Minor Audio Mentions

Minor references to the Muppets and related projects in spoken word recordings, radio broadcasts, and other audio media.
==The Archers==
The 2016 Christmas episode of the long-running BBC radio serial The Archers has Pip Archer celebrating alone with Toby Fairbrother, her boyfriend. When attempts to replicate traditional Christmases don't work out, Pip suggests "why don't we get back in our PJs, microwave the pudding, and watch Muppet Christmas Carol." Ultimately, they get too distracted in the bedroom, and then are invited over to the family celebration.
;Connections
*John Baddeley played PC Colin Drury on The Archers (radio, 1967-1977)
*Annette Badland played Hazel Woolley (2005-2022)
*Charles Collingwood plays Brian Aldridge (1971 onward)
*Terence Harvey played Justin Elliott (2014)
*Frank Middlemass played Dan Archer (1982-1986)
==Breaking the Bank==
The BBC Radio Scotland panel series Breaking the News (March 30, 2018 had broadcasts) panelists replying to allegations of sexism against Boris Johnson. One panelist talked of the first female Parliamentarian, Viscountess Astor. He mused that she took over for her husband Waldorf Astor, "because he went to work on The Muppet Show."
==Dead Ringers==
In the June 29, 2017 broadcast of the BBC impressionist show, an actress playing the leader of the Green Party, Natalie Bennett, does a skit as a nervous radio disc jockey and says "Here we go, here's the Muppets with 'It's Not Easy Being Green.' "
==98FM Toll Trolls==
"Sesame Street Up North" is not necessarily a comedy recording, that makes jokes about the then-upcoming Sesame Tree Northern Ireland. For example, it suggests that Mr. Hooper's windows will be put in, etc. (YouTube) The skit is available on YouTube, as Audio in the Video Editor software.
==The Second Coming==
1971 comedy album by Vaughn Meader as Jesus Christ. In one track, Jesus appears on Sesame Street, as introduced by an announcer (Jerry Nelson). He counts up to 10 commandments. 
;Connections
*Dick DeBartolo wrote material
*Jerry Nelson also plays a wino, mission worker, deliveryman, and others
*Pete Prescott did sound effects
*Joe Silver played God and a sidewalk Santa Claus
*Fred Travalena played Joey Judas
==Wow in the World==
Wow in the World is an NPR science program for kids, with Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas as a comedy duo, Thomas' character being somewhat fantastical.
The episode "Homegrown Genome" (January 1, 2018) talks about gene editing. Visiting the Pleistocene, Guy Raz says "Mindy, what do those mammoths remind you of?" Mindy replies "Ooh, ah, Snuffleupagus?"
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