Muppet Casting Rules
Because you can't just do whatever you want when you're casting the muppets.
Rule #1:You get ONE Human celebrity actor to play a character. This can be a main protagonist, a villain, a joke character, whoever fits best, but you only get one TRUE "celebrity" guest.
Rule #2: You may have multiple celebrity cameos, but their characters must appear only once and then never again, otherwise the celebrity counts as your one true celebrity role.
Rule #3: You may have two additional non-celebrity human actors to play roles where necessary. Generally this should be one man/boy and one woman/girl, but gender is a construct and this rule can be flexible depending on the roles in question.
Rule #4: Muppets should not be cast as multiple characters unless it is a story where two roles are traditionally played by the same actor (ie, the wolf and the prince in Into the Woods). Each muppet should only have one character in the story that they play.
Rule #5: The exception to rule number 4 is Miss Piggy, who may play multiple roles (as she does in Muppet Wizard of Oz) if the roles all make sense for her to play. This is both because she is really the only female muppet of note, and because, let's face it darling, she has the range.
Rule #6: You get ONE Unique Muppet per show. This should only be used once all other possible casting options have been exhausted, but an original muppet may be designed in order to fill a role that's particularly difficult to cast with current existing muppets and the One Celebrity and Additional Humans have already been used.
Rule #7: Background characters can be a mix of human and muppets, the ratio is dependent on the story itself. However, background characters are only really worth mentioning in the case of musicals, when discussing ensemble pieces.
Rule #8: Finally, any and all of these rules are in fact breakable if the end result is funny enough to justify it.
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This group drawing of a ton of characters I have hyperfixated on for my pinned post and other socials :3 the tags are awful on this I apologize.
The list is in the read more.
Goes from left to right.
Carlos (muppet babies)
Robin (the muppets)
Rabbit (steam Powered Giraffe)
Lil bulb (Ducktales 1987)
Boober Fraggle and Sidebottom Fraggle (Fraggle Rock)
Tomatoredd (eddsworld)
Yellow guy (Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared)
Jackson Jekyll and Holt Hyde (Monster High)
Walter (The Muppets)
Fresh Sans (Undertale AUs)
Mettaton (Undertale)
Nine (bfdi)
Oliver Swift (Dialtown)
Fern the Human (adventure time)
Bot (Inanimate Insanity)
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clueless!scooter x easily flustered!walter just hits differently
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Muppet Fact #801
Walter has said in an interview that he owns all of the Palisades Toys Muppet figurines except for the Dr. Teeth Variant Action Figure, which was a Wizard World East convention exclusive in 2002.
Sources:
Dr. Teeth Variant Action Figure. Muppet Wiki.
"Walter Palisades." MuppetWiki. YouTube. February 8, 2023.
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he’s Thinking,,,,,, Very Hard 🤔 🧐
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you know who i think deserves a bit better? WALTER
first off he is barely advertised, and barely appears in merch. when have you ever seen a walter mug. maybe that is an exaggeration. my point stands he does not really have much i think. weird because he is advertised as a NEW MEMBER of the muppets all throughout the movie’s campaigns and other disney monopolies seem to capitalize off that aspect (COUGH MARVEL AND STAR WARS)
he didnt even get mentioned in the muppets 2015 mockumentary. maybe it is for the better because lets be real that series made odd choices. however it is so insane that no one even thinks of walter considering he helped saved the studio, brought the muppets back together, and HELPED BREAK KERMIT OUT THE GULAG. walter i see u. ur efforts do not go unnoticed to me. i think if walter was in the series he’d fix kermit and piggy’s relationship in like 2 eps so maybe thats why he was not there
TBH its kinda silly to me that he didn’t notice a russian criminal took kermit’s place considering how hes muppets superfan but i can gloss over that considering no one else did. whatever its funny
ill probs make a post abt muppets 2015 on its own ESPECIALLY scooter’s characterization because wow that was. Ewwww…
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