Waldorf (left): You can't ruin what you don't have!
Both: Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!
Statler: You said it. Everything here is immediately followed by sarcastic comments and nasty responses.
Waldorf: Yup, we're finally where we belong.
Both: Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!
Statler and Waldorf are two side characters from The Muppet Show whose entire purpose is to heckle and insult the rest of the cast, along with each episode's guest (and sometimes even each other). They're the Greek Chorus for the Muppet universe, best known for The Stinger that they drop
at the end of each episode, almost always containing yet another crack at the show followed by their signature "Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!". You can find the tropes associated with them on the character sheet for The Muppet Show.
As the first page quote indicates, they have discovered where people like them reside. Finding their places in the world, they choose to lurk among them.
Good snark being a precious inspirational resource, it's no surprise then that Statler and Waldorf have been appearing in other media. They've set up shop in YouTube, as well as here on TV Tropes. Though not nearly as well known, this pushes them into the group of memetic characters who inhabit the wiki along with Trope-tan, BRIAN BLESSED, The Advertisement Server, Alice and Bob, Report Siht and many others.
Oh by the way, do you know where they got their names from? The two largest hotels in New York City, the Statler (now the famous Hotel Pennsylvania — the one right across Seventh Avenue from Penn Station — known for its world-famous phone number from the 1940s Glenn Miller tune of the same name, [+ 1 (212)] PEnnsylvania 6-5000), and the Waldorf (now the Waldorf-Astoria). In fact, Astoria is Waldorf's wife (who looks an awful lot like Statler). A little bit of trivia, exclusively for TV Tropes readers.
If you wish to have them visit a page, please bring it up in one of the discussion pages (either here or for the page in question).
Pages upon which Statler and Waldorf wish to make their opinion known:
Here Be Insufferable Old Guys
- 6teen
- Anal Probing
- Fellow Muppet Animal
- Animated Credits Opening
- Bears Are Bad News
- Beige Prose
- Beavis And Butthead
- Best Known for the Fanservice
- Bizarro Universe
- Boke and Tsukkomi Routine
- Brains and Brawn
- Brick Joke
- Built with LEGO
- Bullet Hole Spelling
- Canada
- Candle Jack
- Chased Off into the Sunset
- Cliffhanger
- Cricket Rules
- The Daily Show
- Darkseid
- Deltatraveler
- Depeche Mode
- Dethroning Moment of Suck
- Double Don't Know
- Editorial Synaesthesia
- Edutainment Show
- Egregious
- Elmo's World
- Ending Theme
- Everything's Deader with Zombies
- Evil Overlord
- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
- Fan Fic
- Fantastic Sapient Species Tropes
- Final Fantasy
- Food Porn
- Germany
- The Heckler
- He Had a Name
- High School D×D
- ''Hilda - Chapter 9: The Deerfox''
- Inadvertent Entrance Cue
- Instrument of God
- Japan
- Jewish Complaining
- Kim Possible
- Lady Death
- Legacy of Kain
- Long-Runners
- Mad Bomber
- Mad Libs Catchphrase
- Manly Tears
- Media Molecule
- Memetic Mutation (TV Tropes)
- Monster
- Monster Clown
- Moose Are Idiots
- The Most Interesting Man in the World
- MST3K Mantra
- The Muppet Show
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S5 E7 "Make New Friends but Keep Discord"
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
- Name and Name
- The Netherlands
- No Ending
- Pig Latin
- Power Rangers
- Pretty Cure
- Red Dwarf
- Redwall
- Riding into the Sunset
- Riesel Tales: Two Hunters
- Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue...
- Rotten Tomatoes
- Running Gag
- Russian Humour
- Sailor Moon
- Shovelware's Brain Game
- Sister, Sister
- Slow Clap
- The Spectral Chronicles
- Talking Heads
- The Worst Witch
- Thanking the Viewer
- They Don't Make Them Like They Used To
- Those Two Guys
- Total Drama
- Trolled!
- [Trope Name] Injokes
- Tsundere
- Un-Canceled
- The Unintelligible
- VeggieTales
- We Are Our Avatars
- When I Was Your Age...
- YouTube (er, sort of)
- Y: The Last Man
- Zipperiffic
Waldorf: That was very strange.
Statler: It was very weird.
Waldorf: It was peculiar.
Statler: It was kinda amusing.
Waldorf: Yes, it was rather funny.
Statler: It was incredibly funny!
Waldorf: I loved it!
Statler: Hilarious!
Both: More! Encore! Encore!
