Two-Headed Monster

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The Two-Headed Monster is a comical, light purple monster on the television show Sesame Street.

History

It has two heads that speak with a heavy accent and sometimes talk as if they're speaking another language, though it may just be gibberish. Each of the heads has different horns

The question of whether the monster is a singular being or not has led to semantic confusion, typified by this exchange between Bert and Ernie in A Muppet Family Christmas when the Two-Headed Monster was casted as Santa Claus in the Sesame Street pageant:

Bert: Now, who let the Two-Headed Monster be Santa Claus?
Ernie: Yeah, but, Bert, he said he'd never been in a play before... I mean they said it... um... both of him said it.

From 2003 to 2006, the Two-Headed Monster's primary role in recent seasons has been to "assist" Big Bird in his search for Ernie during their hide and seek game called "Journey to Ernie". The heads generally discuss amongst themselves, and each of the monsters' arms point in a different direction. Then, the heads often debate and the arms switch directions as they say "that way," and then swap back again.

Inspiration

The creation of this monster was inspired by performers Jerry Nelson and Richard Hunt playing around on the set one day, saying that they were a monster with two heads.^[1] While right-handed performers use their right hands to perform the heads of characters and their left to perform left hands, whoever performs the left half of the monster performs the head with the left hand, and the right hand with their right hand.

Performers

The performers for the Two-Headed Monster are listed in order of the history from the Left Head and the Right Head:

Richard Hunt and Peter Friedman (ca. 1978)
Jerry Nelson and Richard Hunt (ca. 1980 – 1991)
Jerry Nelson and David Rudman (1992 – 2000)
Joey Mazzarino and David Rudman (2001 – )

Design Team

The Two-Headed Monster was designed by Jim Henson and built by Caroly Wilcox.

References

↑ http://www.muppetcentral.com/articles/interviews/nelson4.shtml

External links

Two-Headed Monster at Sesamestreet.org

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Muppets of Sesame Street	Abby Cadabby The Amazing Mumford Anything Muppets Barkley The Bear family Beautiful Day Monster Benny Rabbit Biff and Sully Big Bird Cookie Monster (Alistair Cookie) Count von Count Don Music Elmo Ernestine Ernie and Bert Ernie Bert Farley Forgetful Jones Frazzle Granny Bird Grover Grouches Grundgetta Guy Smiley Harvey Kneeslapper Herbert Birdsfoot Herry Monster Honkers Hoots the Owl Irvine Kermit the Frog Lefty Mr. Johnson Mrs. Grouch Natasha Oscar the Grouch Prairie Dawn Professor Hastings Rodeo Rosie Roosevelt Franklin Rosita Roxie Marie Sam the Robot Sherlock Hemlock Slimey the Worm Mr. Snuffleupagus Telly Monster Two-Headed Monster Yip Yips Zoe

Human characters	Alan Bob Johnson Chris Robinson Gordon Robinson David Gabi Rodriguez Gina Jefferson Hiroshi Linda Luis Rodriguez Maria Rodriguez Miles Robinson Mr. Hooper Mr. Noodle Natalie Olivia Robinson The Number Painter Susan Robinson Trash Gordon

Animated characters	Teeny Little Super Guy

International co-production characters	Abelardo the Dragon Basil Chaos Don Pimpón Espinete Kami Kipi Ben Kipod Moishe Oofnik Pong Pagong

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