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Kathleen sings "The Sneeze Song."
Rick Lyon operating the Kathleen puppet as a background cow.
Kathleen the Cow is one of Sesame Street’s menagerie of Muppet cows, a group that also includes Gladys the Cow. Kathleen's name originates from her starring role in Episode 3586, where Telly Monster and Lexine teach her about what love means. Alice Dinnean performed her for this appearance.
Like other Sesame cows, the puppet has made various background appearances in street scenes, inserts, and musical numbers. Another starring turn for the cow was as the lead singer on "The Sneeze Song" (voiced here by Marilyn Sokol), backed by a Pig, a Sheep, and Fred the Wonder Horse.
In Elmo's Magic Cookbook, Stephanie D'Abruzzo performed her as a cow that helps produce milk to make cheese, which is one of the main ingredients that Emeril Lagasse uses to make pizza.
Jennifer Barnhart later performed her as the cow who jumped over the moon, from the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle," in Episode 4083 and Happy Healthy Monsters.
Notes[]
- Occasionally, the Kathleen puppet would be used for cows with different names. In "The New Here is Your Life" sketch which focuses on Prairie Dawn's Glass of Milk, the Kathleen puppet is named Bossy and performed by Camille Bonora. In the "Law and Order: Special Letters Unit" sketch, the cow is named Murray, played by Eric Jacobson, and is considered the missing letter "M" because it makes a moo sound.
- In A Muppet Family Christmas, the Kathleen puppet is performed by Richard Hunt (using a voice similar to Gladys) during "Deck the Halls."
See also[]
- Natalie
- Back-up singers for How Now Brown and the Moo Wave