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Who was the greatest character Jerry Nelson voiced?

Statler
5 (8.9%)
Count von Count
21 (37.5%)
Gobo Fraggle
0 (0%)
Marjory the Trash Heap
1 (1.8%)
Pa Gorg
0 (0%)
The Amazing Mumford
0 (0%)
Robin the Frog
1 (1.8%)
Snuffleupagus
27 (48.2%)
Other
1 (1.8%)

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Offline karajorma

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It's R.I.P. to Jerry Nelson, the puppeteer behind Sesame Street's resident number expert Count von Count.

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    Jerry Nelson born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1934
    Worked with Jim Henson's muppeteers in 1965
    Joined Sesame Street in its second season in early 1970s
    Also provided voices for woolly mammoth puppet Mr Snuffleupagus, Herry Monster and Amazing Mumford
    Reportedly based Count von Count's accent on Dracula actor Bela Lugosi
    Involved in other Henson projects such as 1984 film The Muppets Take Manhattan, and TV's Fraggle Rock and Muppets Tonight


Full story here. Apparently he died about a week ago but no one posted.
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Well, so much for the Snuffy...
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This should've been a poll :nono:
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Poll added. For the first time ever Snuffleupagus is on topic!
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Despite its being actually on-topic for once and its traditional nature, I actually have to vote for the Count. In the meantime, I bring you, via aldo (hey, who here remembers aldo?), scenes of mourning from the HLP Headquarters in Socialist Snuffleupagusia.


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The Count???????

TRAVESTY!
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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That one time I got permabanned and got to read who was being bitxhy about me :p....
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for once voting snuffy has meaning.
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The count is cooler. Just is. Sorry. :p
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Yeah so I definitely saw this topic and thought the admins got annoyed and were putting the banhammer to Snuffy poll options.  :nervous:  P.S. I think Snuffy has an unfair advantage in this poll.  He got my vote, just for being Snuffy, and I've never actually heard any of the the characters Jerry Nelson voiceacted.

 

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I did have to go with the Count, because...I mean...the Count.  But yeah, between Jerry Nelson and Neil Armstrong, it's been a rough week. :(

 
I have to vote for "The All-Knowing, All-Seeing Trash-Heap, NYAHHHH!"

Just cuz.  She was awesome.  I tried watching Fraggle Rock with my kids a year or so back.  It wasn't quite as cool as my childhood memories made it out to be, but I still love Marjorie and her minions.

So many childhood heroes passing away.   :(
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He got my vote, just for being Snuffy, and I've never actually heard any of the the characters Jerry Nelson voiceacted.

What rock are you living under that you've never heard of Count Von Count or Statler and Waldorf?
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He got my vote, just for being Snuffy, and I've never actually heard any of the the characters Jerry Nelson voiceacted.

What rock are you living under that you've never heard of Count Von Count or Statler and Waldorf?

No TV growing up, still no TV now.  :P  Internet was dial-up from '96 ish till beginning of 2007. 

EDIT: [rant] And, currently, I'm on HughesNet satellite, which basically means I have a 24-hour stream of ~6KB/s filling up a "download/upload bucket", which I can use very fast, but the bucket tops off at ~700MB (about 48 hours worth of 6 KB/s, IIRC), and I'm sharing that bucket with my wife and my landlord's family too.  This is called their "Fair Access Policy" which they put in place to prevent "abuse" of the "high" speeds offered by HughesNet (read: downloading anything worth mention and "slowing down the rest of the goode Hughes folk"), violation of this "Fair Use" by downloading/uploading more than the amount of data in the bucket, will result in speeds being throttled down to about half of the bucket fill rate, so about ~3KB/s, pretty much unuseable.... however, fear not, for the reasonable sum of $10 per use, HughesNet will place 24 hours' worth of download capacity, a "token", in your 'bucket'... not sure how this affects the "Fair Use" of the other goode Hughes folk, however... Note that for a 350MB / 24hr period allowance, my landlord is paying ~$90 per month.  The reason HughesNet can continue to exist is that the only alternative is actual dial-up.  In some locations, you can get cell-based internet, but then you're capped at 5GB transfer a month... which turns out to be depressingly close to what HN currently offers.  However, at least cell service would be reliable, but we are in a non-covered area... I have to use a cell amp just to get barely enough to send/receive texts and sometimes (good weather, right spot in the house) make a voice call.[/rant]
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Count and Snuffy are even. :P
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Wait he was Statler?

Crap. If I had but noticed.
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According to the IMDB, he was the voice of Statler, he's mentioned several times so I suspect it's legit.
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He voiced Statler???  NO!!!!  Oh, that is just too much to bear.

[sniff] :(

My wife and I wanted to be Statler and Waldorf when we grew up.
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