Instead, Nelson would become the team’s invaluable utility player, making even minor or one-note characters, like Lew Zealand, Crazy Harry, or Uncle Deadly, memorable, while his gravelly singing voice would establish the Electric Mayhem’s bass player Floyd as the epitome of Muppet cool. Nelson’s performance mentality was halfway between Oz’s and Hunt’s; each character, explained Nelson, “is an aspect of my own personality. The Muppets are roles I assume, rather than puppets I manipulate.”
