Jerry Nelson

[laughs] Yeah.

There's a lot of, uh, Jerry Nelson disrespect happening.

Oh, no, it's not Jerry Nelson.

Who plays Zoot?

Zoot is Dave Goelz.

[laughs] Yeah.

They're showing off the Gonzo puppet, and they talk about a couple of his characters.

Uh, but yeah, I don't know that they say Jerry Nelson's name at all.

Crazy Harry, the trivia track wants us to know, is played by, I'm going to forget the puppeteer's first name, Lovelady, who did not continue with the show after the first season.

And so his giggle doesn't necessarily sound right because it hadn't yet been taken over by Jerry Nelson, which is whose voice we associate with the character.

Still good, though.

Still stuff getting blowed up.

Teeth and a female Muppet are at a table.

Wayne and Wanda are at a table.

And then Mildred and Gonzo and a hippie based on Jerry Nelson are the final remaining table.

And so, yeah, each of them.

And I'd never seen that care taken with each little scene.

So I watched, I guess it was Jerry Nelson coming up saying, hey, mom, I'm home.

And he did it like 20 times.

And each time he would come up with something that he thought he could do better or the door wouldn't open or, you know, and the camera people would suggest things.

I got to do two characters.

They weren't particularly memorable, but I had a great time doing them.

One was a little puppet, that I got to do a scene with Jerry Nelson and Dave Goltz.

I'm up on these apple boxes.

asks her.

But at that time, most puppeteers, Jerry Nelson was a bit of an exception, but most puppeteers were puppeteers.

That's right.

They were hiding under the puppet, in effect.

good.

Okay, and a side note, I find it interesting that of the core five Muppeteers, only Jerry Nelson does one.

And he is credited with any voice work, partially because he's the only one who never did any of the A-list Muppets, at least not.

Well, I mean, we might recognize them if it were like the Jim Hansen voice or the Frank Oz voice.