It's not quite a mop, and it's not quite a puppet, but...oh, man!
Never you mind how the topic of favorite muppets came up. It just did.
Kermit
Kermit's always the easy target when picking favorite muppets. Not only is he the star of the show, but he's a sensitive soul, loyal to his crazy, incompetent friends and his abusive, unappreciative girlfriend. He's organized, able to cut through bullshit, and sees the good in people and things, but in spite of that, he still gets really excited about things. I wish I could say I completely relate, but I only about 50% relate. Still, I bet Kermit would love "The Engine Driver", too.
Fozzie
Saving the best for...second. Fozzie's easily my favorite. He's just like me: he means well, and he really tries, and he appreciates good comedy and tries to come up with quality entertainment, but...it just never quite works out. He's got a sad streak that comes out every now and then and he's easily disappointed, but for the most part, he's just enjoys the entertaining qualities of life.
Gonzo
You know that nerdy guy that, at his heart, is a nice guy, and you really want to like him, and you know that, logically speaking, there's no real good reason for you not to like him, but ultimately, he's just too annoying to hang around? That's Gonzo.
Sam The Eagle
Sam the Eagle is clearly a pretentious, self-possessed jerk, and he's like that guy that women say they don't like, but ultimately are won over by his cockiness and start to interpret his pretention as intelligence. Why isn't he dating Miss Piggy?
Miss Piggy
This is Kermit's flaw: he's probably one of those guys that believes that relationships have to be hard, that you have to work at things. How else to explain why he's together with an jealous, abusive, rotten muppet? I wonder why more people (actual human beings) haven't objected to the fact that the only real woman character on the show is nagging, domineering and violent?
Animal
I can't really relate to Animal, but I do consider him an influence.
Rowlf
Good ol' Rowlf. He's the opposite of Gonzo: you're not sure why you like him, but you do. He plays the piano, he's always happy to be around you, and even if he's not the brightest bulb in the box, and sometimes his unrelenting enthusiasm gets a little tiring, he's the guy you always want around. It's always good times when Rowlf's around.
7 comments:
Forgot about Scooter. Why am I Scooter? Because he wears glasses?
Hey, you're the one making the muppet porn movie: The Muppets Take Manhattan From Behind.
The muppets and I are just friends.
dang. i just moved a muppet show dvd from 20 to 1 in my netflix queue. it's been quite a long time since i've seen any of them, so i wouldn't have begun to have been able to make those analyses.
No, no, Paul. I've just been very sensitive about this issue lately, what with all the tabloid rumors about me. I keep trying to tell them that Rowlf and I were just hugging in those pictures. It was just a friendly, caring, naked hug.
Dave, I haven't seen a muppet movie or TV show in years, either. I was just going on memory, so I could be completely wrong. Then again, I've never been wrong before, so why would I be now?
see, now you've relly got me thinking about the muppets. I think we're all quite a bit like the old heckling, sarcastic geezers in the private box. Waldorf and Stadler. check out this site for details about any muppet character there ever was.
Actually, after I thought about it, I do remember seeing a "muppet movie" not too long ago. I didn't wanna say anything, but wasn't that Paul starring as Long Schlong Silver in "Muppet Anal Pleasure Island". I got that movie as a mis-shipment from netflix, but I still watched it. Three times.
I don't understand how you can't relate to animal...HE'S A DRUMMER. He should be your favorite. You're definitely not Fozzie...he's an annoying idiot. I always want Kermit to hit him in the head with a frying pan whenever he does something stupid.
What about the Swedish Chef, Beaker and Dr. Bunson, or the band? I always liked that Dr. Teeth and the Sax player who hits the wrong note at the end of the theme song. Also, I can't hear "Time in a Bottle" or that "Stop Children, What's That Sound" song without thinking about the muppet version, since the first time I heard either song was on the Muppet Show.
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