The Anything Muppets REAL names!

[Tim]

One of the cool things about working the Sesame characters in The Muppet Movie was finding ha! garment labels sewn into their sleves hand-written with their names. Some were permanent characters (Betty Lou, Sherlock Hemlock, etc.), but the others dressed for the camera revealed their "real" names.

Most were boring and obvious: "Small Pink" or "Medium Green", but my two favorites were the blue Anything with the round head: "Fat Blue" and the tall brown one with the little mouth: "Pumpkin".

Like I said, cool!

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Did you meet Was Once Ernie yet? He posted a whole thread about his experience performing Ernie in the closing of The Muppet Movie.

 

[ISNorden]

"Fat Blue", "Pink Medium", and similar descriptions are pattern names, not character names: would an extra in a human crowd scene claim think of "Angry Subway Passenger" or "Protesting Student #4" as his character's real name? I doubt it!

 

[Tim]

I guess I forgot to mention the labels also actually said "Name:" and that they were capitalized like proper names (i.e. "Fat Blue"). The workshop has to refer to them as something when "casting" the puppets, and I don't doubt that the "names" come from the original patterns anyway. Also, Henson ususally refered to non-established full characters as the role the first played ("Cigard Box Frackel" "Luncheon Counter Monster").

Also, "character actors" have the most ironic job description in that they rarely play "characters", rather mostly occupations: "Judge", "Cab Driver", or as was mentioned, "types"!

 

[minor muppetz]

I believe thatmany of us fans have known that the Anything Muppet patterns have names for awhile. At the Muppet Wiki website, some users have a Sesame Street Style Guide where they revealed that the names for some anyhting muppets are actually different from what some fans have been calling them (untill then, many of us thought that Pumpkin was called Tall Orange, and I think some people even thought that Orange Gold was called Guy Smiley). That site referred to Medium Green as Pointy-headed Green, so I corrected it.

Do you know if the individual Whatnots have names? Or the Unisaurs from Dinosaurs?