Fozzie's Tuesday Weld joke
Tuesday Weld (b. 1943) is an actor and a popular pin-up model and magazine cover girl of the 1960s. After beginning acting as a child (including in Hitchcock's The Wrong Man), she established herself on TV as the alluring Thalia Menninger on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, leaving for a film career. Her movies, often sticking to the same roles as the aloof or manipulative beauty, ranged from the exploitative Sex Kittens Go to College to the soap operatic Return to Peyton Place, the black comedy Lord Love a Duck (with Harvey Korman), and the Elvis Presley vehicle Wild in the Country.
Weld later attempted roles focusing more on her dramatic skills than looks, including a 1967 TV version of The Crucbile and the 1977 film Looking for Mr. Goodbar (nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress) and later in Sergeio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (with Robert De Niro).
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- The 1969 IBM meeting film "The Rowlf-In" has news anchor Rowlf saying Tuesday Weld and Zero Mostel will star in a remake, Breaking the Production Barrier.
- For his joke during the intro of The Muppet Show episode 120, Fozzie Bear brings out an old joke, that if Tuesday Weld married Fredric March's grandson, she'd be Tuesday March the Second.