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  Hi everyone, and welcome back to Sesame Seeds, the series where we look at the progression of a Sesame Street character from humble beginnings from the present day. This time, we’re looking at the most popular muppet creation known to mankind, aside from Elmo: The one and only Kermit the Frog. As we all know, Kermit is the face of the Muppet franchise, host of the Muppet show, and practically has his own celebrity status, but he did have a history on that small town street. What is that history? Let’s hop to it, and find out. So, Kermit was the first puppet that Jim Henson ever made, from his mother’s old coat and a sliced ping pong ball. He also was not a frog at first, being described more as a lizard creature. He would be featured in many of Jim’s early muppet projects, including his first ever television show, Sam & Friends. He would gain his frog identity in 1965, and continued to be Jim’s most popular muppet. Then, when Jim was brought on to contribute to Sesame Street,...

  Hi everyone! And welcome back to Sesame Seeds, the series where we look at the progression of a Sesame Street character from humble beginnings to the present day. Today we’re looking at someone who definitely makes Sesame Street as weird and diverse as it is, and the character who got the least amount of votes on my poll, Mr. Aloysius Snuffleupagus. The only main character larger than Big Bird, Snuffy has been a regular for years, going through life at his own pace, but how did he start? Let’s find out. The Snuffleupagus was a full bodied creature that was created for season 3 in 1971. In that episode Big Bird wants to water some flowers, but he doesn’t have a watering can to water them with. Just then, he sees and feels a brown tube thing, and he follows it to find this: Yeah, for those of you not in the know, this is what Snuffy originally looked like, and as you can clearly see, his appearance was not really what you’d call, comforting. But, back to the story, Snuffy introduce...