Can Someone Tell Me Where Peter Linz Is At Right Now ? I Need To Talk To Him Becase I Need Him To Tell Me Hey , Muppet Mindset Tell Peter Linz That I Said Hi To Him This Interview Is Very Good I love It So Much Peter Linz You Are A Good Puppeteer I Love Walter The Muppet So Much He Makes My Day get Started he Is A Cute Muppet That Way To Be Like That .
It's funny: Peter couldn't play Ernie exactly like Jim or Steve did, and he didn't try to, because he was always acutely conscious of his own uniqueness as he moved through the course of performing the character, yet here he is speaking to Ernie having a sweet side like nobody before him.
I remember being blown away by Peter Linz's Ernie voice, because it bears an uncanny resemblance to Steve Whitmire's Ernie. I remember thinking he sounded WAY better than Billy Barkhurst, who succeeded Steve and preceded Peter. And Peter is also a very good Herry Monster.
Matt Danner just recently won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Preschool Animated Program for playing Kermit, Rowlf, Mr. Waldorf, Beaker and Chef on Muppet Babies.
The original Muppet Babies won 7 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Film Sound Editing, Outstanding Children's Animated Program, Outstanding Children's Animated Program, Outstanding Children's Animated Program, Outstanding Children's Animated Program, Outstanding Film Sound Editing and Outstanding Film Sound Mixing.
I'm guessing when Chris first came on the show, he was shown to be Gordon's nephew, something that was greatly downplayed as he got more screentime and the older humans appeared less.
In regards to making Summer an official Muppet, that would be good, but I don't think it will happen. I have 3 reasons why , but you mentioned one of them (the gender imbalance), so I'll mention the other two. www.mentalfloss.com/article/75596/her-name-was-skeeter-mystery-missing-muppet When it comes to Disney Junior shows based on/connected to properties meant for older audiences, any new characters introduced in these shows would not appear in other official Disney projects. Take for example, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Mickey And The Roadster Racers (or Mickey Mouse Mixed Up Adventures as it's now called). The former has the character of Toodles and the latter has (among many others) Billy Beagle and Emmy Lou. Once the former show ended, Toodles never appeared in any other Disney media, not in a major role anyway. I'm going to assume it's the case for the latter. There's also something like Sofia The First, where she's interacted with characters from various Disney movies, but is not considered an official Disney princess. Elena Of Avalor is in the same boat. And then we have The Lion Guard, introducing Kion and his friends, who only appear in this show. That's it. So, I'm thinking that once this show ends, she won't be considered an official Muppet. In this interview I found from 2016, it mentions a quote from Frank Oz. The article is lengthy, but I want to highlight one thing. He (quoting from Frank) mentions wanting to keep the Muppets aimed for more of an adult audience. That's not to say to exclude kids, but make it more for older viewers as the target demographic. Both Muppet Babies shows target young kids , and while still having a healthy audience of both kids and adults, are definitely meant to be sweeter and more light-hearted. Perhaps for better comparison, look at Sesame Street, which has an adult audience, but the target audience is young kids due to the emphasis on an educational curriculum. Even back in the early years, this was always the case due to the Muppets having a more distinct edge. It's also why the show has no problem bringing in characters from international versions of Sesame Street since they have the same audience. If the character of Summer was introduced in an older skewing Muppet project, then she could be an official Muppet. As it is, that's not going to happen.
On Sesame Street, as you said the specials they've been doing the past few years have been great. Why not just change the show's format to a 22 minute version of the specials? That way it'd give the story breathing room, you'll be able to fit in a lot of characters, and it would basically be a street story but longer.