On an appearance last year on LateNightwithConan O'Brien, for example, Shimabukuro played an amplified rock solo that sounded very much like an electric guitar.
Just when the publicity started to ebb, the puppet held a well-attended press conference to announce he was suing a writer at LateNightwithConan O'Brien who had complained that the spokespooch was a lame imitation of his own puppet character.