NameEdit

This name has bothered me for awhile. Checking the episode, there's at least a source for the "Screaming Thing" appellation, in Statler's dialogue, as captioned above. But the "three legged" is based purely on appearances and apparently coined by Kermitage; shortening to "Screaming Thing" seems appropriate. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 21:32, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, double checking, there's no source but Kermitage and the like, and it's been perpetuated elsewhere (and thanks to the Wiki, even shows up on the German and Polish Wikipedias, who naturally treat it as gospel fact), so I'm going to go ahead and change it. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 21:37, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Prototype for Fraggles Edit

I noticed that the screaming thing looks surprisingly similar to the Fraggles. Do you think the fraggles were based on this? Bernstein2291 05:33, 29 September 2007 (UTC)