Cookie Monster after season 1

[BEAR]

Okay, this thread has sort of morphed into changes in all the puppets, not just Cookie Monster, so I'll post this here...

Does anyone else remember "Bucket-Mouth Oscar"? It was a rebuild of Oscar where he could move his eyes back and forth, along with his moving eyebrows. But we called him "Bucket-Mouth" because for some reason, he had a huge bottom jaw. The moving eyes were really cool, but they only used him for a short time, because, as we would say in animation, he was "off-model".

Yeah, I do remember Oscar having an unusually large head at one point.

 

[anythingmuppet]

what season was 'bucket mouth'?

 

[Was Once Ernie]

what season was 'bucket mouth'?

It was somewhere between 1972 and 1975, because that's when I was working at the Public Television station.

 

[MuppetDude]

Good news for traders: "Bucket-Mouth Oscar" can be seen in show #573.

This isn't the major rebuild I was talking about around Season 3. I think what you're talking about here was basically taking the same head and changing the features.

Ah, I see. Yeah, back then the puppet began to look more like the present one used. But the versions of E/B that probably stand out more to other designs was probably the ones from 1976-1982, when they both had fuzzier, "shinier" fleece. (Were they built by Caroly?)

 

[Daffyfan4ever]

I'd like to see a 'bucket mouth' Oscar. I knew about orange Oscar and I've seen a second season picture of a bright green Oscar. I guess he went through quite a few different appearances before he looked like we know him today.

 

[Was Once Ernie]

I don't have any pictures of "Bucket-Mouth", but I do have some nice ones of Oscar in the Smithsonian Institute.

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=8576804&uid=4105878

 

[MuppetDude]

Hmm, that looks a lot like the "Bucket-Mouth" version. Perhaps they donated the puppet to the Institute? I'm not sure...

 

[Was Once Ernie]

Hmm, that looks a lot like the "Bucket-Mouth" version. Perhaps they donated the puppet to the Institute?

As I was posting these pictures, I started thinking that, too. But this one couldn't have movable eyes. It's hard to tell whether he has that giant bottom jaw or whether the fur is just more untrimmed.

I think I would have recognized "Bucket-Mouth" immediately when I saw him.