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Re: Dial 'M' for Muppet
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Date: 
Mon, 3 May 2004 23:34:40 GMT
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Purple Dave wrote:

In lugnet.town, Mike Crowley wrote:

Kermit was retired from SS after Jim Henson died.

Only in the USA then, in the Netherlands he's still appearing almost every
night (yeah I sometimes catch an episode, Ernie & Bert still crack me up)

there they wouldnÂ’t know.  Maybe IÂ’ll rebuild him in the reporter outfit,
or just lose him altogether and replace him with Bert or Snuffleupagus.

Ernie does seem a bit incomplete without Bert, but Snuffleupagus might be
a bit
large for the scene as it currently stands.  Maybe if you added another
building to either end there'd be room to display him without making the
scene look too crowded.

I'd love to see a Bert next to Ernie. Would make them even more easy to
recognize.
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(...) Since Jim Henson actually did the voice for Kermit in the original American version, replacing him with a new voice talent would have probably felt like bringing in a new actor for Mr. Hooper when Will Lee died. They do still show old clips (...) (20 years ago, 4-May-04, to lugnet.town)

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  Re: Dial 'M' for Muppet
 
(...) He's supposed to be the only Muppet who has made appearances on both SS and TMS, but yeah, he's not a character that most people immediately associate with SS. (...) Kermit was retired from SS after Jim Henson died. (...) Ernie does seem a bit (...) (20 years ago, 3-May-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)

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