Favorite puppets!

Discussion in 'Visual Arts' started by beccabear67, Jul 24, 2021.

  1. Shoes1916

    Shoes1916 Forum Resident

    Location:
    United States
    LOVE!!! :love:
     
  2. fitzysbuna

    fitzysbuna Senior Member

    Location:
    Australia
    longdist01, Shoes1916 and beccabear67 like this.
  3. fitzysbuna

    fitzysbuna Senior Member

    Location:
    Australia
    [​IMG]this is the tv show "shirl's neighbourhood" Shirl's Neighbourhood "Our Neighbourhood" Theme Tune - YouTube Shirl (the guy) was actually Graeme Strachan Former lead singer of Australian Music group Skyhooks. he died in 29 August 2001 in a helicopter crash Rip. the person who did the puppets was so good that Jim Henson offered him a job but he declined ! this show was on air in the 1980's great kids show !
     
    Last edited: Jul 25, 2021
    longdist01, Shoes1916 and beccabear67 like this.
  4. beccabear67

    beccabear67 Musical omnivore. Thread Starter

    Location:
    Victoria, Canada
    I saw a giant dragon 'puppet' in Oregon, it was pretty impressive!
     
    Playloud likes this.
  5. beccabear67

    beccabear67 Musical omnivore. Thread Starter

    Location:
    Victoria, Canada
    Boom Boom!!
     
  6. fitzysbuna

    fitzysbuna Senior Member

    Location:
    Australia
  7. Greenalishi

    Greenalishi Birds Aren’t Real

    Location:
    San Francisco


    I’m not sure, for me, if anyone could beat Beaker
     
    longdist01 likes this.
  8. EdgardV

    EdgardV ®

    Location:
    USA
    Loved Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd.


    [​IMG]
    [​IMG]

    Edgar Bergen and Mortimer are having a discussion, when Mr. Bergen asks Mort, “Would you care to elucidate?” And Mort responds, “Ah no, I feel fine!”

    .
     
    Last edited: Jul 25, 2021
  9. beccabear67

    beccabear67 Musical omnivore. Thread Starter

    Location:
    Victoria, Canada
    Edgar Bergen must've had a great act to have been such a huge star on the radio!
     
    EdgardV, longdist01 and Shoes1916 like this.
  10. misterjones

    misterjones Smarter than the average bear.

    Location:
    New York, NY
    Only because they are the only ones I ever saw in person . . . the two on the left, that is.

    [​IMG]
     
  11. Shoes1916

    Shoes1916 Forum Resident

    Location:
    United States
    :love:
     
    longdist01 and vince like this.
  12. vince

    vince Stan Ricker's son-in-law

  13. vince

    vince Stan Ricker's son-in-law

    4 pages, and no on has mentioned SPITTING IMAGE???
     
    longdist01 and Playloud like this.
  14. vince

    vince Stan Ricker's son-in-law

    Shirley & Shorty from The Residents- "CUBE-E":
     
    longdist01 likes this.
  15. Pizza

    Pizza With extra pepperoni

    Location:
    USA
    My favorite puppet was my Herman Munster hand puppet I got as a kid.

    As for celebrity puppets, Farfel.
     
    Shoes1916 and beccabear67 like this.
  16. drumzNspace

    drumzNspace Forum Resident

    Location:
    New Yuck City
    This one by far:

    [​IMG]
    JABBA THE HUT

    QUOTE:
    In Return of the Jedi, Jabba is portrayed by a one-ton puppet that took three months and half a million dollars to construct. While filming the movie, the puppet had its own makeup artist. The puppet required three puppeteers to operate, making it one of the largest ever used in a motion picture.[42] Stuart Freeborn designed the puppet, while John Coppinger sculpted its latex, clay, and foam pieces. Puppeteers included David Alan Barclay, Toby Philpott, and Mike Edmonds, who were members of Jim Henson's Muppet group. Barclay operated the right arm and mouth and read the character's English dialogue, while Philpott controlled the left arm, head, and tongue. The tongue was a light beige color and came out of Jabba’s mouth several times. When he encountered Leia Organa for the first time and enslaved her, he extended his tongue and licked at her face. The reason Leia reacted with such disgust upon seeing the tongue, was because in one take, Philpott moved the tongue closer than Carrie Fisher was comfortable with, and it licked her unintentionally. Edmonds, the shortest of the three men (he also played the Ewok Logray in later scenes) was responsible for the movement of Jabba's tail. Tony Cox, who also played an Ewok, would assist as well. The eyes and facial expressions were operated by radio control.[12][40][42]
    -Wikipedia

    [​IMG]



    QUOTE:
    Lucas voiced displeasure in the puppet's appearance and immobility, complaining that the puppet had to be moved around the set to film different scenes. In the DVD commentary to the Special Edition of Return of the Jedi, Lucas notes that if the technology had been available in 1983, Jabba the Hutt would have been a CGI character similar to the one that appears in the Special Edition scene of A New Hope.[40]
    -Wikipedia

    so thank god there was no CGI back then!
     
  17. misterjones

    misterjones Smarter than the average bear.

    Location:
    New York, NY
    Which one?
     
    Shoes1916 likes this.
  18. Shoes1916

    Shoes1916 Forum Resident

    Location:
    United States
    Sting!

    (I was going to say Ringo, but there are only 3, so definitely Sting.)

    :)
     
  19. longdist01

    longdist01 Senior Member

    Location:
    Chicago, IL USA
    WGN - Chicago channel 9
    (1952 - 1976)

    https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0322367/

    Frazier Thomas hosting
    with Garfield Goose & Friends

    [​IMG]
    Romberg Rabbit, Beauregard Burnside III, Garfield Goose, Mackintosh Mouse, Frazier Thomas and Chris Goose on Garfield Goose and Friends.
     
    Last edited: Jul 27, 2021
  20. Holerbot6000

    Holerbot6000 Forum Resident

    Location:
    California
  21. I identify with them more, day by day.
     
  22. Shoes1916

    Shoes1916 Forum Resident

    Location:
    United States
    ^ Grover on Steroids & Xanax.
     
  23. Andy Smith

    Andy Smith .....Like a good pinch of snuff......

    A LOT of time for this guy. Absolute hero.

    [​IMG]
     
    Holerbot6000 likes this.
  24. Claus LH

    Claus LH Forum Resident

    Always loved the Muppets.

    In later years, the Spitting Image with its devastating political satire and puppets to match...

    C.
     
    longdist01 likes this.
  25. Pizza

    Pizza With extra pepperoni

    Location:
    USA
    Man, those are some tough names for characters on a kids show.
     
    longdist01 likes this.

Share This Page

molar-endocrine