George in MTI

[That Announcer]

OK. George the Janitor was obviously the man that "didn't want a baked potato" in MTI. However, it seems to me that the guy blowing the horn on the front of Smollet's carriage was also George, with a different wig and a mustache. Has anyone else noticed this?

 

[TotallySpiesFan]

No, that was J.P. Gross.

 

[That Announcer]

No, that was J.P. Gross.

A-ha. Gotcha. So, was George a Whatnot, and JP Grosse made from the same basic puppet head?

 

[Gonzo14]

wasn't George in TMCC, with a speaking role in the scrooge song

 

[Harvey Towers]

I don't know if George began as a whatnot, but he seems to have ended up as one; that is to say he appeared in Muppets Tonight in an Elvis sketch with a different voice for the puppet playing Benjamin Franklin (I think it was Franklin...)

 

[minor muppetz]

A-ha. Gotcha. So, was George a Whatnot, and JP Grosse made from the same basic puppet head?

They weren't made from the same puppet head. their mouths are too different. besides, the puppets were both used for characters who appeared on-screen together in the michelle phieffer episode of Muppets Tonight (in the first Great Moments In Elvis History).

 

[Kimp the Shrimp]

Yep the Did i George's mouth is smaller

 

[Muppetsdownunder]

wasn't George in TMCC, with a speaking role in the scrooge song

Yes I think he was in Muppet Christmas Carol aswell! And his lines are something like " When a cold wind blows it chills you, chills you to bone" If i remember rightly.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

What's funny is that the writers and "grabber of Muppets for a scene" forgot that George was the Janitor and we were used to a certain voice for him, and that JP Grosse owned the Muppet Theater, and was Scooter's uncle--and, based on VMX, JP Grosse is dead now.

 

[ryhoyarbie]

I think the performers just forgot about George later on in TMS and in the movies. I have no idea where he went off to when Beauregard came around. They could have worked together in TMS and become buddies, or enemies.

ryan