Baby Animal

PERFORMER	Howie Mandel seasons 1-2
	Dave Coulier seasons 3-8
	Dee Bradley Baker 2018
DEBUT	1984

Needing a bath in "Good Clean Fun."

Losing a tooth in "Tooth and Consequences."

Unusually sophisticated in "My Fair Animal."

Baby Animal, the most unruly of the title characters on Muppet Babies, is an infant version of Animal.

He always wears a white baby bonnet that keeps his wild pink hair under control in the back of his head and is tied with a large light-blue bow in the front. Like his adult version, he wears an open-front shirt and short pants. He speaks in a more fragmented way, focusing on keywords to get his point across, like his adult self. Presenting younger than the rest of the Muppet Babies, Baby Animal tends to crawl while the others walk upright.

He and Skeeter are the only main characters who did not appear in Muppet form in the dream sequence from The Muppets Take Manhattan, which launched the Muppet Babies series, though a Baby Animal Muppet was later built for the TV special A Muppet Family Christmas.

Baby Animal appeared in the ending tag of each Muppet Babies episode, which included such appearances as breaking out of an egg or hanging on behind an airplane. These antics generally involved Baby Gonzo being hurt or humiliated in some way, and, on a few occasions, other characters as well. His trademark line was "Go bye-bye!" He also had a distinctive laugh which followed.

In the early seasons Animal had thick eyelashes all around his eyes and his face would sometimes turn orange as a result of ink and paint errors. By the third season, Animal's design and animation became more consistent; his face was always pink and the eyelashes were only on the tips of his eyelids.

In the Muppet Babies read-along book-and-audio set Where's the Bear? Maurice LaMarche voiced Baby Animal.

Muppet Babies reboot

Baby Animal was heavily redesigned for the 2018 reboot series Muppet Babies. The redesign provides Baby Animal with a truly fuzzy head of magenta hair. His head is less round and more oval shaped, his eyelashes are even thicker than before, he has more teeth (in the original, he only had two so far). He often walks or sits in a more prehistoric/animalistic pose, and still speaks in a more fragmented way. This version of Baby Animal stands and walks upright like the other Muppet Babies rather than crawling on all fours like the original Baby Animal.

He wears a new outfit of tight blue denim jeans torn at the knees, a grey-green camouflage hoodie, and olive and blue wrist bands.

Animal is very attached to his plush toy bunny Buddy, mirroring his adult counterpart's later obsession with bunnies.

Muppet Babies (2018)

See also

• Animal's Alternate Ages: other versions of Baby Animal