodes of all of those Series.
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So those are ya fraggle rocket? These Muppet Babies.
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So check in, on commitment, five years from now and we're still
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talking about Fraggle Rock. No, that's great.
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And of course, you can find tough pigs at tough pigs.com, or
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We also have tough pigs t-shirts, available for sale on
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our website, which do include now a t-shirt promoting
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hubba-wha your favorite podcast. I'd like to thank some people
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for helping out, of course, both of our wonderful guests but also
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thanks to Stacy Rosen for writing the theme music for the
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show. Thanks to Richard Gomez for
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doing some new artwork for the show.
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Thanks. Johannes.
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The tough pigs Muppet fan podcast executive producer and
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thanks to scooter. Whose Uncle owns our recording
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equipment and thanks to all of you at home for being with us,
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on hubba-wha the Muppet quiz show.
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And as always, Mildred Huck's Tedder deserved better.
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The theme song in season 1 is staged.
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Must the theme song instead? Wow.