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[[File:Muppets2011Trailer02-47.jpg|thumb|300px|On ''The Muppets'' in 2011.]]
  
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[[File:Lew Zealand Thought of the Day.jpg|thumb|300px|Living beneath [[Miss Piggy]]'s standards in a [[Muppet Thought of the Week]].]]
  
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'''Lew Zealand'''’s act involves [[boomerang fish]]. "I throw them away, and they come back to me!" He has appeared in all of the Muppet movies except ''[[Kermit's Swamp Years]]''.
  
'''Lew Zealand'''’s act involves [[boomerang fish]]. "I throw them away, and they come back to me!" He has appeared in all of the Muppet movies except ''[[Kermit's Swamp Years]]''.
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==Character merchandise==
  
==Character merchandise==
 
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[[File:Jerry.png|thumb|Jerry Nelson's Lew Zealand Autograph]]
  
[[File:Jerry.png|thumb|Jerry Nelson's Lew Zealand Autograph]]

Revision as of 23:06, 31 March 2019

Lew Zealand blue
PERFORMER Jerry Nelson 1978-2003
  Matt Vogel 2008-present
DEBUT 1978
DESIGN Dave Goelz Whatnot head construction
  Amy Van Gilder character finishing
LewZealand and Fish

How Lew's act is meant to play out.

LewZealand
Lewz01

Lew Zealand, with some of his fish.

TMTM-Post-Ohio

Scooter meeting Lew Zealand in The Muppets Take Manhattan.

MCC-Screengrabs-LewZealand-a

Lew in his Muppet Christmas Carol attire.

Muppets2011Trailer02-47

On The Muppets in 2011.

Lew Zealand Thought of the Day

Living beneath Miss Piggy's standards in a Muppet Thought of the Week.

Lew Zealand M15

A flannelled Lew in The Muppets (2015)

Lew Zealand’s act involves boomerang fish. "I throw them away, and they come back to me!" He has appeared in all of the Muppet movies except Kermit's Swamp Years.

Lew's first appearance was in episode 310 of The Muppet Show, where his timely boomerang fish throwing saved Kermit from being tricked into a real marriage during Miss Piggy's "wedding sketch."

Lew Zealand was meant to only appear in that one episode, and he was made from a Whatnot designed by Dave Goelz. However, after that, a more permanent puppet was built and Lew Zealand became a regular character.[1]

Aside from his boomerang fish act, Lew supplied the Muppets with paper towels in The Great Muppet Caper, played one of the merry men in the Muppets production of Robin Hood, and told Leslie Uggams how to be a great boomerang fish thrower: "Well, you gotta have sole. And if you can't get sole, use halibut."

Jerry Nelson later spoke about the character:

“I think Lew was my tribute to Frankie Fontaine. He had that dopey voice, but he could sing beautifully. We never did that part of it on the show, but just the idea of this guy who had a boomerang fish act. There were some really ridiculous acts on the show, and that was one of the all-time dopey ones.[2]”

Casting history

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Alternate Performers

Appearances

Filmography

Book appearances

Character merchandise

Jerry

Jerry Nelson's Lew Zealand Autograph

Sources

  1. ↑ The Muppet Show Fan Club Newsletter, Volume 2, Number 5, page 3.
  2. ↑ Nelson, Jerry http://www.toughpigs.com/a-chat-with-jerry-nelson-part-2/
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