Aretha

PERFORMER	Sharon Lee Williams voice
DEBUT	1983

Aretha in Muppet Christmas Carol

Aretha's return in Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock

Aretha is a cave creature who sings along with Gobo on "Only Way Home" in the Fraggle Rock episode "Sir Hubris and the Gorgs." Her name is a reference to Aretha Franklin.

Possessing orange eyes, protruding teeth, and a moving brow, Aretha was reused in many subsequent productions, in both male and female roles, played by a variety of puppeteers: as a female chorus member in The Muppet Christmas Carol (performed by Karen Prell), a townsperson in Muppet Treasure Island, and a member of the Flying Monkeys motorcycle gang in The Muppets' Wizard of Oz.

Aretha is one of only a handful of monsters who appeared on Mopatop's Shop who ever returned to the American Muppets. The puppet was later used with different eyes as Huffy Monster.

Aretha returned to her Fraggle Rock roots in the Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock episode "The Great Wind", singing "A-OK" with Gobo, Mudwell, and some Inkspots.

Filmography

• Fraggle Rock
  • "Gobo's Discovery" (background)
  • "Sir Hubris and the Gorgs"
  • "Scared Silly" (background)
• Muppet Meeting Films: "Think Bigger" (as Grendel, performed by Julianne Buescher)
• Good Morning America ("Earth Day," performed by Jerry Nelson)
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
• Muppet Time (as Huffy Monster)
• Muppet Treasure Island
• Muppets Tonight promo for BBC
• Mopatop's Shop
• The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
• Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock
  • "The Great Wind"