Fozzie's First "Wocka"

[Mo Frackle]

And now, it feels like Mahna Mahna and the Snowths are getting the Ernest T. Bass treatment.

 

[Hubert]

You know, you're right, in a way it does. Mahna Mahna and the Snowths only had a handful of appearances on TMS, very few of which were prominent, and plus, aside from earlier appearances, they barely ever even performed the song. Yet somehow they stuck.

 

[Mo Frackle]

It's the curse of internet memes!

 

[BradFraggle]

Yeah, the saying is something that has been popularized more by merchandise and print media. He doesn't say it often in the shows/movies/specials. But I'd still like to track down the origin; when did he first say "wocka"?

By the time Muppet Babies came around it had really become his catchphrase (like Kermit's "Hi-ho", which I think comes more from his Sesame Street appearances than The Muppet Show... or Miss Piggy's "Moi" and "Kissy, kissy"... Beaker's "Meep"... Animal's "Woman!"... the Chef's "Børk"... ).

 

[Daffyfan4ever]

Yeah. I'd say that it was more of a movie invention, but the pig who took Fozzie's role in the Chloris Leechman episode which came a year before the movie said "Hoga Hoga" which was definitely a "Wocka wocka" parody, so it had to have been before then, yet your guess is as good as mine.

 

[BradFraggle]

Well it's not anywhere in the first 10 episodes... I'm starting to wonder if it didn't originate sometime in the second season.