Picture | Impersonator and Animal | Production | Notes |
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Baby Bear as a mer-bear | Sesame Street | Seen on an episode of Sesame Street and the "Water" episode of Elmo's World, with Telly re-imagined as a fish. | |
Baby Bear as a monkey | Sesame Street Episode 3853 |
Baby Bear helps Elmo bring the zoo to Maria. | |
Baby Bear and Elmo as a Honker and dinger | Sesame Street Episode 4028 |
Elmo and Baby Bear cavort as species indigenous to Sesame Street. | |
Croquette as unicorn | Fraggle Rock (French version) | Doc strraps a horn on Croquette, to pose for Madame Pontaven's crest. | |
A Banana as a tiger | Sesame Street Season 16 |
A banana being asked to play the part of a tiger in a movie agency sketch. | |
Bert as a caterpillar | Sesame Street Butterfly Pageant |
Bert dresses up as a caterpillar for the pageant. | |
Big Bird as "Big Fish" | Sesame Street Episode 3161 |
Wolfgang the Seal chases fish explorer Wanda Cousteau all over the Street. Big Bird pretends to be Wanda's huge friend, Big Fish, to scare Wolfgang into leaving Wanda alone. | |
Bunsen, Beaker and penguins as bunnies | Muppetisms | Bunsen and Beaker test a theory about bunnies. | |
Buster the Horse as a zebra | Learning About Letters | Buster in stripes to demonstrate the letter Z. | |
a cat as a dog | The Jim Henson Hour episode 104 | A stunt-cat dresses as a dog in a behind-the-scenes feature for Dog City, failing to prove that the "thing" between cats and dogs is just a myth. | |
Chicken as the Dormouse | The Muppet Show Episode 506 |
An ordinary chicken with buckteeth, ears, and whisker playing the Alice in Wonderland Dormouse. | |
Cookie Monster as the Cookie Bunny | Sesame Street | Cookie Monster wearing long blue ears, small nose, whiskers, and buck teeth, until they fall out of his mouth as he "hides" his colorful cookies. | |
a dancer as a lion | The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show | During the "Calendar Song," a chorus dancer appears as a lion, to demonstrate March. When he turns around, however, on his back is a Muppet-style lamb, who opens his mouth and bleats. | |
Doc as Sprocket | Fraggle Rock episode 107 |
Doc goes as his own dog to the society costume ball. | |
Doc Hopper as a frog | The Muppet Movie | Doc Hopper portrays a frog in a commercial for Doc Hopper's French Fried Frog Legs | |
Dr. Teeth as the Cheshire Cat | The Muppet Show episode 506 |
Another Alice in Wonderland portrayal, the regular Dr. Teeth head on a cat body and with ears. | |
Elmo as a lion | Sesame Street Episode 3853 |
Elmo dresses as a lion to bring the zoo to Maria. | |
Elmo as a "chicken-kitten-cow-bunny" | Sesame Street Episode 4032 |
Elmo dresses as every animal he can think of, rolled into one, to get a vet appointment with Gina and declare his love for her. | |
Eric the Parrot as a penguin | The Muppet Show episode 507 | When Eric the Parrot disguises himself as a penguin, he appears as any other Muppet penguin. However, he is actually wearing a penguin costume, under which he cannot wear his parrot suit for fear of wrinkling it. | |
Ernie as a sheep | "Journey to Ernie" Season 35 |
Ernie poses as Little Bo Peep's sheep to evade Big Bird. | |
Fat Blue Delivery Man as a sheep | Sesame Street | When the sheep go on strike, The Count has a delivery man dress as a sheep, so he can count him and go to sleep. | |
Fay Ray as a frog | Sesame Street | Fay dresses up as a frog or maybe Kermit the Dog. | |
Fay Ray as a polka-dotted black insect | Sesame Street | Fay dresses up as a polka-dotted black insect. | |
Fay Ray as a moose | Sesame Street | Fay dresses up as a moose, yak, or maybe a deer. | |
Floyd Pepper as caterpillar | The Muppet Show Episode 506 |
Another Alice in Wonderland animal. | |
Fluffinella as a French poodle | Fraggle Rock Episode 410 |
Though not shown onscreen, Fluffinella attends Ms. Ardath's masquerade party as a French poodle. | |
Fozzie Bear as a lion | The Muppets Go To the Movies | As the Cowardly Lion, from the Wizard of Oz sketch. | |
Frackles disguised as cute, furry animals | The Muppet Show Episode 524 |
Three Frackle spies pose as animals to infiltrate Roger Moore's closing number, "Talk to the Animals". | |
Gonzo as a bat | Episode 108 | Gonzo is costumed appropriately for a role in his own musical, "Bats." | |
Grover as a mouse | A Muppet Family Christmas | Grover plays the unstirring mouse in The Night Before Christmas pageant. | |
Grover as a peacock | The Street We Live On | Grover wears a peacock feather, possibly to match Ming. | |
Grover as a puffin | Sesame Street Episode 4109 | Grover dresses as a puffin in a Global Grover segment about Iceland. | |
Harvey Korman as a chicken | The Muppet Show Episode 110 |
Kermit puts Harvey in a white chicken suit. | |
Herry as a butterfly | Sesame Street Butterfly Pageant |
Herry dresses up as a butterfly for the pageant, wearing orange Monarch butterfly wings. | |
Hudson as a pig | The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence | The astronaut poses as "Hudson," a pig butler. | |
Jason Alexander as a bat | episode 108 | Jason is costumed appropriately for a role in his own musical, "Bats." | |
Jon Voight as a brown turkey | The Muppet Show Live | Voight performs with the chickens. | |
Kermit as a cow | Sesame Street Season 15 |
Kermit being switched to a cow after he and Gladys switch roles in a sketch in Season 15. | |
Kermit as Frogo the Dragon | Muppets Tonight Episode 207 |
Kermit as the dragon in Dennis Quaid's screen test of Dragonheart. | |
Kermit as Frogzilla | Muppets Tonight Episode 203 |
Kermit as the reptilian monster in a sketch The Hardy Pig Boys. | |
Kids as zoo animals | Sesame Street Episode 3853 |
Devon dresses as a giraffe, Sara as an elephant and Devon's rabbit as a leopard. | |
"Margaret" as chicken | The Muppets Take Manhattan | Gonzo's boat driver at the aquacade, in the same chicken suit from The Muppet Show. | |
Monty as a penguin | Sesame Street Episode 3091 | Monty dresses as a penguin for his new penguin school. | |
Dinosaur as Moola the Cash Cow | Dinosaurs "Variations on a Theme Park" | A dinosaur teen dresses up as a cheerful cartoon cow. | |
Natalie Portman and Elmo as elephants | Sesame Street | Natalie and Elmo play "The Princess and the Elephants" with a real Elephant. | |
Oscar as a cat | Peter and the Wolf | Oscar plays the part of the cat as Baby Bear imagines the story of Peter and the Wolf. | |
Rosita as a bear | Sesame Street Episode 3853 |
Rosita helps Elmo bring the zoo to Maria. | |
Scred as a bee | Saturday Night Live | Scred attired as Aunt Bee, for a Killer Bees sketch. | |
Shirley and Nat Muskrat as a horse | Emmet Otter's Jug-band Christmas | Shirley and Nat perform in a horse costume, which they can't seem to connect, at the talent contest. | |
Snuffy as a horse | Elmo's World: Horses | Snuffy appears at the end of Elmo's quiz, dressed as a horse in his cave. | |
The Swedish Chef as a pig | Muppet Treasure Island | When the Chef appears in a pig's nose as cook for the pig natives, a talking vegetable quips, "How else were we going to get him into this movie?" | |
The Swedish Chef as the Easter Bunny | Donna's Day | The chef in rabbit ears. | |
Telly as a duck | Peter and the Wolf | Telly also used the same costume when he took on the role of "mother" for a baby duck in Episode 4051 of Sesame Street | |
The Two-Headed Monster as a two-headed chicken | Sesame Street | In a Journey to Ernie segment. | |
Uncle Traveling Matt as a pig | Fraggle Rock Episode 107 |
Matt dresses as a pig to fit in on a hog farm. | |
Zoe as a bird | Peter and the Wolf | Zoe in character from Peter and the Wolf. | |
Illustrated Impersonations | |||
Bert as a pigeon | Sesame Street Halloween card | Bert dresses up as a pigeon to go trick-or-treating. | |
Big Bird as an alligator | Sesame Street Halloween card | Big Bird dresses up as an alligator to go trick-or-treating.
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Ernie as a Twiddlebug | Sesame Street Halloween card | Ernie dresses up as a Twiddlebug to go trick-or-treating. | |
Cookie Monster as a cow, Ernie as a dog, Bert as a hen, Grover as a Sheep, Herry as a pig | The Little Red Hen | Dress in characters for a Sesame Street Pageant |
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