"Retired" & Rarely seen characters .. please help

[Gredlock]

I'm compiling a list of characters that have been retired or
dissappeared from Sesame Street over the years. Please if you have any
memories, suggestions or corrections to this list, please reply to this
thread...

"Retired" Sesame Street Characters...

Kermit the Frog (1969-1990)
Reason for leaving: Although Jim Henson requested that Kermit be
continued after his death (in 1990), and the little star frog has
continued on with the Muppets in movie and television, Sesame Street
does not produce any new Kermit sketches out of respect for the
director/puppeteer. Occasionally the show does rerun old "Sesame Street
News Flashes" with Kermit though.
Best known For... News Flashes (Hi ho, Kermit the Frog here...), "Cookie
Monster Alphabet" (A, B, C, Cookie Monster!"), Hanging out with Grover

Mr. Harold Hooper (1969-1882)
Reason for leaving: Actor Will Lee, who had played Mr. Hooper since the
show began, died in 1983. Rather than ignoring the absence of Hooper,
an episode of the series actually revealed that he had died - making
Sesame Street probably the first popular children's TV series to deal
with the sensitive subject of death.
Best know for... Running "Hooper's Store" (which has been passed down to
other human characters since his death).

Roosevelt Franklin (1969-??)
Reason for leaving: Although Roosevelt was a star character in the early
years of the show, unofficial rumor is that the muppet's voice
represented a negative African stereotype, but an actual reason for the
character's long absense has never been given - but the man who voiced
him played Gordon from 1969-1971.
Best Known For...classroom scenes

Rarely Seen Characters...

Grover, Bert & Cookie Monster
While Cookie Monster appears in just about every episode, and Bert &
Grover pop up a few times each week, new sketches featuring these three
are rare as Frank Oz (who performs them all) only has time to do Sesame
Street a few days every year. This also effects more minor characters
such as Prince Charming, Harvey Kneeslapper & Professor Hastings

Herry Monster
Appearently, he is still a mainstay but I try to tune into Sesame Street
a couple times a week and have not seen him once in the past few months.

Others...
Barkley the Dog (aka Woof-Woof)
Bruno (used to carry Oscar the Grouch around)
Olivia
Savion
David
Praire Dawn
Little Bird
Lillian

[Betsey2244]

don't forget the subway hip dude! I miss that dude!

[Jason LeBouef]

Sam The Machine (I got him on one of the episodes on Noggin, haha, I
can't believe I was scared of him when I was 5 years old).
"Machines are perfect, are perfect, are perfect"

Don Music "OOhhh, I'll never get it right!" (bangs head on piano)

Guy Smiley "Here is your life"

The Aliens "yip yip yip yip, uhuh uhu uhuh uhuh"

Mumferd (or however you spell it) "Allah Peanut Butter Sandwiches"

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[ZHELDER]

How about the coolest muppet ever, Roosevelt Franklin, and his geekier 90s
offspring, Kingston Livingston III. Also :

Rodeo Rosie
Herbert Birdsfoot
Chicago the Lion (one of my favorite "new" muppets)
Forgetful Jones
Roxanne
Guy Smiley (Yeah, he occasionally appears in non-speaking roles, but as far as
I'm concerned he's retired)
Placido Flamingo

There are MANY more, but that's all I have time to post now.
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"If people say you can't do something, prove them wrong! "

[Joe Headcrash]

Now if only they'd make Big Bird a "rarely seen" or better yet "retired"
character. I thought that dumb yellow bafoon was annoying at age 6 and still
do at 26.

[Edy Syquer]

In article <3941c9e2$0$14...@news.execpc.com>,

Now, Joe... don't hold back. How ddo you REALLY feel? :)

[April :-D]

How about one of my favourites - Lefty! We don't see him the way we used
to.

"Psst! Hey bud!"

Cheers!

April

[Nancee]

Oh, one I thought of today!!! Does anyone remember Granny Fanny Nesselrode?

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[JMLeake]

I believe that the actor who played David died sometime in the late 80s. And I
read that Roosevelt Franklin's character was deemed too stereotypical, so they
dropped him. I don't know about the rest. But as for Herry Monster (one of my
favorites), I see him on occasionally, but I think the reason he's not on as
much as he used to be is the simple reason of why lots of characters aren't on
much, and that's that characters like Elmo, Rosita, Baby Bear, Telly, etc., are
the proven popular ones, and other characters just seem to kind of get the
shaft. That's how it seems to me, anyway. Hope I helped some! :)

[Klskcs1]

Yeah! Granny Fanny Nesselrole rings a bell...who *was* she?? And then there's
Herbert Birdsfoot. And Rodeo Rosie. AND, that guy (Sir Chatterly, or
something?) who did "Alphabet Chat." (That guy *terrified* me, by the way.)

kristin

[Mooseman75]

Remember Harvey Kneeslapper? "You know where I wanna be?"
"Uh no."
"I wanna B here!"
(sticks a B on the Muppet's sweater and laughs histerically)
Man, I look at him now and I think what was this guy on?

[Sparki]

Oh, I thought those skits were a hoot and a half when I was a wee lass.
***SPARKI***
"By the way, I'm real, and I'm SPARK-tacular!"

[casper]

What about one of my personal favourites, Slimey? He's such a little cutey
:-) but since he came back from the moon there's been nothing about him.
Although, I do live in Australia so I might not be up to date on whats
happening.
Casper
PS Dont forget the Amazing Mumford, and what about that little girl....
ummm.... the girl, she's human and she sort of grew up on the show... about
6 or 7 years old... her real name is the same as her stage name.
Anyone know who I'm talking about?????

[Sparki]

>what about that little girl....
>ummm.... the girl, she's human and she sort of grew up on the show... about
>6 or 7 years old... her real name is the same as her stage name.
>Anyone know who I'm talking about?????
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According to what I've heard and read, it sounds like you're talking about
Gabriela, Luis and Maria's daughter, but she'd be about 15 now

[casper]

No, not Gabby, ummmmm.........
LEXINE!!!!!!
Yeah thats it.
Whew. :-)
Thats been playing on my mind all day.

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[Klskcs1]

Wasn't Lexine a Muppet?

kristin

[Sparki]

from what I read, Lexine was a (human) kid

[Edy Syquer]

In article <20000623221148...@ng-cn1.aol.com>,

siss...@aol.comIH8Spam (Sparki) wrote:
> from what I read, Lexine was a (human) kid

So you had to read about it to find it out. You couldn't tell just by
looking at her?!

A fairly life-like Muppet if she was one. Edy will resist doing jokes
about where the Muppeteer would have stuck his hand.

> "By the way, I'm real, and I'm SPARK-tacular!"

Are you sure that YOU aren't a Muppet, too? It would explain quite a lot

[Klskcs1]

No one responded to my question before...will someone refresh my memory on
Granny Fanny Nesserole? The name is *so* familiar, but I cannot picture the
Muppet.

kristin

[Sparki]

>
>So you had to read about it to find it out. You couldn't tell just by
>looking at her?!
>

Hey, cut me a break here. I haven't watched the show since '74, so just cut me
a break.
***SPARKI***

[Edy Syquer]

>
> Hey, cut me a break here. I haven't watched the show since '74, so
just cut me
> a break.

Well, Sparki, Edy doesn't know this, since you haven't said it fifty
million times yet. After all, Edy's still trying to get the hang of
your feelings towards Gordon :)

So, you want Edy to cut you a break... well, you said it twice in one
sentence. That's a good start. All you need to do now is write the same
sentence 24,999,999 more times.

Hmmm... sometimes it's too easy to be fun, but if Sparki keeps feeding
Edy the lines...

[WDM1219]

Hi folks,

I do not remember that character. I also was wondering, why does Edy refer to
herself in the 3rd person??

[Edy Syquer]

Well, if you read Edy's posts with the least bit of attention you'll
see that HE refers to HIMself in the third person.

'Edy' is an alternative spelling of the name 'Eddie'... which you
wouldn't have needed to have described to you if you noticed the male
pronouns. Moron.

The reason HE does it is beacuse HE can

[Mrsmishima]

I remember Granny Fanny; she was usually trying to help kids with thier
problems. Example: Two kids want to play with a balloon, so GFNesselroad took
a knife to cut it in half. "That way each of you gets one half!" with
expected results, using up several balloons in the process. (The kids decided
just to take turns with it.) She was rather dotty, if harmless. Hope this
helps!

[J.B.L.]

He apparently was ditched because the laughter was hard on his puppetter and
he was a one liner.
The big one was Don Music who'd get upset because he couldn't get his song
right, then slam his head on the piano. Well a lot of kids were immitating
that at home (myself included, however I was laways smart enough to not
really hit my head), so he was taken off. I was lucky, because we had an
old church organ in my house, and I would immitate it there, however it
didn't sound quite the same when I would "hit my head" on the organ keys and
a continuous note would come out instead of the fading out sound of piano
strings.

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