Twin Muppets sharing speech

[SesameMike]

Does anyone remember a Muppet sketch in which two twin boy Anything Muppets enter a store? They ask the storekeeper for something, but because they divide their speech by alternate words, and even by alternate syllables, the shopkeeper can't figure out what they want.

A typical greeting by the boys would go like this:
AM1:"We'd"
AM2:"like"
AM1:"to"
AM2:"buy"
AM1:"some"
AM2:"thing."

When the man asked them what they wanted to buy they said:
AM1:"A"
AM2:"rock"

So the man went back and got them a rock.
AM1:"et"

The man said he'd never heard of an "et". But eventually it became clear that the boys divided up their speech by syllable, and what they really wanted was a toy rocket.

There was another sketch with this same trio. I don't remember this one as clearly, but I think in this case one of them asked for a "ham", so the man put a genuine ham on the counter. When the other kid said "mer", the shopkeeper didn't have a clue what he was talking about. Of course, they wanted to buy a hammer.

In the end of one, one of the boys said "so". The man said "so?"; the other said "long". There was a "good" "bye" greeting in the other.

 

[superfan]

Certainly sounds familiar. How long ago was this?

 

[Censored]

They were from the early 70's. I believe that they were called the Busby Twins.

 

[Daffyfan4ever]

I remember seeing the Bubsy Twins in the "Sesame Street" dictionary. I haven't really seen or heard of them anywhere else.

 

[GonzoLeaper]

The "Sesame Street Dictionary"? I take it this is a book available for purchase?


Also, The Bubsy Twins sounds like a definite parody (at least on their names) of The Bobbsey Twins! (great mystery series by Laura Lee Hope!)

 

[Censored]

I remember seeing the Bubsy Twins in the "Sesame Street" dictionary. I haven't really seen or heard of them anywhere else.

They were also included in a punch-out finger puppet booklet from the early 70's.

 

[Censored]

Also, The Bubsy Twins sounds like a definite parody (at least on their names) of The Bobbsey Twins! (great mystery series by Laura Lee Hope!)

Yes, when I was six, I heard Ed Norton make a reference to the Bobbsey Twins on The Honeymooners; I thought he was referring to the muppets on Sesame Street because I didn't yet understand that Sesame Street came a decade later. LOL

 

[Daffyfan4ever]

I don't know if that dictionary is available for purchase or not. I think I remember borrowing it from the library years ago.

 

[fuzzygobo]

Holy cow, sometimes you people are really good at digging stuff up that I almost totally forgot about!

I remember the Busby Twins (can't remember if they had actual names).
If memory serves me well, Jim Henson was the shopkeeper, and Frank Oz and Jerry Nelson were the twins. The one skit I definitely remember:

AM #1: We
AM #2: would
#1: like
#2: to
#1: buy
#2: a
#1: tie...
Shopkeeper: A tie? Sure I got a beauty right here! (Brings out a very LOUD 70's vintage flower tie)

#2: ...er.
Shopkeeper: What's an er?
After some deductive reasoning, the shopkeeper gives them a TIRE for their
bicycle.

Wow. Thanks for jogging my memory. I remember when these skits were new!