Muppets with fake facial hair

A list of Muppets with false beards and fake mustaches.

Bert is given a beard and mustache by Ernie to go with a new wig in a season 1 sketch.

Ernie puts Bert in a wig and beard to match his incorrect painting in another Sesame Street sketch.

Bert wears mustache and beard when playing the father in Caveperson Days episode "Taking Out the Trash".

Biff in Sesame Street Episode 1625

Big Bird wears a fake beard to impersonate an old man in Sesame Street Episode 0330.

Big Bird wears a fake beard and mustache in Episode 0732.

Big Bird wears a fake mustache, beard, and eyebrows while pretending to be a detective in disguise in Episode 0919.

Big Bird wears a fake mustache in Episode 1373.

Big Bird wears a fake mustache in Episode 1398.

Big Bird wears a fake mustache to try and fool others into thinking he's a grown-up in Episode 1433.

Big Bird as Sherlock Birdlock in Episode 1527.

Big Bird wears a fake mustache and beard with his disguise in Episode 1531.

Big Bird wears a fake mustache while pretending to be part of the "Nasty Bird Gang" in Sesame Street Episode 1795.

Big Bird disguises himself as a grown-up to lead the adults to Mr. Snuffleupagus in Episode 1825.

Big Bird puts on a false mustache to impersonate Gordon in Sesame Street Episode 2226

Big Bird imagines he's mayor in Episode 2840

Blue Bird dons a fake mustache in his intro sequence in Sesame Street Episode 2544 and 2582.

Boober Fraggle wears a fake mustache in Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock "Flight of the Flutterflies"

Cookie Monster in a fake beard to get cookies in Episode 0559.

Cookie Monster wore a fake mustache to impersonate Mr. Macintosh in Episode 0958.

Cookie Monster dons an Isaac Hayes-esque beard in "Cookie Disco."

Cookie Monster wore a fake beard as part of a Santa costume in Elmo Saves Christmas.

Cookie Monster wears Barry White-esque facial hair in "Me Going to Munch You, Munch You, Munch You."

Deena wears a fake mustache while playing "Family" with Big Bird in Episode 1488.

Elmo wears a mustache while pretending to be a store manager in Episode 2254 of Sesame Street.

Elmo wears a fake mustache to match Gordon after matching his sandwich in Sesame Street Episode 2413.

Count von Count in Episode 1284

Elmo wears a fake mustache as "customer Elmo" in Sesame Street Episode 3557.

Elmo wears "Groucho glasses" in Music Works Wonders

Elmo in Episode 4043

Elmo wears a fake mustache to help Jonah Hill present the word of the day, "mustache," in Sesame Street Episode 4180.

Elmo wears a fake mustache when he impersonates Gordon in Sesame Street Episode 4180.

Elmo wears a fake mustache and a rainbow clown wig as part of a disguise in an episode of Sesame Amigos

Elmo and Murray wore "Lincoln beards" for President's Day 2014 on Vine. [1]

Elmo in Episode 4921

Ernie in Julie on Sesame Street

Ernie wears a beard while masquerading as a pirate and Little Red Riding Hood in a 1978 sketch.

Finchen in Das Geheimnis der Blumenfabrik.

Fozzie Bear attempts to hide from Milton Berle in The Muppet Show episode 203

Fozzie Bear wears "Groucho glasses" on stage in The Muppet Movie

Fozzie Bear wears false facial hair when disguised as the bartender of the El Sleezo Cafe in The Muppet Movie.

Fozzie plays the part of Harold Zidler in the Moulin Scrooge sequence from It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

Fozzie wears a fake mustache when the Muppets attempt their Muppet Man routine in The Muppets.

Fozzie Bear wears a fake beard as part of a Santa costume in The Muppets "Single All the Way."

Gobo Fraggle wears facial hair made of whipped cream in Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock "Wembley the Spokesfraggle"

Grandma Flutter wears a beard to play in the all-men's River City Rodents baseball team in "Grandma Flutter's 100th Birthday"

Grover plays the Old Man on a C in a Monsterpiece Theater segment

Herry Monster twirls his villain's mustache as a germ in a Sesame Street pageant about teeth

Kermit, as Robin Hood in disguise, wears an orange beard in The Muppet Show episode 323

Kermit the Frog wears a false mustache when disguised as "Rosenthal" in The Great Muppet Caper.

Kermit the Frog tries growing a real mustache but Jenny has to help it along with some make-up for his disguise as a Broadway producer in The Muppets Take Manhattan.

Kermit in GQ video.

A letter M dons a false mustache in the "Law & Order: Special Letters Unit" sketch on Sesame Street.

Miss Piggy accidentally ends up wearing Rosenthal's mustache after kissing Kermit in The Great Muppet Caper.

Miss Piggy wears a fake beard when dressed as Abraham Lincoln in I Love Liberty.

Miss Piggy dresses as Lincoln again in a Presidents' Day video for the Walt Disney Studios Facebook page.

Murray Monster and a kid wear fake mustaches in a What's the Word on the Street? segment about mustaches in Sesame Street Episode 4180.

Oscar the Grouch is given a wig in "The Word Family Song" in Episode 0145.

Oscar puts on a beard in an attempt to scare off his rival (which turns out to be his reflection) in Episode 0427

Oscar wears a beard with his disguise to trick people into leaving him alone in Episode 0464

Oscar dons a mustache to host Chez Oscar
(First: Episode 1215)

"Colonel Oscar" in Episode 1534

Oscar wore a fake beard to look like Santa Claus in A Sesame Street Christmas Carol.

Pepe wears a fake beard in The Muppets episode "Pig Girls Don't Cry"

Rowlf wore a fake beard while playing Santa on The Jimmy Dean Show.

Mr. Snuffleupagus wears a false mustache while pretending to be part of the "Nasty Bird Gang" in episode 1795 of Sesame Street.

Super Grover in What's the Name of That Song?

Sully in Sesame Street Episode 1625

The Swedish Chef wears a fake mustache in A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa

Taminella Grinderfall wore a fake, French mustache in Tales of the Tinkerdee.

Taminella Grinderfall wore a fake beard as part of a Santa Claus disguise in Tales of the Tinkerdee.

Telly Monster wears a fake mustache and goatee as a chef in a "Cooking with Telly" sketch.

Telly wears a fake beard in Sesame Street Episode 2087

Telly dons a long, grey beard in Sesame Street Stays Up Late

Telly ages in Episode 2794

Telly attempts to pass as a grouch in Episode 3054

Telly wears a fake mustache as "Mr. Wallace" in Episode 3644.

Telly with a fake beard in Sesame Street Episode 3422.

The Two-Headed Monster wore fake beards as part of a Saint Nick costume in A Muppet Family Christmas.

Wembley Fraggle disguises himself as the World's Oldest Fraggle in Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock "The Glow"

Wilkins wore a fake beard in the role of Santa Claus in a Wilkins Coffee commercial.

Wilkins wore a beard in the role of a beatnik in a Wilkins Coffee commercial.

Yolanda in The Muppets episode "Generally Inhospitable"

Zoe as Blue Beard in Episode 3493

Zoe disguises herself as "Mr. Fuzzlebuzz" in Sesame Street Episode 4914.

The Muppets wear "Groucho glasses" as part of their disguise to break into the Mallory Gallery in The Great Muppet Caper.

Several Muppet characters donned false Van Dykes when impersonating the Count in Sesame Street Episode 4411.

Honorary Mentions

Instances in which shaving cream, or the act of shaving, serves as a cover for alleged facial hair.

Wilkins and Wontkins

Kermit in The Great Muppet Caper

Bobo in Muppets Tonight episode 208

Cookie Monster in a GQ Mexico article

See also

• Episode 2359 — Mumford's mustache trick