Hello there! Here's the begining of the actual countdown part of the countdown, as opposed to the 'honorable mentions' part of the countdown. Now we're actually counting down. Here we go, starting with 100!
100. Hoggle (The Labyrinth)
P - The guide to the Labyrinth! What a strange thing. No, not Hoggle, well, yes okay, Hoggle, but not because of how he looks, but because he knows the Labyrinth so well. Honestly, how much time does he spend in that thing? Oh, and the reason he's 100? Because we didn't want hate mail because we didn't include Labyrinth characters.
L - ...I think you said it all.
P - Really? Because I could go and argue about how we should've included Sir Didymus instead. Are you sure I've said it all?
L - ...No... But I've only seen Labyrinth once, so I'm no great authority in the matter...
P - Well, me too, but still!
L - I bet you were paying more attention than I was.
P - Yes, probably. *coughs* *waggles eyebrows* No! Not because I was there! Because- oh, NEXT!
L - <giggles>
99. Bill the Bubble Guy (Muppets Tonight!)
L - I haven't seen him, but apparently he blows bubbles out of his head.
P - Yes, he's Bill, and bubbles come out of his head. Not much more too him. THAT IS, unless you're a Muppet fan who distinctly and deeply analyzes every fabric (no pun intended) of the character's mind! Then he's an extremely deep character.
L - Well, of course he's deep! The bubbles have gotta come from somewhere...
P - Ah! That's fun-NY!
L - Wocka wocka!
P - I thought we were talking about Bill?
L - We are. Or, we were. And then we digressed. Should we move on?
P - Why not?
98. Annie Sue (The Muppet Show)
P - Louise Gold demanded to be on this list, and this is the only character of hers I could think of.
L - ...Yes, that. And, Annie Sue is Piggy's competition. She really means no harm at all; she's just a nice, blonde, female pig who happens to enjoy show biz and made the mistake of showing up at the Muppet Theater, which is very distinctly Miss Piggy's turf. You've gotta feel sorry for her.
P - Indeed I do. You know, I think Piggy has a problem with other blonde pigs, she utterly despises poor Annie Sue and Link is like torture to her. Interesting.
L - Hm! Interesting, indeed! Think it might have to do with her showing up to the MWoO premier as a brunette for no apparent reason?
P - HA! Well, I hope not, since that was one of the worst looks she's ever tried...
L - Oh, I agree, but I think I'm biased in that.
P - Yes, I know, trust me, I know.
L - I take PRIDE in my NATURALLY brown hair. <Ahem> Anyway, Piggy's later. This is Annie's slot. Poor thing can't go anywhere without Piggy haunting her...
P - Indeed, what a shame. Anyway, LOVED her in 'The Rhyming Song.' There, I said something on topic, next!
97. Mildred Huxtetter (The Muppet Show)
P - Yes, that IS how you spell her last name! I had no idea! Her last name has been spelled differently more times than there were puppeteers performing her!
L - Frustrating, isn't it? And she has SUCH a long list of abreviations after her name, including R.S.V.P. But come to think of it, I think that list might change every time, too.
P - I think so too! Although weren't they only mentioned once or twice? I know they talked about it in the Muppet Morsels at least once...
L - I'm not sure. All I know is that I looked it up for Swamp Call, and I had Rowlf joke that she needed more initials, and I don't think anyone commented on it, which depressed me slightly, because I put a lot of work into finding those initials.
P - Awww, well, I'm sorry about that. The only time I've used Mildred was in We Know That It's Probably Magic, and I know I misspelled her last name. ...Thank goodness for Muppet Wiki!
L - Oh, indeed. OH! Should we mention that part of our reasoning for putting her on the list was that Beau would strangle us if we didn't?
P - Oh, yes, indeed, I think that was our main reason, actually.
L - I think so too. So now that we've saved ourselves from strangling, at least temporarily... Did we have anything else to say about her?
P - Uhh... she... has a large snout.
L - ...And she got caught on a chandelier once.
P - Oh yeah.
L - ...Anything else?
P - Mildred is to Beau as Hilda is to Prawnie?
L - Except that, to the best of my knowledge, Mildred has never dragged an unconcious Beau into a closet and... Um... You know what, forget I said that. Let's not get into it.
P - *blink* ...NEXT!
L - Good idea.
96. Blind Pew (Muppet Treasure Island)
L - I LOVE that guy!
P - He felt up a moose face, thinking it was a pretty little girl. Then he felt up Jim Hawkins, thinking he was a pretty little girl, when, in reality, the moose was closer to a pretty little anything than the kid who played Jim Hawkins was.
L - Oh, be nice, the kid had a pretty little voice. And anyway, Blind Pew had one of my FAVORITE lines of the entire movie. "I sink I smell somesing burning, no?" You know when he says that? When he is SURROUNDED BY FIRE. Gotta love it.
P - Oh, of course! Although, it would've also been funny if he said "Is someone smoking in here?" But they left Pepe to tackle the no smoking issue in MFS.
L - ...You know, now that I'm actually thinking through the scene, I have to correct you. He doesn't think the moose is a pretty little girl. He thinks it's Billy Bones.
P - Oh. Oh yeah. Curse your memorizational skills. ...Did I just make that word up?
L - No, actually, I don't think so, but I'll add it to the PTD anyway. And I can't help it if I've watched that movie more times in a row in a single day than anyone other than the Count von Count himself would care to count... But we're digressing! There is SO much more to rave about Blind Pew! We haven't even mentioned the cat yet!
P - HAHA! Oh yes, he trips over a cat, what a fantastic scene, totally defines the way the character in the movie is a complete opposite to that of Pew in the book. The Pew in the book (for anyone who hasn't read it) is a complete FRIGHT, seriously!
L - Oh, indeed. He lives up to the 'fright' personality much better in the Muppet Treasure Island computer game that I have two copies of and no one else in the world seems to believe exists. He occasionally just sort of randomly walks by the window with scary music, and it's REALLY creepy. Just for that, I would've tried to get to Billy's room as fast as possible every time I played, except that if you clicked the Benbow Inn sign random dishes would fly out of the kitchen and break... That was fun.
P - HA! Oh, now THAT sounds like a computer game I'd enjoy playing.
L - Oh, believe me, it is! Or, it was. I think it only worked for Windows 95... <Sigh.> But it was SO much fun! And at the end you got to watch clips from the movie. I spent hours upon hours upon hours playing that game, in case you couldn't tell.
P - I could. But I don't blame you one bit. So, shall we move on? Or is there more on Pew we need to say?
L - Um, let's see... Pretty little girl, cat, moose, book, game, something burning... Oh, there IS more to say! "I may be visually challenged, but I can SEE you're lying!" And then he hear's Billy's gun and goes FLYING across the room and it's AWESOME!
P - YES! I LOVE that, he's got so much bounce to him! That's how I like to imagine Uncle Deadly.
L - Ooh, cool. Well, aren't they both Jerry?
P - Yes ma'am! And before I saw Uncle Deadly that's how imagined him sounding.
L - Hmm! ...Did we have more to say?
P - ...No, I don't think so.
L - I don't think so either. NEXT!
95. The Ghost of Christmas Present (The Muppet Chirstmas Carol)
P - Didn't we already do him?
L - I don't know. Come in, and know me better, man!
P - Did I say that already?
L - You did, yes. Here, let's go walk through this wall and change size and- How did you know that this is Bob Cratchit's house?
P - I know everything. I'm Santa Claus.
L - <Blink> And here I thought you were the Duke of Chutney. Well, whoever you are- come in, and know me better, man! ...Did I already say that?
P - You did, yes. Can I sing my song now?
L - Only if you change size so that you can sing with the mice, too.
P - ...Crud...
L - But all jokes aside, the Ghost of Christmas Present is an AWESOME, happy guy, and yet he teaches Scrooge some AWESOME, bitter, stab-you-where-it-hurts-the-most lessons. For a guy who can't even remember his last sentence, he does a pretty good job of throwing Scrooge's own words back at him. "But then, if he's going to die, he'd better do it! And decrease the surplus population!" It hurts extra coming from such a happy guy.
P - SHA! You've got that ri- correct, half! I also love that he forgets his sentences, shows that he can only remember the present, and not what he's just said in the past.
L - As he says himself, "My mind is filled with the here and now. And the now is, CHRISTMAS!" And he's got an awesome song about it, too.
P - Yeah, one that you won't let me sing...
L - Well it's just that we ramble enough WITHOUT bursting into song, tempting though it is...
P - Good point. Here, how 'bout this, all you readers out there! Start playing your copy of "It Feels Like Christmas." If you don't have a copy... well, we'll see how much longer we communicate.
L - ...You COULD just, y'know, offer to send it to them... In the spirit of Christmas generosity...
P - But it's the end of July.
L - So? Aren't you supposed to keep Christmas with you all through the year? Isn't that what Sesame Street says? And why on earth is the Jewish girl the one preaching about Christmas?
P - ...I think we should move on.
L - Probably.
P - *does so* ...I guess I really didn't need to type this, did I?
L - No, not really, but we love you anyway.
P - Aww.
94. George the Janitor (The Muppet Show)
L - He found the Rag Mop act! How many Muppets, aside from Kermit, actually find acts for the show? Not very many, that's how many.
P - Yes, that's how many. And he was Mildred's eternal dancing partner until Beau decided to sweep her off George's feet.
L - Mm-hm, and he certainly does have a... unique style of dancing.
P - Well, yeah, he practices with a mop, what can you expect?
L - We should probably clarify that when we said Beau swept Mildred off her feet and Beau would strangle us if Mildred wasn't included, we mean Beau the member of Muppet Central, not Beau the janitor Muppet.
P - Yes, exactly. But you know, that would make an interesting story. Beau stealing George's dancing partner and his job.
L - Don't get me started. You never know when Vim might be taking notes for Flippersteps. Or starting up a new story altogether. GAH! VIM! STOP THAT!
P - ...Sorry 'bout that folks. Anyway, I really did like George, he let Frank be mean, which he only got to do in a girly voice, what with Fozzie being Fozzie and Grover being Grover.
L - Yeah, I always felt like Frank didn't get enough chances to play the grumpy old man since, although Statler and Waldorf got shifted around a few times, Frank was Fozzie, and had to interact with them, so...
P - Hehe, this is very true. But I guess Frank's only angry characters that stayed around were Piggy and Bert. Bert really wasn't that angry, but... he was just... annoyed. And boring.
L - And awesome in his own pigeon-obsessed way, but we'll get to him later.
P - Yes. Shall we move on?
L - Might as well.
93. Betina and Belinda Cratchit (The Muppet Christmas Carol)
L - Five words. "May I have his dinner?"
P - ...Do we really need to say anymore? ...Yes, I do. Steve and Dave are HILLARIOUS as these two, gosh how I wish they would've been what became Andy and Randy in Muppets Tonight... but anyway, I absolutely love that they did them as a way to completely make fun of Frank and his girly voice.
L - Yeah, anyone who really thought we'd keep it at just those five words, forget it! I LOVE these two! They are SOOOOO mini-Piggy's, and she can't even get their names right! It's AWESOME!
P - I KNOW! That is SO how I see the frog and the pigs kids, I just can't see a boy pig coming from Piggy. But anyway, I also love that they seem to be the favorites of the family and poor little Peter is just ignored.
L - Well of COURSE he's ignored. Betina and Belinda followed their mother's instruction and example on how to get attention. "DADDY!" And they TACKLE him! My sisters and I used to do that when my dad came home, but for heaven's sake, WE didn't knock OUR dad against the door! The only reason Tiny Tim gets any attention in that family is because he's sick and he's played by Robin and stop me there, PLEASE, in everyone's best interest, DON'T let me go on a Robin tangent!
P - Yes, please, I think we better just go on now... unless there's more you wanna say?
L - I love those two pigs.
P - Yeah, me too.
92. Yorrick (Sam and Friends and The Muppet Show)
L - He's a frog-eating purple skull.
P - He ate Kermit! What other Muppet can say that? ...Wait... what other Muppet CAN'T say that?
L - You want me to start listing them? There's Piggy, Fozzie, Robin, Rowlf...
P - I'm not possitive about Gonzo. ...Or Rizzo.
L - Yeah... Anyway, on a more definite note, how many skulls are purple?
P - ...Uhh... well, only the ones that are color dyed.
L - I think Yorrick is a natural purple.
P - Well, I wouldn't put it past Piggy to dye him to make him look better.
L - Oh neither would I, but Yorrick was a Muppet before Piggy was.
P - Yes! And it's amazing that he's made it past all the hiding Piggy's tried to do with those pre-herself Muppets and the government and... it's really just a big mess.
L - Mm-hm. But how would bring a lawsuit against a purple skull? ...I think I'm just fixated on the concept of a purple skull...
P - It's a Muppet, there doesn't need to be an explanation for a purple skull.
L - Oh I never said there needed to be. I'm just fixated on the concept! How the heck did Jim come up with this stuff, y'know? A purple skull... weird. And so awesome, and so Muppet!
P - Sha! Gotta love Jim for that, and so much more. ...Who performed Yorrick, anyway?
L - ...Maybe a purple skeleton?
P - *blink* Wouldn't that be AWESOME?
L - YES! And also... quite creepifying.
P - Terribly quite.
91. Mahna Mahna and the Snowths (The Muppet Show)
L - Do doo do do do.
P - Mahna Mah- *ahem* Anyway... possibly the greatest act to ever come from The Muppet Show. I mean, could you imagine Jim's thought process on this? "I'm gonna take some completely random, obscure, German song and turn it into an entertainment icon."
L - "An entertainment icon to be used in countless commercials and to be loved by millions of Muppet fans and..." Yeah, I could kinda see Jim thinking that, actually. This IS the same guy who came up with a purple skull. But anyway, what's NOT to love about Mahna Mahna?
P - NOTHING! There is nothing NOT to love about Mahna Mahna! He's just such a cool puppet! And the song has been repeated by me, and my friends, and my social studies teacher countless times. I love it.
L - Nyssa and Leyla and I did it a few times, too. And I've done it with some of my other friends, and I'll probably round up a few "Snowths" in college more than a few times, and... Yeah. I love it.
P - Haha! Me and Layla did it once or twice too! Oh, and of course, it spawned the screen name of one of my favorite members here! Where would D'Snowth be without these characters? He'd be Courage Badge, that's where.
L - Courage Badge is a place?
P - If I want it to be, yes.
L - Okay, if you say so...
P - Moving on?
L - That's the end. Well, I mean, not THE END, I mean we've got ninety to go, but... We've done our ten for the night. Or for the post, if you're up for another ten tonight.
P - *blink* Well, seeing as I have a mad voting spree to go on... why not?
L - Sounds good to me!
P - But post this first, eh?
L - Aye.
P - Well hop to it lassie!
L - I will, as soon as you stop talking so I can stop having to copy and paste everything into the post!
P - *does*
L - Thank you.
P - You're welcome.
P - Oops.
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