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Lew Zealand’s act involves boomerang fish. "I throw them away, and they come back to me!" He has appeared in all of the Muppet movies except Kermit's Swamp Years.

Lew's first appearance was in episode 310 of The Muppet Show, where his timely boomerang fish throwing saved Kermit from being tricked into a real marriage during Miss Piggy's "wedding sketch."

Lew Zealand was meant to only appear in that one episode, and he was made from a Whatnot designed by Dave Goelz. However, after that, a more permanent puppet was built and Lew Zealand became a regular character. ^[1]

Aside from his boomerang fish act, Lew supplied the Muppets with paper towels in The Great Muppet Caper, played one of the merry men in the Muppets production of Robin Hood, and told Leslie Uggams how to be a great boomerang fish thrower: "Well, you gotta have sole. And if you can't get sole, use halibut."

  I think Lew was my tribute to Frankie Fountaine. He had that dopey voice, but he could sing beautifully. We never did that part of it on the show, but just the idea of this guy who had a boomerang fish act. There were some really ridiculous acts on the show, and that was one of the all-time dopey ones.^[2]  

Casting historyEdit

• Jerry Nelson - from The Muppet Show (1978) to Muppet Party Cruise video game (2003)
• Bill Barretta - from It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002) and The Muppets Wizard of Oz (2005)
• Matt Vogel - from Letters to Santa (2008) to Present

AppearancesEdit

FilmographyEdit

Book appearancesEdit

• It's The Muppet Show!
• Robin Hood (1980)
• Two for the Show
• Fozzie's Funnies
• If You Were Kermit
• The Muppet Show Comic Book
• Muppet Robin Hood
• Muppet King Arthur
• Muppet Peter Pan
• Muppet Snow White

Character merchandiseEdit

• Lew Zealand Action Figure
• Lew Zealand Bust

SourcesEdit

1. ↑ The Muppet Show Fan Club Newsletter, Volume 2, Number 5, page 3.
2. ↑ Nelson, Jerry http://www.toughpigs.com/a-chat-with-jerry-nelson-part-2/

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