Changes: Herry Monster

PERFORMER	Jerry Nelson
DEBUT	1970

Revision as of 02:06, 26 June 2015

2963-A6 — Herry Monster and John John count to 20.

GroverHerryMFC — Herry Monster in *A Muppet Family Christmas*.

SS25-scene7 — Herry on *Sesame Street's 25th Birthday*.

Three Monsters — Three monsters; Billy, Grover, and Herry.

Lilyherry — Herry with Edith Ann (Lily Tomlin).

Herry Monster is a Sesame Street monster who doesn't know his own strength. Herry first appeared in 1970, replacing the Beautiful Day Monster in the Sesame monster troupe.

In his first appearances, Herry's nose was covered with light blue fur as well. During the second season, he gained a non-furry blue nose, which was replaced by his signature purple nose in 1971. The original Herry puppet was also used for the Big Bad Wolf.

Although Herry has been performed by Jerry Nelson from the beginning, Jim Henson performed his voice in the song "Up and Down" with Cookie Monster (using a recycled soundtrack from The Sesame Street Book & Record, where the song was credited to "Two Monsters").

Herry was often seen in Muppet & Kid Moments, relating to real children, and in later seasons appeared in the recurring sketch Monsters in Day Care. Herry has also participated in many of Prairie Dawn's pageants, as well as appearing in such Monsterpiece Theater segments as "Chariots of Fur", "Guys and Dolls", and "ABCD Blue".

Herry hosted the Fuzzy Awards in the video Monster Hits! and he was an anchorman in We All Sing Together.

He has a mother, a father and a grandmother. He has a sister named Herriet (seen in a 1977 episode) and another named Flossie, seen in several storybooks. He also has a doll named Hercules who has been seen with him in "Guys and Dolls," "Song for Two," "Moonshine" a song with Zoe where they sing about their dollies (EKA: Episode 3910), and when he slept over at Gabi's in a 1998 episode.

Herry is known for appearing in illustrations (and some merchandise and on the Sesame Street Live productions) with pants on. Usually they would be white with pink stripes, but the costume used in Sesame Street Live would give Herry light blue pants, and illustrator Tom Cooke usually drew Herry in purple pants with orange spots. He has never been seen wearing pants elsewhere, and the few times he has been shown below the waist, he has been nude, like most monsters.

Like Cookie Monster, in rare instances Herry has taken to eating traditionally inedible objects, such as a bicycle, a restaurant table, the letter in M-M-M Monster Meal, but usually in the company of his googly-eyed friend.

Though Herry still makes occasional appearances in new episodes, he seldom plays a prominent role. Among his more recent appearances was in The Street We Live On and a cameo in Episode 4206 (puppeteered by Marty Robinson^[1]), in a line at Hooper's Store.

Herry most recently appeared at the From Broadway With Love benefit concert, his first speaking appearance in almost a decade. He was performed by Tyler Bunch.

Herry's birthday is August 31st.

Filmography

Album appearances

Book appearances

Sesame Street Finger Puppets (1971)
The Sesame Street Storybook (1971)
The Together Book (1971)
Cookie Monster's Circle Book (1972)
More Sesame Street Finger Puppets (1972)
Sherlock Hemlock and the Great Twiddlebug Mystery (1972)
The Sesame Street 1, 2, 3 Storybook (1973)
The Sesame Street ABC Storybook (1974)
Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum (1974)
Big Bird's Busy Book (1975)
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Smell No Evil (1975)
Bert's Big Band Paint-with-Water Book (1976)
I am a Monster (1976)
The Sesame Street Postcard Book (1976)
The Sesame Street A to Z Coloring Book (1976)
The Sesame Street Neighborhood Coloring Book (1976)
Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree (1977)
The Day the Count Stopped Counting (1977)
Grover's Favorite Color (1977)
The Monsters' Alphabet (1977)
The Sesame Street Block Party Coloring Book (1977)
The Sesame Street Mystery Coloring Book (1977)
Who's Who on Sesame Street (1977)
The Exciting Adventures of Super Grover (1978)
The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook (1978)
The Sesame Street Cookbook (1978)
The Sesame Street Library series (1978)
A Day on Sesame Street (1979)
Sesame Stories (1979)
The Count Counts a Party (1980)
Down on the Farm with Grover (1980)
I Like School (1980)
Monsters Come in Many Colors! (1980)
The Sesame Street Dictionary (1980)
The Sesame Street Pet Show (1980)
Show and Tell (1980)
The Tool Box Book (1980)
What Did You Bring? (1980)
ABC Toy Chest (1981)
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1981)
Oscar's Rotten Birthday (1981)
Prairie Dawn's Upside-Down Poem (1981)
Put & Play Magic Show (1981)
Put & Play Yucchy Book (1981)
The Sesame Street Circus of Opposites (1981)
The Sesame Street Sun (1981)
What Do You Do? (1981)
Big and Little Stories (1982)
City (1982)
A Day at School (1982)
First Day of School (1982)
Monster (1982)
A Sesame Street Christmas (1982)
Bert and the Missing Mop Mix-Up (1983)
People in Your Neighborhood (1983)
The Sesame Street Treasury series (1983)
I Think That It Is Wonderful (1984)
A Baby Sister for Herry (1984)
Lovable, Furry Old Grover in Please Don't Push the Red Button (1984)
My Doll Is Lost! (1984)
A Silly Sesame Street Story: The Three Little Pigs (1984)
Trace & Color Alphabet (1984)
Big Bird Can Share (1985)
Big Bird Says... A Game to Read and Play (1985)
Big Bird's Book of Rhymes (1985)
Ernie's Finish the Picture (1985)
Sign Language ABC (1985)
A Bird's Best Friend (1986)
A My Name Is Annabel (1986)
Baby Animals on the Farm (1986)
Count to Ten (1986)
Find the Shapes (1986)
Sesame Street ABC (1986)
Through the Year (1986)
Colors (1987)
I Want a Hat Like That (1987)
Monsters, Monsters! (1987)
The Runaway Soup and Other Stories (1987)
A New Baby on Sesame Street (1987)
Shape Up! (1987)
A Sitter for Baby Monster (1987)
Bert's New Collection (1988)
Going Places (1988)
A New Playground on Sesame Street (1988)
The Sesame Street ABC Book of Words (1988)
A My Name Is Alice (1989)
Come As You Are (1989)
Great Monsterpieces (1989)
Herry's New Shoes (1989)
It's No Fun to Be Sick! (1989)
On My Way with Sesame Street series (1989)
Grover's Bad Dream (1990)
I Want to Go to School Too (1990)
Museum of Monster Art (1990)
Be My Friend (1991)
Halloween Party (1991)
The Monsters' Picnic (1991)
Scheherryzade and the Arabian Nights (1991)
Sesame Street 123 (1991)
Sleep Tight! (1991)
We're Counting on You, Grover! (1991)
Betty Lou's Bad Mood Blues (1992)
Bounce Along with Big Bird (1992)
Ernie and His Merry Monsters (1992)
Feeling Fit (1992)
Grover's 10 Terrific Ways to Help Our Wonderful World (1992)
Grover's Guide to Good Manners (1992)
Happy and Sad, Grouchy and Glad (1992)
My Name Is Big Bird (1992)
Shapes: Stand-ups to Color & Share (1992)
Too Little! (1992)
We're Different, We're the Same (1992)
Elmo's Little Playhouse (1993)
Elmo's Mother Goose (1993)
Imagine... Big Bird Meets Santa Claus (1993)
Around the Corner on Sesame Street (1994)
Baby Natasha in "Say Cheese!" (1994)
Elmo's Big Lift-and-Look Book (1994)
I Want to Be a Police Officer (1994)
Sesame Street Stays Up Late (1995)
Just Joking (1995)
Ten Scary Monsters (1995)
B is for Books! (1996)
Elmo's Lift-and-Peek Around the Corner Book (1996)
Rise and Shine! (1996, reworked as Up, Up, Up! in 2011)
The Bunny Hop (1997)
Elmo's Christmas Colors (1997)
Pumpkin Patch Party (1997)
Elmo's Tricky Tongue Twisters (1998)
It's Not Easy Being Big! (1998)
Elmo Says Achoo! (2000)
Elmo's ABC Book (2000)
The Fix-It Shop (2001)
Hooper's Store (2001)
Sesame Street Community Center (2001)
Listen to Your Fish (2003)
Fun with Friends (2004)
Boo! (2005)
The City Sings a Song! (2005)
Elmo's Delicious Christmas (2005)
Monsters Munch Lunch! (2005)
Discovering Letter Sounds (2006)
Friendly, Frosty Monsters (2007)
Rosita's Easter on Sesame Street (2007)
Color Carnival (2008)
Love, Elmo (2009)
Elmo and Ernie's Joke Book (2012)

Character merchandise

Notes

Herry has a mechanism in his head which allows the puppeteer to move his eyebrows up and down.
Jerry Nelson modeled Herry's voice after Jimmy Durante.^[2]

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-{{performer|Jerry Nelson}}
+{{character|image=HerryMonster1.jpg|performer=[[Jerry Nelson]]|debut=1970}}
 [[Image:Herry01.jpg|thumb|300px]]
 [[Image:2963-A6.jpg|thumb|300px|Herry Monster and John John count to 20.]]
 [[Image:Monstermeal.jpg|thumb|300px]]
-[[Image:SS25-scene7.jpg|thumb|300px|Herry Monster on ''Sesame Street's 25th Birthday''.]]
+[[Image:GroverHerryMFC.jpg|thumb||300px|Herry Monster in ''[[A Muppet Family Christmas]]''.]]
+[[Image:SS25-scene7.jpg|thumb|300px|Herry on ''Sesame Street's 25th Birthday''.]]
-'''Herry Monster''' is a ''[[Sesame Street]]'' monster who doesn't know his own strength. Herry first appeared in 1970, replacing the [[Beautiful Day Monster]] in the ''Sesame'' monster troupe.
+[[File:Three Monsters.jpg|thumb|300px|Three monsters; [[Billy]], [[Grover]], and Herry.]]
+[[File:Lilyherry.jpeg|thumb|300px|Herry with Edith Ann ([[Lily Tomlin]]).]]
+'''Herry Monster''' is a ''[[Sesame Street]]'' monster who doesn't know his own strength. Herry first appeared in 1970, replacing the [[Beautiful Day Monster]] in the ''Sesame'' monster troupe.
 In his first appearances, Herry's nose was covered with light blue fur as well. During the second season, he gained a non-furry blue nose, which was replaced by his signature purple nose in 1971. The original Herry puppet was also used for [[the Big Bad Wolf]].
 Although Herry has been performed by Jerry Nelson from the beginning, [[Jim Henson]] performed his voice in the song "[[Up and Down]]" with [[Cookie Monster]] (using a recycled soundtrack from ''[[The Sesame Street Book & Record]]'', where the song was credited to "Two Monsters").
-Herry was often seen in [[Sesame Street Muppet & Kid Moments|Muppet & Kid Moments]], relating to real children, and in later seasons appeared in the recurring sketch [[Monsters in Day Care]].  He also appeared in such ''[[Monsterpiece Theater]]'' segments as "Chariots of Fur", "[[Guys and Dolls (musical)|Guys and Dolls]]", and "ABCD Blue".
+Herry was often seen in [[Sesame Street Muppet & Kid Moments|Muppet & Kid Moments]], relating to real children, and in later seasons appeared in the recurring sketch [[Monsters in Day Care]]. Herry has also participated in many of [[Prairie Dawn|Prairie Dawn's]] [[Sesame Street Pageants|pageants]], as well as appearing in such ''[[Monsterpiece Theater]]'' segments as "Chariots of Fur", "[[Guys and Dolls (musical)|Guys and Dolls]]", and "ABCD Blue".
 Herry hosted the Fuzzy Awards in the video ''[[Monster Hits!]]'' and he was an anchorman in ''[[We All Sing Together]]''.
-He has a [[Herry's Mother|mother]], a [[Herry's Father|father]] and a [[Herry's Granny|grandmother]]. He has a sister named Herriet (seen in [[episode 1073|a 1977 episode]]) and another named [[Flossie]], seen in several storybooks. He also has a doll named [[Hercules]] who has been seen with him in "[[Guys and Dolls (song)|Guys and Dolls]]," "[[Song for Two]]," "[[Moonshine]]" a song with [[Zoe]] where they sing about their dollies {{eka|3910}}, and when he slept over at [[Gabi|Gabi's]] in [[Episode 3793|a 2001 episode]].
+He has a [[Herry's Mother|mother]], a [[Herry's Father|father]] and a [[Herry's Granny|grandmother]]. He has a sister named Herriet (seen in [[episode 1073|a 1977 episode]]) and another named [[Flossie]], seen in several storybooks. He also has a doll named [[Hercules]] who has been seen with him in "[[Guys and Dolls (song)|Guys and Dolls]]," "[[Song for Two]]," "[[Moonshine]]" a song with [[Zoe]] where they sing about their dollies {{eka|3910}}, and when he slept over at [[Gabi|Gabi's]] in [[Episode 3793|a 1998 episode]].
 Herry is known for appearing in illustrations (and some merchandise and on the ''[[Sesame Street Live]]'' productions) with pants on. Usually they would be white with pink stripes, but the costume used in ''Sesame Street Live'' would give Herry light blue pants, and illustrator [[Tom Cooke]] usually drew Herry in purple pants with orange spots. He has never been seen wearing pants elsewhere, and the few times he has been shown below the waist, he has been [[Naked Muppets|nude]], like most monsters.
+Like [[Cookie Monster]], in rare instances Herry has taken to eating traditionally inedible objects, such as a bicycle, [[The Sesame Street 1, 2, 3 Storybook|a restaurant table]], the letter in [[M-M-M Monster Meal]], but usually in the company of his googly-eyed friend.
 Though Herry still makes occasional appearances in new episodes, he seldom plays a prominent role. Among his more recent appearances was in ''[[The Street We Live On]]'' and a cameo in [[Episode 4206]] (puppeteered by [[Martin P. Robinson|Marty Robinson]]<ref>{{40book|175}}</ref>), in a line at [[Hooper's Store]].
+Herry most recently appeared at the ''[[From Broadway With Love]]'' benefit concert, his first speaking appearance in almost a decade. He was performed by [[Tyler Bunch]].
 Herry's birthday is August 31st.
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 *''[[Sesame Street's All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Streets Forever]]''
 *''[[Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration]]''
+*''[[Sesame Street Stays Up Late!]]''
+*''[[Don't Forget to Watch the Movie]]''
+*''[[A Brief History of Motion Pictures]]''
 *''[[Elmopalooza]]''
 *''[[Sesame Street 4-D Movie Magic]]''
 *''[[The Street We Live On]]''
-*[[C is for Cookie Monster|''C is for Cookie Monster''
-]]
 ==Album appearances==
 *''[[The Muppet Alphabet Album]]''
+*''[[Bert & Ernie Sing-Along]]''
 *''[[The Sesame Street Monsters!]]''
+*''[[The Sesame Street Fairy Tale Album]]''
+*''[[Signs!]]''
+*''[[Sesame Country]]''
 ==Book appearances==
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 * ''[[The Sesame Street 1, 2, 3 Storybook]]'' (1973)
 * ''[[The Sesame Street ABC Storybook]]'' (1974)
+* [[Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum]] (1974)
 * ''[[Big Bird's Busy Book]]'' (1975)
 * ''[[See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Smell No Evil]]'' (1975)
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 * ''[[Sesame Street coloring books|A Day at School]]'' (1982)
 * ''[[Sesame Street coloring books|First Day of School]]'' (1982)
+* ''[[Sesame Street coloring books|Monster]]'' (1982)
 * ''[[A Sesame Street Christmas (book)|A Sesame Street Christmas]]'' (1982)
 * ''[[Bert and the Missing Mop Mix-Up]]'' (1983)
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 * ''[[My Doll Is Lost!]]'' (1984)
 * ''[[A Silly Sesame Street Story: The Three Little Pigs]]'' (1984)
+* ''[[Sesame Street coloring books|Trace &amp; Color Alphabet]]'' (1984)
 * ''[[Big Bird Can Share]]'' (1985)
 * ''[[Big Bird Says... A Game to Read and Play]]'' (1985)
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 * ''[[Sesame Street coloring books|Shape Up!]]'' (1987)
 * ''[[A Sitter for Baby Monster]]'' (1987)
+* ''[[Bert's New Collection]]'' (1988)
 * ''[[Going Places]]'' (1988)
 * ''[[Sesame Street coloring books|A New Playground on Sesame Street]]'' (1988)
-* ''[[The Sesame Street ABC Book of Words]]'' (1988}
+* ''[[The Sesame Street ABC Book of Words]]'' (1988)
+* ''[[A My Name Is Alice]]'' (1989)
 * ''[[Sesame Street coloring books|Come As You Are]]'' (1989)
 * ''[[Sesame Street coloring books|Great Monsterpieces]]'' (1989)
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 * ''[[Sleep Tight!]]'' (1991)
 * ''[[We're Counting on You, Grover!]]'' (1991)
+* ''[[Betty Lou's Bad Mood Blues]]'' (1992)
 * ''[[Bounce Along with Big Bird]]'' (1992)
 * ''[[Ernie and His Merry Monsters]]'' (1992)
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 * ''[[Grover's 10 Terrific Ways to Help Our Wonderful World]]'' (1992)
 * ''[[Grover's Guide to Good Manners]]'' (1992)
 * ''[[Happy and Sad, Grouchy and Glad]]'' (1992)
-* ''[[Sesame Street coloring books|Shapes: Stand-ups to Color & Share]]'' (1992)
+*''[[My Name Is Big Bird]]'' (1992)
+* ''[[Sesame Street coloring books|Shapes: Stand-ups to Color &amp; Share]]'' (1992)
 * ''[[Too Little!]]'' (1992)
 * ''[[We're Different, We're the Same]]'' (1992)
 * ''[[Elmo's Little Playhouse]]'' (1993)
 * ''[[Elmo's Mother Goose]]'' (1993)
+* ''[[Imagine... Big Bird Meets Santa Claus]]'' (1993)
 * ''[[Around the Corner on Sesame Street]]'' (1994)
+* ''[[Baby Natasha in "Say Cheese!"]]'' (1994)
 * ''[[Elmo's Big Lift-and-Look Book]]'' (1994)
 * ''[[I Want to Be a Police Officer]]'' (1994)
+* ''[[Sesame Street Stays Up Late (book)|Sesame Street Stays Up Late]]'' (1995)
 * ''[[Just Joking]]'' (1995)
 * ''[[Ten Scary Monsters]]'' (1995)
 * ''[[B is for Books!]]'' (1996)
 * ''[[Elmo's Lift-and-Peek Around the Corner Book]]'' (1996)
+* ''[[Rise and Shine!]]'' (1996, reworked as ''Up, Up, Up!'' in 2011)
-* ''[[Baby Natasha in "Say Cheese!"]]'' (1997)
-* ''[[Big Bird Meets Santa Claus]]'' (1997)
 * ''[[The Bunny Hop]]'' (1997)
 * ''[[Elmo's Christmas Colors]]'' (1997)
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 * ''[[It's Not Easy Being Big!]]'' (1998)
 * ''[[Elmo Says Achoo!]]'' (2000)
-* ''[[Elmo's ABC Book]]'' (2001)
+* ''[[Elmo's ABC Book]]'' (2000)
 * ''[[The Fix-It Shop (book)|The Fix-It Shop]]'' (2001)
 * ''[[Hooper's Store (book)|Hooper's Store]]'' (2001)
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 * ''[[Color Carnival]]'' (2008)
 * ''[[Love, Elmo]]'' (2009)
+* ''[[Elmo and Ernie's Joke Book]]'' (2012)
 ==Character merchandise==
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 ==Notes==
 * Herry has a mechanism in his head which allows the puppeteer to move his eyebrows up and down.
+* Jerry Nelson modeled Herry's voice after [[Jimmy Durante]].<ref>[[The Muppet Mindset]] - [http://themuppetmindset.blogspot.com/2011/08/interview-with-legendary-muppeteer.html Interview with Legendary Muppeteer Jerry Nelson, Part 4]</ref>
 ==Sources==

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Changes: Herry Monster

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Contents

Filmography

Album appearances

Book appearances

Character merchandise

Notes

Sources

See also