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Quote by JonSea31 Some scary segments I had encountered:
1. Two segments which involved the set rotating 180 degrees:
a. A blonde Anything Muppet girl demonstrating how the number 11 appears right-side up or upside-down. Surprising there was not one such segment for the number 8.
b. Herbert Birdsfoot and his infamous letter M segment. When the M flipped to resemble a W, Herbert was frustrated and decided to rotate the set 180 degrees and decided to explain the letter W instead. I would think this was an extremely rare segment, only seen on episodes that featured the letters M and W. Interestingly, a scene from early in the 2006 movie Aquamarine reminded me of that segment.
Just want to clarify, I checked Muppet Wiki a while ago, and discovered that the M and W segment in question was never featured in the two known episodes that had M and W as sponsors - aired late in Season 10, and again in the mid-1990s. In fact, there are four known occurrences of that particular segment.
- The initial appearance was known to have M as the lone letter sponsor, early in Season 2. - In January 1982, the segment was shown and the accompanying letter was I. - In April 1985, the segment was shown again in an episode in which the other sponsored letter was R. - One final appearance in March 1994 had the accompanying letter being X.
Also, there was a segment about an upside-down eight, but it had two Anything Muppet kids. I probably would have had no problem with this one, unlike the upside down eleven and the M and W segments; but due to my ban on watching the show, I am unable to view it.
Also, while not scary, Herbert did do another letter M segment, but it had Grover making repeated "Mmmmm" sounds, and Herb had Grover tell a story using M words. The reason for Grover's "Mmmmm" sounds was because his mouth was stuck together after eating peanut butter. I believe that such segment was shown a lot more often than the "M and W" segment.
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