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Hey DU! Tell us your favorite puppet character on TV as a kid. [View all] rzemanfl Mar 2019 OP

The Swedish chef TEB Mar 2019 #1

Bort bort bort Glamrock Mar 2019 #19

Cookie Monster FoxNewsSucks Mar 2019 #2

Geeba-Geeba on Sandy Becker (WNEW-NYC) no_hypocrisy Mar 2019 #3

Loved Sandy Becker Zoonart Mar 2019 #11

Had to Google that one. The Dumont network. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2019 #12

Wish they had pressbox69 Mar 2019 #84

Garfield Goose. CincyDem Mar 2019 #4

When I was a pre-schooler my mother helped me make a rzemanfl Mar 2019 #6

I had my own. Harker Mar 2019 #13

Lucky you. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2019 #15

Yes. Very lucky. Harker Mar 2019 #74

I was about four. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2019 #88

That clack-clack-clack was why he was my favorite, too. GoCubsGo Mar 2019 #106

Howdy Doody. EOM TruckFump Mar 2019 #5

topo gigio rampartc Mar 2019 #7

Yep customerserviceguy Mar 2019 #79

Lamb Chop Zoonart Mar 2019 #8

I loved Lamb Chop too! FM123 Mar 2019 #16

I love lamb chops too! ariadne0614 Mar 2019 #46

Omnivore. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2019 #49

Me too, Lamb Chop was my fave too. BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2019 #21

Another lamb chop fan :) emulatorloo Mar 2019 #26

Lamb Chop! ploppy Mar 2019 #60

Mr. Moose on Capt. Kangaroo Va Lefty Mar 2019 #9

Lamb Chop/Shari Lewis IADEMO2004 Mar 2019 #10

White Fang El Supremo Mar 2019 #14

....and Black Tooth from Soupy Sales mithnanthy Mar 2019 #63

H R Pufnstuf nocoincidences Mar 2019 #17

That is one of the earliest memories I have of watching tv. He used to come in and dance applegrove Mar 2019 #75

Howdy Doody. sinkingfeeling Mar 2019 #18

Statler and Waldorf of course! Glamrock Mar 2019 #20

Why don't you get things started?! ProudLib72 Mar 2019 #70

Agreed sakabatou Mar 2019 #105

Does the Kukla, Fran and Ollie show count? ariadne0614 Mar 2019 #22

I suppose, if you want to be difficult. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2019 #23

Only sometimes. n/t ariadne0614 Mar 2019 #32

I was fine with Fran and Ollie... Harker Mar 2019 #95

Garfield Goose because he had attitude. greatauntoftriplets Mar 2019 #24

Yeah, but he was a monarchist. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2019 #25

He was usually off his meds. greatauntoftriplets Mar 2019 #27

That long neck made them hard to swallow. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2019 #28

Exactly. And there were a LOT of them. greatauntoftriplets Mar 2019 #30

Why Howdy Doody, of course. Butterflylady Mar 2019 #29

Grover. tymorial Mar 2019 #31

Loved Grover! And Kermit, too! oregonjen Mar 2019 #36

I have been reading monster at the end of the book to my daughter tymorial Mar 2019 #39

Awww, love it! I had a Super Grover book I loved when I was little. oregonjen Mar 2019 #52

Same. eShirl Mar 2019 #93

I don't remember if she was a puppet, but.... femmocrat Mar 2019 #33

She was a person. She died young in a tragic car accident. On her rzemanfl Mar 2019 #34

Oh no. femmocrat Mar 2019 #37

She was both says Wiki- rzemanfl Mar 2019 #35

Thank you. femmocrat Mar 2019 #38

I happily defer to your meticulous research. ariadne0614 Mar 2019 #48

She wasn't a puppet. ariadne0614 Mar 2019 #40

Actually, she was a puppet before 1953 and after Judy Tyler's death in 1957. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2019 #47

Please see previous humble deferral. n/t ariadne0614 Mar 2019 #53

Thunderbolt the Wondercolt. On the Howdy Doody or maybe on Sherrif John. Can't remember. Shrike47 Mar 2019 #41

Found this- rzemanfl Mar 2019 #43

Thanks. It's been a long, long time. Shrike47 Mar 2019 #51

47 significant? If so, me too. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2019 #56

Topo Gigio and Ed Sullivan Honeycombe8 Mar 2019 #42

Ed Sullivan did seem like a puppet sometimes. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2019 #45

Daniel Tiger from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. nt woodsprite Mar 2019 #44

White Fang, Black Tooth, Pookie and Hippy Freddie Mar 2019 #50

I liked them, murielm99 Mar 2019 #82

A lot of Soupy's humor Freddie Mar 2019 #87

Howdy Doody appleannie1943 Mar 2019 #54

Phineas T. Bluster was on Howdy Doody. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2019 #57

And Princess Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring appleannie1943 Mar 2019 #67

Right. pressbox69 Mar 2019 #86

Mr. Bunny Rabbit - Captain Kangaroo. revmclaren Mar 2019 #55

Winky Dink Cousin Dupree Mar 2019 #58

Cartoon, I think. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2019 #59

Yeah. I guess I'm not reading so well today! Cousin Dupree Mar 2019 #61

I bestow you a do-over. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2019 #62

I liked Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch (Says something about me) and Cuddly Duddly mucifer Mar 2019 #64

Ollie of Kukla, Fran & Ollie and Mr. Moose on Captain Kangaroo csziggy Mar 2019 #65

Mister Moose and Bunny Rabbit Wolf Frankula Mar 2019 #66

Brother Buzz, Baby! Brother Buzz Mar 2019 #68

Ah. Interesting! Harker Mar 2019 #96

Lambchop!!! But also, the fist that senor Winces drew a mouth and face on... "Saright? Saright!" Karadeniz Mar 2019 #69

Animal ProudLib72 Mar 2019 #71

Not as a kid, but I always loved Animal on The Muppets TexasBushwhacker Mar 2019 #72

Orval Dragon from The Popeye Club, which was... Different Drummer Mar 2019 #73

Gonzo happybird Mar 2019 #76

Mister Moose. Laffy Kat Mar 2019 #77

The Friendly Giant RGinNJ Mar 2019 #78

Had to look up that show. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2019 #91

Bunny Rabbit on Captain Kangaroo Rhiannon12866 Mar 2019 #80

Howdy Doody. murielm99 Mar 2019 #81

oscar the grouch. pansypoo53219 Mar 2019 #83

Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff The Figment Mar 2019 #85

OMG what a blast from the past! rzemanfl Mar 2019 #89

Gordon Shumway aka Alf. NightWatcher Mar 2019 #90

Fraggle Rock JesterCS Mar 2019 #92

The Flub A Dub from Howdy Doody yellowdogintexas Mar 2019 #94

Froggie the Gremlin. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2019 #97

I have been waiting for someone to name him. rzemanfl Mar 2019 #99

With gravel voiced, Andy Devine. Froggie was my favorite. nt oasis Apr 2019 #121

Everything on Captain Kangaroo, Dem2theMax Mar 2019 #98

If you figure out how to do that let me know. rzemanfl Mar 2019 #100

I hadn't even thought of that! Dem2theMax Mar 2019 #103

Sorry about leaving out "do." Actually I only had one investment in mind. rzemanfl Mar 2019 #107

Boy, wouldn't it be wonderful if we could go back and do that? Dem2theMax Mar 2019 #109

There are a number of things I would like to have done more often, when oftener rzemanfl Mar 2019 #110

Lol! Dem2theMax Mar 2019 #111

Sigmund the Seamonster The Polack MSgt Mar 2019 #101

I was doing becoming an old man stuff by then. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2019 #102

King Friday! JuJuYoshida Mar 2019 #104

Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Sneard retread Mar 2019 #108

Lambchop and Topo Gigio Talitha Mar 2019 #112

All these years I thought last name was "Buster." Bluster makes more sense. patricia92243 Mar 2019 #113

Yes. rzemanfl Mar 2019 #114

Howdy Doody............ akraven Apr 2019 #115

I can remember the day the TV was delivered and I was able to watch. rzemanfl Apr 2019 #116

Yep, at my grandmom's house (summertime) - before akraven Apr 2019 #118

Grover proud patriot Apr 2019 #117

Stingray (1964 TV series) - Wikipedia JustFiveMoreMinutes Apr 2019 #119

Lots of folks mentioned ventriloquist dummies and marionettes. rzemanfl Apr 2019 #120