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"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>\u003cstrong>Updated at 8:30am ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you saw Bud Light’s “Legends” ad during the Super Bowl—the one featuring everyone from Cedric the Entertainer to Post Malone in an \u003cem>Avengers: Endgame\u003c/em>-style gathering of the brand’s biggest stars—this element stood out like the Bud Knight at a square dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No masks. No social distancing. 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What else would you expect from TV’s biggest showcase for marketing and spin?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t have space to dissect all the ads I found entertaining—including spots featuring Daveed Diggs and the Muppets from \u003cem>Sesame Street\u003c/em> for DoorDash and Mike Myers recreating \u003cem>Wayne’s World\u003c/em> with Dana Carvey and Cardi B for Uber Eats. But here’s my roster featuring some of the coolest, weirdest, most telling advertising moments of the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best use of a celebrity brand: Rocket Mortgage’s “Certain Is Better” \u003c/strong>[aside postid='arts_13873945']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For my money, this was the funniest ad of the night, featuring gonzo \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em> alum Tracy Morgan showing a hapless couple buying a home how being “pretty sure” about something isn’t as good as knowing for sure. 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But the league still hasn’t apologized or publicly made amends with Colin Kaepernick, the onetime San Francisco 49ers quarterback whose kneeling during the National Anthem starting in 2016 to call attention to police brutality ignited a huge controversy. Kaepernick became a free agent and remains unsigned by any team, while the NFL tries to pose like an ally, avoiding any memory that it failed to support a player actually trying to fight systemic racism when it really mattered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Most desperate use of an iconic rock star: Jeep’s “The Middle”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We see his worn cowboy boots and hear his rough-hewn voice before we see him. But there’s no mistaking Bruce Springsteen’s world-weary words as he pleads with viewers to “come meet here in the middle.” Decked out in a simple coat, driving around an old Jeep, Springsteen conjures every ounce of his working-class hero legend to deliver a message aimed at bringing left and right together one month after a group of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building. “We just have to remember the very soil we stand on is common ground,” he intones, driving through deserted rural areas and a snow-covered city center. 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Besides being an odd, clumsy showcase for CGI technology, it fails to answer a central question: Why would any kid constantly wear a sweatshirt featuring the co-star from a sitcom that left TV more than 20 years ago?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best reference to the pandemic that doesn’t mention the pandemic: Bud Light’s “Last Year’s Lemons”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pronouncing 2020 “a lemon of a year,” Bud Light promotes its seltzer lemonade with a spot that shows people getting knocked over, people chased out of ballparks and airports, and weddings ruined by a mysterious deluge of lemons pouring from the sky. Of course, the friends who are musing about this terrible 2020 are gathered at a backyard barbecue, no masks in sight, surrounded by people at what looks like a party. Way to have your cake—nodding to a mysterious event that canceled air travel, professional sports and family gatherings—without actually uttering the word “pandemic” or showing a single face covering (or telling us what seltzer lemonade actually is). That’s masterful marketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Most bizarre use of a celebrity, Part 2: Doritos’ “Flat Matthew”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the year we’ve all just had, it irritated me a bit to see hunky, successful movie star Matthew McConaughey moping around, looking (and feeling) flat as a cardboard cutout until he eats the new Doritos 3D Crunch and pops back to full size—inside a vending machine. (I’m thinking maybe it was the check from PepsiCo’s Frito Lay that helped him feel better?) As if a guy with abs like that would get anywhere near something so obviously fattening. 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He gets the dad in a fight with musclebound superstar Dave Bautista (“I’m pretty sure you could take Bautista down,” Morgan tells the dad before he gets knocked out) and shoves the family out of an airplane wearing backpacks saying, “I’m pretty sure these are parachutes.” Best of all, the company had two ads featuring Morgan tormenting two different families, airing at different points during the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Worst hypocrisy from a sports league: The NFL’s “Inspire Change”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ad itself is inspiring, featuring quotes from former San Diego Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson’s Hall of Fame speech, played over images of civil rights protests and a graphic noting that the NFL is giving $250 million to fight systemic racism. 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"content": "\u003cp>The band Earth, Wind & Fire, actress Sally Field, singer Linda Ronstadt, television program \u003cem>Sesame Street\u003c/em> and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas are the next recipients of one of the most prestigious U.S. awards for lifetime artistic achievement: the Kennedy Center Honors. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts made the announcement today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is represented in two of the honorees: Michael Tilson Thomas, music director and conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, and Linda Ronstadt, longtime resident of Pacific Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Kennedy Center Honors celebrates icons who, through their artistry, have left an indelible stamp on our collective cultural consciousness,” Kennedy Center Chairman David M. Rubenstein said in a prepared statement. Later in that statement, the institution stated that its Honors are not limited by art form or category of achievement: “The primary criterion in the selection process is excellence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s class of honorees, the 42nd annual since 1978, is eclectic as usual. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded in 1969, the group \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15402896/earth-wind-fire\">Earth, Wind & Fire\u003c/a> created a deeply grooving and horn-driven sound at the intersection of many strands of black-origin popular music: funk, R&B, soul, disco, rock, jazz and more. Known for an elaborate stage show, its major recorded hits still have currency on the dance floor — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/09/19/349621429/the-song-that-never-ends-why-earth-wind-fires-september-sustains\">“September,”\u003c/a> “Shining Star” and “Let’s Groove” among them. Following the 2016 death of founder Maurice White, the award will be presented to singer Philip Bailey, bassist Verdine White and percussionist Ralph Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember when Verdine and Maurice came over to the house and asked me to be a part of the group,” Johnson \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4944398\">said to NPR’s Ed Gordon\u003c/a> in 2005. “I did mention to them, I says, ‘You know what? There’s one thing. I want to have the best band in the whole world.’ And they looked at each other, smiled and said, ‘You’re in.’ We all had that same common goal, and it wasn’t about the bling — it was about the music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vocalist \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15335239/linda-ronstadt\">Linda Ronstadt\u003c/a> also worked across genres for decades, including country, rock, musical theater and traditional Mexican music. Also like EWF, she’s a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and boasts a long list of hits such as “You’re No Good,” “Long Long Time,” “When Will I Be Loved,” “Don’t Know Much” (with Aaron Neville) and “Blue Bayou.” At one time among the biggest draws in popular music, Ronstadt has retired from performing due to what she later learned was Parkinson’s disease, but has written a memoir and toured a one-woman show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a long turn at the trough,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2013/09/17/223172521/in-memoir-linda-ronstadt-describes-her-simple-dreams\">she said to Terry Gross\u003c/a> on \u003cem>Fresh Air\u003c/em> in 2013. “You know, I’m grateful for the time I had. 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In 2004, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4176932\">he told NPR’s Ari Shapiro\u003c/a> that he was happy to pass on other prestigious opportunities in favor of guiding the next generation of musicians. “I used to, with great frustration, say, ‘Oh, well, it will have to be in the next lifetime,'” Thomas said. “Now it’s with great peace, resignation and relief that I say, ‘Oh, it’ll have to be the next lifetime.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout a career that began in the 1960s, actress Sally Field has accumulated a long list of major roles. Once known for playing wholesome characters in sitcoms, she says she fought typecasting to break into film; she’s now remembered for complex titular roles on the miniseries \u003cem>Sybil \u003c/em>and the feature film \u003cem>Norma Rae\u003c/em>. Those are among the projects which won her two Oscars and three Emmys (and a Tony nomination to boot).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do I still have that gnawing, hair-on-fire feeling of needing more and wanting to reach out for something that’s just outside of my grasp?” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/11/646723297/sally-field-wasnt-sure-shed-have-the-guts-to-publish-her-new-memoir\">she said to NPR’s Ari Shapiro\u003c/a> after publishing her memoir in 2018. “Yes, totally. Yes. But can I now look back and feel the length that I’ve traveled? Yes. And I couldn’t do that before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children’s television program \u003cem>Sesame Street\u003c/em> was launched in 1969 to answer the question: Could children learn from television? After 50 years of Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Bert and Ernie, the answer seems to be yes. The co-founders of the show, Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett, will accept the award on behalf of the program and the nonprofit organization behind it, Sesame Workshop. The cast recently visited NPR for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/10/730381700/sesame-street-tiny-desk-concert\">Tiny Desk Concert\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the recipients released statements thanking the Kennedy Center for the recognition. Cooney and Morrisett of Sesame Workshop said that the honor is a testament to all who help carry out their mission to make children “smarter, stronger and kinder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The awards are presented in a gala performance at the Kennedy Center on Sunday, Dec. 8, and filmed by CBS for a primetime special airing Sunday, Dec. 15 at 8 p.m. ET. Major stars of music, film, theater and other performing arts are often present to give tribute performances and speeches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditionally, the sitting U.S. president attends the gala, barring pressing international travel. However, President Trump has now \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/15/668207540/trumps-plan-to-skip-kennedy-center-honors-again\">declined to attend two years in a row\u003c/a>, making him the first president to have missed the event twice. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Kennedy+Center+Announces+2019+Honorees&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>(UPDATE: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13922327/bob-mcgrath-longtime-star-of-sesame-street-dies-at-90\">Bob McGrath\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13910381/emilio-delgado-luis-sesame-street-dies\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Emilio Delgado\u003c/a>, who played Bob and Luis, both died in 2022. Today, we reflect on \u003c/em>Sesame Street\u003cem> segments featuring Bob, Luis and Gordon, with this archival story published after the three actors were unceremoniously \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/07/27/sesame-street-lets-go-longtime-cast-members-bob-gordon-and-luis/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">let go\u003c/a> from \u003c/em>Sesame Street\u003cem> in 2016.—Ed.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>ometimes the news just hurts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the revelation that \u003cem>Sesame Street\u003c/em> has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/07/27/sesame-street-lets-go-longtime-cast-members-bob-gordon-and-luis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cut from the show its longtime cast members Bob McGrath, Roscoe Orman and Emilio Delgado\u003c/a>—Bob, Gordon, and Luis—just about anyone who grew up on the show is asking the same question: How can you get rid of family?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simply put, Bob, Gordon, and Luis raised me. And they raised me right. They, like the show’s other characters, taught me to be a better person: to be kind, empathetic, non-judgmental. To live with humor and smarts. To be myself, but also understand and respect the world’s diversity and interconnectedness. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five times that Bob, Gordon and Luis helped all of us toward those goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Sing’\u003c/h2>\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/QxOft5QZjDI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/QxOft5QZjDI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A simple reminder to enrich yourself by staying creative. We’ve all felt the drought when we’re not activating the creative part of our brain, and no matter how rudimentary or amateur, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/participate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">participating in creativity is important\u003c/a> and often lost in today’s world. I’m always singing songs, and finding new ones, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/10/23/keep-listening-notes-on-turning-40-and-still-seeking-out-new-music/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">even as I get older\u003c/a>. Luis’ verse, in Spanish, reminds me that there’s an entire world of new, different songs out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘People in Your Neighborhood’\u003c/h2>\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/V2bbnlZwlGQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/V2bbnlZwlGQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>As a child, I thought of this song as a basic introduction to various jobs I might have when I grew up. But the Bob McGrath staple is really about something deeper: the way the world is connected, and how we’re all pieces of something bigger than ourselves. This theme \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1z2rCuC0W0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">may sound familiar\u003c/a>; it’s guided me solidly into adulthood.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Gordon Rides his Bike Through the City’\u003c/h2>\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/OWS5jer1qdo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/OWS5jer1qdo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The world is fast-paced, and in the computer age, it’s tempting (and \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/working-all-the-time-is-a-status-symbol-2015-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sometimes expected\u003c/a>) to work around the clock. There’s no dialogue in this clip — just Gordon, on his bike, taking a relaxing ride and exploring the world around him. Paired with a laid-back jazz flute soundtrack, it serves as a reminder that it’s healthy to take time off, to get outside, and to come back to work a more centered person.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Gordon and Luis are Hungry’\u003c/h2>\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/87TuHszSpSw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/87TuHszSpSw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>An apple tree, two hungry friends, and a wooden crate. The idea presented here is easy enough for the youngest mind to understand, and vulnerable enough for the older, staunchly independent mind to forget: that sometimes you’ve gotta ask for help. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Goodbye Mr. Hooper’\u003c/h2>\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/gxlj4Tk83xQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gxlj4Tk83xQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>It still gets me. From one of the show’s most famous episodes, which approached the death of shopkeeper Mr. Hooper with groundbreaking skill and grace. McGrath shed tears for us all when he explained to Big Bird: “It’ll never be the same around here without him. But you know something? We can all be very happy that we had a chance to be with him, and to know him, and to love him a lot when he was here.” As I get older, accepting death becomes more and more valuable. This episode taught me how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Read more: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/07/27/sesame-street-lets-go-longtime-cast-members-bob-gordon-and-luis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘Sesame Street’ Lets Go Longtime Cast Members Bob, Gordon and Luis\u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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And the show has gone under a major turnaround, going from an hour to a half hour. HBO has gotten involved also. And they let all of the original cast members go, with the exception of Alan Muraoka — who is probably 20 years younger than the rest of us — and Chris Knowings, who is also young,” McGrath said. (His statement \u003ca href=\"http://muppetcast.com/show-287/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can be heard on the Muppet-centric podcast \u003ci>The MuppetCast.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to McGrath, the show will keep Loretta Long, who has played Susan, Gordon’s wife, since the beginning of the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Bob_McGrath\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McGrath,\u003c/a> 84, had been with the \u003ci>Sesame Street\u003c/i> cast since the show’s inception in 1969 — one of only two of the original cast members still with the show until this year. Formerly\u003ca href=\"http://www.bobmcgrath.com/bob/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a successful singer in Japan\u003c/a>, McGrath sang on many of the show’s early hit songs, such as “People in Your Neighborhood”: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2bbnlZwlGQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delgado, 76, joined the show in 1971, debuting as Luis the handyman at the same time as Raul Julia’s character Rafael. (Julia would go on to be a \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000471/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">movie star\u003c/a> before dying in 1994.) Later, Luis married Maria, played by Sonia Manzano, and the two would be instrumental in introducing Hispanic culture to \u003ci>Sesame Street\u003c/i> viewers. (Manzano retired from the show in 2015.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he wasn’t the original Gordon, Orman had played the character since 1974. Gordon was the patriarch of the Robinsons, an African-American family that had been on \u003ci>Sesame Street\u003c/i> since the beginning. Orman also played “Trash Gordon,” a superhero made up for stories told to Oscar the Grouch. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his memoir \u003ci>Sesame Street Dad: Evolution of an Actor\u003c/i>, Orman wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“If I could boast of no other major career accomplishment, having played a central role as I have in the development and continuation of this landmark series would alone have made my life sufficiently meaningful. The historical significance of Sesame Street and its surprising longevity have made my association with the show, in many regards, my life’s crowning achievement.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>McGrath said the cast changes were made as part of \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressherald.com/2016/01/12/for-hbo-sesame-street-retooled-to-attract-tech-saturated-kids/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a major overhaul\u003c/a> the show has undergone since its producers made a deal with HBO last year. In addition to cutting the show from an hour to a half-hour, McGrath remarked, HBO will premiere the newest episodes on HBO for nine months before they’re made available elsewhere, and change the focus to topics such as “self-regulation” and “executive function.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>UPDATE:\u003c/b> Elizabeth Fishman, a representative from Sesame Workshop, provided KQED with the following this statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> Bob McGrath, Emilio Delgado (“Luis”) and Roscoe Orman (“Gordon”) remain a beloved part of the Sesame family and continue to represent us at public events. To us, and for millions of people worldwide, they are a treasured part of Sesame Street. Since the show began, we are constantly evolving our content and curriculum, and hence, our characters, to meet the educational needs of children. As a result of this, our cast has changed over the years, though you can still expect to see many of them in upcoming productions. 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