Legend has it, that a young CTW employee took the original orange Muppet home to wash him and he came out green. The employee was naturally worried that they would lose their job but they actually liked Oscar's green look because they thought that he looked grungier.
@@julieporter7805 Nope. Henson remade Oscar into a green puppet. Caroll Spinney didn't find out until he pulled the puppet out of a suitcase for The Flip Wilson Show. Dave Connell, an executive at The Children's Television Workshop (now called Sesame Workshop) was upset because they didn't give Henson permission to change the color. Of course, Henson owned the rights to Oscar at the time, and he had his way.
Back then, quite a bit of the TV picture was cropped between when it left the videotape at the TV station and when it was displayed on the viewer's TV set because of the nature of the analog signal path, so it probably didn't get seen. But thanks to the original videotape being preserved and modern digitization being able to capture the entire signal from it, we get to see everything the camera saw, including the stuff outside the "safe area" :)
It's so interesting seeing how different the characters were then. Big Bird has fewer feathers and sounds stupid, Oscar is orange, Cookie Monster is a cannibal, Grover was aggressive, Herry Monster has a different nose, Snuffy looks stoned out of his mind, etc
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@@lionelcollins3511 I have a great idea for Episode 4171, Wolfgang rolls by once again with his glockenspiel, Leela points out that this seal is talented, Big Bird and Snuffy try to give Wolfgang a chance to display his talent, but Wolfgang reminds them that they keep telling him to go play somewhere else. Can you do the script for it, please? That is, if you're not too busy with other things.
As a 2000s kid, I always thought Elmo was just that, a character introduced at that time. How shocked was I to learn that the character is much older than that!
About Gabrielle She's not the only puppet to be voiced by a kid just take most of the cast from Whoopi's Littleburg and Blue from Blue's Room just as some good examples. And I could never forget Rai Rai from the Juno Franchise.
Interestingly enough in folklore, one of the ways to escape a vampire is to throw seeds on the ground because they are compelled to pick them up and count them. Oh I am so glad they changed Snuffy and Telly's looks and Elmo's voice.
Mr Snuffleupagus is like if the voice actor was drugged, he looks into the eyes of the poorly designed character, even making many children restless seeing the character as if he were sick or something like that. 4:20 Dios mío.
Good video, although you did make a few mistakes. First of all, Big Bird’s first appearance was in the special This Way to Sesame Street, which aired two days before the first episode of Season 1 and showed a sneak peek of it, featuring Big Bird. Second of all, Ernie and Bert actually had their very first appearance in the first test show for the series, and appeared all throughout these test shows, alongside This Way to Sesame Street, where they were the hosts. Third of all, Cookie Monster’s first appearance was also in one of these test shows (the fourth one, to be more specific). In fact, the segment shown in the clip when Cookie Monster is mentioned is from a sketch that originally debuted in that test show, before later being put onto the first episode of Season 1. A sequel for other Muppets you glossed over (like Lefty the Salesman, Sherlock Hemlock, Roosevelt Franklin, Harvey Kneeslapper, Don Music, Slimey the Worm, and Barkley the Dog) and human characters (like Gordon and Susan Robinson, Bob McGrath, and Mr. Hooper) would be quite interesting to see. I need to get a life.
Even though Big Bird was the first muppet character introduced on Sesame Street, Ernie and Bert were the first ever characters born (In a Pilot Episode witch aired in 1968) one year before Sesame Street started.
I've been wondering how Murray, Abby, and the other recent Sesame Street Muppets got made. As we may know, Disney acquired The Muppets in 2004, but Sesame Street & its own cast of Muppets remain independent from the House of Mouse, which leaves me wondering how Sesame Street newcomers from 2005 & onward get made in Muppet form.
I was going to say "How did I not notice Elmo when I was a kid?" Explains a lot, seeing that he was used for that short song segment. If he had the current voice, then I'd notice him.
Boy Big Bird was a lot more of a bird back then. That Solomon Grundy reference took me for a loop til I remembered the DC character is named after a nursery rhyme. Say, how did Oscar move his eyes back then? I can't think of an easy mechanism for what is just a hand puppet like that. I'm told Spinney had to use his left arm, hence the kinda awkward movements, because the built the set wrong.
I was a teenager when they used to play old Sesame Streets on Noggin in the middle of the night. I was doing whatever when I looked up and saw the original Snuffy. Scared the living crap outta me! I know first appearances are rough, as the video proves, but how on earth did Jim Henson and CTW sign off on THAT? I’m 39 and that’s gonna give me nightmares!
I have a theory that the Oscar the Grouch we all know is in-fact still orange, but spending time in all that trash makes his fur appear green.
I believe the show said he went to the swamp and got algae on him
Legend has it, that a young CTW employee took the original orange Muppet home to wash him and he came out green. The employee was naturally worried that they would lose their job but they actually liked Oscar's green look because they thought that he looked grungier.
@@julieporter7805They actually tore up the original Oscar puppet
Caroll Spinney said it was because he took a trip to Swamp Mushy Muddy.
@@julieporter7805 Nope. Henson remade Oscar into a green puppet. Caroll Spinney didn't find out until he pulled the puppet out of a suitcase for The Flip Wilson Show. Dave Connell, an executive at The Children's Television Workshop (now called Sesame Workshop) was upset because they didn't give Henson permission to change the color. Of course, Henson owned the rights to Oscar at the time, and he had his way.
Naaaaaah, Elmo's got smokers lungs 😭
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I did NOT expect that voice coming out of Elmo!
Kevin clash probably use to smoke
Apparently.
Update:this came before clash.
@@nehemiahpouncey3607 I'm old enough to remember this, Richard Hunt was the first voice than Kenvin Clash was around 1989.
@kylecarson5723 thanks
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Good lord Snuffy has seen sunnier days
Like Big Bird, he, too, had a meth addiction back then.
Nightmare fuel!
Elmo used to be on crack
Almost everyone before the 90's looked like they were on crack
@@amitaikatz5929 So true!!
Or this was Elmo the First. 😃
@@TehJew22true, we could be talking to Elmo III.
Elmo's voice lol but this was before Kevin Clash voiced him later.
You can see Frank Oz’s arm and face in Bert’s debut! Look on the edge of the screen, especially at the end of the clip.
I know right? I’ve seen it so many times I can’t unseen it 😂
Back then, quite a bit of the TV picture was cropped between when it left the videotape at the TV station and when it was displayed on the viewer's TV set because of the nature of the analog signal path, so it probably didn't get seen. But thanks to the original videotape being preserved and modern digitization being able to capture the entire signal from it, we get to see everything the camera saw, including the stuff outside the "safe area" :)
Most TVs from that era had rounded corners so that flub most likely wouldn’t have been seen.
@@WillWatchAnything That green monster looks like a mix between Grover and Oscar the Grouch 7:13 7:22
I know. I noticed that every time.
So that's why they call him Telly Monster. He's a monster who likes to watch TV.
He was originally before they changed his calendar
My God, the revelation that "Telly" refers to "television!"
Same, lol. They never really pushed that adult him in later seasons.
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It's so interesting seeing how different the characters were then. Big Bird has fewer feathers and sounds stupid, Oscar is orange, Cookie Monster is a cannibal, Grover was aggressive, Herry Monster has a different nose, Snuffy looks stoned out of his mind, etc
Not to mention, Cookie Monster didn't speak until a few episodes later and the Count acted more sinister than he is nowadays.
Back then, most NET/PBS stations were still broadcasting in B&W.
Interesting how Big Bird's voice actor/puppeteer gave him a deep simpleton-esque voice for the first season or so.
Thank goodness i grew up with the Big Bird we know today
@@AdrianMarinMarinoES Same.
Yes he was originally supposed to be retarded but was quickly retconned into a 3 year old.
Elmo back in Sesame Street in 1985 with different voice
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Elizabeth Daily as OnPu Segawa (1996)
Miranda Cosgrove as OnPu Segawa (1999-2025)
What @@elizavee7771
Elmo with a deep voice scared the crap out of me 7:14
I remember him starting as an anything Muppet or what not
Its his dad
@@crosshair8741yeah that's Elmo Sr.
@@crosshair8741 no it was still Elmo he just had reverse puberty
The Count has an excellent debut
Yeah although they did make him stop using his hypnotic powers after the first two sketches he was in
He certainly did!
@@kyliethelittlecouragegirl94 Probably because it was too creepy for kids
@@lionelcollins3511 I have a great idea for Episode 4171, Wolfgang rolls by once again with his glockenspiel, Leela points out that this seal is talented, Big Bird and Snuffy try to give Wolfgang a chance to display his talent, but Wolfgang reminds them that they keep telling him to go play somewhere else. Can you do the script for it, please? That is, if you're not too busy with other things.
Hmm, I’ll try to think of something, although this might take a while. So fear not, Eddie.
Elmo since his debut appearance in 1980 would later become the lead protagonist like Big Bird.
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We Are All Monsters.
Until Elmo's Voice changed in 1985.
A Year Later, One Fine Face is from 1986, along w/ Put Down The Duckie.
As a 2000s kid, I always thought Elmo was just that, a character introduced at that time. How shocked was I to learn that the character is much older than that!
He was in the movie "The Muppets Take Manhattan" (1984) at the end of the movie (during the wedding scene with the rest of the Sesame Street Muppets).
Murray and Abby's debut appearances since the 2000s decade.
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About Gabrielle She's not the only puppet to be voiced by a kid just take most of the cast from Whoopi's Littleburg and Blue from Blue's Room just as some good examples.
And I could never forget Rai Rai from the Juno Franchise.
Interestingly enough in folklore, one of the ways to escape a vampire is to throw seeds on the ground because they are compelled to pick them up and count them.
Oh I am so glad they changed Snuffy and Telly's looks and Elmo's voice.
it's funny, even WITHOUT this muppet, that would still be a funny coincidence because we think of vampires as having the rank of Count.
Lots of these characters had a long way to go compared to their finalized personalities/character and even designs
So Elmo debuted with a smoker's voice? Interesting.
Mr Snuffleupagus is like if the voice actor was drugged, he looks into the eyes of the poorly designed character, even making many children restless seeing the character as if he were sick or something like that. 4:20 Dios mío.
In Snuffy's debut appearance since 1971, he had his old design before changing into a better, current design.
Original voiced by Jerry Nelson
They never should have made Snuffy imaginary to begin with.
Holy cow, Snuffy’s eyes look so derpy!😆🤣😂
Debut Snuffy was downright scary
@@terryhynes4094 Indeed.
Early big bird's tiny lil head 😭😂
I can't-
Guy Smiley was my literal nightmare growing up. I used to have a full on panic attack whenever he'd come on.
Loll why
@TheClutterCupboardTV I think it was his erratic personality. I just didn't like him.🤣
Ah fair play lol
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@@erinlizzie09 Both Guy Smiley and Telly during their debut appearances sounded like Ernie.
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I've been waiting for this for a Muppet Fan myself!
In Grover's debut appearance since 1970, he sounds in a deeper voice like Cookie Monster.
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Thanks for the video
First appearance Snuffleupagus is nightmarish.
Good video, although you did make a few mistakes. First of all, Big Bird’s first appearance was in the special This Way to Sesame Street, which aired two days before the first episode of Season 1 and showed a sneak peek of it, featuring Big Bird. Second of all, Ernie and Bert actually had their very first appearance in the first test show for the series, and appeared all throughout these test shows, alongside This Way to Sesame Street, where they were the hosts. Third of all, Cookie Monster’s first appearance was also in one of these test shows (the fourth one, to be more specific). In fact, the segment shown in the clip when Cookie Monster is mentioned is from a sketch that originally debuted in that test show, before later being put onto the first episode of Season 1. A sequel for other Muppets you glossed over (like Lefty the Salesman, Sherlock Hemlock, Roosevelt Franklin, Harvey Kneeslapper, Don Music, Slimey the Worm, and Barkley the Dog) and human characters (like Gordon and Susan Robinson, Bob McGrath, and Mr. Hooper) would be quite interesting to see.
I need to get a life.
Don't forget the Yip Yips and Alice!
@@goebelg23 Yea, those Muppets too, alongside Mr. Johnson and Forgetful Jones.
The OG cast is the best. I watched from the late 80s into the early 90s. All the newer 90s characters are foreign to me.
Y'know big bird looked like a big pinhead just like Patrick from SpongeBob when he said " who ya calling pinhead"
Patrick: Liar, liar, plants for hire!
@EddieKyteABCDEFG12345678910 exactly big birds head looked like this🔺
@Churasakanasa Patrick: Well, you would know, liar.
@@Churasakanasa Patrick: Well, you would know, liar.
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5:58 telly's 1st appearance on sesame street, he was addicted to Television.
Even though Big Bird was the first muppet character introduced on Sesame Street, Ernie and Bert were the first ever characters born (In a Pilot Episode witch aired in 1968) one year before Sesame Street started.
@@Allstar-z7z it's 1969, not 1968.
@@theofimoresca4643 are you sure because it was said that it was made in 1968 on online.
I just noticed Frank Oz's face is visible in Bert and Ernie's first appearance.
Can't they just crop the screen?
@@julianrojas907 I guess it was something they overlooked.
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lmfaooo you can see the guy holding bert when bert was in the bathroom with ernie
Sober thought. Everyone who appeared in the first episode is either eligible for social security or they're dead.
lol is it just me, or do all the characters in episode one come across as passive aggressive and bored? Must've been a bad day on Seasme Street.
First 5 Sesame Street Muppets since the 1969 Pilot Episode: Big Bird, Oscar, Ernie, Bert, and Cookie Monster
Great video
Thanks!
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Those introduced around 0:00 - 9:26 were from my time with the show. Fond memories.
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Elmo actually said "I"?
In Oscar's debut appearance since the 1969 pilot episode, before he was orange, now he's green.
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All those characters...I remember Herry after his nose change of course.
Grover sounds like Cookie Monster in his debut.
same voice actor, man.
I've been a huge fan of Sesame Street since I was a little girl. I believe I first watched it in either mid/late-1999 or early-2000.
I've been wondering how Murray, Abby, and the other recent Sesame Street Muppets got made.
As we may know, Disney acquired The Muppets in 2004, but Sesame Street & its own cast of Muppets remain independent from the House of Mouse, which leaves me wondering how Sesame Street newcomers from 2005 & onward get made in Muppet form.
I was going to say "How did I not notice Elmo when I was a kid?" Explains a lot, seeing that he was used for that short song segment. If he had the current voice, then I'd notice him.
I miss Roosevelt Franklin, Herbert Birdsfoot, and Harvey Knee slapper they were the best.
Sherlock Hemlock?
What about Biff and Sully the construction guys.
I think this video is about the iconic Sesame Street muppets that are very prevalent today. Biff and Sully are considered retired at this day and age.
@cimengngialah2735 they still came back did appear once on each Season after 46.
@@cimengngialah2735 They aren't retired anymore, they come around every once in a while, and had a recent episode about them
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Julia was one of them new generation
Muppets.
You could tell.
Rudy,gonger, and the black muppet too.
4:53 This whole scene just has some subtle comedy I can smile at even though it’s for pre schoolers. Man Jim and Frank knew how to improvise.
Man Elmo’s voice in his first appearance 😂
Elmo's voice is what I expected to be different, just as Mickey's voice- before they both were high energy
Finally I thought they never make a video on who made their first appearance
0:03 THAT WAS THE FIRST BIG BIRD HAHAHAHAHA
00:03 HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA
IKR LOL look at his stoopid lil head
(no offense big bird I love you)
Boy Big Bird was a lot more of a bird back then.
That Solomon Grundy reference took me for a loop til I remembered the DC character is named after a nursery rhyme.
Say, how did Oscar move his eyes back then? I can't think of an easy mechanism for what is just a hand puppet like that. I'm told Spinney had to use his left arm, hence the kinda awkward movements, because the built the set wrong.
Elmo used to have that voice?
I was a teenager when they used to play old Sesame Streets on Noggin in the middle of the night. I was doing whatever when I looked up and saw the original Snuffy. Scared the living crap outta me! I know first appearances are rough, as the video proves, but how on earth did Jim Henson and CTW sign off on THAT? I’m 39 and that’s gonna give me nightmares!
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The Anything Muppet that became Elmo appeared in the chorus scene at the end of The Muppet Movie the year before, in 1979.
Big bird looks like he’s been thrown against a wall
I remember watching Abby Cadabby’s debut on Sesame Street back when I was 5!
Nearly everyone looked so scary,especially snuffy and elmos voice
Awesome job!
With all these characters, it’s sad that Elmo and Abby hogged the spotlight and made the other the characters demoted to extra.
I’m a 90s baby and loved Elmo! I always assumed he WAS the lead character BECAUSE he hogged the spotlight.
That's when the decline of home training started
Tango and Curly Bear aren't included.
1:22 I see Mr. Oz's glasses
As a kid I had nightmares about Herry monster.
Oscar got so grouchy he turned green.
Those new generation muppets
At the end.
If i'm not mistaken ovejita is the only puppet in this compilation that speaks Spanish
Even Rosita, she speaks both English and Spanish and she's bilingual.
It’s very challenging to find every episode and season in the show
Wait we missed some people lol Roosevelt Franklin, The big orange dog, The detective guy, and the 3 pig divas, Don Music 😂😂
Barkley the big orange dog
I remember when Abby first appeared on Sesame Street! I was only five years old at the time
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Elmo
Cookie Monster Letter of the Day (2002)
Cookie Monster first appeared in the Ed Sullivan show
When I see that Big Bird, I feel that the costume people lost feathers on that head
What ripoff can I hate next
(Something that ripped off shows I like…)
(Please reply)
You can see the decline after the 90s...
I AM SO GLAD I WAS NOT BORN IN 1969
Cool do you have stuie monster first appearance
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Murray Monster
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A loaf of bread..❤
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Rosita, baby Bear and I debuted in the same year
I remember when Big Bird tried to convince the others of Snuffleupagus` existence, and they would not believe him. Soon after, I was in first grade.
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Didn’t know Big Bird had less feathers on his head back then.
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Herry Monster
I forgot how Oscar was originally orange.
Oscar is orange?
Yep, that's Oscar's old design before turning into green.
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8:45
Rosita
2:38
Guy Smiley
Oscar was orange in the early days.
Proto Big Bird sounds like Barney!😆🤣😂
Anyone get the Solomon Grundy joke?
Wow gordon reads his DC comics.😂