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The Muppets at YouTube Space LA The Muppets at YouTube Space LA is a series of projects that were shot in late - March 2015 at the YouTube Space LA facilities in Los Angeles , California . YouTube talent including Lindsey Stirling , Crash Course , VSauce3 , Mike Tompkins , Barely Political and Mental Floss collaborated with the Muppets to shoot videos at YouTube Space LA . The Muppets at YouTube Space LA collaboration videos went live from April through June 2015 . In addition to the collaborations with YouTube stars , the Muppets will also be releasing a slate of original music and comedic videos created exclusively for the Muppets ’ YouTube channel throughout the rest of the year . Production . The videos , many produced under the working title " Muppets YouTube " , were directed by Kirk Thatcher . Tom Bergeron tweeted photos from the YouTube project set , although his exact role or involvement ( if any ) in the final product is currently unknown . Pictures of musician Moby acting alongside Kermit the Frog were also tweeted from the set . Based on photos shared on social media , known Muppet characters featured in the project include Kermit the Frog , Miss Piggy , Sam Eagle , Walter , and Dr . Teeth and the Electric Mayhem ( Dr . Teeth , Floyd , Janice , Zoot , Lips , and Animal ) . Known Muppet performers ( also based on on - set photographs ) include Steve Whitmire , Eric Jacobson , Matt Vogel , David Rudman , Peter Linz , and Dave Goelz . Christopher Alender ( president of Soapbox Films , the company who produced the Muppet viral videos from 2008 to 2010 ) and Craig Keif ( director of photography for OK Go ' s " The Muppet Show Theme " music video and the Moi by Miss Piggy commercial ) are also connected to the project . Pictures from the set showed the Electric Mayhem performing in a jungle setting and on a concert stage ; Kermit , Miss Piggy , Walter , Sam Eagle , and Moby in a board room setting ; and other pictures show portions of The Swinetrek set for a series of Pigs in Space sketches ; at the D23 Expo in August 2015 , Steve Whitmire stated that " We just shot four or five ' Pigs in Space ' videos . "
Episode 321 : Roger Miller There ' s an outbreak of " cluckitis " in the theater , a disease which causes the sufferer to sneeze and turn into a chicken . Kermit tries to hide this from Roger , but it doesn ' t work - - Robin turns into a chick in front of him , and Roger recognizes the Lew Zealand chicken and his boomerang egg act . By the end of the show , the backstage is covered in nests , and Gonzo ( the only one apparently immunized against the cluckitis ) is thrilled . Kermit is humiliated , but Roger ' s very understanding ; he explains that he had cluckitis once . Cast . Muppets : Background Muppets : Gallery . _ _ NOWYSIWYG _ _
Steve Barron Steve Barron ( b . 1956 ) is an Irish born director and producer who first made his mark as a director of music videos in the late 1970s and early 80 ' s . He began his association with Jim Henson when he directed the " Labyrinth " music videos " As the World Falls Down " and " Underground " . He subsequently directed multiple episodes of " The StoryTeller " ( " Fearnot , " " Hans My Hedgehog , " and " Sapsorrow " ) . Barron has helmed several Creature Shop projects , including " Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles " , " The Adventures of Pinocchio " , " Merlin " , " Rat " , and " Arabian Nights " . In 1998 , his work on " Merlin " garnered an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or Special . His other projects include serving as executive producer for the first seasons of the computer animated series " ReBoot " and directing the " Saturday Night Live " - inspired feature film " The Coneheads " . External links . _ _ NOWYSIWYG _ _
Michael J . Smollin Michael J . Smollin ( 1925 - 2010 ) was an illustrator whose scratchy , distinctive style was one of the defining " Sesame " art styles in the 1970s , alongside Joe Mathieu and Michael K . Frith . Smollin ' s first " Sesame " storybook , the 1971 " The Monster at the End of This Book " , was an immediate sensation , selling two million copies in its first year of publication . Biography . Michael Smollin was born in 1925 , and grew up in East Hampton , Long Island . He attended Cornell University , and served in the infantry in World War II . He was awarded a Purple Heart for shrapnel wounds , and returned to the United States to study advertising design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn . Smollin worked as an ad executive for many years , but left the industry in order to become a freelance illustrator . He was a frequent contributor to " TV Guide " , providing humorous illustrations for articles throughout the 1970s and 80s . " Sesame Street " work . Smollin provided the artwork for the covers and gatefolds of several early " Sesame " record albums , including " The Muppet Alphabet Album " and " The Official Sesame Street 2 Book - and - Record Album " in 1971 , " Havin ' Fun with Ernie & Bert " in 1972 and " Merry Christmas from Sesame Street " in 1975 . Smollin also drew pictures for five " Sesame " calendars between 1976 and 1982 . Smollin did not participate in any of the " Sesame Street Storybook " anthologies of the early 70s . Instead , the versatile Smollin seemed to specialize in the unusual formats - - the large - format " Big Bird ' s Blunder Book " and " The Amazing Mumford and His Amazing Subtracting Trick " ; the rounded " Cookie Monster ' s Circle Book " ; and a set of small die - cut storybooks published by Playskool in 1975 . Smollin illustrated cloth books , waterproof books , small " chunky " books and even books with wheels . After the success of " The Monster at the End of This Book " , Smollin and writer Jon Stone collaborated on a few more books featuring Grover , including " Would You Like to Play Hide & Seek in This Book With Lovable , Furry Old Grover ? " and " Lovable Furry Old Grover ' s Resting Places " . Smollin also illustrated several items of " Sesame " spin - off merchandise , including paper cups , Colorforms playsets , a collectible plate and a toy instrument kit . Smollin ' s involvement in " Sesame Street " illustration tailed off in the mid - 80s , although he returned to illustrate two books in the mid - 90s - - " Mother Grouch Nursery Rhymes " in 1995 , and " Another Monster at the End of This Book " in 1996 , a sequel to the classic storybook that he illustrated 25 years previously . In addition to his varied " Sesame " work , Smollin also worked on a Bob and Ray storybook by Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding , a set of joke books based on " The Electric Company " , and a set of " Strawberry Shortcake " storybooks . In 1999 and 2000 , Smollin collaborated with his son Mark to create a set of Lego activity books published in Europe . This was Smollin ' s last professional work before he retired . External links . _ _ NOWYSIWYG _ _
Big Bird ' s Ticklish Christmas Big Bird ' s Ticklish Christmas is a 1997 " Sesame Street " Little Golden Book about Big Bird celebrating Christmas . This book is one of three Little Golden Books published in 1997 that tie in with the previous year ' s Tickle Me Elmo craze . The others are " " and " Elmo Loves You " . Reissues . This book was reprinted by Random House in 1999 with the same cover art , but a different artist credit . The book was also reworked in 2008 into a pop - up book , " A Ticklish Christmas on Sesame Street " .
The Emperor ( Sesame Street ) The Emperor gives his empire away in " The Mystery of the Four Dragons " , a Season 3 " Sesame Street " insert . In the story , an aged emperor in ancient Japan offers the throne to his son if he can find four dragons hidden in the room before midnight . An Evil Prime Minister thinks that the son will never find the dragons in time . The son finds the dragons in a painting , and inherits the empire . The emperor re - appeared in another Japanese tale , " The Emperor ' s New Gong . " _ _ NOWYSIWYG _ _
Krista Allen Krista Allen ( b 1971 ) is an actor working in entertainment since the mid - 1990s . She ' s most well known for playing Billie Reed in the soap opera " Days of Our Lives " and Jenna Avid on " Baywatch " . Her other roles include appearances on " The X - Files " , " Married . . . with Children " , " Spin City " , " Friends " , " Charmed " , and " Smallville " . In August 2015 , she met Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy , and posted photos with them to her social media accounts . Following the couple ' s break - up , she tweeted , " Me and @ KermitTheFrog are JUST FRIENDS ! Can ' t believe they broke up ! Can ' t even speak . # FrogInMyThroat "
Gisela Trowe Gisela Trowe ( 1922 - 2010 ) was a German voice actress who dubbed various parts in the early seasons of " Sesamstrasse " , notably Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes ( renamed Susanne Klickerklacker ) . She also dubbed Anything Muppets in one - shot sketches , such as Snow White , included in the third soundtrack album for " Sesamstrasse " . In dubbing , Trowe often lent her voice to sex symbols such as Gina Lollabrigida , Rita Hayworth , Susan Hayward , Barbara Stanwyck , and Kim Novak in " Vertigo " . Later , she dubbed dignified older actresses , such as Lauren Bacall in " Murder on the Orient Express " and Angela Lansbury in the first dub of " Murder , She Wrote " . Trowe was especially active in audio dramas , as the chief ' s wife Impedimenta in the " Asterix " series , the Sorceress and others in the " Masters of the Universe " tapes , various roles in the " Three Investigators " series , and Grandmother Sessemann in " Heidi " . She was heard on radio beginning in the 1950s , playing Lust in an adaptation of " Faust " and femme fatales in crime dramas , such as the " Paul Temple " series , as well as an assortment of literary adaptations and children ' s plays . Apart from her voice work , Trowe was a veteran of German theater , film , and television going back to the 1940s . She was a supporting regular on the German TV series " Der Landarzte " ( " The Country Doctor " ) , as the Countess Bea ( 1987 - 2008 ) , and for the entire run of " Unser Lehrer Doktor Specht " ( 1992 - 1999 ) as boarding house owner Pia . Trowe also appeared on " Tatort " , " Derrick " , and " Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre " , among others .
Eberhard Storeck Eberhard Storeck ( b . 1932 ) is a German actor and dubbing director , who adapted and voice directed the German - language versions of many Muppet projects , including " Die Muppet Show " and " Die Fraggles " , as well as most of the specials and films . He served as translator only on the German dub of " Dog City " . For the German " Muppet Show " , Storeck directed and played a variety of roles , including the Swedish Chef , Beaker , Crazy Harry , Robin the Frog , Uncle Deadly , Link Hogthrob and Animal ( sharing the latter two with Harald Baerow ) , and the singing voice of Scooter . He reprised all of the above in most later specials and features ( with Hartmut Neugebauer taking over as Animal ) , and voiced Statler and the desk guard in " It ' s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie " . Storeck was also the singing voice of Gobo Fraggle and played Gunge and various other roles on " Die Fraggles " , and Baby Beaker on " Muppet Babies " . Storeck also served as director / adapter and voice actor on the anime series " Maya the Bee " ( as Willie ) and " Pinocchio " ( as Coco ) . His other credits include translating The Marx Brothers movies , writing rhyming narration for The Pink Panther animated series , and more recently , dubbing Indian actor Kumar Pallana in Steven Spielberg ' s " The Terminal " .
H . G . Wells H . G . Wells ( 1866 - 1946 ) was an English writer whose works were published in dozens of novels and collections of short stories . Along with Jules Verne , he is considered one of the early architects of science fiction , laying the groundwork for such later authors as Isaac Asimov , , Robert A . Heinlein , and Ray Bradbury . Some of his most notable works include " The War of the Worlds " , " The Island of Doctor Moreau " , and " The Time Machine " . Wells ' cultural awareness has afforded his legacy notoriety in the form of glamorizing the man himself , and has been portrayed on screen in film and TV versions of " Time After Time " , SyFy ' s " Warehouse 13 " , " Animaniacs " , " Lois & Clark : The New Adventures of Superman " , " Doctor Who " , and " Tenacious D : The Complete Masterworks " .
Randy Cohen Randy Cohen is one of two keyboard players for the " Sesame Street " house band under Joe Fiedler , sharing duties with John Deley . A classically trained pianist , Cohen is most active on Broadway as a programmer for synthesizers , keyboards , and electronic drum kits , sometimes performing himself . He joined " Avenue Q " as a replacement keyboard / synthesizer player and associate conductor during the original run , and did much the same for " Spamalot " . Some of the shows he ' s programmed , both originals and revivals , include " Young Frankenstein " , " Grease " , " Company " , " On the Town " , " West Side Story " , " Guys and Dolls " , " Rock of Ages " , " Finian ' s Rainbow " , " Rocky " , " How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying " , and Lin Manuel - Miranda ' s " In the Heights " and " Hamilton " .
Chris Rock Chris Rock ( b . 1965 ) is an actor and comedian . He makes a brief appearance in " Elmopalooza " , offering to host the show when Jon Stewart becomes locked in his dressing room . He ' s all set to start when Prairie Dawn tells him he can ' t do any dirty jokes . As he ' s leaving , he tells Oscar that the audience would have loved his mud jokes . Rock was also heard as Rodney in the Creature Shop feature film " Dr . Dolittle " . Rocks ' s TV credits include his semi - autobiographical sitcom " Everybody Hates Chris " ( which he created and narrates ) , stints as a regular cast member of " Saturday Night Live " and " In Living Color " , and guest spots on " Miami Vice " and " The Fresh Prince of Bel - Air " . He hosted the 77th Academy Awards . His credits as a voice actor include " Osmosis Jones " , " Madagascar " and its sequels ( with Ben Stiller ) , and " Bee Movie " .
The Sublime Ms . M ( song ) " The Sublime Ms . M " is a " Sesame Street " song performed by Miss M , who worries that if the letter M didn ' t exist , then words beginning with M wouldn ' t exist either . The song spoofs " Friends , " a song best known for its association with Bette Midler . _ _ NOWYSIWYG _ _
Nathan Lane Nathan Lane ( b . 1956 ) is an award winning stage and film actor . His Broadway credits include the plays " Lips Together , Teeth Apart " , " The Odd Couple " , and " Love ! Valour ! Compassion ! " , and the musicals " A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum " , " The Addams Family " and " The Producers " , for which he earned his second Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical . His film credits include " The Lion King " ( as the voice of Timon ) and " The Birdcage " . Lane also performed the voice for Snowbell the cat in " Stuart Little " , and its sequel " Stuart Little 2 " ( the latter included effects by Jim Henson ' s Creature Shop ) . And in 2005 , he appeared along goose - stepping pigeons also created by the Creature Shop in the film version of " The Producers " , for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy . On " Sesame Street " , Lane performed " Sing " with the Oinker Sisters , parts of which were included in the celebrity version of the song on Episode 3851 . Lane also played the number 2 in a PBS interstitial promoting the 29th season of the show . Lane ' s most recent appearance alongside the Muppets was in " " as Officer Meany , a bitter airport security guard . Guest appearances include " 30 Rock " , " Absolutely Fabulous " , " Sex and the City " , " Austin Powers in Goldmember " , " Mad About You " , " Frasier " , " Miami Vice " , and hosting " Saturday Night Live " .
Mahna Mahna ( character ) Mahna Mahna is a purple Muppet with wild , orange hair and a furry , green tunic who is most famous for performing the nonsense song " Mahna Mahna " with the Snowths . His vocabulary is essentially limited to saying his own name and scatting . Mahna Mahna made his debut on " The Ed Sullivan Show " in 1969 , where he sang " Mahna Mahna " for the first time . In a later appearance on the variety show , he played a drummer filling in for a violinist in a string quartet performing Beethoven ' s " Minuet in G Major . " The scripts for that appearance refer to him as " Harry " . After reprising " Mahna Mahna " on several other variety shows , Mahna Mahna was featured in the of " The Muppet Show " , performing his signature song as opening number , dancing with Wanda in At the Dance , and popping up between Statler and Waldorf in their box . Also , in the of the episode , he made an additional appearance , surprising guest star Juliet Prowse after her conversation with Kermit backstage . Although he was also featured prominently in , appearing again in At the Dance and " Sax and Violence " , most of Mahna Mahna ' s future appearances on the show would be in the background or in the audience of The Muppet Theatre . After a long absence , Mahna Mahna appeared at " The Muppet Show Live " at MuppetFest . Here , he was puppeteered by Bill Barretta lip - syncing to Jim Henson ' s vocals ; at one point , the character left the theater to go to a fast food restaurant . Barretta assumed the role , providing both puppetry and voice for Mahna Mahna in his first original speaking role since Henson ' s death , in the 2005 " Bandanana " commercial for the Australia n charity CanTeen . In this appearance , the puppet had brighter colors and softer features than previous incarnations . Mahna Mahna , alongside the Snowths , made cameos in the Muppet viral video for " Bohemian Rhapsody , " and have reprised " Mahna Mahna " in their appearances on " Good Morning America " , " The Muppets " , and the concert Jim Henson ' s Musical World . Palisades Toys released a mini figure of Mahna Mahna , and also had plans for an action figure . In 2012 , Funko released a vinyl figure of Mahna Mahna . Bip Bippadotta . " Mahna Mahna " was also performed on the first season of " Sesame Street " by an Anything Muppet , originally identified on albums as " Mahna - Mahna . " He would later come to be called Bip Bippadotta . Although the character would evolve to look more like Mahna Mahna over the years , the characters have generally been considered completely separate entities . Sources . _ _ NOWYSIWYG _ _
Alice the Actress Alice the Actress appears in a 1989 episode of " Sesame Street " during Hoots ' nighttime version of " The People in Your Neighborhood " . While on the show , she plugs her latest play , " The Three Sisters " , where she plays Flopsy , Peter Rabbit ' s sister . _ _ NOWYSIWYG _ _
Rafael Rafael was a Puerto Rican man who worked at the Fix - It Shop on Sesame Street . He enjoyed playing with the neighborhood children , and often taught them Spanish words . Rafael appeared on " Sesame Street " during the third season . He opened " the L and R Fix - It Shop " with Luis in Episode 0330 .
Danny DeVito Danny DeVito ( b . 1944 ) is an Emmy Award winning actor who became famous for his role as Louie DePalma on the TV show " Taxi " . In the 1980s , he guest starred on " Sesame Street " as Vincent van Grouch , the Grouch curator of the Museum of Trash . In another segment , still in costume , he gets into a laugh competition with Oscar ( Danny attempts to imitate every laughing pattern Oscar gives him ) . He appeared out of costume in a different insert , in which he waits at a grouch bus stop with Oscar and Bruno . Transitioning from television to film , DeVito often works with Kathleen Turner , Arnold Schwarzenegger , and director Tim Burton ( including playing the Penguin in " Batman Returns " ) . He has also turned to producing ( including the Andy Kaufman biopic " Man in the Moon " ) , and directing " Death to Smoochy " and Roald Dahl ' s " Matilda " . Other notable appearances include hosting " Saturday Night Live " six times , voicing Herb Powell on " The Simpsons " , and playing Martini in " One Flew Over the Cuckoo ' s Nest " . Other Muppet credits include appearing on the cover of " Muppet Magazine " issue 22 in 1988 , appearing in the 1994 special " " as a Worm TV reporter , and appearing in the celebrity version of " Put Down the Duckie " with Rhea Perlman , to whom he was married at the time . In " the Jim Henson Hour " episode " Miss Piggy ' s Hollywood " , Miss Piggy and Gonzo are unsure of what celebrities ' house they are in front of , with Gonzo suggesting that it is Danny Devito ' s home ( among others ) . DeVito spoke to " Empire " magazine about his favorite Muppet : " Snuffleupagus . I had a terrible experience once . I was going to do " Sesame Street " and went to 11th Avenue in New York , where they do the show . When I walked onto the soundstage , my heart sank . Because 30 feet up , hanging on ropes , looking really limp , was Snuffleupagus . It almost destroyed me . "
Noel : Christmas Eve , 1913 " Noel : Christmas Eve , 1913 " is a Christmas song which tells of a Christmas in the singer ' s past , when he stood on a hill and contemplated the world before him . It is sung by John Denver on the album " A Christmas Together " . Denver performs the song solo , without accompaniment from any of the Muppet cast . _ _ NOWYSIWYG _ _
Loni Dunne Loni Dunne is an overly - excitable entertainment correspondent in the online series , " Statler & Waldorf : From the Balcony " . She ' s a female , purple - skinned , blond - haired Whatnot Muppet . In Episode 17 , her first appearance , she discussed the 2005 Oscar nominations with her co - host , Ted Thomas , and literally exploded from her excitement over the nominations . She returned in Episode 23 , where she talked to the Tom Cruise Muppet , who jumped up and down uncontrollably and accidentally kicked her head off . The puppet was used as Clarissa on Muppets Tonight , and she was used as " Denise " on the French series " Muppets TV " . _ _ NOWYSIWYG _ _
Happy Days Happy Days is a sitcom that was broadcast on ABC from 1974 until 1984 , which focused on life in Milwaukee around the 1950s and 60s . The show ' s stars , Arthur " The Fonz " Fonzarelli ( played by Henry Winkler ) and Richie Cunningham ( played by Ron Howard ) appeared in sketches on " Sesame Street " beginning in 1977 .
Annie DeLoo Annie DeLoo is a little girl who played the musical instrument known as the Klink in the Jingle Day Pageant . She confided in Mrs . Zabarelli that she had stage fright , but Mrs . Zabarelli gives her some encouraging advice , " We don ' t know what we can do until we try . " From then on , that phrase became Annie ' s words of wisdom . As she grew up , Mrs . Zabarelli passed the holiday baton to Annie , and she became the teacher . As an adult , she gave the same wisdom to her student . She appeared in the " Wubbulous World " episode " . " The puppet was recycled and became Billy for " From the Balcony with Statler and Waldorf " and later appeared in several Henson Alternative productions . _ _ NOWYSIWYG _ _
The Trouble with Twins Scooter is depressed because Skeeter is good at yo - yo tricks . Skeeter brings her yo - yo to school and dazzles everyone with her amazing skill . When Ms . Palmer the science teacher announces the science fair , the tables are turned as Skeeter can ' t come up with a project . When her fruit model of the planets rots , and her other attempts at projects also fail , she has to ask her brother for help . Piggy ' s science fair project is a " garbage garden " . There are no further details available on what a " garbage garden " is .
Maria ( Jacobs / Rothman ) " Maria " is a " Sesame Street " song from the direct - to - video special " Big Bird Gets Lost " . When Big Bird and Maria are separated in the ABCD Mart , the two musically call out to each other as they try to locate the other in the store . The song is a parody of " Maria " from the musical " West Side Story " . _ _ NOWYSIWYG _ _