Ryan Roe: Hello, Becca! Are you able to imagine Muppet Wiki is 20 years previous?
Becca Petunia: I imply, I can, as a result of I used to be there, however for the sake of contributing to your argument, no I can’t!
Ryan: Good reply! And in these 20 years, the “Muppet Characters” class on the wiki has grown to include over 3,600 characters. That’s… so much!
Becca: In the event you learn ten character pages a day, it’d take you virtually a yr to get to the Zeeplings.
Ryan: I really don’t know who the Zeeplings are, and usually I’d go look them up proper now… however I received’t, as a result of we’re about to make use of the aforementioned wiki to play a enjoyable little sport known as Random Muppet Problem!
Becca: (Truly it seems to be like there isn’t a web page for the Zeeplings, so somebody ought to repair that.)
Ryan: I hope somebody fixes it inside 30 seconds after we publish this text!
So, Random Muppet Problem is a sport we prefer to play sporadically right here on Powerful Pigs, and it takes benefit of the “Random Muppet” button on Muppet Wiki. It really works like this: We take turns clicking on the Random Muppet button, after which asserting the identify of the random Muppet that comes up — and ONLY the identify! — to the opposite participant.
Then it’s as much as the opposite participant to offer a short description, the manufacturing the character is from, and the performer who, for lack of a greater time period, carried out the character. We’ll do that 5 occasions, after which we’ll see who has probably the most factors. Which I absolutely count on to be you, as a result of I do know you’ve scoured the wiki in your function as host and question-writer for the Hubba Wha podcast.
Becca: Oh, completely. And let me let you know, it’s bizarre being ASKED questions from the wiki, as a substitute of asking them to different individuals!
Ryan: How the tables have turned! The shoe is on the opposite foot! Fred Flintstone is stealing the Fruity Pebbles from Barney Rubble this time round! Anyway, I used a web-based randomizer to choose who guesses first, and it picked me. So go forward and hearth up that Random Muppet button!
Becca: Properly, Ryan, I bought excellent news for you. First up is a pleasant, straightforward one. This wiki web page is “Felix (rooster).”
Ryan: A-ha! For a second there, I believed you have been exercising your irony expertise and it was really an unimaginable one.
Felix (rooster) is, nicely, a rooster. He’s carried out by Ryan Dillon on Sesame Avenue and he reveals up often to be humorous. He only recently appeared as a sports activities announcer on the season premiere alongside Bubba Wallace, and thank goodness he did, as a result of Wallace doesn’t have wherever close to the charisma of that clucker.
Becca: All true! Ryan, do you keep in mind which of Felix’s relations we met in that episode? So long as we’re speaking concerning the Season 56 premiere?
Ryan: Oh, dang. It was his mother possibly? I believe it was the rooster who was paired with Zoe within the numerous athletic occasions. (Be aware to readers: It’s positive to pair a rooster with a Zoe, however typically extra advisable to pair rooster with a pink wine.)
Becca: Sure, his mother Tiffany! Ryan, you get one level for figuring out Felix, and one “good job Ryan” for figuring out his mother. You lose one “good job Ryan” for not remembering her identify.
Ryan: Simple come, straightforward go!
Becca: However severely, isn’t Felix nice? He’s the funniest Sesame character since Gonger for certain.
Ryan: He’s nice! Sesame performers get so few possibilities as of late to create brand-new characters who’re genuinely humorous, and Felix is without doubt one of the notable exceptions.
Ryan: Okay, your first random Muppet is… Handyman! Good luck!
Becca: Ryan, that’s not a Muppet, it’s only a job. Handyman not identify, Handyman job.
Ryan: Hey, there are individuals named Carpenter and Cooper and Baker. Why not Handyman?
Becca: OK. Let’s say he’s from Sesame Avenue. He’s carried out by David Rudman. And uh, he confirmed as much as assist restore the door to the carriage home.
Ryan: That may be a very, very, excellent guess. I’m certain there’s been a Muppet handyman on Sesame Avenue in some unspecified time in the future. Sadly, it’s additionally a fallacious guess.
This Handyman appeared in a “Tubmans of Porksmith” UK sketch within the Garth Brooks episode of Muppets Tonight. He’s “summoned to the property of Howard Tubman, whose immense dimension has induced him to get caught in a chair.” (Get it? It’s humorous ’trigger Howard is chubby.) And he was carried out by Allan Trautman.
Becca: I noticed that clip making ready for my Howard Tubman episode of 70 Years, 70 Muppets! I didn’t notice that’s who we have been speaking about!
Ryan: Sure, you made a wonderful podcast episode a few not-excellent character!
Becca: Why, thanks! I additionally would by no means in one million years have guessed Allan Trautman. In the event you’re studying this, I’m sorry Allan.
Ryan: Yeah, I don’t consider him as being a Muppets Tonight performer.
Becca: OK, nicely, are you prepared in your subsequent Muppet?
Ryan: As prepared as I’ll ever be!
Becca: As a result of as soon as once more, you’re going to have a neater time with this than I did with “Handyman.” It’s Wheel-Stealer!
It’s so humorous that you just and I are out right here saying “Felix” and “Wheel-Stealer” are straightforward ones. 99.9999% of people on the planet do not know who these two are.
Ryan: I used to be nearly to say that! We’re such nerds. However isn’t it good that we now have so many buddies who care about the identical bizarre stuff we care about?
Anyway, the Wheel-Stealer is a monster created for an advert marketing campaign for a line of snacks known as Wheels, Flutes, and Crowns. His raison d’etre is stealing Wheels. I’m virtually sure he was carried out by Jim Henson. I do know one of many monsters from that marketing campaign later morphed into Cookie Monster, so I’m going to wheel myself out on a limb and say it was this man.
Becca: Wow, wonderful. All right!
Ryan: Yay! I’m going to reward myself with a pleasant huge bag of Wheels. As quickly as I determine the place to get some. I’d want a time machine.
Becca: Ryan, everyone knows the Wheel-Stealer’s buddy the Crown-Grabber later grew to become the Stunning Day Monster. However which Muppet film did the Flute-Snatcher seem in?
Ryan: I’ll guess The Muppets Take Manhattan.
Becca: Right! Apart from The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years and a Hallmark card, that’s the one time he appeared with the Muppet Present gang!
Ryan: What an enchanting resume. I assume he’s on the marriage ceremony?
Becca: Yep, behind the pigs and subsequent to a Fazoob.
Ryan: It was very candy of Kermit and Piggy to ask the Flute Snatcher to their marriage ceremony.
Becca: I’m supplying you with one Fazoob as a reward for all this.
Ryan: Thanks! I’ll put it in my trophy case subsequent to my Spooble.
Ryan: And now, look out, as a result of your subsequent Random Muppet is right here, and it’s… Diva D’Abruzzo!
Becca: Wow. Possibly in the future I’ll get a simple one.
Ryan: Possibly!
Becca: Is…is she carried out by Stephanie? D’Abruzzo, that’s?
Ryan: Thanks for clarifying, as a result of I believed you meant Stephanie Tanner. However sure, that’s one level for you!
Becca: OK, so then she’s most likely from… The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss? And she or he’s a diva carried out by Stephanie D’Abruzzo?
Ryan: Are you able to be extra particular as to what sort of diva she is?
Becca: An opera singer?
Ryan: You simply hit a excessive be aware! That brings you to 2 out of three factors for this Muppet. Diva D’Abruzzo is an opera singer carried out by Stephanie D’Abruzzo, however the World she appeared in wasn’t a Wubbulous one, however reasonably Elmo’s. She was within the “Singing” episode.
Becca: It’s a 50/50 shot if you’ve bought Stephanie. Or Tina Enamel.
Ryan: …Yup.
Becca: OK. Now I’m putting again.
Ryan: Identical to Jay and Silent Bob did!
Becca: Your Muppet is Puffy.
Ryan: Huh, okay. Puffy is a cute identify, so it may be a cute Muppet. However individuals additionally get puffy once they have an allergic response to one thing, so it may be an allergic Muppet. I’m going to say Puffy is a speaking cloud who appeared on Mopatop’s Store, and was carried out by Louise Gold. She got here to the store seeking to purchase a lightning bolt.
Becca: Sadly, you’re fallacious about all that. Guess what, Puffy is from Wubbulous World. They’re a cat who was caught in a tree, and don’t have any listed performer or gender. I don’t have any further trivia questions.
Ryan: Dang, that’s a difficult one. As a cat, I guess Puffy is, in reality, cute. And doubtless causes allergic reactions reasonably than affected by them.
Ryan: Okay, I simply introduced up your subsequent Random Muppet, and this character’s identify made me snicker: Slowest-Drawing Ed.
Becca: Is that this from a “Cowboy Time” sketch from Sesame Avenue? Performed by, uh, Frank Oz? One thing a few fast draw contest, and he’s the loser?
Ryan: Properly, that thar reply earns ya one level, pardner. Ed is from Sesame Avenue, however he was seen in an “Elmo the Musical” section, the place he was carried out by Martin Robinson. His particular talent is gradual drawing, and he’s the counterpart of Quick-Drawing Fred.
Becca: Oh geez, I used to be off by a number of a long time.
Ryan: Simple to do when speaking a few present that’s lasted 5 and a half a long time! You wouldn’t have made that type of error if we have been discussing a personality from Cop Rock.
Becca: I’m gonna blame your Forgetful Jones Discord avatar. It misled me. And Sesame Avenue had a bizarrely excessive variety of cowboys!
Ryan: That’s true! Sesame Avenue’s historical past is positively awful with cowboys.
Becca: Anyway! Your Muppet is Bunny the Grouch.
Ryan: Is it a BUNNY or is it a GROUCH? Or is it BOTH? Properly, I’ll be shocked if Bunny the Grouch isn’t from Sesame Avenue. And I’ll say she’s a ditzy, upbeat Grouch carried out by Camille Bonora.
Becca: Properly, she is from Sesame Avenue. She doesn’t appear any extra upbeat than another grouch. However she is–get this!–Oscar’s sister!
Ryan: Whoa!
Becca: Apparently Oscar’s mother named her Bunny to make her mad. Which, Bunny, look, you don’t should be trans to alter your identify legally! However I digress. She is carried out by Diva D’Abruzzo herself.
Ryan: Clearly I’m not acquainted sufficient with Oscar’s household tree.
Becca: Properly, it’s fairly sophisticated. And presumably he avoids them more often than not.
Ryan: Yeah, they’re all fairly trashy.
Becca: Properly, that joke makes me fairly mad, which DOES make me pleased. Okay, so who do we now have subsequent?
Ryan: Because you requested, I’ll let you know. Subsequent we now have… Rotary Doozer!
Becca: Properly, they’re from Fraggle Rock. And presumably the unique Fraggle Rock present. Are they one in every of Turbo’s sidekicks from the episode with flooping? Are they Ron Mueck?
Ryan: You’re right that this can be a character from the unique Fraggle Rock. Though wouldn’t it’s wild if it was really from The Ghost of Faffner Corridor? However no, Rotary seems within the season 4 Fraggle episode “A Tune for Two,” by which she expresses her mistrust of Fraggles to Cotterpin and Wrench.
I have to confess I don’t acknowledge the identify of her performer Sandra Shamas, however it says right here on the wiki she additionally labored on Comply with That Hen and The Jim Henson Hour. She’s a Canadian puppeteer, eh?
Becca: And she or he’s the primary candle we mild at Hanukkah! Man, I don’t do not forget that episode nicely sufficient. I suppose I gotta watch it once more. Or I can simply anticipate Fraggle Speak Basic.
Ryan: Yeah, I couldn’t let you know the plot of that one.
Becca: I can! Sorta! Don’t Hubba-Wha quiz me on it!
Ryan: Oh, drat and phooey! I used to be about to, however you requested me to not, so now I can’t!
Becca: Properly I’m sorry I “no, however” your premise!
Becca: Are you prepared in your final Muppet??
Ryan: Sure! I hope it’s the Crown-Grabber!
Becca: Your Muppet is Boo Mortmorkson.
Ryan: I believe I do know this one! If I keep in mind proper, Boo Mortmorkson is from a “Muppet Sports activities” sketch on The Muppet Present by which he competes in cross-country billiards. And the voice I’m listening to in my head is Steve Whitmire.
Becca: Wow. You’re SO shut. Right about every part besides that he’s Frank Oz! Ryan, do you want Muppet Sports activities?
Ryan: I like Muppet Sports activities roughly ten million occasions greater than I like Precise Sports activities. My favourite one is the wig race, which is delightfully absurd.
Becca: I normally discover it disappointing. However cross nation billiards is sweet.
Ryan: Disappointing, you say?
Becca: Properly, if it wasn’t for disappointments, I wouldn’t have any appointments. I dunno, I at all times keep in mind it being humorous after which don’t take pleasure in it. However I do prefer it greater than watching common sports activities! Frank Oz isn’t there as usually throughout common sports activities.
Ryan: Boy, you mentioned it. My kin stored wanting to observe soccer over Thanksgiving weekend, and I by no means as soon as noticed Frank Oz on the sector.
Ryan: Your remaining Random Muppet has arrived, and it’s Crew of the Alpha Centauri! For some purpose I really feel such as you’ll know this one…?
Becca: Properly, they’re ghost alien spirit creatures from The Muppet Present. We don’t know who’s the performer as a result of they don’t communicate. They seem throughout a protracted, type of boring ballad concerning the Crew of the Alpha Centauri.
Ryan: I KNEW IT. Are you able to identify the visitor star they appeared with?
Becca: Uh. It’s a lady. A white girl?
Ryan: Right! From the episode that begins with Kermit saying “It’s The Muppet Present, with our very particular visitor, a white girl!”
Becca: Crystal Gayle?
Ryan: Yeah, that’s the one!
Becca: Wowee, I’m shocked I bought that! I might image her in my thoughts.
Ryan: The music is named “We Should Imagine in Magic.” Properly achieved!
Becca: I lastly bought one!
Ryan: I’m trying on the screenshots of the varied ghost spirit alien creatures on the wiki web page, and wow, these are some very cool, very bizarre puppets.
Ryan: Properly, that concludes our sport. I’ll simply tally up the scores and see who — oh no, the Wheel-Stealer ate the scorecard! Oh nicely. Thanks for taking part in Random Muppet Problem with me, Becca! I certain am glad all these pages exist on the best wiki on this planet.
Becca: It actually, actually is.
Learn previous Random Muppet Challenges right here!
Due to everybody who’s ever edited Muppet Wiki for making this sport potential! Click on right here to review Oscar’s household tree on the Powerful Pigs Discord!
by Ryan Roe and Becca Petunia
