R2-D2 and C-3PO with Big Bird on Sesame Street.
C-3PO and R2-D2 are robot characters from the Star Wars franchise. They have appeared in several films and spin-offs including television, theme park attractions, concept albums, and commercials.
Anthony Daniels played C-3PO in both the movies and all Muppet appearances. For R2-D2, although Kenny Baker originated the role in the movies, a "three legged" R2 robot was used for his Muppet appearances, operated by radio control. On The Muppet Show, R2 was credited as being played by "Himself."
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- 1980 — Appeared in Sesame Street episodes 1364 and 1396. Also filmed inserts for other episodes, including "Beep" and "I Say Banana", the latter only featuring R2D2, while both inserts featured Big Bird.
- 1980 — Appeared in episode 417 of The Muppet Show.
- 1990 — Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration, hosted by Tony Danza. Danza talks to the droids (in their Audio-Animatronic forms from the Star Tours ride queue) as R2-D2 hooks up a transmission from Miss Piggy to Danza.
C-3PO on the planet Koozebane, on The Muppet Show
R2-D2 dancing on Koozebane
With Jon Stone and Northern Calloway...
...on the set of Sesame Street
Caroll Spinney and R2-D2
References[]
- When a robot comes out of Fozzie's magician's hat in episode 421 of The Muppet Show, he asks, "You were expecting R2-D2, maybe?"
- A toy version of R2 can be seen on the night stand next to Gabriel's bed in "Honest Lullaby" from episode 503 of The Muppet Show.
- Fozzie stands in for C-3PO and Lew Zealand for R2-D2 in a French parody poster.
- Big Bird suggests he and the kids draw R2-D2 in Sesame Street Episode 1557.
- In the Muppet Babies episode "Muppet Babies: The Next Generation" Baby Scooter tries to be R2-D2, but Baby Skeeter and Baby Bean Bunny show up as Skeeter-3PO and R2-Bean2.
- Beaker appears as C-3PO in the Star Wars Muppets PVC figures set.
- Oscar the Grouch appears as R2-PU in the background of Cookie's Crumby Pictures: Star S'mores.[1]
- Plaza Sésamo’s official Facebook page posted an image of Ernie and Bert as the droids on "Star Wars Day" (May the 4th), 2016.
- In 2019, during the Sesame Street Road Trip stop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Elmo was photographed posing in front of the droids at the Carnegie Science Center.
Sources[]
- ↑ Magnetic Dreams - Cookie's Crumby Pictures (archived)