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Favorite Fozzie Bear moment.

MJTaylor

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Whenever I watched The Muppet Show, I always felt sorry for Fozzie Bear. It seems he always tried to get the audience on his side, but the jokes just didn't cut it. He did have more luck during the first season, the audience always laughed at the one he told during the opening titles.
Nevertheless, my favorite Fozzie Bear moment took place in season 1. It was the Ethel Merman show. Fozzie had his cousin in the audince and he asked for everyone except his fans to leave. Even his cousin left. What a cruel world. Well, not everyone, Waldof and Statler remained. (One wonders why, they hated his jokes!)
Does anyone else have any favorite Fozzie Bear moments?
 

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I loved the bits with Kermit. "Good Grief The Comedian's a Bear" is great stuff. And the bit where he reads Kermit's bumps on his head.
 

The Flying Sheep

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His act with Chuckie the dummy, and his utter desperation when Chuckie doesn't talk is my personal favorie. Anoher of my favorites is the Diana Ross Episode:

"Hiya hiya hiya hiya!"
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
"Bya Bya Bya Bya!"

classic.
 

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Some of my favorites include:

*Cowboy Time
*Good Grief, the comedians a bear!
*Veterinarian's Hospital (from the Rita Moreno episode)
*I've Got Rhythym
*Fozzie's ventreloquist act
*Fozzie taking Baskerville off-stage
*most of Fozzie's sceens from the Raquel Welch episode (I don't really care much for Confide in Me)
*most of Fozzie's moments from the Harry Belefonte episode
*Moving Right Along
*Fozzie's comedy act in The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show
*Fozzie demanding to only see real Fozzie Bear fans in the audience
*Fozzie doing impressions
*Sleigh Ride
*City Stickers

:embarrassed:
 

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Hi-ya, hi-ya, hi-ya! Boooooooo!!!... Buy-ya, buy-ya, buy-ya!:embarrassed:
 

MJTaylor

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I just thought of another; Fozzie's disasterous rolling skating act.
 

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When he plays the "Telephone Pole" bit. :embarrassed:
Frank Oz gave him an expression of pure humiliation and exhasperation that was dead on.
 

The Flying Sheep

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Has anybody watched that old 60 minutes clip where they go backstage at the Muppet Show? Fozzie is hilarious on that!
 

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I love the one where he has typed Kermit's speech, and it's full of spelling errors. "Kermit the FORG?"
 

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"I've got ten minutes of jokes about the war of 1812" is a classic to me. I also very much like the long sequence in AVMMCM where he is desperately trying to deliver the bag of money. And anytime he goes "Whoa-haha!" just cracks me up! "Aaaahh, funn-eeee!" Wonderful character, and I think Eric Jacobson does him virtually as well as Frank Oz did, if that is not blasphemy :concern: ?

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