Your Muppet mistakes

[Old Thunder]

Well, only by reading through this thread have I discovered that Whitmire is pronounced 'Whit-mer'...

 

[I love puppets]

This is a pretty weird one, but I thought Janice was a man that was a cross dresser. Yes, very odd.

 

[cjd874]

This is a pretty weird one, but I thought Janice was a man that was a cross dresser. Yes, very odd.

Well...not too odd, considering that Michael Frith originally designed Janice as a Mick Jagger-type character, right down to the large mouth and "utterly emaciated" body. I was pretty spooked out when I first saw it, and I'm really glad that instead, Janice became the guitar-shredding valley girl we all know and love.

 

[MuppetNostalgia]

Belive it or not,I once mistook Annie Sue for Miss Piggy.

 

[Pig'sSaysAdios]

I used to think Barkley from Sesame Street was a real dog

Before I knew how the Big Bird puppet worked, because he's so tall it didn't make sense to me that an actual person would be inside so I assumed Big Bird must have been a robot.

I originally thought Olivia appeared in the first season of SST.

I used to think that the first few seasons of SST were filmed in black and white.

I used to think Brian Henson played Kermit after his father's death.

I've been a Muppet fan since I was a baby and found out about many of the performers when I was five, but I didn't know that Eric Jacobson had taken over Frank Oz's characters until I was about nine.

I originally thought that Beautiful Day Monster was an early version of Sam the Eagle, due to their similarities in appearance.

 

[D'Snowth]

Well, only by reading through this thread have I discovered that Whitmire is pronounced 'Whit-mer'...

Unless I'm mssing something, I've never heard it pronounced WHIT-MER.

 

[cjd874]

Unless I'm mssing something, I've never heard it pronounced WHIT-MER.

I've been wondering the same thing...Is it pronounced WHIT-MEER or WHIT-MYER?

 

[MuppetSpot]

I always pronounce it as St-eve Whit-myer.

 

[D'Snowth]

That's the way I've always heard it pronounced: not WHIT-MER or WHIT-MEER; always WHIT-MYER.

With that said, I do recall one occasion where the cast of SST were at an appearance where the emcee mispronounced Caroll's last name as SPY-NEE.

 

[Schfifty]

Speaking on the same subject, I've wondered how Stephanie D'Abruzzo's last name is pronounced. I tend to say it as "Duh-Broozoh", but could it actually be "Dee-Abroozoh?"