Steve's Muppets: A Recipe for Pain?

[Beauregard]

Is it just my imagination, or are Steve's Muppets always ending up in pain? Bean Bunny especially, has always been injured...it's just a side effect of being cute.

But watching MFS on TV today, it occurs to me that Rizzo also finds himself in Gonzo's company thrown, smashed, burnt, electrocuted...

Obviously just the price he pays for being friends with Gonzo, but still...it seems to me that Steve's Muppets end up getting pumled, flattened, smashed and generally beaten up more than the others.

Is this a result of his being late to join the Muppet team? (Even though he's now one of the last remaining original performers!) Or does he just have the best screaming voice?

Thoughts?

Bea{Swaehb!}regard

 

[AnimatedC9000]

Very good observation, Beau. I've always wondered that about Steve's Muppets. Most all of them seem to take pain.

Why, just take a look at Lips. In MFC, he had a door open against his entire body! And here's the clip to prove it! (about... 4:32ish)

And what about Waldo? He's been blown up, for cryin' out loud! Doesn't that amount to something?

Which of Steve's characters hasn't been beaten up? That's my question.

 

[Beauregard]

Does Wembly ever get beaten up?

 

[RedPiggy]

He gets enslaved, konked on the head with a rock before finding Mudwell, loses his memory and nearly gets eaten by carnivorous plants ...

 

[Beauregard]

He gets enslaved, konked on the head with a rock before finding Mudwell, loses his memory and nearly gets eaten by carnivorous plants ...

That happens to ALL Fraggles, doesn't it?

 

[RedPiggy]

That wasn't the question ...

 

[LamangoNumber2]

Kermit's never been hit as much as when Jim had him.. .Beaker...well.... Flash! Flash hasn't been beaten! Yeah! Erm... Mr. Poodle Pants? .... Lips got hit once... But he was standing behind a door Doc was trying to get through, does that count? Ernie hasn't been hit at all...

 

[Drtooth]

Ernie hasn't been hit at all...

Other than the fact SS rarely features hitting, having Ernie get hit with anything is like having anvils fall on the Road Runner. Ernie is the instigator, and has been since his inception. Comedically speaking, it just couldn't work. If anyone would get injured in the skit, it would be Bert.

And the funny thing about this is, it's one of those things you never think about unless someone points it out. Now that I think about it, he plays a lot of spastic characters (Wembly, Bean, Beaker, Rizzo)... and usually those sort of characters are always seen unintentionally getting into trouble... Wembly, being slightly less worrywart than Boober will always freak out when danger is near... and usually when someone's distressed in situations like that, they'll be a lot less aware of other things. Say if you're running from a monster and you look back to see if he's gaining on you, you could trip on a rock or fall in a hole, or run into a wall....

Rizzo... well, Rizzo and Bean seem to be the small and cute characters respectively. And when it comes to slapstick, someone smaller and cuter (annoyingly so, not heart warmingly so) getting it is actually funnier than someone big and tall and ugly getting it.

 

[Beauregard]

Kermit's never been hit as much as when Jim had him.. .Beaker...well.... Flash! Flash hasn't been beaten! Yeah! Erm... Mr. Poodle Pants? .... Lips got hit once... But he was standing behind a door Doc was trying to get through, does that count? Ernie hasn't been hit at all...

I'm not sure that I'd include Kermit or Ernie as Steve Characters in this case, because they were established Jim characters who didn't get so injured before Steve took over. Mind you, Kermit did used to get hurt a LOT! Not least of all trampled on a day-to-day basis!

 

[minor muppetz]

Have Andy Pig or Jaques Roache ever been injured?