<P> Animal: (flails and babbles wildly, pants, and yells as Fozzie clutches an also frightened Kermit in fear) Floyd: Oh yeah, that's Animal . Show' em whatcha do, Animal! Animal: I want to eat drums! (loudly chews on a cymbal) Dr. Teeth: No, no, beat drums, beat drums . Animal: (open eyes wide) Beat drums! Beat drums! (hits the third tom drum three times with his head, grunting before each hit) Floyd: Down, Animal! Animal: Down! Floyd: Back! Animal: Back! Floyd: Sit! Animal: Sit! (laughs shortly as he gets back up to look at Scooter who is introducing himself) </P> <P> Alone among characters on the show, Floyd has trained his fellow musician to obey a few simple off - drum commands correctly, suggesting dog training . </P> <P> Animal's bushy eyebrows and hair, outrageous behavior, and wild drumming style can be associated with classical hard - partying rock drummers, such as The Who's Keith Moon, Led Zeppelin's John Bonham and Cream's Ginger Baker, with whom Animal shares his pink hair, skirt chasing, and violent outbursts . The original Animal sketches point to one Grammy Award - winning drummer named Steve Mitchell, a friend of Jim Henson's . Animal is a savant, versatile session drummer, to back Muppet tunes, capable even of finishing a slow song, if the singer is nice lady . He can match both Buddy Rich and Harry Belafonte in drum - offs on The Muppet Show, and on Questlove on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in 2011 . He shows a talent for jazz in a television advert for the Renault Clio car with French footballer Thierry Henry . </P> <P> Animal has also run afoul of Muppet Show guests . In 1981, the aforementioned scene with Buddy Rich ends with the seasoned pro learning Animal's gonzo style, and performing it with twice the speed and proficiency . Animal throws a drum onto the irascible entertainer's head . When he repeatedly interrupted Rita Moreno's rendition of Fever with loud drumming outbursts, she became annoyed and slammed his head between a pair of cymbals (to which Animal responded by saying "Uh, that's my kinda woman!", before passing out). In another episode, Animal became hostile toward Dudley Moore when Moore tried to replace the band with a programmable, music - playing robot . On another occasion, however, Animal is starstruck by James Coburn after the movie tough - guy demonstrates his own violent streak: </P>

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