Muppet taking apples

[Ziffel]

Around the mid 70's I remember a muppet (not sure eactly what kind of muppet, but think it was an anything muppet) taking apples one at a time. It was a street scene. There were five apples and he said, "Five apples take away one apple leaves four apples. Heh heh heh." Then he zipped away with the apple. After a few skits, he was back to do the same thing with four apples. And he continued until he took the last apple. I guess this might have been shown only on one show, since it was a street scene. But I recall it well enough that I'm thinking maybe it was a recurring one.

 

[mikebennidict]

looked more like the early 70s because of the dim video quality. but it was reused. most street sene being reused were rare but there were a few. 1 example was with Maria standing on David and Jerry Nelson annoucing and when Maria feeels that he's through with his talk decides to get off David and get some pizza. but it's David who leave leving Maria suspended in mid air.

 

[fuzzygobo]

my memory's a little dim, the muppet in question looked like he had blue fur, two little horns and a few teeth sticking out. Not as scary as Beautiful Day, but not as cute as Grover.

He also did a similar skit subtracting whistles. There were five of them lined up on Mr. Hooper's counter, and he would take one away, give it a little blow
"TWEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!" until they were all gone.

He might've turned up somewhere on the Muppet Show as well, current whereabouts unknown. Probably with Roosevelt Franklin in Muppet Limbo.

 

[Censored]

Oh, yes. I remember that one. It actually scared me as a child. Not sure why because none of the other monsters ever frightened me. I think it may have had something to do with the quickness and surprise of it.

I'd love to see it today, but it hasn't been shown in a long time. I'm pretty sure that it was shown frequently back in the 70's though. It was the kind of street scene that was easy to reuse since it just showed the store, a muppet, and no humans. Of course, Hooper's store looks so different now, it probably wouldn't fit.