Caroll Spinney characters

Caroll Spinney most notably performed Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street for fifty years. What is not as well-known, is that Spinney also performed a number of other characters, usually Anything Muppets, in the earlier seasons of the show. Spinney also performed Muppet versions of his pre-Sesame Street characters Picklepuss and Pop in a Muppet production, and made several cameos on the show.

Granny Fanny Nesselrode

Shivers the Penguin

Sam the Robot in Episode 0461

Lefty the Salesman in sketches for U and P&R

Scudge and Fred's son in "First and Last" sketch

Beautiful Day Monster in Monsters Whisper "C"

Cookie Monster in "Monsters Whisper C" sketch

Hippie in Kermit's hair lecture

Billy in "IS" sketch

Bennett Snerf

Lavender AM in baseball sketch (First: Episode 0193)

son in "Children Song"

Reddish-Magenta AM in "Goin' for a Ride"

Ira

Duke David

Pumpkin AM in "Wonderful/Yucchy"

Purple AM in "Everyone Likes Ice Cream"

Ludwig

Professor Goldfinch

Tough Luck Lester

Penelope Pepperpot

Pumpkin pilot in "Yellow Submarine"

Adrienne in "A, You're Adorable"

Mother in "Consider Yourself"
(dialogue only)

AM in "Cookie Monster Goes to School"

The King in "Cutie and the Beast"

sibling in "Five People in My Family"

proto-Grover in "Monsters Look at A"

Fat Blue man in Kermit looks for clues

little boy and man in "Lulu's Back in Town"

postman Rubber Ball

Mother in Family Arrangement sketch (First: Episode 0275)

The Cookie Tree

Strange Little Man in "The Magic Cookie"

the farmer in "The Magic Apple"

"Can You Guess?" panelist #3

Pumpkin AM in "Surprise!"

Pumpkin monster in "Monster Tug-of-War" (First: Episode 0261)

Spinney in Grover Monotones walk sketch.jpg

Lavender AM in Grover and Monotones WALK sketch (First: Episode 0221)

AM in "Mad"

Honorary Mentions

• In the audio cassette version of the book A Sesame Street Christmas, Caroll Spinney as Big Bird reads a story that includes his imitations of Bert, Ernie, Betty Lou, and Grover. Another story on the tape finds Caroll Spinney as Oscar imitating Big Bird.

• Spinney narrates several of the audio adaptations of the Sesame Street Start-to-Read Book series, sometimes doing other character voices.

• Miscellaneous voiceovers include:
  • singing "Rockabye Baby" to a koala in a season one film
  • announcing the sponsors in Episode 0006
  • Episode 0600, Scene 4

Notes

• Despite his claims to the contrary, Spinney never performed Elmo.

See also

• Caroll and Debra Spinney Cameos