Recently, I dreamt that I had the Palisades Series 1 Sesame Street figures, only the line-up was Big Bird (not as big as the one Palisades would have done), Bert, Cookie Monster, and Oscar the Grouch. And yet it seems like Cookie eventually switched places with Oscar, meaning that the Cookie Monster figure was sculpted into the trash can. And the lid to the can had a magnet so that Oscar/Cookie would wear it on his head (like a hat), and while it was made so you could have the lid hinged like on the show, the hinge thing didn't work on mine.
And at first, the hands were not removable, but then they suddenly were so that you could push the character into the trash can. In fact, I remember reading that the Oscar figure was supposed to have removable hands/arms so you could push him into the can, but I've never seen any pictures of the prototypes with the arms missing. I wonder if they changed their mind about this, or if they never got around to making the arms removable on the prototype.