Beaker was my favorite. His goofy face was so funny, but I also had trouble with my speech as a kid, only my mom could understand me, so maybe I identified with Beaker’s “meep” language.
Same, I still love Beaker to this day.
Yeah, Beaker has always been the most endearing to me.
Statler & Waldorf
If this comment were any more stripped down, I’d stick a dollar bill in it!
Pepe the Prawn
Gonzo the Great
Cookie monster! He’s my spirit animal #CookiesAreLife
Barkley and Animal are probably my all time favorites, but I have had a few over the years.
When I was young it was Snuffy. I am old enough that it was when everyone thought he was Bird’s imagination, and I always felt invisible to my parents. Then as I got older it became Gonzo who was the weird freak, like I was… but his attraction to Piggy always skeeved me out.
The Swedish chef, bork bork bork!
AN-I-MAL
Eat drum! Eat drum!
The Count. Ah, ah, ah, ah!
Zero points, hehehe. No count in the Muppet Show.
As part of the muppet extended universe he, ah, counts.
A less-known and less horror-movie centric bit of vampire canon is that they suffer from arithmomania, a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder that presents itself as a need to count objects in your surroundings. This crossed even cultural boundaries, with tales of number-crunching Counts existing from Slavic lore all the way to the Chinese jiangshi.
As the lore goes, the vampires could be distracted from your pulsing, delectable carotids by a surplus of something in the surroundings that demanded to be counted. Holes in a fishing net, seed scattered at the door, Chinese folklore even recommended tossing out a handful of rice grains in front of a vampire as a functional defense against getting feasted on.
One! One grain of rice!
I first learned this bit of vampire lore from an episode of X-Files where they used a box of paperclips to escape a vampiric Patrick Renna.
The crummy direct to video sequel to Dracula 2000 totally endeared itself to me by including the vampiric OCD in its narrative. As far as I know, it and Sesame Street are the only film/tv media to do so. An unlikely club.
I know, but at least a Muppet from Sesame Street.
Why, Miss Piggy of course.
I couldn’t believe I had to scroll all the way down to see the main star of the show
Sweetums!
Definitely Rolf. I aspire to that level of cool.
Good choice. Rolf brings a special chill to each scene he joins.
That’s an excellent photo of him
I think Statler and Waldorf are up there, i’m counting them as one entity.
They are one entity.
Rolf!
