Favorite Anything Muppet?

[D'Snowth]

I know this may sound like a weird question, but which Anything Muppet was your favorite? For some reason, I always seemed to like the lavendar one the best because for some reason it seemed to be able to take on a character better because it's like I see the fat blue AM and always think Grover's Fat Blue customer, or whenever I see the yellow one I think Guy Smiley, and so on and so forth.

 

[BEAR]

Hmm...that is an interesting question, Snowthy, and I've never really thought much about it before. I'll have to think about it more, but I like the green one a lot.

 

[Kiki]

I like the lavander one that Fran Brill performed alot of the time. ^^

 

[wiley207]

I like the Orange Gold Guy Smiley-type best, as well as the small Hot Pink Anything Muppet used for Prairie Dawn, the Busby Twins, Betty Lou and the Three Little Pigs.

It also seems that Frank Oz and Jerry Nelson used the Large Lavender Live Hand muppet a LOT. I mean, the Count used to be made out of that type of Anything Muppet, and the Amazing Mumford and Lord Chatterly and Rodeo Rosie come from that pattern, and as for Frank Oz, his Aladdin and Little Miss Muffet and Harvey Kneeslapper are Large Lavender Live Hand Anything Muppets too.

I also noticed that the Pointy-headed Green Anything Muppet is used a lot for non-Kermit frogs, such as the Sleeping Beauty frog, the London Frog, etc. It was also used for the original version of the tortoise (I can tell because of its pointy-looking head). Later versions use a different puppet without a pointy head (it might be a Small Green Anything Muppet.)

Rabbits on "Sesame Street" (until at least the late 80s) were usually made out of the Lavender or Large Lavender Live Hand Anything Muppet, such as the Hare in the Aesop fable, Howie and Captain Vegetable (all lavender) and that Easter Bunny in that News Flash about the holiday mix-up (which is obviously a Large Lavender Live Hand puppet).

Another thing I noticed is that, except for Ernie and Bert and Bruno, almost every other human Muppet character on "Sesame Street" is (or was originally) made out of an Anything Muppet. I mean, if you look at a human Muppet on the show, it could be either a Fat Blue, a Pointy-Headed Green, a Lavender, a Pumpkin-type, etc. Heck, even Kingston Livingston the Third was made out of an Anything Muppet! (the rarely-seen brown type)

 

[D'Snowth]

Wait... Prairie Dawn is an Anything Muppet?!

 

[mikebennidict]

I think AM's are those without names wich is why they're called that.

 

[Barry Lee]

Orange Gold Guy Smiley AM.

 

[furryredmonster]

Wait... Prairie Dawn is an Anything Muppet?!

She is??

 

[fuzzygobo]

I'm partial to the green one with the pointy head, and for all the musical numbers they used him in

*Lulu's Back in Town
*Mad! (Little Jerry and the Monotones)
*Octopus's Garden- too bad they didn't include this in the box set.

to name just a few.

 

[travellingpat]

I like fat Blue

I dont know why i just like the shape of the head and body
it seems like a nice puppet to work with