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You know, I wonder if Jerry Nelson was on set that day they film, seems unlikely but, I wonder if he had any input to Snuffy's revealing.
I think around that time, she was starring in this at the time new sitcom, 227. This was her reason for leaving SS in 1988- not easy to constantly travel back and forth between New York and California now.Hey wait a second,where was Olivia when all of this was going on?
Probably not,unless they filmed another episode with one of Jerry's characters on the same day. It is possible as the show often filmed more than one episode most days during the 1970s-90s. As for his input in the episode,he probably had none, considering he hadn't played Snuffy for seven years when this episode was filmed. And besides the general delivery of the perfomances in the scenes,usually muppeteers have very little input where the writing is concerned. But if any muppeteer had anything to do with how this scene turned out it would be Martin P. Robinson,although there is no evidence that he did anything but perform the character.You know, I wonder if Jerry Nelson was on set that day they film, seems unlikely but, I wonder if he had any input to Snuffy's revealing.
The irony is that Olivia never officially met Snuffy (I don't think she was in episode 2096), but there's a later clip where she interacts with Alice and Uncle Wally...and Snuffy is right next to them! Some continuity issues there, I suppose. I think Alaina started doing the 227 show in Los Angeles around this time, but don't quote me on that.Hey wait a second,where was Olivia when all of this was going on?
I don't think it's a continuity error,they probably met off screen. This is not their first interaction with each other ,they interacted in the Miles adoption episodes which were in the same season as Snuffy's reveal.The irony is that Olivia never officially met Snuffy (I don't think she was in episode 2096), but there's a later clip where she interacts with Alice and Uncle Wally...and Snuffy is right next to them! Some continuity issues there, I suppose. I think Alaina started doing the 227 show in Los Angeles around this time, but don't quote me on that.
We've got the clip montage at the beginning of 2096 to prove it. (Olivia in the first clip shown, David in the second, and Bob in the last- all 3 of them are "Ouch!" worthy).Bob, David, Olivia, Maria, and Mr. Hooper were the worst ones from what I've seen.
Plus this was a very important character development moment for Elmo.As annoying as those "let's name all of the characters NOT included" topics can be, I wouldn't have minded if a few more classic Sesame Muppets were featured in the street scenes. Yeah, I know, scheduling conflicts with the Muppeteers. Then again, I suppose the whole Snuffy 'issue' was really between Big Bird and the human characters.