Crazy Harry
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Crazy Harry was a Muppet with an explosives fixation, who appeared in The Muppet Show and was performed by Jerry Nelson. He had scruffy hair, an uncombed beard and huge baggy eyes. Early in season one, he played triangle with the pit band. He usually carried a plunger box which would activate a hidden charge, often to his victim's chagrin. Once he assisted Gonzo in a cannonball-catching act, but perhaps overdid it on the powder, which resulted in absurdly-stretched arms for him. In ep #28 he provided the "Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta!" chorus of "Chanson D'amour", happily blowing the stage and performers to smithereens with his little plunger and cackling. Harry also played solo backup for Jean Stapleton's performance of "I'm Just Wild About Harry", with a collection of plunger boxes providing explosions at the end of every verse of the song.
In the show's first couple of seasons, Harry's appearances were a regular running gag:
After those first seasons, the gag was shelved along with Crazy Harry for the remainder of the show's run.
Crazy Harry also appeared in The Muppet Movie, complete with his explosive equipment, as one of the many Muppets in the audience to whom Kermit screened the film.
