Muppets with Disabilities

[Sunshineboz]

exaggerate

I'm slow but I like the croutons humor. (like the third person talk? I learned from Puck).
I prefer people get to know me before they say "look at the girl with the third eye". I get what you mean, makes sense.

I'd like to see what they could do with a.d.d., that'd be awesome, have a muppet losing its train of thought constantly. What a frustrating show! hahahahha, sounds mean but I have it so I can say it. I'm not sharing my meds though.

LOL, Anyway....

 

[CaptCrouton]

Thank ya ma'am.

Glad you like my humor. I consider myself a good-natured cynic. I would like to see a muppet with narcolepsy. (Again with the spelling) Thank you for helping me with exaggerate. Actually that looks the best of all. Who'da thunk that I had it wrong on both counts.

Anyway, I met a guy with narcolepsy. which for those who don't know, is a sleep disorder that I understand causes you to nod off and sleep and random times. He was real funny about it and told us awful stories in amusing ways. I think that could be a great muppet skit if done tastefully.

 

[dwmckim]

While not created as a "teaching tool", if we want to list Muppets with disabilities, there's Blind Pew.

Seriously though, Sesame Street has been fantastic over it's history - in fact one of the best shows on television, childrens' show or otherwise - in terms of featuring people with disabilities. It's just that they rarely use Muppets, they use human characters...and usually the actor (or celebrity) has it in real life, as opposed to "playing a part"

BTW, not related to the Henson's (it was founded by Barbara Aiyello (sp?)), there was a great puppetry troupe in the 80's known as Kids on the Block that featured large puppets where each had a different disability - blind, cerebral palsy, deaf, etc. I had the honor of puppeteering for them from age 10-13 which was my first professional puppetry/performing experience.

...stepping back into silly mode, CaptCrouton, thinking about narcoleptic Muppets, there was Professor Hastings...

 

[CaptCrouton]

I don't remember Professor Hastings. Is that SS or Muppet Show? It doesn't ring a bell at all.