The Purple AMs - Where's the Love?

[D'Snowth]

Bump.

 

[D'Snowth]

Here's a slightly updated list of purple AM appearances I've seen/noticed recently...

• A mother taking her son to the barber in episode 3834/3934
• Gardener in "Cooperation Makes it Happen"
• A nervous student in the "School in the Afteroon" bit "Edge of School"
• A Hispanic girl in the cafeteria for "Some Enchanted Lunchtime"

I'm pretty sure I might have seen the OTHER purple AM in one of the earlier Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School sketches.

 

[LamangoNumber2]

In the Yellow Submarine video, the purple regular was used.

 

[LittleJerry92]

Bumping this up because Snowth honestly makes a point.

Obviously in season 1, we saw quite a number of purple Anything Muppets. Then in season 2, the lavender muppet was introduced and they were still used, but not as frequently.

I think it was towards the late 70's to early 80's the purple muppet was being phased out, and it was such a surprise finding another purple muppet that DIDN'T have a Lavender muppet alongside.

I feel like nowadays the only time a purple muppet is used is when a character is assumed to be African American if they aren't using the brown puppet. It's clear the lavender muppet was its replacement (since it's basically a shade of purple anyway), and the purple muppet is now literally the only puppet from season 1 that doesn't have a live hand variant.

 

[dwayne1115]

The Amazing Mumford is kinda a purple AM.

 

[LittleJerry92]

Yeah, but he doesn't fall directly under the dark shade of purple.

 

[dwayne1115]

Yeah, but he doesn't fall directly under the dark shade of purple.

I don't know, I'm looking at pictures of Roosevelt Franklin, Mumford, and The Count. They all look very similar, just slightly darker. In some pictures Roosevelt looks almost dark pink.

 

[LittleJerry92]

@dwayne1115

Examples of actual purple Anything Muppets (not lavender):

 

[D'Snowth]

To be fair, purple was a color that wasn't recorded well by those early videotape cameras, and it may have given off a more washed-out magenta look to it . . . this is why Oscar ended up being orange instead of purple like Jim intended.

 

[LittleJerry92]

Yeah, you're not wrong on that.