Random Top Ten
Random Top Ten!
Top Ten Sesame Street Characters
10. Amazing Mumford - Let's create a vaudevillian-esque, hammy stage magician Muppet? Very cool. Let's give him the magical, "Abcradabra"-stand-in phrase of "A-la-peanut butter-and-jelly-sandwiches?" Super cool. Let's give him a W.C. Fields accent? Genius.
9. The Count von Count - Such elegant simplicity - he loves to count. That he's a vampire is just icing on the cake.
8. Big Bird - The Elmo-haters forget that there was a more rounded, gateway character for little kids before Elmo - the hardly unpopular Big Bird. And a plus - best snore in pop culture history.
7. Oscar the Grouch - Like many a little kid at times, he hates everything. One of the best characters in the Sesame Street tradition of having one character embody a specific kid trait.
6. Bert - Hero to anal retentives everywhere.
5. Elmo - I know that as a certified Gen-X'er I'm legally bound to hate on Elmo, but I just can't do it. And I've seen first-hand the spell he can cast on younguns. Impressive.
4. Snuffleupagus - The classic imaginary friend writ real. How many of us still bemoan his reveal to the rest of the world?
3. Cookie Monster - The best of the "one trait" characters. "C is for cookie" is a mantra for living.
2. Ernie - He got way more than his fair share of great songs ("Dance Myself to Sleep," Rubber Duckie" "The Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree," "that "Moon" song," but he kind of deserved them. And has anyone ever had a better laugh.
1. Grover - He's a frickin' superhero for crying out loud! How could he not get number one?
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6 comments:
What, no Kermie? But he's GREEN. And it's difficult being green. Or something like that.
Kermit is a Muppet Show Muppet, not a Sesame Street Muppet,at least in my head, and would end up ranked rather high I suspect in that particular Random Top Ten.
Yeah, but he was a Sesame Street muppet first, the intrepid reporter for Sesame Street News. He should get points jjust for the hat. And the fact that he's GREEN.
Was he? Wasn't he a Jim Henson Muppet in other venues before Sesame Street?
Agreed, though, that hat is killer.
Kermit on Sesame Street is the only impression that I can do: "Hi-ho, Kermit the Frog here, reporting to you live for Sesame Street News."
I'll take Kermit as #1, followed by Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch, Grover, and Ernie.
I think he WAS a character before SS, but he was much less well defined, from the tapes I saw years ago.
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