Craig Shemin: Your favorite memory of the Muppet Show special with Sabrina Carpenter.
Jen Barnhart: Uh, my favorite experience was, and I shared it with Ryan Dillon. I walked onto the set, and Ryan was there, and I walked onto the set of backstage, just being physically on the set replica, everything. I just started crying, just like I did the very first time when I went on the set of Sesame Street when I was in college and we took a field trip. I started crying like a baby. I walked onto that set, I started crying.
Craig: Did Eric Jacobson say "I saw that?"
Jen: He did not. [laughter] He did not. But I was like hovering on the edge, and Ryan saw me and he was like, "Oh yeah, come here. Come here." and you sort of took me gently by the arm and shepherded me back and he's like, "Yeah, drink it in."
John Tartaglia: Funny enough, I had the exact same moment with Ryan actually, [laughter] when he caught me being like (gasps) and you were like, "Look at this."
Ryan Dillon: I think everybody had that. I mean, it was amazing. It was one of those... I remember telling my partner, I was like, "Oh, I think maybe I am dead. Maybe I'm dead. [laughter] It may have happened. So just like figure some stuff out for me", because you know, that day when we did the theme song, I'd been seeing that in my head since I was like three, you know, and you don't realize how hard it is to do until you're doing it, cuz you got to hit, you start at one arch and you have like, what, eight measures to get to the next one. And if you go to the wrong one... and it's dominoes. Everybody starts running into each other and they, you know, everybody's relying on the person in front of them so you can't knock into people, and it was an amazing day and to like, you know, that somebody the AD or something was putting our names under which arch we were supposed to be under, and I was like "oh my, I can't handle this". So that was cool to do all that stuff, to sing that song, to do those puppets in that thing. It was amazing. So it's hard to say one thing. I'm sorry that's not a very satisfying answer, but we all had.. I was so glad we all got to just be there and look at each other and go "this is really cool".
John: I have this very visceral memory of Dave Goelz, you know. I went up to him and I was like, "How does this feel?" You know, and he was just, you know, Dave was like, "It's crazy, Johnny." He's like, "It's crazy." Like he just looked so happy, you know, to see him that happy. I just can see that picture in my head.
Marty Robinson: Uh, having Louise Gold there. That was my thing. Seeing her, that was enough.
Stephanie D'Abruzzo: Doing the chicken choreography. And as I was doing it, I'm just like "I'm in a Muppet Show production number. This is kind of cool." And I said that to you at one point when we were doing Islands in the Stream. I'm like "Ryan, we're in a Muppet Show production number".
Ryan: I think, you know, they really went out of their way to make that thing really special, and they knew what it meant to people, you know. That was meaningful to us, too. I think that they really, and that's what John does too with Fraggle Rock. Like, this is an important thing to a lot of people, and there are eyes on it, and you have to be very respectful, but also make sure that it doesn't feel like archival that's just sat in a box. It's got to live. And I thought they did a really good job with that.
Marty: So, they need to get off their keisters, start producing it over and over and over. (audience erupts with applause)