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Little known, long-missing 8mm footage from the 1967 Roger Patterson "Bigfoot" film now proves that the only one in a cheesy zipper costume was the human.
 
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MUGATU:"Hey, don't be afraid fella!!

I'm just lookin' for the bus stop!!"
 
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What sector will YOU be in when a rubber-suited ape man attempts to dry hump you?
 
When I saw that, Psycho Killer was playing on my computer. I'm disturbed how well it fits. :eek:
 
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On Soviet tribal planet...monkey gets you off ITS back!

What a Quadrant!
 
And in many Peter David "New Frontier" novels, culminating in the wonderful "Stone and Anvil", the galaxy's only sentient Mugato is Ensign Janos of the USS Excalibur. (Janos Prohaska created the suit for TOS and performed in it.)

PLEASE tell me you are not serious, that a Trek novelist wrote that a MUGATO was a crewmember of a starfleet vessel... have these people no shame? Almost as bad as whichever early Trek novelist had a horta crewmember... wait, not nearly as bad as that actually, but still bad.
 
Who wouldn't be appropriately pissed off if your new sombrero was ruined the first time you wore it?

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You say Mugato
And I say Mugatu
You say Gumato
And I say Gomatu
Mugato, Mugatu
Gumato, Gomatu
Let's call the whole thing off!

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"I don't get it."​
 
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Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigra? They're the same face! Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

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They're break-dance fighting.
 
PLEASE tell me you are not serious, that a Trek novelist wrote that a MUGATO was a crewmember of a starfleet vessel... have these people no shame?

Prejudge much?

Peter David crafted an excellent story arc, played out across numerous instalments of "New Frontier" which featured a secondary character who happened to be a lone, sentient, "tame" Mugato working as a Starfleet security guard. The storyline works perfectly well, although initially Pocket Books was told by then-Viacom Consumer Products to remove references to a species name (except, in editing, a stray line was left intact). The physical description (he also cameos in the WildStorm NF comic one-shot) was that of a mugato, who, inexplicably at first, speaks with a refined British accent. The final instalment, "Stone and Anvil", is the backstory on Ensign Janos and everything is explained logically, including how he came to have sentience, the origin of the accent, and how he was befriended by a Starfleet captain. It's an excellent read. But, obviously not for General Kang's tastes.

Almost as bad as whichever early Trek novelist had a horta crewmember... wait, not nearly as bad as that actually, but still bad.
Diane Duane created Naraht the Horta for her "Rihannsu" novels - and what's wrong with that? He's a great character, and has made many appearances in the novels and comics. Why should all crewmembers resemble Screen Actors Guild members on any science fiction universe set two and three centuries ahead, especially in a novel or comic tie-in when imagination, makeup and physiology are no barriers?
 
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"Don't you know that a replicated mocha latte makes me all FARTY?!

I feel like I'm taking CRAZY cranial therapy!"
 
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