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Performers

• There was talk about only naming main performers at the beginning of the article, and including alternates in a History section further down. Did we decide on a standard for this?

Either way, if Adam Hunt is listed in the Performer box at the top, Matt Vogel should be, too. -- Scarecroe 22:25, 21 Dec 2005 (UTC)

• Yeah, I thought I'd include Adam because it was a movie role, but you're right, he shouldn't really be up there just for one line. I'll take him out. -- Toughpigs 01:00, 22 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Out of Retirement?

• I had heard once that they were going to retire the character of Scooter shortly after Richard Hunt died in honor of him. Does anyone know if this is true &, if so, what compelled them to bring him back? (Not that I don't mind seeing Scooter back...) -Sbartok 03:33, 21 Dec 2005 (UTC)-
• I don't know for sure, but I always figured that the rumors of character "retirements" were greatly exaggerrated. They were slow to recast the characters in general -- Kermit was the only recast character for a while. There were a couple more recasts in Muppet Christmas Carol -- Beaker and the Swedish Chef -- but they held off on recasting some of the other Muppet characters until much later. So I don't know if they "retired" Scooter so much as just didn't recast him for a while. Janice actually got recast later than Scooter did. In the last few years, especially with Eric Jacobson taking over many of Frank Oz's characters, they've become a lot more assertive with recasting old characters. So now everybody's coming back -- Rowlf, Dr. Teeth, Scooter, Janice. -- Toughpigs 04:21, 21 Dec 2005 (UTC)

While many other characters performed by Richard Hunt (and Jim Henson) weren't recast for a long time, at least most of their charactrers made non-speaking appearances from time to time. Scooter, however, did not appear at all in any new productions made between 1992 and 1999. --Minor muppetz 23:04, 23 May 2006 (UTC)