I. General Puppet Trivia |
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Pinocchio |
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"A Taste for Love" |
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Madame |
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Those are industry terms describing lighting. Gobo = goes between optics, and traveling mattes insert objects into prerecorded background scenes. |
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Shari Lewis |
II. Sesame Street |
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Following a rash of pedophilia and sexual abuses cases, the show's creators were concerned that kids would be afraid that their parents wouldn't believe them if they reported pedophilia or sexual abuse. |
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Countess Dahling von Dahling, Countess von Backwards, Lady Two. |
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Kami |
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123 Sesame Street |
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Cookie Monster. (Actually the muppet wiki has a whole list of muppets with five fingers.) |
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Elmo. In 2002, he testified in front of the Education Appropriations Subcommittee to urge more funding for music in schools. |
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Bert collects bottle caps. He has 486. (Dave Letzler notes that he also collects paper clips.) |
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A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter |
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Monsterpiece Theatre |
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A Frisbee. (Though a spaceship does appear at the end.) |
III. The Muppets |
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The fabulous baseball diamond |
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"The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence" |
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Hormel sued the Muppets for naming one of the warthog characters "Spa'am". |
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A Studebaker |
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Rubber chickens |
IV. Identifying pictures of puppets |
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Sweedums |
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The Lonely Goatherd |
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Punch and Judy |
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Statler and Waldorf / Jacob and Robert Marley |
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Mahna Mahna |
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Roosevelt Franklin |
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Telly Monster |
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Trekkie Monster |
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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog |
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Howdy Doody |
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Greg the Bunny |
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King Friday XIII |
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Topo Gigio |
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Rod and Nicky |
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Charlie McCarthy |
V. Puppet Governments |
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Phillippe Pétain |
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Manchukuo |
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Afghanistan |
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Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi |
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Oman |