Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.
Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.
I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.
