Saturday with Kermit

Every kid needs a Kermit in their life. When my intern was very small, I picked up a modern Kermit puppet from Toys R Us for her. Since then we have been able to track down a couple original old-school versions of good old Kermie! Her modern Kermit doesn't appear in this photoshoot (I don't have enough hands!) but the originals, dating back to the late seventies, are far superior anyways.

Derek of Really Rather Random Guy recently found this same Kermit puppet in his used toy hunt travels. I found ours at a second-hand kid's clothing store shortly after buying the modern one for my intern (isn't that always the way?) His tongue is missing, but the thread outline is still there. It doesn't appear that the tongue was removed, so I can only assume it is a manufacturing error. It doesn't detract from Kermit's awesomeness though, since the pink thread outline for the tongue is there. We'll just assume he has been eating black licorice. Or coffee without cream, which I am drinking this morning since we're out of milk. Blah.

This Kermit Muppet Puppet dates back to 1978 and was manufactured by Fisher-Price.

My intern also has a Kermit stuffed animal/plush/doll/whatever you want to call it. Also made by Fisher-Price, the stuffed Kermit dates back to 1976. I actually owned one of these as a kid, so I am particularly fond of him!

As is my intern. Obviously.

Over the past week or so we have had to keep stuffed Kermit in a perpetual state of hugging with that little pink frog. My intern wakes in the middle of the night in a panic if Kermit loses his grip on 'Pickles' aka baby Kermit.

What better way to spend a rainy Saturday than with an armload of friends, especially when that friend is Kermit. And Pickles.

Kermit is jealous of my intern's boots.

(Cookie) Monster Mash!

Halloween is only a few hours away - and what better way to celebrate than with one of the coolest monsters ever.

No, not Grover.

Cookie Monster!

"COOOKIIIEEEEEE!!!!!"

I found this Cookie Monster hand puppet at a garage sale a few years back. I think he cost me a quarter. He's not dated, but I think this specific one was made in the late seventies. His tag says "Sesame Street Educational Toys Inc. A subsidiary of Topper Corp." and "Sewn in Jamaica B.W.I" which may finally explain the insatiable munchies.

I was very excited to find this guy because I had a puppet similar to him as a kid. I played with my childhood Cookie Monster puppet so much that one eye fell off. That didn't slow me down - I kept on playing with him and took him everywhere I went, telling people his name was "one-eye."

This CM puppet has a plastic bar that crosses through his arms, and a string that hangs down so you can pull on it and manipulate the arms a little bit. His mouth has a hole in the back to shove food through.

Preferably cookies.

He'd make a great bathroom rug if you didn't run the risk of tripping over the eyes.

This is a completely different Cookie Monster puppet I found a couple years later at another garage sale. I had no idea there were multiple versions when I found the first one! I think this guy set me back fifty cents.


Although I thought I had the same puppet as in my childhood with the first Cookie Monster garage sale find, this one is in fact the one I had as a kid. He's a bit larger than the previous Cookie Monster, and does not have the arm bar.

This puppet is dated "1980" on the inside tag, and was manufactured by Gabriel Industries.

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