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"content": "\u003cp>The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was predictable if you were following message boards on shadowy corners of the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, I thought Jan. 6 was going to be really bad,” Cullen Hoback, director of the documentary \u003cem>Q: Into the Storm, \u003c/em>told NPR in a recent interview. “I got hardly any sleep the two nights before it. I was very anxious going into that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoback followed the growth of the QAnon movement for three years and unravels the twisted knots of the conspiracy theory in a six-part series on HBO. He focuses on the interpersonal drama between those behind the website 8chan (later 8kun), where an enigmatic “Q” posted false conspiracy theories that convinced millions there were nefarious Democratic actors involved in child-trafficking rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13890913']Spurred on by former President Donald Trump’s false allegations of widespread fraud in the 2020 election that he lost to President Biden, many Q believers were among a larger group of anti-government extremists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 in protest of the usually ceremonial counting of Electoral College votes affirming the election result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drama in the film develops incrementally as the inner workings of the dark web are explained for an audience unfamiliar with this world—which includes Fredrick Brennan, who created 8chan, and Jim and Ron Watkins, who later take on ownership and administration of the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documentary centers on the rivalry between Brennan and the shadowy father-son duo of Jim and Ron Watkins. Though they once all worked together, Brennan turns and winds up strongly \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/technology/8chan-shooting-manifesto.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">advocating against 8chan\u003c/a>. He does not believe the Watkinses, who test the bounds of free speech on the internet, are responsible stewards of the site, particularly after episodes of murder and violence that were linked to posters on the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through his investigation, Hoback believes he has revealed the identity of Q. Through anonymous “drops,” Q boasted of dates—that never materialized—when the cabal would be toppled. Followers of the movement believed Q must be someone high up in Trump’s inner circle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR has not independently verified Q’s identity, but Hoback’s film shows strong evidence that Ron Watkins was Q. He’s not someone particularly special and didn’t have any real ties to Trump, but he is someone who had access and motive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that by revealing the mechanics behind Q and the personalities behind it,” Hoback said, “that they see that it really is just this kind of absurd cast of characters that created this massive global movement and that it is not this sort of scary mystery box.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement grew so large that QAnon supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., who “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/885991730/gop-candidates-open-to-qanon-conspiracy-theory-advance-in-congressional-races\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed openness to Q\u003c/a>” even \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901628541/qanon-supporter-who-made-bigoted-videos-wins-ga-primary-likely-heading-to-congre\">won\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901628541/qanon-supporter-who-made-bigoted-videos-wins-ga-primary-likely-heading-to-congre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seats\u003c/a> in Congress, where they continue to spread misinformation. Greene even \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1383106255930155008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly\u003c/a> tried to start an “America First” caucus that would have focused on “Anglo-Saxon” values. After initially \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/groundyourstand/status/1383198051217465346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seeming to defend it\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.salon.com/2021/04/17/marjorie-taylor-greene-forced-to-abandon-america-first-caucus-after-republican-outrage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she backed off\u003c/a> after the effort drew a sharp backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in her tenure this year, she was stripped of committee assignments and yet, despite her marginalization—or perhaps because of it—she raised $3.2 million in the first three months of this year. It’s a sum that’s not just high for a member of Congress but rivals many Senate candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q hasn’t posted since the election, and many of its followers have been disappointed that its supposed prophecies haven’t come true. So where does the grassroots energy behind the movement, with its distrust of experts and willingness to believe misinformation, go from here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK_Gf9H2CWI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoback talked with NPR about his investigation, what he hopes people take away from it and what it all might mean for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following is a selection of our conversation and was edited for length and clarity:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NPR: You were following QAnon far back when most of us—it was under our noses and just didn’t really understand it. Why did you then think that this was an important topic to cover and what drew you to it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HOBACK: I thought it was a sign of things to come, both in the ways Q was being managed online, removing Q or suggesting that this thing was something that was too dangerous to be allowed on Reddit. It made me wonder if it actually was going to have the opposite effect, if it was going to make it bigger. To me, it looked like something that was likely to continue to grow. And I was just drawn to the mystery as well. I felt that unmasking Q might bring the whole thing to a conclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’m a political editor. Jan. 6 was one of the most harrowing moments in the film. What do you take away from the lead-up to Jan. 6? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13891014']The day itself, I found to be rather nerve-wracking. I think anybody who had really been tracking what was going on could see that this was the moment in which those power players who had been circling around Q, whether that’s Roger Stone, [retired Maj.] Gen. [Paul] Vallely, [retired] Gen. [Michael] Flynn, Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, Donald Trump, all of these guys, they were all prodding in the runup to Jan. 6 in a way to make the Q narrative real. And there were these overlapping groups that were all driving toward something similar. So I think if you were tracking it closely, you probably would have thought like myself that it was going to be even worse than it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How much fault do you think Ron and Jim deserve for that day? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I don’t think Jan. 6 happened because of Q, but I also don’t think it would have happened without Q.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How interconnected was Trump world and Q?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I would like for there to be more investigation into the ties between Ron and Jim and some of these power players in D.C.—Gen. Flynn and these other characters. I mean, we’ve seen some forensic evidence, and certainly after the 2016 election, it stands to reason that, given the amount of traffic 8chan was turning to Trump’s own campaign, that they would have reached out. I think the series paints a pretty good case for their ties to these D.C. operatives. But the exact nature of that relationship remains a little unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who were some of the key players and how much were they feeding Q information?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the series, we show what we know, which is that Jerome Corsi, the known conspiracy theorist, had ties with all of these guys, close ties, and was one of the first to bolster Q. He says that a couple of people he holds very close to him—and we know that he has ties to Vallely—said you need to start paying attention to this. Bring it on Alex Jones’ [show]. Make it bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that would indicate that very early on, some of these ex-military networks saw the value in Q, saw that it was gaining steam and wanted to bolster it. When you talk about the information that’s being funneled, I don’t think there was really any meaningful information being funneled to Q. Q was just basically picking its favorite research out of things that the anons [anonymous posters] were collecting on 8chan and then 8kun, and then reflecting that research, or those ideas or the conspiracy theories back to the anons in the form of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you didn’t have to be Gen. Michael Flynn to write the Q drops. You just needed to be an incredibly engaged and active user of 8chan and very well versed in the research and analysis and all the internet data points that were being collected in order to create that narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The documentary builds a powerful case that Ron is Q. Ron denies this, but in the documentary, he seems to relish the idea of being suspected. After the election, he comes out of the shadows and begins posting in his own name on Twitter about the election. He even \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/trump-meets-qanon-influencers-conspiracy-theory-s-adherents-beg-dictatorship-n1252144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>appears on OAN\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, the right-wing cable TV platform, to share his false conspiracies about Dominion voting machines. Along with Trump, Ron was banned from Twitter. Tell us more about why you think it’s him.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s so much more evidence I have pointing to Ron than what I was able to keep in the series. There’s mountains of it, including things he said to me since then. That’s part of why it was so valuable to spend this much time with them, because they’re not going to tell me the truth. So the answers lie in the omissions, in how they change their stories, in basically what they’re hiding and then what they eventually sort of choose to reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the things Ron messaged me after the series dropped, he said, “You know, Cullen, I identify more with villains.” He wrote, “Something I learned a long time ago is that internet personalities are just actors on a stage. Making things larger than life makes for a better story and ultimately a more entertaining existence.” And then he goes on to say, “Getting away from the narrative that Ron is Q will be impossible, so I may as well embrace it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that it’s, like, almost an admission in and of itself. And there have been a few of those since then. You know, I think deep down he wants the credit, but he can’t take it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you hope people take away from knowing who Q was?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that when you demystify something, it takes away its power. You’re left with the baggage of the man and the motives of the man, and it just changes the equation. You know, if you talk to a Q follower, they could imagine that Q could be any number of things. It could have all of the benefits and none of the cons. And also it allowed them to imagine that there was this massive, super top secret military operation in the works. And I think that the truth matters. I think that it’s important to reveal the forces behind the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I think deep down, most of those who believed in Q wanted to know the truth. Whether or not they’re willing to accept it is another story. I just present them with the information, and they’ll draw their own conclusions. I don’t expect QAnons to watch this and suddenly, be like, “Well, I don’t believe in Q anymore.” The misery of shame is too great. I think that it’s a process, and that story may continue to evolve, but I think, also, the people who’ve seen who’s behind the operation, will they be likely to believe in Q now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have you heard from any Q followers or supporters?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13891257']I have heard from a number of folks, I mean, my DMs on Twitter have been just insane. Some of them had been from Q followers. Some of them have been from family members of Q followers. And I’ve gotten more than a dozen messages now from people who said that, for the first time in a year in some cases, they’re communicating with their family members who were believers in Q. They feel like they understand now what this thing was that they believed in. They can talk about sort of the underlying mechanics and who was behind it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mileage may vary. I don’t expect that that’s going to be the case for everybody. But anecdotally, there’s been a number of cases now where lines of communication are reopening between those who believe in Q and their family members. I think that’s really important, because I have a lot of Q followers who sometimes just call me in the middle of the night, because they were lonely or because they needed someone to talk to or they just saw me as a grounding force, and I would often tell them, “Look, you need to try to try to talk to your brother, try to find some common ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where does this all go from here? 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Followers of the movement believed Q must be someone high up in Trump’s inner circle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR has not independently verified Q’s identity, but Hoback’s film shows strong evidence that Ron Watkins was Q. He’s not someone particularly special and didn’t have any real ties to Trump, but he is someone who had access and motive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that by revealing the mechanics behind Q and the personalities behind it,” Hoback said, “that they see that it really is just this kind of absurd cast of characters that created this massive global movement and that it is not this sort of scary mystery box.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement grew so large that QAnon supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., who “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/885991730/gop-candidates-open-to-qanon-conspiracy-theory-advance-in-congressional-races\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed openness to Q\u003c/a>” even \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901628541/qanon-supporter-who-made-bigoted-videos-wins-ga-primary-likely-heading-to-congre\">won\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901628541/qanon-supporter-who-made-bigoted-videos-wins-ga-primary-likely-heading-to-congre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seats\u003c/a> in Congress, where they continue to spread misinformation. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The day itself, I found to be rather nerve-wracking. I think anybody who had really been tracking what was going on could see that this was the moment in which those power players who had been circling around Q, whether that’s Roger Stone, [retired Maj.] Gen. [Paul] Vallely, [retired] Gen. [Michael] Flynn, Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, Donald Trump, all of these guys, they were all prodding in the runup to Jan. 6 in a way to make the Q narrative real. And there were these overlapping groups that were all driving toward something similar. So I think if you were tracking it closely, you probably would have thought like myself that it was going to be even worse than it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How much fault do you think Ron and Jim deserve for that day? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I don’t think Jan. 6 happened because of Q, but I also don’t think it would have happened without Q.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How interconnected was Trump world and Q?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I would like for there to be more investigation into the ties between Ron and Jim and some of these power players in D.C.—Gen. Flynn and these other characters. I mean, we’ve seen some forensic evidence, and certainly after the 2016 election, it stands to reason that, given the amount of traffic 8chan was turning to Trump’s own campaign, that they would have reached out. I think the series paints a pretty good case for their ties to these D.C. operatives. 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Q was just basically picking its favorite research out of things that the anons [anonymous posters] were collecting on 8chan and then 8kun, and then reflecting that research, or those ideas or the conspiracy theories back to the anons in the form of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you didn’t have to be Gen. Michael Flynn to write the Q drops. You just needed to be an incredibly engaged and active user of 8chan and very well versed in the research and analysis and all the internet data points that were being collected in order to create that narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The documentary builds a powerful case that Ron is Q. Ron denies this, but in the documentary, he seems to relish the idea of being suspected. After the election, he comes out of the shadows and begins posting in his own name on Twitter about the election. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>I have heard from a number of folks, I mean, my DMs on Twitter have been just insane. Some of them had been from Q followers. Some of them have been from family members of Q followers. And I’ve gotten more than a dozen messages now from people who said that, for the first time in a year in some cases, they’re communicating with their family members who were believers in Q. They feel like they understand now what this thing was that they believed in. They can talk about sort of the underlying mechanics and who was behind it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mileage may vary. I don’t expect that that’s going to be the case for everybody. But anecdotally, there’s been a number of cases now where lines of communication are reopening between those who believe in Q and their family members. I think that’s really important, because I have a lot of Q followers who sometimes just call me in the middle of the night, because they were lonely or because they needed someone to talk to or they just saw me as a grounding force, and I would often tell them, “Look, you need to try to try to talk to your brother, try to find some common ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where does this all go from here? What happens to Q followers and the movement?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ve probably seen the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/inauguration-day-live-updates/2021/01/20/958907699/the-qanon-storm-never-struck-some-supporters-are-wavering-others-steadfast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Telegram groups\u003c/a>. They’re not that gigantic, maybe 100,000 people or so. And they’re a pretty passionate community. I suspect that it will evolve. It will splinter into factions. Elements of QAnon will be absorbed into the main line of the GOP. But I think Q, as we knew it, will not remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the point that you’re most hoping audiences take away from your film? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that the antiseptic of sunlight is a powerful force. And by having people sit down and actually engage with sort of the ugly reality of Q, it also gives them a language. It not only helps them understand what was really happening this whole time, but it also helps a lot of people kind of communicate with those who maybe were on the brink of buying into Q or currently believe in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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I \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892672/meet-the-ghosts-who-haunt-the-100-year-old-dew-drop-inn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chased ghosts in Grass Valley\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13886018/a-wild-monkey-chase-do-ken-keseys-lsd-dosed-apes-still-roam-la-honda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LSD-addled monkeys in La Honda\u003c/a>. And on both occasions, I found zero skeptics living in the communities concerned. Documentarian David Holthouse notices this himself in the very first episode of \u003cem>Sasquatch\u003c/em>. “There’s a current of belief in supernatural forces,” he says of rural Northern California, “that runs deeper up here than in most places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holthouse’s series is born from an incident he witnessed on a friend’s remote pot farm in the fall of 1993. One evening, his friend’s cabin was visited by two men, one of whom was visibly frantic. The men said they had just found “three bodies on a pot farm that were mutilated, mangled, torn to pieces.” And they believed wholeheartedly, “that a sasquatch had done it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8pVypMhub8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of the series, Holthouse does his best to get to the bottom of the mystery. And, remarkably, he succeeds in arriving at a reasonably satisfying conclusion. On his journey to doing that, he explores how lore is often born from a human desire to make sense of fear. “Monsters aren’t born, they’re made,” notes interview subject Brian Regal, author of \u003cem>Searching For Sasquatch.\u003c/em> “We make them. All of our monsters are human-made. We make them out of the things we’re afraid of; we make them out of the things we hate … It’s a human coping mechanism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real-life human horror is not hard to find in \u003cem>Sasquatch\u003c/em>. It’s in the lawlessness that exists in the most remote parts of California. It’s in an engulfing paranoia that entire livelihoods could be lost overnight to government and police intervention. And it’s in the countless disappeared people who flock to the region to cash in on the marijuana farms. 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Netflix’s five-part documentary series \u003cem>Murder Mountain\u003c/em> tried in many ways to capture that atmosphere, but it never quite hit the mark. \u003cem>Sasquatch\u003c/em> gets much, much closer—thanks in great part to an unlikely philosopher, Razor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the gold fields of California opened up,” he notes, “it wasn’t the best and brightest that came to pan for gold. It was people trying to extricate a high profit for a little amount of work. The same thing happened with growing cannabis … That darkness from the [gold] mining camps, and from the first logging camps that took the land away from the Indigenous people. That trauma never stopped, and it just snowballed into trauma for everybody who’s come since then. It gets paved over and painted over and developed over, but in the more rural areas, it’s there. You can feel it. 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"content": "\u003cp>The new book \u003cem>World Travel: An Irreverent Guide\u003c/em> is credited to Anthony Bourdain. But it was not really written by the bestselling author, chef and TV personality who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/06/08/618185381/anthony-bourdain-chef-and-television-host-has-died-at-61\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">died in 2018.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>World Travel: An Irreverent Guide\u003c/em> was assembled by one of Bourdain’s associates, Laurie Woolever, based entirely on his previous writings and an hourlong interview conducted shortly before his death. Bourdain had collaborated with Woolever on 2016’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/10/27/499308031/in-appetites-bourdain-pleases-the-toughest-food-critic-his-9-year-old\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Appetites: A Cookbook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, and this project was conceived of shortly thereafter, she says, with the intent to spotlight some of Bourdain’s favorite places around the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the dearth of original writing by Bourdain himself, \u003cem>World Travel\u003c/em> contains a handful of tributary essays, by the likes of Bourdain’s brother Christopher, music producer Steve Albini, and Nari Kye, who worked as a production manager on Bourdain’s TV show, \u003cem>No Reservations\u003c/em>. 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We went outside to smoke, and in my drunken \u003cem>soju\u003c/em> haze, I said, ‘Tony, you have to swear you’re going to Korea.’ And he said, ‘Of course. And you have to come with me.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened after that drunken conversation was not a joke, Kye says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard not to get emotional when I talk about Tony,” she says, wiping away tears during a Zoom call from her Brooklyn home. Kye explains she was surprised not just to come along for the South Korea episode, which aired in 2006, but also to be its focus, along with her family there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show follows Kye and Bourdain as they explore Seoul’s famous Noryangjin fish market, visit a village famous for its kimchee, peer at soldiers guarding the DMZ and drink copiously at a karaoke bar. (Off-camera, Kye says, Bourdain performed a Billy Idol number.) The two sat down with Kye’s grandfather over a bowl of spicy fish stew as part of the episode. He described the trauma of escaping from his home in what’s now North Korea in 1951.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11673893']“If I could go back there once before I die,” her grandfather explains in Korean, “I would have no other wish, if I could just see my parents’ graves and just cry my heart out. There’s nothing that can be done, though. That’s just the way it is. That’s my fate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kye and Bourdain listen, rapt. “I might not have learned these things had it not been [for] Tony and the show,” Kye mused to NPR. “I was one person before I made the show. I was a different person afterwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she recounts in her essay, Kye did not grow up feeling proud of her family’s history or culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I moved to the States when I was 5, from Korea, and after that, I lived in a predominantly white, Anglo-American community,” she writes. “As a kid who already looked different from everyone else, I was trying to fit in as an American and was mortified by my Korean heritage. My mom cooked only Korean food. My parents spoke only Korean to me … We basically lived in Korea in our house in a very American town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Kye’s friends would come over—”white, blond-haired girls named Jenny and Erin who would wear shoes inside their houses”—she would hide everything in her house that looked Korean. She was a recent college graduate, still in her early 20s, when she traveled to South Korea with Bourdain. His full-throated enthusiasm for Korea’s spectacular history, culture and food transformed her perspective about something she had dismissed and taken for granted—and ignited her own sense of creative potential. Now Kye works on a children’s television show for Korean American families, and she’s writing an autobiographical screenplay, including her travels with Bourdain, filtered through learning about food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13896118\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13896118\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hireswooleverandbourdain.credit-cnn-2c276a8ec17dbd88f34dc28e5eaea98bec9019f3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Laurie Woolever and Anthony Bourdain at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, N.Y. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hireswooleverandbourdain.credit-cnn-2c276a8ec17dbd88f34dc28e5eaea98bec9019f3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hireswooleverandbourdain.credit-cnn-2c276a8ec17dbd88f34dc28e5eaea98bec9019f3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hireswooleverandbourdain.credit-cnn-2c276a8ec17dbd88f34dc28e5eaea98bec9019f3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hireswooleverandbourdain.credit-cnn-2c276a8ec17dbd88f34dc28e5eaea98bec9019f3-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hireswooleverandbourdain.credit-cnn-2c276a8ec17dbd88f34dc28e5eaea98bec9019f3-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hireswooleverandbourdain.credit-cnn-2c276a8ec17dbd88f34dc28e5eaea98bec9019f3.jpg 1547w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurie Woolever and Anthony Bourdain at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, N.Y. \u003ccite>(CNN/Ecco)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know this had been so important to Nari until after [Bourdain] died, and we were talking about his impact on us,” Laurie Woolever told NPR. “Had Tony lived and written his own essay for the book—which was the original plan—I never would’ve gotten to hear from Nari. 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"content": "\u003cp>The venerable doctor drama \u003cem>Grey’s Anatomy\u003c/em> is adding new characters, bringing back old ones and writing in COVID-19 subplots in its 17th season. When you look at \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-running_scripted_American_primetime_television_series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a list of the longest-running scripted shows\u003c/a>,\u003cem> Grey’s Anatomy\u003c/em> is among the very few still airing on primetime TV, along with \u003cem>The Simpsons\u003c/em> (32 seasons), \u003cem>Law & Order: SVU\u003c/em> (22 seasons), \u003cem>Family Guy\u003c/em> (19 seasons) and \u003cem>NCIS\u003c/em> (18 seasons.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They all come from a completely different era of television, says Steve Mosko, a former Sony Pictures Television executive, now CEO of Village Roadshow Entertainment Group. Back when those shows first started, people still used VCRs to tape TV programs they missed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look at how\u003cem> Law & Order \u003c/em>and some of these great dramas on broadcast TV were doing 22 episodes a year plus. That’s like 22 movies a year,” he points out. “That’s not easy.” [aside postid='arts_13893475']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compare that to today, he says, when great dramas on cable and streaming TV like \u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Game of Thrones \u003c/em>run only 10 episodes a season—or fewer. And for some shows today, he adds, such as new comedies, the old calculus of re-runs and syndication, which depends on making a certain number of shows, simply does not apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nasim Pedrad can testify. “You know, I think it’s pretty unlikely that a show could ever do six seasons, let alone 16 seasons nowadays, just based on the way that we produce content and watch things,” she observes. Pedrad created and stars in \u003cem>Chad,\u003c/em> which started this month on TBS. She plays an obnoxious, teenage American Muslim boy trying to fit in at his high school. “I’m not right now picturing Chad going off to college,” she laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13895901\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13895901\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/chad-1-pix-34b7c31ef462ba1da15c469a15ef2ad9d07416d8-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Showrunner Nasim Pedrad behind the scenes of 'Chad' with director Rhys Thomas. Pedrad plays a teenage boy in the new TBS comedy.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/chad-1-pix-34b7c31ef462ba1da15c469a15ef2ad9d07416d8-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/chad-1-pix-34b7c31ef462ba1da15c469a15ef2ad9d07416d8-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/chad-1-pix-34b7c31ef462ba1da15c469a15ef2ad9d07416d8-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/chad-1-pix-34b7c31ef462ba1da15c469a15ef2ad9d07416d8-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/chad-1-pix-34b7c31ef462ba1da15c469a15ef2ad9d07416d8-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/chad-1-pix-34b7c31ef462ba1da15c469a15ef2ad9d07416d8.jpg 1705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Showrunner Nasim Pedrad behind the scenes of ‘Chad’ with director Rhys Thomas. Pedrad plays a teenage boy in the new TBS comedy. \u003ccite>(Scott Patrick Green/Warner Media)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pedrad started her career on \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em>—a show you now may mostly watch on YouTube. “The competition is just so different now,” Pedrad says, pointing to the sheer volume of original scripted shows today, around 500 a year. “Now, there’s not only so many more shows, but there’s also different mediums distracting us. TV shows are also competing against Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and other things that are taking our attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think it’s harder today in the sense that eyeballs are more fractured,” agrees Steven D. Binder, a showrunner for \u003cem>NCIS.\u003c/em> “People are now playing video games as much as they’re watching television.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NCIS\u003c/em>, which started in 2003, still pulls in phenomenal ratings. It draws more than 10 million viewers a week. Police procedurals are a special case; they’re built to last forever. On \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-running_scripted_American_primetime_television_series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">that list of the longest-running scripted primetime shows\u003c/a>, \u003cem>CSI\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Criminal Minds\u003c/em> are also way up there along with two \u003cem>Law & Order\u003c/em> franchises. [aside postid='arts_13895138']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As my colleague \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/93702353/linda-holmes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linda Holmes\u003c/a> pointed out to me, these cop procedurals are not complicated, conceptually. Every week, a case gets solved. Actors can get swapped out. Some shows have baked-in advantages that make it easier to stick around, including animated shows like \u003cem>The Simpsons\u003c/em>, \u003cem>American Dad \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Family Guy, \u003c/em>all also \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-running_scripted_American_primetime_television_series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at the top of that list\u003c/a>. Making these shows is easier for actors, you can watch them no matter how old you are, and they’re relatively cheap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if a show created now could go the distance,” says Mike Barker, who’s written and produced for \u003cem>Family Guy (\u003c/em>on its 20th season) and \u003cem>American Dad (\u003c/em>on its 18th). “Because everything has changed so much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those changes are not only in how we consume TV shows, says Nasim Pedrad. They translate to changes in how TV writers tell stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things on shows happen fast. You have to find an audience quickly because of that,” she says. “Like, it used to take multiple seasons before the \u003cem>Friends \u003c/em>[characters] started sleeping with each other, for example, but now with binge culture, there’s so much pressure to hook the audience that things just need to happen faster. You’re burning through plot a lot faster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A streaming provider has incredible amounts of data on a TV show,” adds Binder. “And they’re so data-driven, maybe they won’t let a show nurture. They’ll cut it off and replace it with another one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A constant stream of brand-new shows works for Netflix, which uses them to draw new subscribers. It works less well for an old-school, advertiser-driven network relying on relationships between shows and their fans. 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"content": "\u003cp>Lately, everyone’s talking about trauma. Trauma in news form, trauma in essay form, trauma in Twitter thread form. In pop culture, creators are mining the depths of trauma both personal and historical in a variety of ways—documenting the testimonials of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/21/969425823/allen-v-farrow-digs-deep-into-a-tale-of-celebrity-power-and-silence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">real-life victims\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/876348924/in-on-the-record-black-women-s-voices-get-a-needed-spotlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shocking detail\u003c/a>; weaving harrowing experiences into \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/09/bojack-horseman-season-5-lisa-hanawalt-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fictional characters’ narratives\u003c/a>. In those fictional characterizations sometimes, the trauma is merely a plot point; at other times, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/21/958526533/the-agony-and-subversion-of-the-promising-young-woman-ending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it \u003cem>is \u003c/em>the point\u003c/a>, or rather, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/07/871472968/i-may-destroy-you-is-hbo-s-new-unforgettable-unmissable-drama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrestling with and processing of it\u003c/a> is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new Amazon series \u003cem>Them\u003c/em>, created by Little Marvin (Lena Waithe is one of the executive producers), has been billed as an anthology that “explores terror in America.” Terror, trauma … is there much difference between the two? Certainly not in this case, as the first season centers the Emorys, a Black family moving from rural North Carolina to the suburbs of East Compton, Calif., in 1953, back when East Compton was virtually all white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you hadn’t already seen the much-discussed trailer, it would be easy enough to guess what said terror might entail based on that short description alone: Good ol’, mid-20th century American racism. (With a brief detour to the 19th century in a later episode.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More specifically, the terror/trauma depicted in \u003cem>Them \u003c/em>includes, but is not limited to: White characters spewing the N-word at Black people; white characters graphically assaulting, torturing, and (occasionally) murdering Black people; a creepy minstrel character rendered in blackface; filicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Of course\u003c/em>, the Emorys’ new neighbors in this cookie-cutter Pleasantville are the opposite of welcoming. Betty (Alison Pill)—a dissatisfied housewife who absolutely would have been front and center of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym8rdtq-KBE#t=01m10s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">angry white mob\u003c/a> that harassed the Little Rock Nine outside Central High School in Arkansas—leads the charge, rounding up the rest of the community to coordinate targeted attacks on the new family. Adding to these immediate threats is the fact that the Emorys—Lucky (Deborah Ayorinde), Henry (Ashley Thomas) and their daughters Ruby Lee (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and Gracie Jean (Melody Hurd)—are already entering into this new environment carrying their own set of deeply unsettling emotional baggage. Because \u003cem>of course\u003c/em>; they are Black in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL3Jz8fDgFI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Them\u003c/em> features an impressive array of filmmaking talent across 10 episodes, including Janicza Bravo (who’s directed, among other things, the excellent “Juneteenth” episode of \u003cem>Atlanta\u003c/em>) and notable horror director Ti West (\u003cem>The Innkeepers\u003c/em>). The performances are invigorating, particularly Ayorinde and Thomas, who are tasked with excavating the pain that comes from wounds both generational and directly personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But baked into this production is the pesky, exhausting problem of “doing too much.” This is evident in the glut of needle-drops, many of them anachronistic, which clutter the storytelling and club the viewer over the head with their obviousness. When Lucky responds to one of Betty’s racist tirades by smacking her clear across the face (right after she politely asks little Gracie to hold her purse), James Brown’s electrifying “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=istJXUJJP0g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Payback\u003c/a>” kicks in for a hot second; yet the punctuation feels less like a triumphant nod to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCc99Gh-IEM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foxy Brown\u003c/a> than it does a crass, intentional play for Black Twitter meme status. There are so many stylish music cues like this that early on it begins to seem as if the writers have relied on the likes of Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, and Isaac Hayes to do all of the heavy lifting to cover up the thin story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Them \u003c/em>is also drowning in terror and trauma, and little else. And that trauma and terror are so horrific, several episodes begin with content warnings of graphic violence. I’m not one who believes every piece of art depicting awful events needs such disclosure, but in this case, the producers made the correct choice; there are scenes involving Black pain and suffering so mortifying, I can imagine many viewers not being able to finish watching it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attention to the details of this suffering is chilling not necessarily because of what is depicted—there’s a time and place for such explicitness in the right creative hands—but because it’s depicted in service of a cynical mode of storytelling. Each of the Emorys are haunted by a demon corresponding to their individual life experiences, and through these spirits, one can see the makings of a potentially more interesting character study than what we’re given—a story using supernatural elements to tap into trauma within Black families with the richness and sharpness of a movie like Kasi Lemmons’ \u003cem>Eve’s Bayou\u003c/em> or, more recently, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYY0QJhlXjc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>His House\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the captivating haunted house tale about a South Sudanese refugee couple living in the U.K.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead it borrows from the playbook of last year’s unwieldly and exploitative \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/913246254/what-exactly-is-antebellum-trying-to-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Antebellum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and shows like \u003cem>Westworld \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Lovecraft Country, \u003c/em>which favor slick convolution over coherent narrative choices\u003cem>. \u003c/em>There are So! 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Superficial similarities aside—the titles \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNCmb-4oXJA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Us\u003c/em>\u003c/a> vs. \u003cem>Them\u003c/em>; the casting of Shahadi Wright Joseph in both projects—such conclusions gloss over a few realities, such as the fact that Peele himself has always been vocal about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/article/get-out-oral-history-jordan-peele.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many films that inspired \u003cem>his own\u003c/em> work\u003c/a>. They also seem to misunderstand, or ignore, how genres fundamentally build upon and play with familiar elements and tropes. There’s as much standard horror stuff of the Stephen King variety in \u003cem>Them\u003c/em> as there is Peele’s influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, then, has less to do with parallels to \u003cem>Get Out \u003c/em>than the show’s inability to establish a reason to exist beyond the thesis of “Racism is terrorism, and it’s everywhere; in our entertainment, schools, workspaces, churches, homes.” It’s a fair starting point for telling a story (or teaching basic history), but it can’t be the \u003cem>only \u003c/em>point. By all means, wrestle with the real-life terrors that can come with Black homeownership, Black parenting, white women’s complicity in upholding racist infrastructure, and so on. But also bring more to the narrative in the way of inventive scares, characterization, or even, where appropriate, some levity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Them\u003c/em> suffers from the same predicament that has arisen in the wake of Black people becoming hashtags in death—the public knows far more about their last moments on Earth than all the moments that made up their life before. Viewers who make it through all 10 episodes will know plenty about how the Emorys have suffered and been traumatized, but they won’t come away with much else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Them \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>debuts on Amazon Prime on Friday, April 9.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. 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And that trauma and terror are so horrific, several episodes begin with content warnings of graphic violence. I’m not one who believes every piece of art depicting awful events needs such disclosure, but in this case, the producers made the correct choice; there are scenes involving Black pain and suffering so mortifying, I can imagine many viewers not being able to finish watching it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attention to the details of this suffering is chilling not necessarily because of what is depicted—there’s a time and place for such explicitness in the right creative hands—but because it’s depicted in service of a cynical mode of storytelling. Each of the Emorys are haunted by a demon corresponding to their individual life experiences, and through these spirits, one can see the makings of a potentially more interesting character study than what we’re given—a story using supernatural elements to tap into trauma within Black families with the richness and sharpness of a movie like Kasi Lemmons’ \u003cem>Eve’s Bayou\u003c/em> or, more recently, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYY0QJhlXjc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>His House\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the captivating haunted house tale about a South Sudanese refugee couple living in the U.K.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead it borrows from the playbook of last year’s unwieldly and exploitative \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/913246254/what-exactly-is-antebellum-trying-to-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Antebellum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and shows like \u003cem>Westworld \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Lovecraft Country, \u003c/em>which favor slick convolution over coherent narrative choices\u003cem>. \u003c/em>There are So! 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"title": "A Ruthless Ranking of the 25 Best Muppets, According to NPR Listeners",
"headTitle": "A Ruthless Ranking of the 25 Best Muppets, According to NPR Listeners | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>When we asked our trusty \u003cem>Pop Culture Happy Hour\u003c/em> listeners to vote for the Best Muppet, we knew they’d come through. Over 18,000 votes were cast; over 150 different Muppets received votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes. Some brave, beautiful, misguided soul voted for \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKSGF4Ufso8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">H. Ross Parrot\u003c/a>. As \u003cem>Best \u003c/em>Muppet. That is a thing that happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone else—you can always count on PCHH listeners to bring the deep, \u003cem>deep \u003c/em>cuts—cast a single vote for\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bfdaR4xMeU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Delbert the La Choy Dragon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But naturally enough, votes accreted around the Muppets with greater notoriety. (Sorry, Ma Otter, it’s not your time.) On Friday’s episode of Pop Culture Happy Hour, we reveal the top ten vote-getters, so stop reading now if you want to listen and be surprised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, though, we’ll tick off your top 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We established some ground rules, of course. Which made our daily PCHH Zoom call a place where the thorniest philosophical questions of our time were pondered: Should Statler and Waldorf be considered separately, or as a pair? What about Bert and Ernie? Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s where we landed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Any Muppet from any property or era was eligible, including \u003cem>The Muppet Show, Muppet Babies, Fraggle Rock, Sesame Street, Labyrinth\u003c/em>, etc.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>We counted all variations of a Muppet character in a group. Thus, Gonzo the Great and Gonzo from \u003cem>Muppet Babies\u003c/em> both count as Gonzo.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Some Muppets were counted as a set, like Statler and Waldorf.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Others were counted individually, most notably Beaker and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, as well as Bert and Ernie. The Fraggles of \u003cem>Fraggle Rock\u003c/em> were also counted individually.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>We disqualified other puppets that are NOT Muppets, including Yoda (he’s really, really not a Muppet, guys, look it up) and the cast of \u003cem>Avenue Q\u003c/em>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>We also disqualified human actors in Muppet movies, like Jason Segel, Tim Curry, Michael Caine, and Charles Grodin.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>So here they are, the Top 25 Best Muppets, according to the discerning, and impassioned, Pop Culture Happy Hour audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>25. Count von Count\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ultimate Order Muppet. Nice to see the Count showing up here, repping \u003cem>Sesame Street \u003c/em>(he’s one of only 10 \u003cem>Sesame Street\u003c/em> Muppets to make the top 25, surprisingly enough). (Justice for Prairie Dawn, by the way.) He always scared the hell out of me — I didn’t care for those bats forever flitting around his widow’s peak, or for his ability to call forth thunder and lightning—but if you were a kid prone to obsessive behavior, you likely saw, in his compulsion to apportion the chaotic world around him into neat, quantitative chunks, a kindred spirit. — \u003cem>Glen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>24. Dr. Teeth \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It pleases me that this talented musician, he of the brightly decorated tour bus and the funkiest and furriest band, made it onto the list. Honestly, it took a while for me, as a young person, to truly appreciate the groovy greatness of Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem (one of the great band names). There’s a way in which the group calls gently to hippies, cool cats, and maybe even (gasp) stoners, that doesn’t matter to little kids but is a little bit funny when you’re older. Plus, particularly in \u003cem>The Muppet Movie\u003c/em>, Dr. Teeth is a key part of the winking, knowing, audience-acknowledging part of Muppet lore. He leads the band. He provides the hot tunes. The doctor is always in. —\u003cem> Linda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>23. Bert \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His saddle shoes. His paperclip collection. His love of pigeons, and of the letter W. His bold, if defiantly out-of-step sartorial sensibility (a turtleneck under a v-neck? Why not?) His embrace of rules and order. His simultaneous fondness for, and exasperation with, his less uptight other half. Let’s face it—Bert was the very first nerd millions of us ever encountered. With a thunderbolt of recognition, we saw ourselves in his pained glares, heard ourselves in his monotone staccato laughter. He showed millions the path to fully embrace—nay, to positively \u003cem>exalt \u003c/em>in—our dorkiest, most basic selves. Other nerds in mass media would come later, of course. But he was our first. — \u003cem>Glen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biAMh-xdvJc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>22. Elmo \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elmo gets a bad rap for the same reasons Barney the Dinosaur did at the height of his fame: Parents find him overly cloying and oversaturated. Ground Zero for this animosity has to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/12/25/573365529/remembering-that-must-have-toy-from-past-christmases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tickle Me Elmo\u003c/a>, of course. By the mid-’90s, I had graduated from the streets of sesame to the green slime of Nickelodeon, so I was a bit too old to get wrapped up in the craze, but I have vivid memories of the parodies and news reports of grown adults fighting each other to get their hands on the toy. And for a time, I had to live with one of those bad boys, courtesy of my little sister. (It was just as annoying and creepy as a toy can get.) Then came The Takeover a.k.a. the recurring segment “Elmo’s World,” and this furry monster—who refers to himself in the third Muppet—became inescapable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet… here he is, sliding into the Top 25 on this list, presumably voted on by adults rather than 5-year-olds who wouldn’t know any better. There are two reasons for this, I think. For one, if you were a millennial like myself, you probably have fewer negative memories of him than those who were exasperated parents or childcare workers at the time of Peak Elmo. But also, in this era of social media, Elmo remains one of the\u003ca href=\"https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/elmo-rise\"> most\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://giphy.com/search/elmo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> memeable\u003c/a> of all Muppets. In fact, he’s transcended \u003cem>Sesame Street \u003c/em>to become arguably\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TheDillonOne/status/1376323244828024837\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> at his best\u003c/a> in meme form. That’s gotta count for something, I guess! — \u003cem>Aisha\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>21. Scooter \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A late-’70s shortstop whose batting average generally hovered around .200, Mario Mendoza provides the origin point for the term “The Mendoza Line,” which refers to that hazy boundary separating “just good enough to stay employed” from “not good enough.” From this moment forward, let that line be renamed “The Scooter Line,” which separates the great Muppets—your Ernies, your Sams the Eagle, your Snuffleupagii—from, well, Elmo. (Note: This analogy falls apart when you scroll further up, because Bert, Dr. Teeth, and the Count are all awesome.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seriously, how did Scooter come in at No. 21? \u003cem>Scooter\u003c/em>?! The guy who only got his job at The Muppet Theatre because his uncle J.P. Grosse owned the venue? The guy whose signature catchphrase involved the number of seconds before actual entertainment was to take place? Is it because Scooter’s glasses double as his actual eyeballs? Is \u003cem>that\u003c/em> how we’re measuring quality these days? \u003cem>—Stephen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>20. Snuffleupagus\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Painfully shy. Soulful and sweet. With an eyelash game that Bianca Del Rio would envy. Snuffy began life as Big Bird’s best friend, whom the adults of Sesame Street considered imaginary. This frustrated Big Bird, but in their defense, Snuffy did tend to ditch Big Bird, suddenly, repeatedly, like Big Bird was Commissioner Gordon and Snuffy some kind of fuzzy pachydermic Batman. Eventually, the folks at Children’s Television Workshop realized that having adults roll their eyes at Big Bird’s stories of Snuffy maybe wasn’t sending kids, you know, the \u003cem>best \u003c/em>message? On YouTube you can watch the moment, in 1985, when the adults finally see Snuffy, and it? Is weird. And not a little sinister: Big Bird and Elmo conspire to trap Snuffy, forcing him to stick around (trigger warning: Elmo abuse), and when the adults finally apologize to Big Bird for doubting him all these years, he’s … kind of a jerk about it. — \u003cem>Glen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BtemfoJ-WI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>19. Sweetums\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People sometimes forget about Sweetums, which is consistent with the way he’s left behind in \u003cem>The Muppet Movie \u003c/em>and has to chase the group all the way to Hollywood. All he wants is to be included! All he wants is to be in the movie! He’s fundamentally a big lug with a heart of gold, and he could also protect you in the event of a bar fight. It seems only right that he and Snuffy are next to each other on this list, because they’re both big and furry, but Sweetums, for all his might of body and mildness of soul, plays a unique role in Muppet World. He represents the idea of the benevolent super-monster: the scary thing that’s less scary once you look at it up close. — \u003cem>Linda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>18. Ernie \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quite simply, Ernie should be much higher than this. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh85R-S-dh8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rubber Duckie\u003c/a>“! “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIq8jLj5TzU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon\u003c/a>“! The\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pigcahytIH8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> innocent chaos\u003c/a> he wields upon the uptight Bert! He’s a wild one, but he’s also incredibly endearing; why else would Bert put up with this madness for so many years? Surely he’s earned enough \u003cem>Sesame Street \u003c/em>royalties at this point to be able to afford a studio apartment for himself, yet he knows—and we all know—that Ernie is a lovable sweetheart who just wants to enjoy life. #JusticeforErnie. — \u003cem>Aisha\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>17. Sam the Eagle\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d have liked to see Sam roosting in a higher perch on this list, but apparently not all of us so deeply empathize with the big, dour lug. It’s not his politics we identify with, necessarily, nor his default moral outrage. No, some of us just respond to his whole vibe, which I will herewith attempt to distill to its essence: I never know what’s going on, and I never understand what anyone’s talking about, but if I did? I wouldn’t like it. —\u003cem> Glen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>16. Pepe the King Prawn \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some might scoff at the presence of Pepe on any list of Greatest Muppets. Not me, though I’m admittedly surprised this Spanish lothario was able to find his way into the Top 25, and above the likes of Bert and Ernie to boot. Maybe it’s all those years serving as the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VPu841BmOs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spokes-shrimp\u003c/a>” for the fast-food chain Long John Silver’s? Or perhaps it’s because he was\u003ca href=\"https://slate.com/culture/2015/11/pepe-the-king-prawn-on-the-muppets-is-the-best-part-of-the-disappointing-new-show-video.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> the best thing\u003c/a> about that ill-advised primetime sitcom \u003cem>The Muppets\u003c/em>? — \u003cem>Aisha\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>15. Janice \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fer sure, yes, this ranking makes sense. I’m convinced we all wish we could be just a little bit like Janice: kind of aloof to everything going on around her, and thus eternally chill. — \u003cem>Aisha\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRgNW1Xp-JI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>14. Big Bird \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a lot of us—especially if we were pre-Elmo kids—Big Bird was one of the founding Muppets of our minds, even though unlike most of the group, he walked around on two legs. There’s something about his name, Big Bird, that speaks profoundly to how sweet and simple the connection is between little kids and this naive, sometimes confused soul. He’s just this… really Big Bird. He walked a lot of kids through their first \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxlj4Tk83xQ&ab_channel=TVBumpersCommercials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">experience with death\u003c/a> when Mr. Hooper died, and he eventually demonstrated that he had been right all along about his very real, very mammoth friend Snuffy. Trust in Big Bird. —\u003cem> Linda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>13. Oscar the Grouch \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of what happened on \u003cem>Sesame Street \u003c/em>was upbeat and colorful. So there’s something so delightfully rebellious and brilliant about the inclusion of a grungy, curmudgeonly green monster who literally lives in a garbage can and sings \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxgWHzMvXOY&ab_channel=SesameStreet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“I Love Trash.”\u003c/a> It’s great to show the power of hugs, but it might be just as important to underscore that not everyone is a hugger, and you can make a guy part of your community even though he doesn’t give you a lot to work with. —\u003cem> Linda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxgWHzMvXOY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>12. Rizzo the Rat \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I suspect that Rizzo landed this high—above Big Bird!—thanks to millennials whose Muppet references are more about the later films like \u003cem>Muppet Treasure Island \u003c/em>and \u003cem>The Muppet Christmas Carol\u003c/em> than they are about \u003cem>The Muppet Show\u003c/em>, where Rizzo showed up fairly late in the series run as the leader of a gang of rats running wild in the theater. Rizzo started out small but went on to pop up in several of the films, always retaining his identity as a somewhat sketchy but basically decent pal, especially to Gonzo. I’m not so much a Rizzo girl myself, but to all of you who are: I respect your dedication to this little rat. —\u003cem> Linda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11. Cookie Monster\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amazing thing about Cookie Monster is that he never ate a cookie. All Cookie Monster does is mouth the cookie until it flies into pieces. What Cookie Monster is about is the \u003cem>desire\u003c/em> for the cookie. The \u003cem>passion\u003c/em> for the cookie. The \u003cem>thrill\u003c/em> of the cookie. In this way, Cookie Monster is a perfect encapsulation of the preschool id: hungry, needy, hyper, and eternally hopeful that this time, there will be a snack. He should really be in the top ten, you guys. Even if only for \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye8mB6VsUHw&ab_channel=SesameStreet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“C Is For Cookie.”\u003c/a> — \u003cem>Linda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10. Statler and Waldorf\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was inevitable so many would vote for this curmudgeonly duo because they represent the viewer’s id so explicitly.\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mreHiXkWB-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Why do they always come here\u003c/a>? I guess we’ll never know. But we are all Statler & Waldorf—sitting in that balcony while cracking wise at all those corny puns—and Statler & Waldorf are us. — \u003cem>Aisha\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14njUwJUg1I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9. Swedish Chef \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Muppets contain multitudes; Swedish Chef does not. He’s your classic Chaos Muppet—all \u003cem>hurr-guh-durr\u003c/em> and knives sticking into walls and fish flying to and fro, with human hands, no less, and without your romantic subplots or hazy origin stories or bittersweet pining for adventure and meaning. He’s the hilarious, Muppety, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN1hL9cn7s0&ab_channel=TheGilsonStation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“Bork! Bork! Bork!”\u003c/a> embodiment of what every little kid wants to be doing in the kitchen at all times. \u003cem>— Stephen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. Miss Piggy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who among the Muppets can say that they’ve been presented with an award for being a feminist trailblazer while being \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biyv8kmKwEE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interviewed by Gloria Steinem\u003c/a>? Heck, who among us \u003cem>humans \u003c/em>can say they’ve been so honored? Well, Miss Piggy can. Because she is the epitome of chutzpah, glamour, and narciss\u003cem>—\u003c/em>er, self-confidence. I truly hope this most fabulous swine doesn’t get wind of our list, because the last thing we’d want is an angry email (or\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkFHdbpVpC8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> karate chop\u003c/a>) from her publicist for not having ranked her higher. Piggy should at least crack the top five of Greatest Muppets, “\u003cem>moi\u003c/em>” who has given us one of culture’s most storied\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2DELDQAXT8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> on-again/off-again romances\u003c/a>; this\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbbNHyjgjw4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> amazingly awkward Larry King interview\u003c/a>; and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK52qGcpdzo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snackersize\u003c/a>.” — \u003cem>Aisha\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. Fozzie Bear \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fozzie Bear’s dreams of comedic greatness are unattainable, his optimism smacks of desperation and delusion, his jokes (such as they are) exist mostly to provide opportunities for Statler and Waldorf to perform windmill dunks at his expense, and his signature catchphrase (“wocka wocka wocka!”) is a tragic cry for validation. He’s all sweaty effort, all the time, in that way that so many of us get when we’re pursuing the acceptance of others. So how do you make Fozzie lovable without also making him… deeply sad?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secret lies, at least in part, in the aforementioned optimism: Fozzie is a dreamer, and a sweetly soulful one at that. If you can’t be great, being liked is a hell of a consolation prize. \u003cem>— Stephen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Grover \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d have thought everyone’s lovable furry pal would have made the Top 5 easy, but this is still a perfectly respectable showing. What’s not to love? He’s cute and he knows it, but there’s so much more to him than that. He’s put in time in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIucCUyZF0g&ab_channel=SesameStreet\">food-service industry\u003c/a> (relatable!), he’s gotten his cardio in teaching us the difference between near and far (selfless!), and he’s also, not for nothing, a superhero. And if all that weren’t enough, his masterwork, \u003cem>The Monster at the End of This Book\u003c/em>, introduced successive generations to poststructuralist metanarrative; he’s a li’l fuzzy blue Michel Foucault, is what he is. — \u003cem>Glen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIucCUyZF0g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Rowlf\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people have spoken; the people are wrong. Both of these things can be true. Come on, Rowlf in \u003cem>fifth \u003c/em>place? Below the jamoke at No. 4? The one-note placeholder at No. 3? Pshaw. Rowlf belongs atop this chart, bestriding it like a fuzzy brown floppy-eared Colossus, for several(!) manifold(!) \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/29/982279931/our-favorite-muppets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reasons I enumerated on our “Favorite Muppets” \u003c/a>episode, but essentially: He rejects and transcends the reductive Chaos Muppet/Order Muppet binary. He can often seem like the only adult in the room (and when Kermit is in said room, that’s saying something), but his vibe is different from that of the frog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where Kermit is always a real Dr. Buzzkill, a square, a narc, Rowlf is part of the game. He’s preternaturally chill; he can hang. Add that to the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ7nowJ87HU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with numbers like “You and I and George,” in which he mixes humorous stories with song\u003c/a>, he’s bringing cabaret to the children. That’s iconic, that’s queer energy; Rowlf is the best Muppet, hands down, paws up. — \u003cem>Glen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Beaker \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yiddish words \u003cem>schlemiel\u003c/em> and \u003cem>schlimazel\u003c/em> aren’t just colorful language we remember from \u003cem>Laverne & Shirley\u003c/em> reruns; they’re also deeply useful phrases used to signify oafish incompetence and a tendency to encounter misfortune, respectively. The general device folks use to tell the words apart is that a schlemiel is the waiter spilling the soup in your lap (Grover, perhaps?) and a schlimazel is the unfortunate soul onto whom that soup is spilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poor, pitiful, shrieking Beaker is \u003cem>The Muppet Show\u003c/em>‘s great schlimazel—and thus a vessel through which we could compartmentalize the most put-upon moments of our youth. We’d come home from a school day in which our lunch tray got knocked out of our hands, or maybe we racked ourselves sliding down that awful rope in gym class, and there was Beaker, embodying our awkwardness, our victimhood and our pain alongside Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, himself an avatar for an unfeeling God. \u003cem>—Stephen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Animal \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No Muppet captures pure Muppet-ness quite like Animal. The drummer for the Electric Mayhem is really just a skinny body topped with a head like a pink firework, the long hair (fur?) blossoming from his head above a single heavy, dark, fluttering eyebrow. All he has to work with is his giant mouth and that line of eyebrows, and yet you can tell when he’s happy or excited (which is usually) or disappointed (sometimes) or exhausted (he’s the Muppet most likely to pant). Given to phrases like “That’s my kind of woman” and “eat drums,” Animal can’t really be called a sophisticate. But perhaps his function is to remind us that there is a place for a pure, growling… well, animal. And if you’ve never seen him accompany \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_IpgKzy75E&ab_channel=till90s\">Rita Moreno’s rendition of “Fever,”\u003c/a> I have to tell you that you’re really missing out. —\u003cem> Linda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_IpgKzy75E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Gonzo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who’s ever felt like a weirdo or an “other”—or, to quote \u003cem>The Great Muppet Caper\u003c/em>, a “whatever”—knows where Gonzo is coming from, even if his own origin story has been circuitous and slow to unfold. A dapper Chaos Muppet capable of bearing serious emotional weight, Gonzo is an entertainer \u003cem>and\u003c/em> an artiste: an avant-garde daredevil whose act might cite poetry or shoot him out of a cannon, or somehow combine the two. He’s also, like our listeners’ No. 1 Muppet, a serious romantic leading man—just ask the chickens. \u003cem>—Stephen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Kermit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look, it’s hard—and uncouth—to rank our friends. But if one of your friends ran a hit TV show, starred in a string of successful movies, stormed the pop charts with a song \u003ca href=\"https://www.nme.com/news/music/library-of-congress-to-add-kermit-the-frogs-the-rainbow-connection-to-archives-of-important-recordings-2907621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">so indelible\u003c/a> it just got named to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry, and launched memes that came to signify everything from unbridled enthusiasm to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bustle.com/p/what-is-the-kermit-sipping-tea-meme-a-history-of-this-muppets-shade-69015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">staying above the fray\u003c/a>, you’d be pretty psyched about that friend, no?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A model of spare and efficient design, Kermit the Frog is a wonder of unadorned expressiveness, with a face that can speak volumes and spark laughter through the simple clenching and curling of fingers. The guy has it all: He’s a leading man and lust object (to Miss Piggy, at least), an exasperated workhorse who toils to keep the lights on, an earnest striver who pines for a place in the world. He’s an avatar of gentle grace; of goodness; of weary bafflement. He’s our friend. \u003cem>—Stephen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13895141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13895141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/1634675a_wide-484c99bff19d9c85263dab0f0b46a73539252fec-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Kermit the Frog in 'The Muppets Take Manhattan.' Kermit has been in a class of his own since many of us were itty bitty babies. Maybe even longer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seen here in ‘The Muppets Take Manhattan,’ Kermit the Frog has been in a class of his own since many of us were itty bitty babies. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We established some ground rules, of course. Which made our daily PCHH Zoom call a place where the thorniest philosophical questions of our time were pondered: Should Statler and Waldorf be considered separately, or as a pair? What about Bert and Ernie? Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s where we landed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Any Muppet from any property or era was eligible, including \u003cem>The Muppet Show, Muppet Babies, Fraggle Rock, Sesame Street, Labyrinth\u003c/em>, etc.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>We counted all variations of a Muppet character in a group. Thus, Gonzo the Great and Gonzo from \u003cem>Muppet Babies\u003c/em> both count as Gonzo.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Some Muppets were counted as a set, like Statler and Waldorf.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Others were counted individually, most notably Beaker and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, as well as Bert and Ernie. The Fraggles of \u003cem>Fraggle Rock\u003c/em> were also counted individually.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>We disqualified other puppets that are NOT Muppets, including Yoda (he’s really, really not a Muppet, guys, look it up) and the cast of \u003cem>Avenue Q\u003c/em>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>We also disqualified human actors in Muppet movies, like Jason Segel, Tim Curry, Michael Caine, and Charles Grodin.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>So here they are, the Top 25 Best Muppets, according to the discerning, and impassioned, Pop Culture Happy Hour audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>25. Count von Count\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ultimate Order Muppet. Nice to see the Count showing up here, repping \u003cem>Sesame Street \u003c/em>(he’s one of only 10 \u003cem>Sesame Street\u003c/em> Muppets to make the top 25, surprisingly enough). (Justice for Prairie Dawn, by the way.) He always scared the hell out of me — I didn’t care for those bats forever flitting around his widow’s peak, or for his ability to call forth thunder and lightning—but if you were a kid prone to obsessive behavior, you likely saw, in his compulsion to apportion the chaotic world around him into neat, quantitative chunks, a kindred spirit. — \u003cem>Glen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>24. Dr. Teeth \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It pleases me that this talented musician, he of the brightly decorated tour bus and the funkiest and furriest band, made it onto the list. Honestly, it took a while for me, as a young person, to truly appreciate the groovy greatness of Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem (one of the great band names). There’s a way in which the group calls gently to hippies, cool cats, and maybe even (gasp) stoners, that doesn’t matter to little kids but is a little bit funny when you’re older. Plus, particularly in \u003cem>The Muppet Movie\u003c/em>, Dr. Teeth is a key part of the winking, knowing, audience-acknowledging part of Muppet lore. He leads the band. He provides the hot tunes. The doctor is always in. —\u003cem> Linda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>23. Bert \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His saddle shoes. His paperclip collection. His love of pigeons, and of the letter W. His bold, if defiantly out-of-step sartorial sensibility (a turtleneck under a v-neck? Why not?) His embrace of rules and order. His simultaneous fondness for, and exasperation with, his less uptight other half. Let’s face it—Bert was the very first nerd millions of us ever encountered. With a thunderbolt of recognition, we saw ourselves in his pained glares, heard ourselves in his monotone staccato laughter. He showed millions the path to fully embrace—nay, to positively \u003cem>exalt \u003c/em>in—our dorkiest, most basic selves. Other nerds in mass media would come later, of course. But he was our first. — \u003cem>Glen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/biAMh-xdvJc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/biAMh-xdvJc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>22. Elmo \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elmo gets a bad rap for the same reasons Barney the Dinosaur did at the height of his fame: Parents find him overly cloying and oversaturated. Ground Zero for this animosity has to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/12/25/573365529/remembering-that-must-have-toy-from-past-christmases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tickle Me Elmo\u003c/a>, of course. By the mid-’90s, I had graduated from the streets of sesame to the green slime of Nickelodeon, so I was a bit too old to get wrapped up in the craze, but I have vivid memories of the parodies and news reports of grown adults fighting each other to get their hands on the toy. And for a time, I had to live with one of those bad boys, courtesy of my little sister. (It was just as annoying and creepy as a toy can get.) Then came The Takeover a.k.a. the recurring segment “Elmo’s World,” and this furry monster—who refers to himself in the third Muppet—became inescapable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet… here he is, sliding into the Top 25 on this list, presumably voted on by adults rather than 5-year-olds who wouldn’t know any better. There are two reasons for this, I think. For one, if you were a millennial like myself, you probably have fewer negative memories of him than those who were exasperated parents or childcare workers at the time of Peak Elmo. But also, in this era of social media, Elmo remains one of the\u003ca href=\"https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/elmo-rise\"> most\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://giphy.com/search/elmo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> memeable\u003c/a> of all Muppets. In fact, he’s transcended \u003cem>Sesame Street \u003c/em>to become arguably\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TheDillonOne/status/1376323244828024837\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> at his best\u003c/a> in meme form. That’s gotta count for something, I guess! — \u003cem>Aisha\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>21. Scooter \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A late-’70s shortstop whose batting average generally hovered around .200, Mario Mendoza provides the origin point for the term “The Mendoza Line,” which refers to that hazy boundary separating “just good enough to stay employed” from “not good enough.” From this moment forward, let that line be renamed “The Scooter Line,” which separates the great Muppets—your Ernies, your Sams the Eagle, your Snuffleupagii—from, well, Elmo. (Note: This analogy falls apart when you scroll further up, because Bert, Dr. Teeth, and the Count are all awesome.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seriously, how did Scooter come in at No. 21? \u003cem>Scooter\u003c/em>?! The guy who only got his job at The Muppet Theatre because his uncle J.P. Grosse owned the venue? The guy whose signature catchphrase involved the number of seconds before actual entertainment was to take place? Is it because Scooter’s glasses double as his actual eyeballs? Is \u003cem>that\u003c/em> how we’re measuring quality these days? \u003cem>—Stephen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>20. Snuffleupagus\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Painfully shy. Soulful and sweet. With an eyelash game that Bianca Del Rio would envy. Snuffy began life as Big Bird’s best friend, whom the adults of Sesame Street considered imaginary. This frustrated Big Bird, but in their defense, Snuffy did tend to ditch Big Bird, suddenly, repeatedly, like Big Bird was Commissioner Gordon and Snuffy some kind of fuzzy pachydermic Batman. Eventually, the folks at Children’s Television Workshop realized that having adults roll their eyes at Big Bird’s stories of Snuffy maybe wasn’t sending kids, you know, the \u003cem>best \u003c/em>message? On YouTube you can watch the moment, in 1985, when the adults finally see Snuffy, and it? Is weird. And not a little sinister: Big Bird and Elmo conspire to trap Snuffy, forcing him to stick around (trigger warning: Elmo abuse), and when the adults finally apologize to Big Bird for doubting him all these years, he’s … kind of a jerk about it. — \u003cem>Glen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/_BtemfoJ-WI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/_BtemfoJ-WI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>19. Sweetums\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People sometimes forget about Sweetums, which is consistent with the way he’s left behind in \u003cem>The Muppet Movie \u003c/em>and has to chase the group all the way to Hollywood. All he wants is to be included! All he wants is to be in the movie! He’s fundamentally a big lug with a heart of gold, and he could also protect you in the event of a bar fight. It seems only right that he and Snuffy are next to each other on this list, because they’re both big and furry, but Sweetums, for all his might of body and mildness of soul, plays a unique role in Muppet World. He represents the idea of the benevolent super-monster: the scary thing that’s less scary once you look at it up close. — \u003cem>Linda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>18. Ernie \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quite simply, Ernie should be much higher than this. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh85R-S-dh8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rubber Duckie\u003c/a>“! “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIq8jLj5TzU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon\u003c/a>“! The\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pigcahytIH8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> innocent chaos\u003c/a> he wields upon the uptight Bert! He’s a wild one, but he’s also incredibly endearing; why else would Bert put up with this madness for so many years? Surely he’s earned enough \u003cem>Sesame Street \u003c/em>royalties at this point to be able to afford a studio apartment for himself, yet he knows—and we all know—that Ernie is a lovable sweetheart who just wants to enjoy life. #JusticeforErnie. — \u003cem>Aisha\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>17. Sam the Eagle\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d have liked to see Sam roosting in a higher perch on this list, but apparently not all of us so deeply empathize with the big, dour lug. It’s not his politics we identify with, necessarily, nor his default moral outrage. No, some of us just respond to his whole vibe, which I will herewith attempt to distill to its essence: I never know what’s going on, and I never understand what anyone’s talking about, but if I did? I wouldn’t like it. —\u003cem> Glen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>16. Pepe the King Prawn \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some might scoff at the presence of Pepe on any list of Greatest Muppets. Not me, though I’m admittedly surprised this Spanish lothario was able to find his way into the Top 25, and above the likes of Bert and Ernie to boot. Maybe it’s all those years serving as the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VPu841BmOs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spokes-shrimp\u003c/a>” for the fast-food chain Long John Silver’s? Or perhaps it’s because he was\u003ca href=\"https://slate.com/culture/2015/11/pepe-the-king-prawn-on-the-muppets-is-the-best-part-of-the-disappointing-new-show-video.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> the best thing\u003c/a> about that ill-advised primetime sitcom \u003cem>The Muppets\u003c/em>? — \u003cem>Aisha\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>15. Janice \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fer sure, yes, this ranking makes sense. I’m convinced we all wish we could be just a little bit like Janice: kind of aloof to everything going on around her, and thus eternally chill. — \u003cem>Aisha\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zRgNW1Xp-JI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zRgNW1Xp-JI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>14. Big Bird \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a lot of us—especially if we were pre-Elmo kids—Big Bird was one of the founding Muppets of our minds, even though unlike most of the group, he walked around on two legs. There’s something about his name, Big Bird, that speaks profoundly to how sweet and simple the connection is between little kids and this naive, sometimes confused soul. He’s just this… really Big Bird. He walked a lot of kids through their first \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxlj4Tk83xQ&ab_channel=TVBumpersCommercials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">experience with death\u003c/a> when Mr. Hooper died, and he eventually demonstrated that he had been right all along about his very real, very mammoth friend Snuffy. Trust in Big Bird. —\u003cem> Linda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>13. Oscar the Grouch \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of what happened on \u003cem>Sesame Street \u003c/em>was upbeat and colorful. So there’s something so delightfully rebellious and brilliant about the inclusion of a grungy, curmudgeonly green monster who literally lives in a garbage can and sings \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxgWHzMvXOY&ab_channel=SesameStreet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“I Love Trash.”\u003c/a> It’s great to show the power of hugs, but it might be just as important to underscore that not everyone is a hugger, and you can make a guy part of your community even though he doesn’t give you a lot to work with. —\u003cem> Linda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/rxgWHzMvXOY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/rxgWHzMvXOY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>12. Rizzo the Rat \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I suspect that Rizzo landed this high—above Big Bird!—thanks to millennials whose Muppet references are more about the later films like \u003cem>Muppet Treasure Island \u003c/em>and \u003cem>The Muppet Christmas Carol\u003c/em> than they are about \u003cem>The Muppet Show\u003c/em>, where Rizzo showed up fairly late in the series run as the leader of a gang of rats running wild in the theater. Rizzo started out small but went on to pop up in several of the films, always retaining his identity as a somewhat sketchy but basically decent pal, especially to Gonzo. I’m not so much a Rizzo girl myself, but to all of you who are: I respect your dedication to this little rat. —\u003cem> Linda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11. Cookie Monster\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amazing thing about Cookie Monster is that he never ate a cookie. All Cookie Monster does is mouth the cookie until it flies into pieces. What Cookie Monster is about is the \u003cem>desire\u003c/em> for the cookie. The \u003cem>passion\u003c/em> for the cookie. The \u003cem>thrill\u003c/em> of the cookie. In this way, Cookie Monster is a perfect encapsulation of the preschool id: hungry, needy, hyper, and eternally hopeful that this time, there will be a snack. He should really be in the top ten, you guys. Even if only for \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye8mB6VsUHw&ab_channel=SesameStreet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“C Is For Cookie.”\u003c/a> — \u003cem>Linda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10. Statler and Waldorf\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was inevitable so many would vote for this curmudgeonly duo because they represent the viewer’s id so explicitly.\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mreHiXkWB-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Why do they always come here\u003c/a>? I guess we’ll never know. But we are all Statler & Waldorf—sitting in that balcony while cracking wise at all those corny puns—and Statler & Waldorf are us. — \u003cem>Aisha\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/14njUwJUg1I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/14njUwJUg1I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9. Swedish Chef \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Muppets contain multitudes; Swedish Chef does not. He’s your classic Chaos Muppet—all \u003cem>hurr-guh-durr\u003c/em> and knives sticking into walls and fish flying to and fro, with human hands, no less, and without your romantic subplots or hazy origin stories or bittersweet pining for adventure and meaning. He’s the hilarious, Muppety, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN1hL9cn7s0&ab_channel=TheGilsonStation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“Bork! Bork! Bork!”\u003c/a> embodiment of what every little kid wants to be doing in the kitchen at all times. \u003cem>— Stephen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. Miss Piggy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who among the Muppets can say that they’ve been presented with an award for being a feminist trailblazer while being \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biyv8kmKwEE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interviewed by Gloria Steinem\u003c/a>? Heck, who among us \u003cem>humans \u003c/em>can say they’ve been so honored? Well, Miss Piggy can. Because she is the epitome of chutzpah, glamour, and narciss\u003cem>—\u003c/em>er, self-confidence. I truly hope this most fabulous swine doesn’t get wind of our list, because the last thing we’d want is an angry email (or\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkFHdbpVpC8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> karate chop\u003c/a>) from her publicist for not having ranked her higher. Piggy should at least crack the top five of Greatest Muppets, “\u003cem>moi\u003c/em>” who has given us one of culture’s most storied\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2DELDQAXT8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> on-again/off-again romances\u003c/a>; this\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbbNHyjgjw4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> amazingly awkward Larry King interview\u003c/a>; and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK52qGcpdzo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snackersize\u003c/a>.” — \u003cem>Aisha\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. Fozzie Bear \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fozzie Bear’s dreams of comedic greatness are unattainable, his optimism smacks of desperation and delusion, his jokes (such as they are) exist mostly to provide opportunities for Statler and Waldorf to perform windmill dunks at his expense, and his signature catchphrase (“wocka wocka wocka!”) is a tragic cry for validation. He’s all sweaty effort, all the time, in that way that so many of us get when we’re pursuing the acceptance of others. So how do you make Fozzie lovable without also making him… deeply sad?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secret lies, at least in part, in the aforementioned optimism: Fozzie is a dreamer, and a sweetly soulful one at that. If you can’t be great, being liked is a hell of a consolation prize. \u003cem>— Stephen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Grover \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d have thought everyone’s lovable furry pal would have made the Top 5 easy, but this is still a perfectly respectable showing. What’s not to love? He’s cute and he knows it, but there’s so much more to him than that. He’s put in time in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIucCUyZF0g&ab_channel=SesameStreet\">food-service industry\u003c/a> (relatable!), he’s gotten his cardio in teaching us the difference between near and far (selfless!), and he’s also, not for nothing, a superhero. And if all that weren’t enough, his masterwork, \u003cem>The Monster at the End of This Book\u003c/em>, introduced successive generations to poststructuralist metanarrative; he’s a li’l fuzzy blue Michel Foucault, is what he is. — \u003cem>Glen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/sIucCUyZF0g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/sIucCUyZF0g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Rowlf\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people have spoken; the people are wrong. Both of these things can be true. Come on, Rowlf in \u003cem>fifth \u003c/em>place? Below the jamoke at No. 4? The one-note placeholder at No. 3? Pshaw. Rowlf belongs atop this chart, bestriding it like a fuzzy brown floppy-eared Colossus, for several(!) manifold(!) \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/29/982279931/our-favorite-muppets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reasons I enumerated on our “Favorite Muppets” \u003c/a>episode, but essentially: He rejects and transcends the reductive Chaos Muppet/Order Muppet binary. He can often seem like the only adult in the room (and when Kermit is in said room, that’s saying something), but his vibe is different from that of the frog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where Kermit is always a real Dr. Buzzkill, a square, a narc, Rowlf is part of the game. He’s preternaturally chill; he can hang. Add that to the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ7nowJ87HU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with numbers like “You and I and George,” in which he mixes humorous stories with song\u003c/a>, he’s bringing cabaret to the children. That’s iconic, that’s queer energy; Rowlf is the best Muppet, hands down, paws up. — \u003cem>Glen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Beaker \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yiddish words \u003cem>schlemiel\u003c/em> and \u003cem>schlimazel\u003c/em> aren’t just colorful language we remember from \u003cem>Laverne & Shirley\u003c/em> reruns; they’re also deeply useful phrases used to signify oafish incompetence and a tendency to encounter misfortune, respectively. The general device folks use to tell the words apart is that a schlemiel is the waiter spilling the soup in your lap (Grover, perhaps?) and a schlimazel is the unfortunate soul onto whom that soup is spilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poor, pitiful, shrieking Beaker is \u003cem>The Muppet Show\u003c/em>‘s great schlimazel—and thus a vessel through which we could compartmentalize the most put-upon moments of our youth. We’d come home from a school day in which our lunch tray got knocked out of our hands, or maybe we racked ourselves sliding down that awful rope in gym class, and there was Beaker, embodying our awkwardness, our victimhood and our pain alongside Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, himself an avatar for an unfeeling God. \u003cem>—Stephen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Animal \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No Muppet captures pure Muppet-ness quite like Animal. The drummer for the Electric Mayhem is really just a skinny body topped with a head like a pink firework, the long hair (fur?) blossoming from his head above a single heavy, dark, fluttering eyebrow. All he has to work with is his giant mouth and that line of eyebrows, and yet you can tell when he’s happy or excited (which is usually) or disappointed (sometimes) or exhausted (he’s the Muppet most likely to pant). Given to phrases like “That’s my kind of woman” and “eat drums,” Animal can’t really be called a sophisticate. But perhaps his function is to remind us that there is a place for a pure, growling… well, animal. And if you’ve never seen him accompany \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_IpgKzy75E&ab_channel=till90s\">Rita Moreno’s rendition of “Fever,”\u003c/a> I have to tell you that you’re really missing out. —\u003cem> Linda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/b_IpgKzy75E'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/b_IpgKzy75E'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Gonzo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who’s ever felt like a weirdo or an “other”—or, to quote \u003cem>The Great Muppet Caper\u003c/em>, a “whatever”—knows where Gonzo is coming from, even if his own origin story has been circuitous and slow to unfold. A dapper Chaos Muppet capable of bearing serious emotional weight, Gonzo is an entertainer \u003cem>and\u003c/em> an artiste: an avant-garde daredevil whose act might cite poetry or shoot him out of a cannon, or somehow combine the two. He’s also, like our listeners’ No. 1 Muppet, a serious romantic leading man—just ask the chickens. \u003cem>—Stephen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Kermit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look, it’s hard—and uncouth—to rank our friends. But if one of your friends ran a hit TV show, starred in a string of successful movies, stormed the pop charts with a song \u003ca href=\"https://www.nme.com/news/music/library-of-congress-to-add-kermit-the-frogs-the-rainbow-connection-to-archives-of-important-recordings-2907621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">so indelible\u003c/a> it just got named to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry, and launched memes that came to signify everything from unbridled enthusiasm to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bustle.com/p/what-is-the-kermit-sipping-tea-meme-a-history-of-this-muppets-shade-69015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">staying above the fray\u003c/a>, you’d be pretty psyched about that friend, no?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly 140 documentary filmmakers have signed onto a letter given to PBS executives, suggesting the service may provide an unfair level of support to white creators, facing a “systemic failure to fulfill (its) mandate for a diversity of voices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Titled “A Letter to PBS From Viewers Like Us,” the missive references Ken Burns, arguably one of PBS’ biggest non-fiction stars and creator of popular projects like \u003cem>Baseball, Jazz, The Civil War\u003c/em> and an upcoming six-hour program called \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13894863/ken-burns-hemingway-docuseries-dives-into-the-writers-complicated-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hemingway\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> Citing data from the filmmaker’s website, it says Burns has created about 211 hours of programming for PBS over 40 years, through an exclusive relationship with the service that will last until at least 2022. [aside postid='arts_13894863']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such an arrangement leaves less room for filmmakers of color, who may struggle to gain similar funding or promotional support. And while PBS has created an initiative to elevate newly emerging filmmakers of color, such initiatives can also create a false narrative that non-white artists are predominantly lacking in experience, the text adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many other ‘independent’ filmmakers have a decades-long exclusive relationship with a publicly-funded entity?” the text asks. “Public television supporting this level of uninvestigated privilege is troubling not just for us as filmmakers but as tax-paying Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter, sent to PBS President Paula Kerger and former ombudsman Michael Getler on Tuesday, was co-signed by several high-profile filmmakers—some of whom produce programs for PBS—including Oscar-nominated director Garrett Bradley (\u003cem>Time\u003c/em>), Oscar-winning director Laura Poitras (\u003cem>Citizenfour\u003c/em>) and Emmy winning editor and director Sam Pollard (\u003cem>MLK/FBI\u003c/em>). (Note: Getler died in 2018, and PBS now has a public editor, Ricardo Sandoval-Palos.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond Inclusion, a collective of non-fiction creators, executives and industry figures led by individuals who are Black Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC), drafted the letter and collected the signatures. A version of it is available \u003ca href=\"https://www.bipocmakers.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on the group’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PBS has released a statement with data pushing back on the letter’s assertions, saying 35 percent of the 200 hours of non-fiction programming planned for primetime this year was produced by diverse filmmakers. According to a spokesman, over the past five years, PBS has aired 58 hours of programming from Burns and 74 hours of projects by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., an African American scholar, director, executive producer and host of programs like \u003cem>The Black Church\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Finding Your Roots\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Kerger agrees that PBS should examine where its funding and resources are going to ensure that BIPOC filmmakers are being treated equitably. [aside postid='arts_13866441']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an important moment for all of us to really take a hard look at what we’re doing and make sure that we are pursuing all opportunities,” says PBS’ president, adding that she hopes to meet with the group and discuss their concerns. “What is it going to take … particularly for those mid-career filmmakers, so there is a solid place (for them) in public broadcasting?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complicating matters is the fragmented nature of PBS, where some shows are developed by affiliate stations, like the science program \u003cem>Nova\u003c/em>, which is produced by WGBH in Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter asks for data from PBS, including its staff diversity and figures over the past ten years for how many hours of non-fiction programming have been directed or produced by BIPOC filmmakers and how much funding has gone to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filmmaker Grace Lee, a member of Beyond Inclusion who signed the letter, wrote about these issues in an attention-getting essay for the Ford Foundation that was \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/2020/10/to-truly-reflect-diversity-pbs-must-end-its-overreliance-on-ken-burns-as-americas-storyteller/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reprinted in \u003cem>Current \u003c/em>magazine\u003c/a>, noting, “PBS must end its overreliance on Ken Burns as ‘America’s storyteller.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Kerger was asked about the essay \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ken-burns-pbs-diversity-d687d59a9c46584f0ed6f3364ac0ed0f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at a press conference in February\u003c/a>, she struck a slightly different tone, saying she had to “respectfully disagree” with Lee’s piece. Earlier, she had cited PBS’ work with Black filmmakers like Gates and Emmy winning director Stanley Nelson (\u003cem>Freedom Riders, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool\u003c/em>); the reaction prompted members of the group to put together the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lee, a producer for the PBS series \u003cem>Asian Americans\u003c/em>, says the issue reaches beyond any individual filmmaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not about Ken Burns, it’s about this public television system living up to its mandate,” she adds. “On \u003cem>Asian Americans\u003c/em>, we got five hours to tell 150 years of American history. Ernest Hemingway, one man, gets six hours of documentary in prime time … This kind of disparity is something that I wanted to call attention to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though his work appears regularly on PBS, Stanley Nelson signed the letter, hoping to help start a conversation that could help BIPOC documentarians. [aside postid='arts_13888079']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think PBS might be surprised themselves, if they start looking at what they’ve put into certain films and certain filmmakers,” says Nelson, who says he still has to occasionally remind white filmmakers he collaborates with to hire experienced Black technicians. “We have to be aware that race is a part of everything in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PBS is already touting several diversity-focused initiatives, including a program to support the next generation of “emerging” BIPOC filmmakers and a collaboration with Nelson to create a two-hour film for \u003cem>Nova\u003c/em> in 2022 on the impact of racism on the health of Black Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And how does Kerger feel, seeing filmmakers who often work with PBS co-sign a letter suggesting the service may shortchange filmmakers of color?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people come together and feel this is a way to get attention around an issue, it’s OK,” she says. “The important thing, is we should sit down and really talk about what it’s going to take to move even more voices forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited for radio by Petra Mayer and adapted for the web by Petra Mayer and Eric Deggans.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Filmmakers+Call+Out+PBS+For+A+Lack+Of+Diversity%2C+Over-Reliance+On+Ken+Burns&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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