Puppets

The following is a listing of puppets (including ventriloquist dummies, marionettes, and shadow puppets) within the various Muppet worlds.

While a few are revealed to be autonomous characters (such as Chuckie, The Dancing Clown, Gary Cahuenga and the various Pinocchios), most are shown alongside their respective performers (oftentimes real world puppets in their own right).

“Wiggling dolls is weird. In fact it might even be sick!”
—Gonzo in episode 508

1 Named puppets
2 Unnamed
3 See also
4 Sources

Named puppets[]

Pinocchio (Sesame Street)

Pinocchio (The Muppet Show)

Pousees

Professor Charles Chicken

Punch and Judy puppets

Puppety Sockman the Puppet

Unnamed[]

The Muppets[]

Rowlf deals with an uncooperative hand puppet in The Muppets on Puppets.

Fozzie Bear uses his hat and thumb as a puppet in a promo for The Muppet Show episode 113.

Fozzie uses Dave Goelz' Gonzo-shaped microphone windscreen as a finger puppet in a promo for The Muppet Show episode 508

Fozzie, in an effort to stall, tells a joke with the aid of a box which he puppeteers in episode 320 of The Muppet Show.

Dizzy Gillespie plays with a marionette in the cold open of episode 413 of The Muppet Show.

Nurse Piggy plays with a pig puppet on the UK Spot in episode 511 of The Muppet Show. The puppet also appears in Geppetto's workshop in episode 508.

Beaker works the Fisher-Price Muppet plush as puppets in a promotional video for the Muppet Stuff stores.

Psychomachia puppets in
Miss Piggy's Guide to Life

A street vendor can be seen performing hand puppets behind the gang on The Muppets Take Manhattan

Fozzie performs finger puppets in bumpers for the original broadcast of A Muppet Family Christmas.

Baby Kermit plays with a knight puppet on the Muppet Babies episode "Muppets in Toyland."

Baby Rowlf plays with Closet Troll puppets on the Muppet Babies episode "Junkyard Muppets."

Baby Scooter and Baby Kermit play with paper bag puppets of themselves, as Baby Gonzo plays with a sock puppet of himself on the Muppet Babies episode "Gonzee's Playhouse Channel."

Bad Polly performs shadow puppets while Mad Monty sings "There Was an Old Pirate."

Carl asks his dummy "what's a Grecian urn?" in Muppets Tonight episode 109. The dummy is uncooperative, so he bites his head off.

Kermit puppeteers a pig puppet in a 1999 Henson Company audition ad.

Rachel Bitterman puppeteers a One Dollar bill in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, while kicking the Muppets out of their theatre.

The Dragon performs a puppet clergyman to officiate Kermit and Piggy's wedding in Issue #4 of Muppet Snow White.

Fozzie Bear briefly puppeteered kitchen prongs on This Morning in 2012, saying "look, it's like a puppet!"

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Fozzie is too late to audition his paper bag puppet in Lady Gaga & the Muppets' Holiday Spectacular.

The Swedish Chef puppeteers cake pops^[1] of Kermit and Piggy on Nerdy Nummies, also making them kiss.

Miss Piggy (sort of) puppeteers Kermit the Frog on The Muppets episode "Walk the Swine."

In a Facebook and Instagram Halloween message posted in 2015, Rizzo used a commercially available Kermit the Frog hand-puppet for his costume (angering the real Kermit by taking his parking space in the disguise).

Captain Link Hogthrob uses a Kermit puppet to pretend to be First Mate Piggy's former love Matt Kewaterski in a 2016 "Pigs in Space" video.

The Swedish Chef puppeteers food (stand-ins for Piggy and Kermit) in The Muppets "Little Green Lie"

Sesame Street[]

Big Bird's puppet in Episode 0660

Bob, Linda, Telly Monster, and the kids make sock puppets at day care in Episode 1495.

The Two-Headed Monster briefly uses a pair of mittens as sock puppets in Episode 1573.

The kids put on a paper bag puppet show in Sesame Street Episode 1531.

Mrs. Figueroa uses a washcloth hand puppet as she tries to convince Oscar to take a bath in Episode 2381.

Telly puppeteers a frog puppet that Maria's mother sent from Puerto Rico in episode 2412.

The Two-Headed Monster makes shadow puppets in a season 20 sketch.

Chicago the Lion uses puppets for a vegetable show in Episode 3074 of Sesame Street.

Papa Bear performs a sock puppet show in episode 3539.

Baby Bear uses Mr. Stringo as the eyes to his hand puppet in episode 3710.

An Anything Muppet subject of Prince Pedro tries to entice him to play with his dragon puppet in the song "No Me Gusta."

Sesame Street residents play with puppet likenesses of themselves.

Herry Monster finds a paper bag puppet in his chest in the book ABC Toy Chest.

Mrs. Libby and her Little Red Riding Hood puppet in the book A Visit to the Sesame Street Library.

Big Bird and Snuffy play with dinosaur puppets and put on a puppet show in the book Best Friends.

Bert puts on a puppet show using an Ernie puppet on a Sesame Street puzzle.

A puppet can be seen in Elmo's bedroom in Look and Find Elmo.

Murray interviews Sam, who made his own dog puppet (Sesame Street, episode 4503).

In the Smart Cookies segment "Making Whoopie in the Library," in an attempt to stop the Whoopie Pie, Miss Fortune's clue is "something with strings," and Cookie Monster fetches a puppet because a puppet has strings.

In a special video produced for Sesame Street at SeaWorld, the Two-Headed Monster plays with sock puppets.

Elmo performs a popsicle stick puppet named Sticky in Episode 5116 of Sesame Street.

Two Honkers use oven mitts as puppets in the Sesame Street in Communities video "The World Sings to You."

Alan uses an alligator puppet as an imaginary dentist patient in Episode 5213 of Sesame Street.

Cookie Monster and Chris Morocco puppeteer gingerbread men on Bon Appétit.

Other[]

Fraggle puppets on "The Incredible Shrinking Mokey," including the following:

Boober's Fraggle puppet

Wembley's Fraggle puppet

Gobo's bug puppet

Red and Mokey's Fraggle puppets

Storyteller Bunny's puppets on The Tale of the Bunny Picnic

Storyteller Bunny's other puppet on The Tale of the Bunny Picnic

Earl Sinclair performs a Punch and Judy-esque puppet show to keep Baby Sinclair entertained in the Dinosaurs episode "Baby Talk."

A speaker uses "Mr. Business Bunny" to get his audience's attention in a Muppet meeting film "Top Ten Reasons to Take a Break."

Pferd with a pair of puppets in the Eine Möhre für Zwei episode "Das Geheimnis im Wald".

Pferd and Wolle performing handpuppet versions of themselves in the Eine Möhre für Zwei episode "Das Geheimnis im Wald."

An Anything Muppet performs a comedy routine with a dummy (made from a Little Anything Muppet) in The Furchester Hotel episode, "The Furchester Talent Show."

Hauptmann Schwarzsocke performing a parrot puppet in the Eine Möhre für Zwei film "Der Schatz des Käpt'n Karotte."

Wolf performing Hauptmann Schwarzsocke's parrot puppet in the Eine Möhre für Zwei film "Der Schatz des Käpt'n Karotte."

SkekGra tells the story of how the Skeksis and Mystics came to Thra through puppetry in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance episode "Time to Make... My Move."

The Fraggles use shadow puppets for a song in the Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock episode "The Legend of Icy Joe."

Pogey has turned two socks into puppets in the "Hope and Socks" episode of Back to the Rock.

Sources[]

↑ Family.com's Kermit and Miss Piggy cake pops (or edible puppets, if you will)

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