Biff



Biff is a construction worker on Sesame Street who speaks with a gruff New York accent. His partner is Sully. Biff first appeared in Season 5, and made periodic appearances through Season 30.

Biff often asks for Sully's opinion, but interrupts him before Sully gets a chance to even make a sound. He also tends to ask him questions and then eggs Sully on by repeating, "Huh? Huh? Huh?", a reference to a routine by comedy duo Burns and Schreiber. As performer Jerry Nelson said in an interview, "Sully wasn't so much Schreiber, but Biff was the Jack Burns character." Biff often has trouble figuring out how to perform various tasks, and by the time he's figured it out, Sully has already finished it.

Biff has a niece named Roxy Marie. According to a 1989 episode, he also has four kids, one of whom is the infant Mary-Biff. In the song "Five Feet High and Rising," he mentions that he's married to a woman named Ethyl, but in a 1994 episode, his wife's name is Celeste.

He has sung songs such as "We Coulda," "Think of Your Fingers," "This Song is For the Birds," and appeared in "Do De Rubber Duck." He also appeared with Judy Collins in the song "One Thing Leads to Another," and with Johnny Cash in "Five Feet High and Rising."

Two construction worker Anything Muppets who looked similar to Biff and Sully made background appearances in the "Outrageous Makeover: Home Addition" sketch.

The duo made background cameos in episodes 4204 and 4712.

A similarly named construction foreman, Bif, exists off-screen.

Filmography

 * Sesame Street
 * Julie on Sesame Street
 * The Muppet Movie
 * The Muppets Take Manhattan
 * Follow That Bird
 * The Muppets: A Celebration of Thirty Years
 * Sing-Along
 * A Muppet Family Christmas
 * Elmopalooza
 * Don't Forget to Watch the Movie
 * A Brief History of Motion Pictures

Book appearances

 * Big Bird's Busy Book (1975)
 * The Sesame Street Book of Fairy Tales (1975)
 * How to Be a Grouch (1976)
 * Cookie Monster's Book of Cookie Shapes (1979)
 * The Count Counts a Party (1980)
 * The House That Biff Built (1980)
 * I Like School (1980)
 * The Sesame Street Dictionary (1980)
 * The Sesame Street Pet Show (1980)
 * The Tool Box Book (1980)
 * What Did You Bring? (1980)
 * The Amazing Mumford Presents the Magic Weather Show (1981)
 * A Day in the Life of Oscar the Grouch (1981)
 * I Have a Friend (1981)
 * Put & Play Magic Show (1981)
 * What Do You Do? (1981)
 * City (1982)
 * Everyone Makes Mistakes (1983)
 * Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? (1984)
 * A Silly Sesame Street Story: The Three Little Pigs (1984)
 * Sesame Street ABC (1986)
 * A Birthday Surprise (1987)
 * A New Playground on Sesame Street (1988)
 * Oscar's Grouchy Sounds (1990)
 * Bright and Early with Elmo (1994)