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, as well as a skit where The Count counted the honks he made. 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") and Tim Gosley (Follow That Bird).

Notes

• Jim Henson: The Works features a screenshot 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.

• The green Honker puppet has sometimes been fitted with red hair, as in "Elmo's World: Noses."

• 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

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Appearances

• Sesame Street
• The Muppets Take Manhattan
• Follow That Bird
• Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
• Elmopalooza
• The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
• CinderElmo
• Big Bird's Favorite Party Games

Video

• Getting Ready to Read (1986)
• Sing Along (1987)
• Big Bird's Favorite Party Games (1988)
• Sing Yourself Silly! (1990)
• Sesame Street: 25 Wonderful Years (1993)
• Sesame Street Celebrates Around the World (1994)
• Do the Alphabet (1996)
• Kids' Favorite Songs (1999)