I have only had this happen once, but one time I loaded a save game when Elmo was in my party and was at around half hitpoints, and he said "Elmo needs beer badly!"
Not that this has anything to do with Gauntlet, but this seems as appropriate a place as anwhere: Anybody ever notice that the Orb of Sah seems to be a Hasbro reference, as Orbsah is Hasbro backwards? Anybody know what that might mean, or whether there are any other references like this? For a while I thought Bing was actually named Bink because of this, but I guess not.