Anything Muppets

Anything Muppets (or "AMs", as they're referred to in the studio) are "empty" Muppet heads. Facial features, bodies and clothes can be added to make any kind of character. A similar group of puppets known as Whatnots appeared on The Muppet Show.

During the first seasons of Sesame Street, they were known as "The Anything People" who could be anything they wanted. Usually the live actors, like Bob, would turn them into different characters. This concept was abandoned after a few seasons, although every once in a while an Anything Muppet character would take off his nose or lose his mustache.

Although these puppets were usually used to create human characters, animals were also sometimes concocted from Anything Muppets, until the late 1980s, including the Tortoise and the Hare, the Three Little Pigs and Captain Vegetable. This practice could be seen in The Miss Muffet Play. Aliens, such as The Gonk and The Geefle, and monsters such as Bennett Snerf and Arlene Frantic could also be made from Anything Muppets.

Main Sesame Street characters that are made from Anything Muppets include Count von Count, Prairie Dawn, Mr. Johnson, Roosevelt Franklin, Guy Smiley, Lefty the Salesman, the Twiddlebugs, and Sherlock Hemlock.

Types
The following types of Anything Muppets appear on Sesame Street:
 * Fat Blue (and live hand variant)
 * Green
 * Pumpkin
 * Purple
 * Lavender
 * Large Lavender Live Hand
 * Orange Gold (and live hand variant)
 * Little Anything Muppets, a sub-group which includes Hot Pink, Reddish Magenta, and Orange Pumpkin
 * Brown
 * Kingston Livingston III, an elf (Elmo Saves Christmas)


 * Large Orange Live Hand
 * Laundromat Manager, King Fred Charming, Murray the Mediocre, Sir John Feelgood, Mo


 * Pear shaped fuschia
 * Flow, Tony, Smelly, Breakfast Club Singer