Your main six

[ryhoyarbie]

What are your main six muppets.

For the longest time when Jim Henson was around, I always thought the main six muppets were Kermit, Piggy, Rowlf, Fozzie, Scooter, and Gonzo. I still consider them the main six, in my opinion. (Not including the Electric Mayhem, of course.)

But in recent years it's been Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, Rizzo, and Animal, or Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, Animal, and Pepe. Don't know why Pepe would be part of the main six in recent years, but it seems he managed to move up in ranks since his debute in Muppets Tonight.

 

[the80sdrummer]

My six...

1) Animal - He's a drummer, too so I can relate

2) Rowlf - For a dog, he can play a mean piano. His one-liners back in the day were hilarious

3) Scooter - Something about him was just awesome

4) Fozzie Bear - Heck, I thought his jokes were funny

5) Sam The Eagle - Always wanting to do the "right" thing. How is that not something to look up to?

6) Kermit - This frog should be on everyone's list. So cool, calm & collected... when he needed to be

 

[theprawncracker]

Kermit and Miss Piggy of course, I also think Fozzie and Gonzo are staples. I'd like to think of Rowlf as number six, but I honestly think it's Rizzo.

 

[MrsPepper]

Well, since it's up to me, I'd chuck Animal out of the top 6.

Right now, it's probably Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, Rizzo, and Pepe. For character interaction, at least. Animal interacts with all of them but sort of as comic relief, but I think these 6 sort of need each other for fuel for the fire, so to speak.

For example: Fozzie and Kermit are best buds, Kermit loves Piggy, Piggy hates Gonzo, Gonzo and Rizzo are best buds, Rizzo competes with Pepe, Pepe hits on Miss Piggy. Fozzie's sort of the odd man out because he can't do much with Miss Piggy since they are performed by the same person, and everyone else is already paired off. But Animal? He doesn't have the same character interaction as these guys. So I would choose them for my modern top 6.

As for back in TMS days, I'm pretty sure there's no contest: Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, Scooter and Rowlf.

 

[CensoredAlso]

To be honest I guess I just always went with what was on the screen: Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, Scooter and maybe Rowlf. Somewhere along the line they became the "Big 6." Then the Electric Mayhem was a little separate because they were "the band." Lol

 

[minor muppetz]

Before 1990, I would say the main six were Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, Rowlf, and Scooter. Now, it's Kermit, Fozzie, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Rizzo, and Pepe. But back in 1999, when I first played the video game Mario Party, I thought that there should be a Muppet Party, and figured that there would be six players, and those six would have been Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, Rizzo, and Clifford. This was shortly before Muppets From Space was released and Pepe was known as a main character (and even a solo character without Seymour).

 

[Telly]

Back in the day:
Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, Rowlf, and Scooter (Muppet Babies kinda set that standard)

Today:
Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, Rizzo, and Pepe

 

[Beauregard]

Of course I have to agree that it was always: Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, Scooter, Rowlf in the old days...though, when it came to The Muppet Movie Scooter was basically replaced with Camilla as one of the six. Then in GMC Camilla wasn't around, as such, in fact Beauregard and Pops had bigger roles than either Camilla or Scooter...but they was hardly a main character. Possibly because a lot of the plot concentrated around the main human characters.

By TMTM, there was a regular crowd of main-ers, but if we leave off the Electric Mayhem we're back to the original six (plus Rizzo, plus Camilla). In fact...maybe we should be figureing the main 8 rather than the main 6? After all...Rizzo and Camilla always were very important.

Annnyway, as for modern Muppets (in order of popularity and regognisability) Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, Animal, Chef (CHEF? Is true!) But in terms of who I wish were the main 6...Kermie, Piggy, Gonzy, Rizzy, Pepe, Fozzie

 

[peyjenk]

Okay, call me crazy, but I have never thought of Rowlf as one of the main characters. I know he was a more prominent character through the 80s, but even then he seemed more on par with Janice, Bunsen, Beaker, Swedish Chef, etc., who were kind of the "second string".

Actually, I always thought of the main Muppet Show cast as a group of four or five: Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, and sometimes Scooter.

Now, however, it seems that Fozzie and Gonzo are down in popularity, and the Muppets you usually see in advertising are Kermit, Piggy, and Pepe. I don't know if we even HAVE a core group beyond those three anymore.

 

[BobThePizzaBoy]

Hmmm... well, back in the TMS days:
Kermit, Fozzie, Piggy, Gonzo, Rowlf and Scooter.

Nowadays I'd say most of them are the same. I think Pepe has really overridden Rizzo in popularity, so I'd say that the new main six are Kermit, Fozzie, Piggy, Gonzo, Animal and Pepe.