The Muppets Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem Band T-Shirt

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Kreps, Daniel (August 8, 2016). "Watch Muppets Band Dr. Teeth and Electric Mayhem Make Live Debut". Rolling Stone . Retrieved August 29, 2016. The six members of The Electric Mayhem (top, left to right); Floyd, Lips, Animal, (bottom, left to right) Janice, Dr. Teeth, Zoot. Zoot spoke much more in the first season where he was often seen dancing with Janice in the "At the Dance" sketches. Goelz stated that he tried to give most of Zoot's lines away to other characters, particularly Floyd. Floyd's performer Jerry Nelson was not performing full-time in the first season which may explain Zoot originally having more dialogue. Since his eyes are hidden by his shades, he often appears oblivious to events around him—during the band's first meeting with Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear as depicted in The Muppet Movie, he briefly forgot his own name which Floyd described as Zoot "skip[ping] the groove again"—but he can be sharper than he seems. When Floyd declared the band to be " anklin'" during its brief strike, only Zoot seemed dubious, noting "The frog's been good to us." Performed by Fran Brill (1975–1976), John Lovelady (1975) Eren Ozker (1976), Richard Hunt (1975, 1977–1991), Matt Vogel (2000), Kevin Clash (2001), Brian Henson (2002–2003), Tyler Bunch (2005–2008), David Rudman (2008–present) Although being the band leader, Dr. Teeth is never featured in the regular orchestra playing at The Muppet Show like the rest of the group. Instead, Rowlf plays the piano in the orchestra pit.

A running gag in some Muppet movies was that during a scene in which several characters were excitedly talking at once and someone called for silence, Janice would be the last one still talking on a topic with no apparent connection to the situation. In The Muppets Take Manhattan: "So I told him 'Look, buddy, I don't take my clothes off for anybody, even if it is artistic,' and... Oh". Another example from The Great Muppet Caper, she says: "Look, Mother. It's my life. OK. So if I want to live on a beach and walk around naked... Oh". Jim Henson once said that Dr. Teeth was one of the most difficult characters to play due to the harshness of the character's voice. Although he appeared in Muppet Treasure Island, he was absent from Muppets Tonight and did not appear in the first episode.Finch, Christopher (October 12, 1993). Jim Henson: The Works: the Art, the Magic, the Imagination (Print). New York, New York: Random House. p. 102. ISBN 9780679412038. Del Rosario, Alexandra (April 5, 2022). " 'The Muppets Mayhem': Tahj Mowry Joins Lilly Singh For Disney+ Comedy Series". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved April 5, 2022. Floyd has declared himself to be an excellent songwriter—when the band briefly went on strike, one of his conditions was that he be allowed to write new theme music for the show—but with no apparent contradiction, admits that everyone hates his music. "If I didn't know I was a genius," he once declared, " I wouldn't listen to the trash I write." He nonetheless seems to have made a small fortune on advertising jingles during one of the band's sabbatical.

A recurring gag in The Muppets Mayhem and media released around the same time is that Lips has inexplicable connections to a myraid of celebrities and other people the Mayhem come across. This colourful history includes, but is not limited to, being a nursery school teacher, inspiring The Bangles song "Walk Like an Egyptian", and introducing Paula Abdul to MC Skat Kat. In the 2023 series The Muppets Mayhem, Dr. Teeth is revealed to be an actual doctor, having worked in his family's dentistry business before leaving with Floyd to start the band. After an argument with the band, he rechristens the band's name simply as "The Electric Mayhem" out of parity for the other members.Suskind, Alex (March 24, 2014). "The Greatest Hits of the Muppets' Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem". New York . Retrieved October 1, 2015. In Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004), after a confrontation with some Muppet-style aliens, Crichton makes a comment about "being shot at by the Electric Mayhem". Zellner, Xander (May 24, 2023). "Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem Hit No. 1 on a Billboard Chart for the First Time". Billboard . Retrieved May 24, 2023.