Answers: Muppet Quiz
Posted on April 1, 2014 at 3:59 pm
1. Can you guess the writer who provided the narration for this 1968 commercial featuring The Muppets?
William Burroughs
2. What Oscar-winning actor co-starred with the Muppets as Scrooge in “A Muppet Christmas Carol?”
Michael Caine
3. Which Muppet is the front man of a rock group?
Dr. Teeth of the Electric Mayhem
4. Which Muppet is the lab assistant for scientist Dr. Bunsen Honeydew?
Beaker
5. Which Muppet lives in a trash can?
Oscar the Grouch on “Sesame Street”
6. What is the name of Big Bird’s friend that everyone on Sesame Street thought was imaginary?
Mr. Snuffleupagus
7. Who are these guys?
Statler and Waldorf
8. Name something other than the birthmark and voice that distinguishes Kermit and Constantine?
Different collar
9. Where was Miss Piggy working at the beginning of “The Muppets?”
French Vogue
10. Who is the only Muppet who appears in both the Muppet movies and television shows and on Sesame Street?
Kermit!
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. I love them all. But here are my very favorites, the ones I try to watch every year.
Who better to play Scrooge than his namesake Scrooge McDuck? And who better for the part of the unquenchable Bob Cratchit than Mickey Mouse? This compilation DVD includes other Christmas goodies “The Small One” and “Pluto’s Christmas Tree.”
has the distinguished actor Michael Caine as Scrooge and the equally distinguished Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit. Special mention of 
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. The voice talent is outstanding, with Broadway star Jack Cassidy (father of teen idols David and Shaun) as Bob Cratchit and of course Jim Backus as Mr. Magoo, in this version an actor playing the part of Scrooge. The tuneful songs were written by Bob Merrill and Jule Styne, who later went on to write “Funny Girl.” (The legend is that their song “People” was originally written for this movie.)
This MGM classic features the top stars of the 1930’s. Watch for future “Lassie” star June Lockhart as one of the Cratchit children — her real-life father Gene Lockhart played Bob. (He also appears in another Christmas classic, as the judge in
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This is the all-time best, with the inimitable Alistair Sim as Scrooge. There has never been a more embittered miser or a more jubilent Christmas morning rebirth. When he orders that turkey for the Cratchits and walks into his nephew’s celebration at the end, everything Dickens hoped for from his story is brought to life.