QotD: Celebrational Muppetational!
Who is your favorite Muppet? Why?
Not a Muppet "lead," have you, but my favorite Muppet is Sam the Eagle. I think he plays best with our modern political humor and could fit very well on The Daily Show. To this day, though, I always confuse Sam the Eagle with Richard Mulligan.
Oh snap, I'm not alone!
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And, from the dollarshort well. This, from February 2004:
Around Christmas this last year I saw a deck of Muppet-themed playing cards that had a picture of Kermit the Frog wearing a suit and trying to look smoothly into the distance. Immediately I launched into a rant on how I hate it when cartoon characters and puppets are made to look smooth or sinister or studly (think about how Looney Toon characters used to be made to look like gangstas). When I was recounting my hatred of smooth Muppets (and I'm not talking about smooth like those stoned Muppets in the band -- I'm talking about Kermit as pictured below), I just realized that "hate" is a really strong word.
Actually, I remember something that Mister Rogers said in that great Esquire interview:
"Mister Rogers always worries about things like that, because he always worries about children, and when his station wagon stopped in traffic next to a bus stop, he read aloud the advertisement of an airline trying to push its international service. "Hmmm," Mister Rogers said, "that's a strange ad. 'Most people think of us as a great domestic airline. We hate that.' Hmmm. Hate is such a strong word to use so lightly. If they can hate something like that, you wonder how easy it would be for them to hate something more important."
I think "hating" smooth Muppets is the definition of using a word lightly and I should probably just get over it.
Comments
Hey! I picked Sam the Eagle too.
Sam is pretty slick... I picked Rizzo the Rat. :P
Hey! Don't be hatin' on Kermit. :P
I like Sam the Eagle too! I always thought Jack McCoy/Sam Waterson from Law and Order looked like Sam the Eagle.
My brother Josh was just in the "birthplace" of Kermit the frog yesterday. It is in nowheresville Missippi. I didn't sense a whole lot of love for Kermit from Josh either. (http://joshhornik.vox.com/library/post/four-kings-and-a-frog.html)
While he's not my favorite muppet, Sam the Eagle has probably my favorite muppet quote:
"You are all weirdos."
I think Sam Donaldson is a dead ringer for Sam the Eagle.
i'm so glad there is so much love for sam the eagle.
My pick for the best Sam doppelganger is Sen. John Warner...'cause Sam the Eagle never got to marry Elizabeth Taylor.
While he's my favorite muppet, Sam the Eagle has probably my favorite muppet quote too "You are all weirdos." I want to buy all the DVD I think that is good for my Family Health