I was looking at the episodes and there is one where the Judy Garland Frog teaches everyone how to do the Moonwalk, only it was more like sneaking forward. Michael Jackson probably remembered this, and figured out how to do the same thing, only moving backwards! So, this is where the Moonwalk came from.
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Always thought that frog was kinda sexy. Nice legs and she moved well... I know it's strange but there you go..
These shows always had short people who traveled in pairs (because it was the same two every time, no matter what costumes they were wearing). My guess is that she also played the taller of the two: the taller vacuum tube henchmen in the Bugaloos, the vulture in H.R. Puffinstuff, the taller sea monster in Sigmund & the sea monsters (mama sea monster), and others. I know that the smallest ones were Billy Barty (The wizard in Willow and the He Man live action movie)and Felix Silla (Buck Rogers Twikki Robot). It's fun trying to find out which people were under which costumes.
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Michal the Molester was on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson the same night as some mimes I think Shields and Yarnell were on and doing the man walking backwards against the wind routine and they taught it to the Molester back stage
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