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Revision as of 18:33, 26 May 2007 by Android Mouse Bot 3 (talk | contribs) (Add trivia tag)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Annie Sue Pig was a character on The Muppet Show. A young pig, Kermit the Frog hired her as a chorus girl and featured player in the middle of the third season. Miss Piggy saw her as a threat to both her career and her frog, though Annie Sue has no designs on either. In fact, Miss Piggy was her idol. The cute little pig was performed by Louise Gold.
Annie Sue appeared in the background during the second season, first in a group of hip Muppets (wearing a pink wig instead of her signature yellow curls).
She was then "introduced" as Miss Piggy's rival in the third season. In this episode, Piggy is furious when Kermit hires a new girl pig singer, Annie Sue, especially when he introduces her as "the Muppets' delightful little lady of song." Annie Sue also helps Fozzie with his memory act, easily winning over the crowd. When Kermit congratulates her, she modestly says, "I didn't do very much." To make Piggy feel better, Kermit lets her do the dramatic recitation she's always wanted to do, Wordsworth's "Daffodils," but the flowers on the set are filled with sneezing powder. Later, Piggy sees Kermit peck Annie Sue on the cheek, and she launches a vicious karate chop at him.
The Annie Sue threat popped up again, when Annie Sue was given a part in the melodrama sketch. Annie Sue tearfully tells Kermit that she's too scared to go on, so Piggy volunteers to take her place. She's then tied to a railroad track, and Wayne, the hero of the sketch, doesn't save her in time.
Annie Sue took a supporting role a couple of episodes later, singing "The Rhyming Song" with Fozzie, Scooter and Link Hogthrob.
After this, Annie Sue's star fell rapidly. She appeared periodically in the background throughout the rest of the series, and pops up in The Great Muppet Caper, but rarely had another featured role. Her one shining moment late in the series appearing as Roger Moore's date.
Louise Gold performed Annie Sue in the Muppeteers' tribute at Jim Henson's memorial service. She could also be seen in the audience on Muppets Tonight.
Trivia
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- Annie Sue is an example of one of the few Right-handed Muppet characters, because her performer, Louise Gold is left-handed. Louise always puppeteered Annie Sue's head with her left hand, and used her right for Annie Sue's right hand (any pictures which show otherwise would have been flipped). There was however one time when Annie Sue was puppeteered right-handed, namely for the number "Carbon Paper." The reason being that her rather inexperienced regular puppeteer wasn't actually puppeteering her in that scene (Frank Oz was filling in).