Scooter (Muppet) facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Scooter |
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| First appearance | The Muppet Show (1976) |
| Created by | Jim Henson |
| Voiced by | Greg Berg (Muppet Babies) |
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| Species | Muppet |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Gofer / Stage manager |
Scooter is a Muppet character known for being the backstage stage manager, utility stage crew member, and general all-around "gofer" on The Muppet Show. He was originally performed by Richard Hunt until his death in 1992, and is currently performed by David Rudman. Scooter was claimed to be designed after young Angus King III, the son of Jim Henson's friend and now US senator Angus King Jr.
Characteristics
Scooter is orange with a darker orange sprout of hair. In keeping with the jokes about bespectacled Muppets such as Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Scooter's eyes are actually the lenses of his glasses. Behind the glasses frames, there's nothing but his orange skin (although unlike Bunsen, whose glasses were transparent, Scooter had actual "eyes" with pupils that were attached to the glasses' lenses). Hunt based Scooter's personality on his own self from when he was younger and his voice is a western accent.
A few things have been revealed about Scooter's family. As cited in Of Muppets and Men, when pressed about his family, he explained that his mother was a parrot but he didn't know about his father. However, this is not necessarily canonical. Scooter's uncle J.P. Grosse is clearly a humanoid Muppet, suggesting that Scooter is meant to be one as well.
Scooter's appearance is similar to a gopher, which may be a pun on his job as a "gofer".
In the animated series Muppet Babies, he was redesigned as a brainy, computer-knowledgeable child and given a tomboyish twin sister named Skeeter, who never appeared as a live-action Muppet. However, she later appears as an adult in the Muppet Show comic series story arc "Family Reunion".
