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Buddy Rich's last known performance at the Statler Hotel in 1982 with Mel Tormè, and Stan Getz

[radiohuskedits]

Al and Husk came out looking like they’re settling in for some for some Statler and Waldorf-style heckling so why not?

“Do you think this show constitutes cruelty to animals?”

“Not unless they’re watching it!”

(For the uninitiated, Statler and Waldorf are these two irascible but hilarious characters from the Muppets ⬇️)

[detroitlib]

View of the Hotel Statler. Printed on front: "Hotel Statler, Detroit, Grand Circus Park at Washington Ave. and Bagley Ave." Printed on back: "Hotel Statler, Detroit. 1000 rooms with bath. Facing Grand Circus Park at Washington Blvd. and Bagley Ave., convenient to all downtown Detroit. Operated in connection with Hotels Statler, Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, St. Louis, Washington, D.C., Hotel Pennsylvania, New York, and Hotel William Penn, Pittsburgh."

Clarence Faber Collection

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[emmieexplores2]

1956

[stone-cold-groove]

Keys to international fame. Hilton Hotels ad - 1955.

[cocosse]

Hotels II | Photos by Charles Harbutt / Alfred Statler / Ralph Gibson / Max Yavno / Alma Lavenson, 1912-1983 >

Alfred Statler, New York, 1950

[themuppetmasterencyclopedia]

Pops

Pops

PERFORMERS

Jerry Nelson 1980-2002

Matt Vogel 2011-present

DEBUT 1980

Pops is the stage doorman for The Muppet Theatre. He's supposed to greet the guests when they first arrive -- though the nearsighted and forgetful Pops invariably needs to ask "Who're you?" in his slight country accent. Pops was first introduced during the fifth season of The Muppet Show, where he was featured in the Cold Open of each episode. This was a departure from the previous three seasons, which had featured Scooter talking to the guest stars in their dressing room. (No cold open was used before the opening titles during Season 1.) Outside of his expository function in establishing the guest star, Pops appeared three times onstage. First, in the episode 508, he took on the role of Geppetto to perform "Puppet Man" with Pinocchio. He then performed "Once in Love with Amy" with Fozzie in the UK Spot in episode 512. His last onstage appearance was in a sketch where Professor Salamander hypnotized him in episode 520. In The Muppets comic strip, he also took on the responsibilities of running the wardrobe and props departments. His most substantial role was as the owner of the Happiness Hotel in The Great Muppet Caper. He also appeared briefly at the end of the musical number "Scrooge" in The Muppet Christmas Carol. Although barely glimpsed in Muppet Treasure Island, he had a larger role in the video game version, where he runs a clothing store and, as part of a minigame/sidequest, will pay Hawkins if he protects his shop from pirates. After that, Pops wasn't seen for several years. On Muppets Tonight, Bobo the Bear filled the function of greeter, in addition to serving as security guard. However, when The Muppet Theatre re-opened in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, Pops was back on hand selling tickets. In "Kermit's Story," the first in Roger Langridge's four-issue run of The Muppet Show Comic Book, Pops was seen delivering the mail to the Muppets, including the letter to Kermit that sets off the main plot. He often makes appearances in the comic book. At the end of part 2 of The Muppet Show Comic Book: Muppet Mash, when Calistoga Cleo chooses Pops over Statler or Waldorf, Waldorf says "Well, we knew she preferred older guys", implying that Pops is older than Statler and Waldorf. Pops spoke for the first time since performer Jerry Nelson's retirement in an online behind-the-scenes video for the music video of OK Go's cover of "The Muppet Show Theme." Matt Vogel assumed the role at that point, and has spoken for him again in a 2013 Muppisode (with Gordon Ramsay) and in Muppets Most Wanted. Palisades Toys produced a Pops Action Figure in their ninth and final series of Jim Henson's Muppets Action Figures. FILMOGRAPHY The Muppet Show (all season 5 episodes) The Great Muppet Caper The Muppets Go to the Movies Polaroid commercials The Muppets Take Manhattan The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years A Muppet Family Christmas The Muppet Christmas Carol Muppet Treasure Island Muppet Treasure Island (CD-ROM) Muppets Tonight Episode 101: Michelle Pfeiffer It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa The Muppet Show Theme Music Video Muppisodes (2013) Food Fight! Muppets Most Wanted The Muppets Presentation Pilot "Because... Love‎‎" The Muppets Take the Bowl ↑ hide BOOK APPEARANCES Two for the Show Light on Our Feet! On the Town The Phantom of the Muppet Theater The Muppet Show Comic Book issue #1 - "Kermit's Story" The Muppet Show Comic Book issue #3 - "Gonzo's Story" The Muppet Show Comic Book: The Treasure of Peg-Leg Wilson Part 1 The Muppet Show Comic Book: On the Road Part 3 The Muppets Character Encyclopedia

[dronescapesvideos]

The Bell XP-59-1A The first US Jet Powered Aircraft, 1942.

➤➤ JET ENGINE REVOLUTION (Documentary): https://youtu.be/KHeoTpXvYZA

Back then a short, fussy Englishman checked into downtown Boston’s Hotel Statler and made a peculiar set of demands.

After registering at the front desk (today’s Boston Park Plaza) as “Mr. Whitely,” he demanded a phone installed in his room not connected to the main switchboard. Meals must be served in his room and delivered by the same bellhop. And please, no surprise knocks on the door.

The mysterious little man was actually Frank Whittle, a 34-year-old Royal Air Force (RAF) officer, pilot, and inventor of the jet engine. Earlier in the year, he nearly suffered a nervous breakdown from exhaustion while racing to bring England, under attack from Germany, into the jet age...

[deadpresidents]

Waking Up In Dallas: November 22, 1963.

Two American Presidents woke up in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. Neither of them were the two men who actually served as President on that tragic day -- John F. Kennedy or Lyndon B. Johnson.

The 37th President of the United States, 50-year-old Richard Nixon, had arrived in Dallas on November 20th for a conference of the American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages on behalf of Pepsi-Cola, a company that his New York law firm was representing.  On November 21st, Nixon sat down with reporters in his room at the Baker Hotel, where he criticized many of the policies of President Kennedy, his 1960 opponent, who would be arriving in Dallas the next day.  That night, Nixon and Pepsi executives including actress Joan Crawford, who had been married to Pepsi's chairman, Alfred Steele, until his death in 1959, were entertained at the Statler Hilton.

In the early morning of November 22nd, a car dropped Nixon off, alone, at Love Field, the Dallas airport that would host President and Mrs. Kennedy, Vice President Johnson and Mrs. Johnson, and Texas Governor John Connally and his wife in just a few hours.  Nixon later remembered the flags and signs displayed along the motorcade route that Kennedy would soon follow.  Nixon approached the American Airlines ticket counter to check-in for his flight to New York City and told the attendant, "It looks like you're going to have a big day today."

Nixon landed several hours later in New York at an airport that would be renamed after John F. Kennedy a month later.  He described what happened next in his 1978 autobiography, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon:

Arriving in New York, I hailed a cab home.  We drove through Queens toward the 59th Street Bridge, and as we stopped at a traffic light, a man rushed over from the curb and started talking to the driver.  I heard him say, "Do you have a radio in your cab?  I just heard that Kennedy was shot."  We had no radio, and as we continued into Manhattan a hundred thoughts rushed through my mind.  The man could have been crazy or a macabre prankster.  He could have been mistaken about what he had heard; or perhaps a gunman might have shot at Kennedy but missed or only wounded him.  I refused to believe that he could have been killed. As the cab drew up in front of my building, the doorman ran out.  Tears were streaming down his cheeks.  "Oh, Mr. Nixon, have you heard, sir?" he asked.  "It's just terrible.  They've killed President Kennedy."

The close 1960 Presidential election changed the relationship between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, but they had once been very close.  When they first entered Congress together in 1947, they considered each other personal friends, and when Nixon ran for the Senate from California in 1950, JFK stopped into Nixon's office and dropped off a financial contribution to Nixon's campaign from Kennedy's father.  Nixon would later write that he felt as bad on the night of Kennedy's assassination as he had when he lost two brothers to tuberculosis when he was very young.  That night, he wrote an emotional letter to Jacqueline Kennedy:

Dear Jackie, In this tragic hour Pat and I want you to know that our thoughts and prayers are with you. While the hand of fate made Jack and me political opponents I always cherished the fact that we were personal friends from the time we came to the Congress together in 1947.  That friendship evidenced itself in many ways including the invitation we received to attend your wedding. Nothing I could say now could add to the splendid tributes which have come from throughout the world to him. But I want you to know that the nation will also be forever grateful for your service as First Lady.  You brought to the White House charm, beauty and elegance as the official hostess of America, and the mystique of the young in heart which was uniquely yours made an indelible impression on the American consciousness. If in the days ahead we could be helpful in any way we shall be honored to be at your command. Sincerely, Dick Nixon 

••• On the morning of November 22, 1963, the 41st President of the United States also woke up in Dallas, Texas.  George Herbert Walker Bush was the 39-year-old president of the Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company and chairman of the Harris County, Texas Republican Party, and had stayed the night of November 21st at the Dallas Sheraton alongside his wife, Barbara.  Bush was planning a bid for the U.S. Senate in 1964 and making the rounds to line up support amongst many Texans who considered him far too moderate.  One of the groups that was strongest in opposition to Bush was the ultra-right wing John Birch Society, which had recently been lodging vehement protests against President Kennedy's upcoming visit to Dallas.

Conspiracy theorists claim that there were far more sinister motives for George Bush being in Dallas on November 22, 1963.  Some claim that Bush was a secret CIA operative involved in planning or even carrying out the assassination of President Kennedy.  Some even argue that a grainy photograph of a man resembling Bush taken shortly after the assassination proves that Bush was actually in Dealey Plaza at the time of Kennedy's shooting.

He wasn't.  He wasn't even in Dallas.  We know where George Herbert Walker Bush was at the time of JFK's assassination -- we have plenty of eyewitnesses who can confirm it.  While Lee Harvey Oswald was shooting President Kennedy, George Bush was about 100 miles away from Dallas, in Tyler, Texas, speaking at a Kiwanis Club luncheon.  Like Nixon, Bush and his wife, Barbara, had also boarded a plane that morning in Dallas -- a private plane that transported them to Tyler for the Kiwanis Club event.  While Bush was speaking, word of the President's assassination reached the luncheon and the local club president, Wendell Cherry, leaned over and gave the news to Bush.  Bush quickly notified the crowd, and said, "In view of the President's death, I consider it inappropriate to continue with a political speech at this time."  He ended his speech and sat down while the luncheon broke up in stunned silence. 

Bush's wife, Barbara, wasn't at the Kiwanis Club luncheon.  While her husband was speaking, Barbara Bush went to a beauty parlor in Tyler to get her hair styled.  As her hair was being done, Barbara began writing a letter to family and heard the news over the radio that JFK had been shot and then that the President had died.  In her 1994 memoir, Barbara included the letter, part of which said:

I am writing this at the Beauty Parlor, and the radio says that the President has been shot.  Oh Texas -- my Texas -- my God -- let's hope it's not true.  I am sick at heart as we all are.  Yes, the story is true and the Governor also.  How hateful some people are. Since, the beauty parlor, the President has died.  We are once again on a plane.  This time a commercial plane.  Poppy (George H.W. Bush's family nickname) picked me up at the beauty parlor -- we went right to the airport, flew to Ft. Worth and dropped Mr. Zeppo off (we were on his plane) and flew back to Dallas.  We had to circle the field while the second Presidential plane took off.  Immediately, Pop got tickets back to Houston, and here we are flying home.  We are sick at heart.  The tales the radio reporters tell of Jackie Kennedy are the bravest.  We are hoping that it is not some far-right nut, but a "commie" nut.  You understand that we know they are both nuts, but just hope that it is not a Texan and not an American at all. I am amazed by the rapid-fire thinking and planning that has already been done.  LBJ has been the President for some time now -- two hours at least and it is only 4:30. My dearest love to you all, Bar

As Barbara Bush noted in her letter, the Bushes did not stay another night at the Dallas Sheraton on November 22nd, as they had originally planned.  They returned to Dallas on the private jet that had transported them to Tyler earlier in the day, and caught a commercial flight home to Houston.  The "second Presidential plane" that took off while Bush's plane circled Love Field was the plane that had transported Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson to Dallas earlier that day, Air Force Two.  Johnson was already heading back to Washington, now on Air Force One, with the casket of John F. Kennedy.

••• The 37th President of the United States and the 41st President of the United States woke up in Dallas, Texas on the morning of November 22, 1963.  The 31st President, 89-year-old Herbert Hoover, was in failing health in the elegant suite he called home at New York's Waldorf-Astoria.  Within the next few weeks, he would be visited by the new President, Lyndon Johnson, and President Kennedy's grieving widow, Jackie, and the President's brother, Attorney General Bobby Kennedy.  The 33rd President, 79-year-old Harry Truman, learned of JFK's death in Missouri, while the 34th President, 73-year-old Dwight D. Eisenhower, heard of the assassination while attending a meeting at the United Nations in New York.  Truman and Eisenhower would squash a long, bitter personal feud that weekend while attending Kennedy's funeral in Washington.  The 38th President, 50-year-old Michigan Congressman Gerald Ford, was driving home with his wife Betty after attending a parent conference with their son Jack's teacher when they heard the news on the radio in their car.  Two days later, President Johnson would call on Ford to serve on the Warren Commission investigating the assassination.  

The 39th President, Jimmy Carter was 39 years old and had just gotten off a tractor near the warehouse of his Plains, Georgia peanut farm when a group of farmers informed him of the news of the shooting.  Carter found a quiet area, kneeled down in prayer, and when he heard that Kennedy had died, cried for the first time since his father had died ten years earlier.  Ronald Reagan, the 40th President, was 52 years old and preparing for a run as Governor of California.  A little more than 17 years later, the now-President Reagan would also be shot by a lone gunman in the middle of the day.  While Reagan would survive the attempt on his life, it was very nearly fatal and reminded his wife, Nancy, of November 22, 1963.  As she was transported to George Washington Hospital following Reagan's shooting, Nancy would later note, "As my mind raced, I flashed to scenes of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Texas, and the day President Kennedy was shot.  I had been driving down San Vicente Boulevard in Los Angeles when a bulletin came over the car radio.  Now, more than seventeen years later, I prayed that history would not be repeated, that Washington would not become another Dallas.  That my husband would live."

The 41st President, Bill Clinton, and the 43rd President, George W. Bush, were both 17 years old and in school -- Bush at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and Clinton at Hot Springs High School in Hot Springs, Arkansas.  Clinton was in his fourth period calculus class when his teacher was called out of the room and returned to announce that President Kennedy had been killed.  Four months earlier, Clinton had traveled to Washington with the Boys Nation program and, during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House, pushed his way to the front of the line and shook President Kennedy's hand.  The 44th President, Barack Obama, was a 2-year-old living in Hawaii.

••• The 35th President, 46-year-old John F. Kennedy, would die in Dallas on November 22, 1963.  Lyndon B. Johnson, 55, would become the 36th President in Dallas that day.  But they woke up that morning in Fort Worth at the Texas Hotel.  Kennedy had slept the last night of his life in suite 850 on the eighth floor, now the Presidential suite.  LBJ had slept the last night of his Vice Presidency in the much more expensive and elegant Will Rogers Suite on the thirteenth floor.  The Secret Service had vetoed the Will Rogers Suite for the President because it was more difficult to secure.  It was raining in Fort Worth as they woke up, but the skies had cleared by the time they landed in Dallas.  Before breakfast, President Kennedy, Vice President Johnson, and Texas Governor John Connally headed outside and briefly addressed a crowd that had gathered long before the sun had come up in hopes of seeing JFK.  Jacqueline Kennedy didn't accompany them outside and President Kennedy joked to the crowd, "Mrs. Kennedy is organizing herself.  It takes her a little longer but, of course, she looks better than we do when she does it."

Afterward, they headed inside for breakfast in the Texas Hotel's Grand Ballroom with several hundred guests.  The President sent for Mrs. Kennedy to join them, and her late arrival to the breakfast excited the guests in the ballroom.  When the President spoke to the group, he joked again, "Two years ago I introduced myself in Paris as the man who had accompanied Mrs. Kennedy to Paris.  I'm getting somewhat that same sensation as I travel around Texas."  Then he noted, "Nobody wonders what Lyndon and I wear."

When the breakfast ended, the Kennedys headed upstairs and had an hour or so to wait before heading to the airport for the short flight to Dallas.  It was during this time that Jackie Kennedy saw a hateful ad placed in that morning's Dallas Morning News accusing President Kennedy of collusion with Communists and treasnous activity.  Trying to calm Jackie down, the President joked, "Oh, we're heading into nut country today."  But a few minutes later, Jackie overheard Kennedy telling his aide, Ken O'Donnell, "It would not be a very difficult job to shoot the President of the United States.  All you'd have to do is get up in a high building with a high-powered rifle with a telescopic sight, and there's nothing anybody can do."

••• Even though the trip from Fort Worth's Carswell Air Force Base to Dallas's Love Field would only take thirteen minutes by air, the trip to Texas was first-and-foremost a political trip -- a kickoff of sorts to JFK's 1964 re-election campaign -- and a grand entrance was needed.  So, JFK and Jackie boarded the plane usually used as Air Force One, LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson boarded the plane usually used by the Vice President, Air Force Two, and the huge Presidential party took to the skies, covering thirty miles in thirteen minutes, in order to get the big Dallas welcome that they were hoping for.  They landed in Dallas at 11:40 AM, and President Kennedy looked out the window of his plane, saw a big, happy crowd, and told Ken O'Donnell, "This trip is turning out to be terrific.  Here we are in Dallas, and it looks like everything in Texas is going to be fine for us."

At 2:47 PM -- just three hours and seven minutes later -- everyone was back on Air Force One as the plane climbed off of the Love Field runway and into the Dallas sky.  John F. Kennedy, the 35th President, was in a casket wedged into a space in the rear of Air Force One where two rows of seats had been removed so that it would be fit.  Lyndon B. Johnson had officially been sworn in as the 36th President about ten minutes earlier on the plane by federal judge Sarah T. Hughes.  On one side of Johnson while he took the oath was his wife, Lady Bird, and on the other side, the widowed former First Lady, Jackie Kennedy, still wearing a pink dress splattered with her husband's blood and brain matter.

Two American Presidents woke up in Dallas on November 22, 1963 -- Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush -- but they weren't in town when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, no matter how many ways conspiracy theorists try to twist the story.  The President who died in Dallas that day, John F. Kennedy, and the man who became President in Dallas that day, Lyndon B. Johnson, woke up in Fort Worth on the morning of November 22, 1963.  But they'll be forever linked with Dallas -- and the world that woke up the next morning would never be the same again.    

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

—Dwight D Eisenhower, Remarks at Fourth Annual Republican Women's National Conference, Statler Hotel, New York, Mar 6, 1956

[Robert Scott Horton]

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Eleanor Roosevelt at FDR’s Birthday Ball at the Statler Hotel in Washington DC, with Red Skelton, William O. Douglas, Lucille Ball, John Garfield, Maria Montez and others January, 1944.

[stoplookingup]

Another little piece of fandom history: Back in the day, when you wanted convention info, this was one way to get it. I received this letter in response to an inquiry I'd sent to the Star Trek Welcommittee, a fan-run information clearinghouse. I found out later that Sandy Yingling was also editor of the zine The Halkan Council, which famously put the slash in Kirk/Spock.

December 31, 1975

Dear ____.

Thank you for your letter; convention information is my specialty! I'm a volunteer worker with STW. Since there is so much mail being directed to Helen Young, she has a staff of strong, dependable crew members (ahem) to help answer letters.

The information you want that George Takei was advertising: There is a convention in January called the International Star Trek Convention. It runs from January 16 through the 19th. It is being held at the Statler-Hilton Hotel. The confirmed guests are James Doohan and Nichelle Nichols. They will have a dealers room, where you can pick up all sorts of ST things, and auctions, a costume show, art show, autograph sessions, ST episodes, etc. Unfortunately, you missed the deadline for lower rates, so it's $18.00 at the door. The convention address for further information is: ISTC Headquarters, 280 Kipp St, Hackensack NJ 07601.

Ther is also going to be a convention in February at the Commodore. A flyer about it is enclosed. Please note it's FIVE days long!

If you want to help out, there are always helpers at conventions, and you can ask at the information desk about becoming one.

If you're interested in helping out with STW, I suggest you subscribe to the monthly newsletter, become acquainted with many aspects of ST and its fandom, then write to Diana Watson, _________ and tell her you want to join STW. I'm sure she'd be interested in hearing from you!

Please let me know how the conventions work out (I'm going to the one in February; maybe I'll see you there!)

Live long and Prosper,

Sandy Yingling

[crazy-god-bunker-jughead]

My perfected “Muppets’ Mamma Mia” casting:

Sophie (and Sky) is the token human. It’s a running joke that both of her parents are muppets and she’s not.

Miss Piggy plays Donna, obviously. Janice plays Tanya, and Camilla the Chicken is Rosie.

Kermit plays Sam. Fozzie is Harry, and Gonzo plays Bill.

Pepé plays Pepper.

Statler and Waldorf are hotel guests judging everyone from the background.

[ariel-seagull-wings]

FICTIONAL CHARACTER ASK: FOZZIE BEAR

(Asked by popular vote on the polls)

@thealmightyemprex @amalthea9 @angelixgutz @moonbeamelf @queerfloydpepper @mx-piggy @softlytowardthesun @princesssarisa @silverfoxstole @goodanswerfoxmonster @professorlehnsherr-almashy

Favorite Thing About Them: He started out a bit proudfull, erroneously thinking that to proove to others that he was a good comedian, he "had to work alone". But slowly he evolved into a character who wasn't afrayed of showing vulnerability nor ashamed of asking his friends to help him out, and with their support Fozzie started to make comedy not to proove something to anyone, but out of love for comedy. Somedays will be good, somedays will be bad, the harsh criticisms will hit hard on his self steem, but he always regains confidence to get on the stage again. And Fozzie is so gratefull for the encouragement he receives that he becomes one of the most loyal and kind friends of Kermit and the other Muppets, sharing his shoulder for them to cry and his support when they are feeling down or even in great danger.

Least Favorite Thing About Them: As somebody who prefers to stick with plans, I relate to his mother's frustration when Fozzie appears by surprise in her house and brings all friends along without asking her if she can prepare herself to receive them as guests, making her cancell a travel that she has been waiting for days.

Three Things I Have In Common With Them:

* I deal with self steem problems;

* I can be bumbling and awkward in social interactions;

* I consider comedy the greatest comfort in my life;

Three Things I Don't Have In Common With Them:

* I'm not a bear;

* I'm not working as a stand-up comedian;

* I don't wear a tie;

Favorite Line:

From The Muppet Show

"I went to a resort hotel for a change and a rest. The waiter got the change and the hotel got the rest!"

"Fozzie: Say, a funny thing happened to me on the way to the theater. At the stage door, I passed a bunch of Muppet fans and suddenly, I hear...

Kermit: GOOD GRIEF, THE COMEDIA'S A BEAR!

Fozzie: No he's a-not. He's a wearin' a neck-a-tie!"

"Rowlf: Oh Fozzie, what are you carrying the fish for?

Fozzie: Oh, just for the halibut!"

"Rowlf: Oh Fozzie, what are you carrying the hoop for?

Fozzie: Because Statler and Waldorf are always saying the show is hoop-less!"

"Rowlf: I said can you play hat-less?!

Fozzie: I don't know! Who wrote it?"

"Fozzie: Would you lend me a fiver 'till pay day?

Kermit: Fozzie, you already owe me five!

Fozzie: Oh, please, please! I know it, but I gotta pay my writer: the legendary Gags Beasley.

Kermit: "The legendary Gags" comes pretty cheap, doesn't he?

Fozzie: Well, we worked out a pretty good deal.

Kermit: Oh, you pay him by the line?

Fozzie: No, I pay him for the laugh.

Kermit: Oh, then he owes you money!"

"Fozzie: Hey, did you hear the one about the bed?

Kermit: Uh, no.

Fozzie: That's good 'cause I haven't made it up yet!"

"Scooter: Hello, and what's your name?

Fozzie: Mike Oznowiski.

Scooter: Oh, so you're the telephone pole!"

"Kermit: Fozzie, what is that?!

Fozzie: I'm the Tin Woodsman.

Kermit: There's no Tin Woodsman in Alice in Wonderland!

Fozzie: Alice in Wonderland? I tought we were doing Peter Pan!"

"Fozzie: Kermit, are you feeling okay? You look kinda green.

Kermit: I'm always green!

Fozzie: How do you know when you're sick?"

"Fozzie: Now, I am going to pull a rabbit out of this hat. 1, 2, 3 Presto!

Rabbi: Shalom!

Robin: Fozzie, that's not a rabbit, that's a rabbi!

Fozzie: You was expecting the Pope maybe?"

From The Jim Henson Hour

"Showbiz! The first time you open the script to see the magic, the excitement, the adventure...and how many lines you got."

From The Muppet Movie

"Here I am, Fozzie Bear. To tell you jokes both old and rare."

"Fozzie: Once, there was this sailor who was so bad...

Sailor: How bad was he?

Fozzie: Uh... he was so bad that everybody liked him and there was nothing funny about him at all."

"Kermit: Fozzie, where did you learn to drive?

Fozzie: I took a correspondence course."

"Fozzie: Oh, I'm so nervous. If I'm not funny, I won't be able to live with myself.

Bunsen: Well then, you'll have to get another apartment, won't you?"

"They don't look like Presbyterians to me."

"Kermit: Fozzie.

Fozzie: Yes.

Kermit: Uh, bear left.

Fozzie: What?

Kermit: Bear left!

Fozzie: Right, frog.

Kermit: What?"

From The Great Muppet Caper

"Kermit: Great Britain! We're actually in Great Britain!

Fozzie: Oh no! We'll never get to England now!"

"Fozzie: Kermit, are bears allowed in these fountains?

Kermit: What?

Fozzie: Are bears allowed in these fountains?

Kermit: No, I don't think so.

Fozzie: I need a bath."

"Boy, a classy place like this you'd think they'd have pretzels on the table."

"Ya' know, if you put enough sugar in this stuff it tastes just like ginger ale!"

From The Muppets Take Manhattan

"Scooter: Listen, all I'm saying is that maybe it's time we all went out on our own.

Fozzie: You mean 'out on our own' alone? Without even each other even?"

From Muppet Treasure Island

"Bunsen: How unfortuitous our firearms weren't loaded.

Fozzie: I'll say. We might have shot somebody."

From Muppets from Space

"Kermit: We have to save Gonzo from a whole army of Goverment agents.

Fozzie: I have a joke book."

From The Muppets at the Walt Disney World

"Kermit, you don't understand. You are asking us to choose between Walt Disney World and fried bugs!"

From Muppets Online

"Why did the chicken cross the web? To get to the other site!"

"Last night, I was on the computer so late that today, I had to take an-pp."

From The Muppets Haunted Mansion

"Fozzie: Hiya hiya hiya. Boy, you're an scary audience. Usually I'm worried about dying up here, but it looks like you beat me to it!

Statler and Waldorf: Boo! Boo!

Fozzie: Oh no, not you guys. Don't you have anything better to do than boo me?

Waldorf: We're ghosts!

Statler: Yeah, booing comes with the territory!"

brOTP: Kermit the Frog, Robin the Frog, Rowlf the Dog, Miss Piggy, Link Hogthrob, Gonzo the Great, Animal, Scooter, Skeeter, Bunsen Honeydew, Beaker, Janice, Sweetums, Sam the Eagle, Rizzo the Rat, Yolanda the Rat, Pepe the King Prawn, Bean Bunny, Clifford, Bobo the Bear, Statler, Waldorf.

OTP: Link Hogthrob, Kermit the Frog, Rowlf the Dog, Gonzo the Great, Scooter, Skeeter, Beth Bear, Dora Bear, Becky.

nOTP: Miss Piggy, Animal, Statler, Waldorf.

Random Headcanon: Fozzie once tried to get a job in a circus, but gaved up because the owner insisted in making him a Wild Bear to be Tamed instead of giving him the job of clown he actually wanted.

Unpopular Opinion: It's time for a Muppet movie or special to have Fozzie experiencing a personal conflict as the main plot focus. We have a sitcom, several movies and specials focusing on Kermit and Miss Piggy, and several movies and specials focusing on Gonzo by now. Fozzie is Kermit's best friend and the emotional hearth of the group, who is capable of much pathos just as he is capable of providing comic relief. I believe he has the right to be the main lead in a project just like his friends have been.

Song I Associate With Them:

Movin' Right Along

Oklahoma

Close to You

Knees Up Mother Brown

Wotcher Knocked 'Em In the Old Kent Road

An Actor's Life For Me

You're Special to Me

Best Friends

Favorite Picture of Them:

Solo Posing

With his Mother

With his best friend, Kermit the Frog

As a baby in The Muppets Take Manhattan

As a baby in the 1984 cartoon series Muppet Babies

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#Nixon50 #OTD 2/8/1974 President Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon dined at Trader Vic's in the Statler Hilton Hotel with Julie and David Eisenhower, Vice President and Mrs. Ford, former Ambassador to Italy and author Clare Boothe Luce, Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott and Mrs. Scott, and others. (Image: WHPO-E2192-06A)