Xerus
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When you're watching a really neat and memorable muppet moment, do you wonder what the puppeteers underneath have to go through to make these skits?
Like in Mahna-Mahna's Some, None, and All skit, where those puppeteers had to run in and out of camera at different times deciding which puppeteers would appear.
The Do the Rubber Duck skit where they all marched around in a circle in the tub. I bet that was fun for the puppeteers. But some others probably had to do Kermit and Guy Smiley since Jim was probably doing Ernie.
The Kermit and Grover skit where Grover is carrying 4 huge blocks demonstrating top and bottom. I'm guessing Frank Oz is operating Grover while someone next to him was holding those huge blocks steady.
The Telephone Rock where Little Jerry and the Monotones were singing in a cramed booth. Imagine the puppeteers cramed together like that?
And Guy Smiley taking his studio audience to lunch skit. It might've been hard trying to find over 40 puppeteers. I believe what they did was tape the first 1 to 14 muppets being counted, stopped taping, and retapped them going into the restaurant, stopped tapping and picked up muppets 15 to 27, started taping them being counted, stopped taping, and had them go into the restaurant, stopped taping, and then did the whole thing again with muppets 28 to 39. Then they edited all those scenes together making it look like 39 muppets went through.
Like in Mahna-Mahna's Some, None, and All skit, where those puppeteers had to run in and out of camera at different times deciding which puppeteers would appear.
The Do the Rubber Duck skit where they all marched around in a circle in the tub. I bet that was fun for the puppeteers. But some others probably had to do Kermit and Guy Smiley since Jim was probably doing Ernie.
The Kermit and Grover skit where Grover is carrying 4 huge blocks demonstrating top and bottom. I'm guessing Frank Oz is operating Grover while someone next to him was holding those huge blocks steady.
The Telephone Rock where Little Jerry and the Monotones were singing in a cramed booth. Imagine the puppeteers cramed together like that?
And Guy Smiley taking his studio audience to lunch skit. It might've been hard trying to find over 40 puppeteers. I believe what they did was tape the first 1 to 14 muppets being counted, stopped taping, and retapped them going into the restaurant, stopped tapping and picked up muppets 15 to 27, started taping them being counted, stopped taping, and had them go into the restaurant, stopped taping, and then did the whole thing again with muppets 28 to 39. Then they edited all those scenes together making it look like 39 muppets went through.