Alice Otter

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Alice Otter is Emmet Otter's mother in Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas.

Alice and her son Emmet live together in a small house next to the river in Frogtown Hollow. Alice is good friends with Hetty Muskrat.

Times have been tough for the Otter family, especially since Alice's husband died. To make money, she takes in laundry, knits socks, and bakes pumpkin pies. Emmet does odd jobs for neighbors using Pa's old tools.

Alice Otter used to own a piano, but she hocked it for money. She loves to sing and really wants to buy Emmet that guitar with the mother of pearl inlace he saw at The Music Store for Christmas.

After participating in the annual Waterville talent contest, Alice and the Frogtown Jubilee Jug Band become employed by Doc Bullfrog with a permanent gig singing and playing at the Riverside Rest.

Alice was puppeteered by Frank Oz with Marilyn Sokol dubbing the voice of the character afterwards. For the songs, Oz performed the puppet to Sokol's pre-recorded tracks.

As with several other characters in the special, a marionette version of the Alice Otter puppet was used for several shots.