50 Retired Sesame Street Muppets (Part 1) 

I just realized Snuffy calls Big Bird just Bird because he isn't big compared to himself.

I really enjoyed this video. A few years back I was discussing Snuffy with a friend and I mentioned that he was Big Bird’s imaginary friend. She told me that he wasn’t imaginary and was regularly surrounded by the other characters. It turned out that our age difference (of only a few years) meant that we had watched Sesame Street at different points on Snuffy’s timeline.

It's funny how they made a character specifically to carry Oscar around while nowadays Oscar just gets out of his trashcan and walks if he needs to get somewhere.

Imagine if Danny Devito actually really did carry Oscar the Grouch around.

I remember Benny and his "don't touch me" song, probably because I also don't like being touched. It was like finally, a muppet I can relate to.

I was born in 1966, so I grew up with the original Sesame Street, and The Electric Company.

I was born in 1960 in New York City, growing up with this show since girlhood and raising my children on it as well. And there is nothing compared to a stoop to sit on as a child with friends and family...a time when people communicated with one another face to face rather than with electronic devices...

Yep, I remember Alice Snuffleupagus, Benny Rabbit, Betty Lou, Biff and Sully, Captain Vegetable and Chicago the Lion from my childhood.

my favorite characters were the two alien monsters that always said "yep yep yep" they were hilarious!

Mumford the Magician, Guy Smiley, the two headed monster, Barkley the Dog, Hoots the Jazz Loving Owl were a few of the characters I fondly remember from the 90s.

Biff and Sully are the original Jay and Silent Bob. 😉😀

Fun fact, In Israeli Sesame street, the Beautiful day monster has Cookie monsters role, so he is used a lot.

I was born in 1969 so I had the creepy weird big bird for awhile..

Big Bird will NEVER go away...If it Wasn't for BIG BIRD, there (most likely) be NO Sesame Street.🗓📭🔖

I watched SS back in the 70s; good times and GREAT muppets… Thank you, and R.I.P. Jim Henson!

The best of all puppets was “Roosevelt Franklin” When I was a kid, I couldn’t wait to see what he was going to do next!

As a huge Muppet, Henson, and Sesame geek, I enjoyed this video and can’t wait for the other parts. It’s been confirmed that several of these retired characters, including Roosevelt Franklin, Biff and Sully, Betty Lou, Forgetful Jones, Hoots the Owl, and even Lefty the Salesman will appear to some capacity in the 50th Anniversary Special, so I can’t wait for that. Curiously, Matt Vogel also listed Biff and Forgetful under his list of characters on his website, so I wonder if that means they will have their first speaking roles in decades in the special. EDIT: I learned from the second part that Forgetful DID have a speaking role earlier this year from Matt Vogel, and afterwards found out that Lefty along with Don Music came back at this year's Comic Con both performed by Ryan Dillon.

I miss them all. I’m gonna try to go back in time and try to tell Sesame Workshop to have certain Muppets up and running for the next few years without having to be gone

3:36 - Alice Snufffleupagus 6:02 - Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk 6:45 - The Beutiful Day Monster 7:48 - Benny Rabbit 10:24 - Betty Loe 12:54 - Biff and Sally 14:28 - Bruno the Trashman 16:06 -Captain Vegetable 18:19 - Chicago the Lion 19:30 - Chip and Dip

Maybe Chicago was discontinued due to the realization that a real life lion wouldn't be able to survive on a vegetarian diet.

I’m in love with the Benny character. He’s hilarious and I relate to him so much.

The two-headed monster and Forgetful Jones were two of the Muppets to come to mind.

Biff and Sully.........oh wow, I can't believe I'd forgotten all about them. Wonderful video series, sir, thanks for this. :)

1969. Im 3 months older. I miss Guy Smiley. Game show host.

"DON'T CALL ME BUNNY, THE NAME IS BENNY!" Yeah, Benny was pretty funny, especially in the episode when he had to take care of a talking stinkweed named Stinky. I guess Stinky is also retired now. He was funny, too.

First off, FANTASTIC series. Never knew just HOW many have gone from my era (1984 to mid 1990's). You should do a video on human cast members....

Barkley still appears I just watched it with my 2 year old for HBO. I love that they bring back the older puppets and live actors. Remembering my childhood now at 45 and my daughter at 2

i grew up w/ hand-me-down books and toys from my cousins who grew up in the 90s, i can remember betty lou in almost every book i had but i don’t think i’ve ever seen her in an episode. i remember prairie dawn (i never saw HER in books though) but i think both characters just seemed too similar that my brain turned them into the same thing

Roosevelt Franklin is one of my favorite 70s Sesame Street Muppets.

Can I just say, I love that you included 'Viewers Like You' in the credits. I was wondering whether or not you would when you listed of people you were thanking, and was very glad you did. That little saying was included in so many shows I would watch as a kid, that it may as well be a cornerstone of my childhood entertainment.

6:55 there’s old Grover! Like if you saw him too. I prefer the blue lovable Grover he is today 🥰

You had me at "viewers like you"

I haven't watched sesame street in forever.... knowing some of these characters are retired is a bit shocking to me.

I will turn 49 in November. I have great memories of this show. The first rapper and controversial Roosevelt Franklin and Baby Breeze (although stereotypical) were ones for me. Also Harvey Kneeslapper and Don Music.

I grew up with the original Sesame Street from its start and into the 1970's, at whatever point I started to outgrow Sesame Street. When the Muppet Show came along, I was around preteen to teen. -- Back in the day, I was a big fan of ol' Grover and Snuffleupagus, as well as Kermit. -- You may not know it, but Mr. Rogers made a guest appearance on Sesame Street at least once, to talk about "pretending," and had his own adventure with Big Bird and (maybe) Snuffleupagus. -- Isn't it funny how eventually, we grow up enough to realize we were silly to have "outgrown" all those things we loved when we were kids, or even teens? Sesame Street and the Muppets were and are seriously cool, and Mr. Rogers was extraordinary in a way I'm not sure will ever happen again. For the little kid I was, I am very glad there was a Mr. Rogers on TV to tell me I was OK just the way I was, not just to hear it from my family or a few friends.

20:00 Spot on. I remember Chip and Dip! Their names made me hungry when I was 4. I haven't thought about them for 30 years.

The 80s was my time. I remember a lot more songs being song also. I remember guy smiley, the big dog in the beginning and end of the show.the two headed monsters that had horns on their heads. And would honk when they would smack their nose. Slimy Oscar pet worm.

7:52 Is that the Resetti Theme?!? As an Animal Crossing fan, *thank you.*

I always used to get Betty-Lou and Prary-Dawn mixed up

I mainly remember Betty Lou from Sesame Street Live. She had a larger supporting role in the original ‘When I Grow Up’ and ‘Let’s Go To School’ but got replaced by Newer characters in later years. I haven’t watched Sesame Street in years but I’m shocked they got rid of the hotel - Benny was hilarious! Also I’m sad Alice is no longer around - I loved her too. So much nostalgia in one video!

I hope some of these would return. Alice and Benny were my personal favorites.

Ooooh!!! 1990? Bummer! Try 1979... MY childhood? THESE WERE the days of the muppet

I TOTALLY remember these guys XDDD 2:14

Roosevelt Franklin was and always will be my favourite.

He looks like the lion from Between the Lions!!

Very nice. I remember when Sesame Street first came out. Always fond memories.

I had hoped to see Aristotle here. He was an important Muppet.

I'm an 80s kid so I loved this! Barkley was one of my favorites though.

6:34 those guys remind me of those dancing muppets that can take off their heads from the movie "The Labyrinth" staring Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie.

I remember Hoots the Owl, Don Music, Harvey Kneeslapper, and the amazing Mumford. Let me know when part 2 comes out.

We could never tell Betty Lou and Prairie Dawn apart.

On Chicago: "-he appeared most frequently in the early to mid 90s." In other words, just before Between the Lions. Which was created by mostly (if not entirely) former alumni of Sesame Street, in the same style of Sesame Street, for the purpose of following Sesame Street, to target students of an age beyond the target audience of Sesame Street. Coincidentally, some of the footage you found of Chicago the Lion has him in a library. . . So I would wager there is your answer for why Chicago stopped appearing: He was redundant.

In my day, watching Sesame Street was like dropping serious acid.

Can you do another series of videos covering retired animated characters or people? I love this insightful series

On the top of my list is Forgetful Jones. Being forgetful is funny, but isn’t a very endearing quality. So I get why they had to retire that muppet.

So much work and research went into this!! Thank you so much, this makes me feel all kinds of nostalgic.

I love Baby tooth and the funky funk.

Very nice! I hope you also mention Mr. Chatterly and Ferlinghetti Donizetti in your next videos. They're a few (among many) retired Sesame Street muppets.

I am still heart broken over Barkly, Snuffly, and Alice being removed. 48 years old and still love them more that l can possibly say!!💔💔💔💔

This was such a well done video! I'm excited to see the other parts!

Props to you for actually thanking the makers of Sesame Street. Here is your trophy: 🏆

This is great! Informative and insightful! Since I grew up on Sesame Street in the early '70s, I like being filled in on the early '90s.

Thanks for posting these videos "Colin LooksBack"!! I've watched ALL THREE OF THEM and I was surprised on how many muppets I remembered. There were some I was a little surprised about like the DIFFERENT monsters with "Cookie Monster" during the first season. I remembered them just a little bit in a book I read about as a kid, but I didn't really pay any attention of what they REALLY looked like which of course is normal for children. Of course I DO REMEMBER "Alice!!" She DEFINITELY was a little sweetheart and SOOOO VERY CUTE!! Plus I LOVED "Captain Vegetable"...since I LOVE vegetables. That was a GREAT way to teach kids how to eat healthy!! This is a GREAT way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of "Sesame Street" so THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!! I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS A LOT!!

3:48 Those two were always my favorite (I watched SS in the late 70s early 80s). Mainly because they were huge and towered over all the adults.

Love the Muppets Can't wait for part 2 ;)

I love how you played Resetti's Theme when you got to Benny's part

This is Brilliant! Thank you for making this!

I first started watching sesame Street in 1977. I still remember as a kid watching hairy monster with a bag of apples giving to kids apples and all three eating the apples the Muppet creators were geniuses to make it look like Harry really was biting the Appleit's one of the earliest I can remember watching sesame Street is a kid I'm surprised I still can remember that.

Alice was on a recent episode I just watched with my daughter! At least, I think I was watching the new episodes. Maybe I had it set to an earlier season. Now it’s going to bother me, I have to investigate, because I remember literally just watching her. It’s amazing you went through all these muppets, there are SO many! At first I was like how can there be THIS many retired muppets? 😂

Thanks for this trip down Sesame Street memories!

Thank you so much for this, you are wonderful. Thank you, I loved Sesame Street.

6:14 I still miss the Baby Tooth and The Fuzzy Funk segments on Sesame Street. 😟😟😟😟😟📺🎥🎥📺📺

20:00 This is the truest statement I have ever heard. Completely relatable. lol

Can't wait for Part 2! :-D I forgot Bruno existed!

Biff and Sully giving me real big Phineas and Ferb vibes

I miss Telly. Especially when he sung “Telly Tut”. I still remember the lyrics to this day😊

Beautiful day monster was featured in the lost Sesame Street skit: “windy” (based off the song)

Nice use of the "Rag Dolly" song.☺😊🎵🎶♩

I used to be in the muppets/Sesame Street community and now looking back at this it’s all coming back to me

This is wonderful! Thank you!

I'm guessing the next ones would be, Frazzle, Kingston, Oinker Sisters, Deena, Pearl, Lefty, Don Music, Ferlinghetti Donizetti, Little Jerry, Little Chrissy, & Maurice Monster.

Don Music was banned from rerunning because parents send CTW complaints about their kids hitting their heads at home. Harvey Kneeslapper was banned for 2 reasons, 1 was his loud laughter hurted Frank Oz's vocal cord, The other reason was, He was only good for that one joke.

You have a lot of Charisma and deserve a bigger following.

Thanks for this

Some of the Muppets and my favorites!!

The Snuffleupagus' i love them! And Alice ❤

Wonderful memory lane! Bif and Sully and Bruno!

Great video! Really like the snuffleupagus characters

Captain Vegetable, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Celery.

Aliens that use to do circle motions saying "yup yup yup"

Biff & Sully, Bruno the Trashman, Betty Lou, Chip & Dip...oh the memories!

This was a really good video, I remember a lot of these great characters. Love sesame Street, one of the shows that got me into puppetry

I definitely remember Betty Lou by looking at Sesame Street merchandise books my family has from the 1970s. In some of the '70s books Betty Lou's a bit more of a tomboy to contrast the prim-and-proper Prairie Dawn. I didn't actually know Prairie Dawn was revived in the 90s as a doll-lover, thank you for enlightening me on that! :D

would Kermit be a retired Sesame Street Muppet im not sure if he appeared a lot recently

New subscriber. Great list and format :)

This was a nostalgic look back. Some of these Muppets I barely remember from my childhood, but I have very faint memories of some others, it's a surreal feeling.

Beautiful day monster scared me we I was a kid

I loved Roosevelt Franklin when I was little.

Heading to part 2

"Its benny not bunny " I miss him lol