A Muppet Christmas Debate: Did Beaker Flip the Bird?

[ElfBot]

Forget the great political debates raging these days. We’ve got a genuine Christmas mystery to solve and after more than a quarter century we’re still no closer to knowing the truth of it all. In The Muppet Christmas Carol the vocabulary-challenged character of Beaker plays one of the English gentlemen who visit Scrooge early in
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[MerryCarey]

It would be an appropriate gesture under the circumstances, wouldn't it?

When a film is made, on-set jokes are sometimes indulged in at the end of a take---assuming that when the editor cuts the film, he or she will excise the tomfoolery. Huntz Hall in the Bowery Boys movies was famous for gagging it up at the end of a take, and those gags (often at the expense of co-star Leo Gorcey, who was not well liked) sometimes stayed in the film; Lou Costello was another on-camera cutup. Maybe this is a bit of fooling around that the editor missed (or decided to leave in)? We may never know, but it's fun to speculate.

 

[Jeff Westover]

It is fun to speculate. I can recall seeing this scene in the movie theater when it came out and I told my wife then, "Did I just see that?"

Funny to see all these years later that it is getting noticed still.

 

[whychristmas]

I've seen that film A LOT, but that's never even occurred to me! I'd always thought he was just wagging his index finger, which on looking at it again, I'm pretty sure he is!!!