Mr. Honker

PERFORMER	various
DEBUT	1982

Mr. Honker is the green Honker with blue hair and a yellow-orange nose on Sesame Street. He is referred to as the ambiguously named "Mr. Honker" by Guy Smiley in a "Name That Sound" sketch (his earliest known named appearance).

He appeared in a skit with Billy Dee Williams where they counted backwards from ten. He also served as the horn for Oscar's car in the feature film Follow That Bird.

Among this Honker's various performers include Kathryn Mullen ("The Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree"), Tim Gosley (Follow That Bird), and Kevin Clash ("Big Round Nose").

Notes

• Jim Henson: The Works features a screenshot from "Placido's Opposite Song" of this Honker with Placido Flamingo on page 63, where he is identified as "Homer". As this is the only source for the name, and given the similarity of "Homer" to "Honker", this may be a typo in a book filled with other small errors.

• By Season 38, the green Honker puppet was later seen with red hair.

• The puppet has been used with other names such as Murray Beethoven and several others.

• The puppet went on display in The Jim Henson Exhibition at Museum of the Moving Image in 2017.

Mr. Honker as seen in the Elmo's Preschool CD-ROM game

Joe Mathieu's illustration version of Mr. Honker

Mr. Honker on display in The Jim Henson Exhibition

Filmography

• The Muppets Take Manhattan
• Follow That Bird
• Getting Ready to Read
• Sing Along
• Big Bird's Favorite Party Games
• Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting
• Sing Yourself Silly!
• Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
• Sesame Street Stays Up Late
• Do the Alphabet
• Elmopalooza
• Kids' Favorite Songs
• The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
• CinderElmo
• Let's Make Music

Episodic appearances

• Season 13: 1674
• Season 14: 1779, 1808, 1815, 1824
• Season 15: 1837, 1862, 1932, 1939, 1949, 1954
• Season 16: 1975, 2070, 2081
• Season 17: 2124, 2162, 2175, 2212, 2217
• Season 18: 2226, 2253, 2273, 2309, 2312, 2317, 2328
• Season 19: 2453, 2484
• Season 20: 2572, 2584, 2591, 2595, 2609
• Season 21: 2619, 2638, 2645
• Season 22: 2809, 2833
• Season 23: 2967
• Season 25: 3136, 3139, 3194, 3256
• Season 26: 3295, 3370, 3376, 3395
• Season 27: 3396, 3466
• Season 29: 3750
• Season 30: 3795, 3799, 3806, 3810, 3826, 3835, 3840
• Season 31: 3853, 3854
• Season 32: 3929