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July 31, 2012 6:37 PM Subscribe
Who is this muppet?
This is from a set of Sesame Street flash cards. Google has failed me.
An attempt to show what Oscar the Grouch looks like outside his trashcan?
posted by zadcat at 6:37 PM on July 31, 2012
posted by zadcat at 6:37 PM on July 31, 2012
I was going to say Telly, but it looks like your muppet is the wrong color.
posted by Sara C. at 6:38 PM on July 31, 2012
posted by Sara C. at 6:38 PM on July 31, 2012
Best answer: Here's Herry, who I'd forgotten all about until peacrow wrote that. Pretty sure your muppet is Herry.
posted by Sara C. at 6:39 PM on July 31, 2012 [3 favorites]
posted by Sara C. at 6:39 PM on July 31, 2012 [3 favorites]
Best answer: bq has it, it's Herry Monster, probably an earlier incarnation than his present look.
posted by mygothlaundry at 6:40 PM on July 31, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by mygothlaundry at 6:40 PM on July 31, 2012 [1 favorite]
And by bq I meant peacrow and still I got beaten to the punch.
posted by mygothlaundry at 6:41 PM on July 31, 2012
posted by mygothlaundry at 6:41 PM on July 31, 2012
Best answer: Definitely Herry. In two of the pictures on scody's link he's wearing the same stripey pants.
posted by MsMolly at 6:42 PM on July 31, 2012
posted by MsMolly at 6:42 PM on July 31, 2012
Best answer: Definitely Herry; a lot of pictures books have drawings that are slightly different than what the puppet actually looks like for some reason (copyright issues, perhaps?).
posted by Melismata at 6:44 PM on July 31, 2012
posted by Melismata at 6:44 PM on July 31, 2012
Best answer: I will not be stopped from saying that it is Herry.
posted by dirtdirt at 6:48 PM on July 31, 2012 [3 favorites]
posted by dirtdirt at 6:48 PM on July 31, 2012 [3 favorites]
I really liked Herry Monster as a kid, because he reminded me of my Uncle, who was a shipyard welder.
On the other hand, there was a muppet who looked very similar, but had a beetling unibrow, and there was one skit where he dissolved out of existence while glowing brightly a cyan-yellow while roaring, and that completely messed my 3 y.o. shit up... so I was all anxious when seeing the blue fur, awesome Uncle Herry or Scary Roaring Demon?
I decided to love Grover best, just to be safe.
posted by Slap*Happy at 7:01 PM on July 31, 2012 [5 favorites]
On the other hand, there was a muppet who looked very similar, but had a beetling unibrow, and there was one skit where he dissolved out of existence while glowing brightly a cyan-yellow while roaring, and that completely messed my 3 y.o. shit up... so I was all anxious when seeing the blue fur, awesome Uncle Herry or Scary Roaring Demon?
I decided to love Grover best, just to be safe.
posted by Slap*Happy at 7:01 PM on July 31, 2012 [5 favorites]
No, Sweetums and I are pals. He had a thick, blue, furry body like Herry, only with fangs and angry eyes. Let me look it up on google...
Harold. Harold monster. Now I will never sleep.
posted by Slap*Happy at 7:32 PM on July 31, 2012 [3 favorites]
Harold. Harold monster. Now I will never sleep.
posted by Slap*Happy at 7:32 PM on July 31, 2012 [3 favorites]
And to add to this, I think that's one of the versions of that character as a kid. When they did that series of cartoons with the Muppets as children...I think he's from that.
I know the guy who was Junior Gorg On Fraggle Rock well enough to get pretty much any Muppet question answered, but I think you can put an "resolved" tag to this one.
posted by cjorgensen at 7:39 PM on July 31, 2012
I know the guy who was Junior Gorg On Fraggle Rock well enough to get pretty much any Muppet question answered, but I think you can put an "resolved" tag to this one.
posted by cjorgensen at 7:39 PM on July 31, 2012
When they did that series of cartoons with the Muppets as children...
You, my good sir, are thinking of Muppet Babies, with which any self-respecting latchkey kid from the '80s knows very well (It was a spin-off from "The Muppets Take Manhattan"). Unfortunately for your hypothesis, it only featured muppets starring on "The Muppet Show"... it was a little too crass and commercial for CTW. (Unlike, say, animatronic "Chicken Dance Elmo" dolls. Cough.)
It's just Herry, dressed for the beach.
posted by Slap*Happy at 7:46 PM on July 31, 2012 [1 favorite]
You, my good sir, are thinking of Muppet Babies, with which any self-respecting latchkey kid from the '80s knows very well (It was a spin-off from "The Muppets Take Manhattan"). Unfortunately for your hypothesis, it only featured muppets starring on "The Muppet Show"... it was a little too crass and commercial for CTW. (Unlike, say, animatronic "Chicken Dance Elmo" dolls. Cough.)
It's just Herry, dressed for the beach.
posted by Slap*Happy at 7:46 PM on July 31, 2012 [1 favorite]
Slap*Happy: " Harold. Harold monster. Now I will never sleep."
"This episode is temporarily unavailable." Boooooo!
posted by IndigoRain at 8:51 PM on July 31, 2012
"This episode is temporarily unavailable." Boooooo!
posted by IndigoRain at 8:51 PM on July 31, 2012
Harold. Harold monster. Now I will never sleep.
AKA Beautiful Day Monster.
posted by zamboni at 8:56 PM on July 31, 2012 [2 favorites]
AKA Beautiful Day Monster.
posted by zamboni at 8:56 PM on July 31, 2012 [2 favorites]
Obviously this question has been long answered, but I clicked the initial link and happily exclaimed "Herry!"
posted by Faint of Butt at 3:45 AM on August 1, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Faint of Butt at 3:45 AM on August 1, 2012 [1 favorite]
>it only featured muppets starring on "The Muppet Show"...
apart from a made up Muppet called Skeeter. I never got where he came from.
posted by surenoproblem at 8:22 AM on August 1, 2012
apart from a made up Muppet called Skeeter. I never got where he came from.
posted by surenoproblem at 8:22 AM on August 1, 2012
Skeeter was Scooter's sister, and yes, made up for the Muppet Babies as a second strong female character (which the Muppet Show never really had, though it made good use of strong women guests as foils/complements to Piggy), and a different take on being a girl.
posted by EvaDestruction at 9:42 AM on August 1, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by EvaDestruction at 9:42 AM on August 1, 2012 [2 favorites]
Response by poster: Which leads me to one of my favorite robot chicken sketches.
posted by bq at 4:25 PM on August 1, 2012
posted by bq at 4:25 PM on August 1, 2012
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posted by peacrow at 6:37 PM on July 31, 2012 [17 favorites]