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Hoots in FTB

BEAR

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Found this interesting info at the Wiki website. Thought it was interesting:

"The puppet used for Hoots made an appearance, with a different performer (voiced by Kermit Love), as the owl member of the Feathered Friends in Follow That Bird, the only member skeptical of Big Bird's sadness."
 

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I'll have to look for that when I rent it again.

All I know is, they've just brought Hoots back from oblivion recently, in the song "A Cookie Is A Sometime Food". I do NOT like his new eyes. They have a wild look that doesn't seem to fit with his character. But it still looked like the old puppet, just with the eyes replaced. But on one episode I saw a few days ago, he was in a another musical number. It was great to see him, but he has a new "body" now---complete with not only the new wild eyes but much straighter whisker-feathers. It doesn't look right---he's not the scruffy, wise-old-owl type anymore. I don't know why they'd change him in that way.
 

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JLG said:
But on one episode I saw a few days ago, he was in a another musical number. It was great to see him, but he has a new "body" now---complete with not only the new wild eyes but much straighter whisker-feathers. It doesn't look right---he's not the scruffy, wise-old-owl type anymore. I don't know why they'd change him in that way.

You're probably referring to his most recent appearance in this seasons premiere episode where Hoots sings a new version on "Sing a Song". Yeah, he was completely re-done. He looks younger and not so scruffy. He looks to clean, but he seems bigger to me too. Either way, I will always love Hoots.
 

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It's kind of like when they changed Grover's a few years ago, but all Muppets go through things like this, like Zoe recently.
 

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I doubt that Kermit Love performed him in Follow That Bird. Kermit Love wasn't credited as a performer of the "Board of Birds".
 

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I always assumed it was Hoots's brother that was with the Feathered Friends, thus his skepticism coming from whatever Hoots had told him outright about life on the Street.
 

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BEAR said:
Found this interesting info at the Wiki website. Thought it was interesting:

"The puppet used for Hoots made an appearance, with a different performer (voiced by Kermit Love), as the owl member of the Feathered Friends in Follow That Bird, the only member skeptical of Big Bird's sadness."

When I first saw this movie a couple years back, his voice caught me off guard. He's a great character in any form.
 
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