Lew Zealand, with some of his fish.
Lew in his Muppet Christmas Carol attire.
On The Muppets in 2011.
Lew Zealand’s act involves boomerang fish. "I throw them away, and they come back to me!" He has appeared in all of the Muppet movies except Kermit's Swamp Years.
Lew's first appearance was in episode 310 of The Muppet Show, where his timely boomerang fish throwing saved Kermit from being tricked into a real marriage during Miss Piggy's "wedding sketch."
Lew Zealand was meant to only appear in that one episode. However, after that, Lew Zealand became a regular character. [1]
Aside from his boomerang fish act, Lew supplied the Muppets with paper towels in The Great Muppet Caper, played one of the merry men in the Muppets production of Robin Hood, and told Leslie Uggams how to be a great boomerang fish thrower: "Well, you gotta have sole. And if you can't get sole, use halibut."
- ↑ The Muppet Show Fan Club Newsletter, Volume 2, Number 5, page 3.