# Identify this muppet... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-muppet/536098 "2010-04-14T18:27:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-muppet/536098/1 "2010-04-14T18:27:24Z")
I am having trouble identifying a muppet from Sesame Street. I’ve tried Googling and browsing Wikipedia’s list of muppets, all to no avail. He must be a pretty popular muppet, as he is featured on all kinds of Sesame Street merchandise, but I’ve never seen him before. He is light green, fuzzy, and has several appendages hanging off him where additional arms would be. Can someone help me out here? ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-muppet/536098/2 "2010-04-14T18:45:58Z")
How about [Rosita](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Rosita)?[URL=“[Rosita | Muppet Wiki | Fandom](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Rosita)”] ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-muppet/536098/3 "2010-04-14T19:11:10Z")
The most popular green muppets from Sesame Street are arguably Oscar the Grouch and Kermit the Frog but Kermit isn’t fuzzy and Oscar is shaggy. Maybe you’re thinking of one of the green [frackles](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Frackle)? There’s a green frackle called Gloat who’s light-green and fuzzy. [Thig](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Thig) is light-green and fuzzy and has odd appendage things but not amazingly popular and wasn’t in Sesame Street. When you say “appendages hanging off him where additional arms would be”, I’m picturing a bug or a spider. [Dr. Teeth](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Dr._Teeth) is green-skinned and has fingers but he’s a non-fuzzy humanoid with a fuzzy beard. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-muppet/536098/4 "2010-04-14T19:44:55Z")
Weren’t there some loghtning bugs or some kind of bugs that had serveral sets of “arms”? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-muppet/536098/5 "2010-04-14T19:55:18Z")
Are you sure it’s not light blue? It sounds like the Yep-Yep martians, but I don’t think there was an actual green one. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-muppet/536098/6 "2010-04-14T19:58:55Z")
It’s gotta be Rosita if we’re talking about a Muppet that’s on a lot of Sesame Street merchandise. She used to have wings, as she was apparently a fruit bat. But she no longer does. Are you talking about recent Sesame merchandise? ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-muppet/536098/7 "2010-04-14T19:59:15Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Weren’t there some loghtning bugs or some kind of bugs that had serveral sets of “arms”? That’s right **zoid**. You might be thinking of [The Twiddlebugs](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Twiddlebug). The creepy (to me) [Martians](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Yip_Yip_Martians), those Yip Yip things, had weird appendages and provided good nightmare fuel for little kids. [Yip Yip Martian Telephone Lesson](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTc3PsW5ghQ) On preview: what \*\*jayjay \*\*said. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-muppet/536098/8 "2010-04-14T20:30:15Z")
> [@bleach](#): > > The creepy (to me) [Martians](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Yip_Yip_Martians), those Yip Yip things, had weird appendages and provided good nightmare fuel for little kids. > > [Yip Yip Martian Telephone Lesson](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTc3PsW5ghQ) Phone. Phooooooone. Yipyipyipyip, uh-huh, uh-huh. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-muppet/536098/9 "2010-04-14T20:36:44Z")
> [@bleach](#): > > That’s right **zoid**. You might be thinking of [The Twiddlebugs](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Twiddlebug). > > The creepy (to me) [Martians](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Yip_Yip_Martians), those Yip Yip things, had weird appendages and provided good nightmare fuel for little kids. They baby Yip-Yip Martian was green, and the adults have been on [t-shirts](http://media.80stees.com/images/products/Sesame_Street_Yip_Yip_Yip-T.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-muppet/536098/10 "2010-04-14T23:49:02Z")
how positive are you that it’s a Sesame Street Muppet? There’s a Muppet-y looking character from another kid’s show that fits your description, but I can’t find a pic or remember the name at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-muppet/536098/11 "2010-04-15T00:10:56Z")
I think **MrSquishy** and **ZipperJJ** got it. The character I’m talking about has a small yellow ribbon in her hair, and the weird underarm stuff, so it has to be Rosita. I couldn’t tell what the stuff under her arms was, but I guess it is the fruit bat webbing. They were wise to get rid of it as it looks creepy as hell. It looks like four vestigial pairs of arms just hanging there. Also, even though Rosita is blue, she is clearly light green on the books and placemats that I have. I wonder if they tweaked the color to avoid making her look too much like Cookie Monster. Thank you, as this was driving me nuts.