Herry Monster Sketches: Miscellaneous
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Sketches starring Herry Monster.
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| Turning into a Prince | Episode 0179 | A fairy godmother turns Cookie Monster into a handsome prince. He thinks it's ugly, and uses the wand to change her into her original form, Herry Monster wearing a wig. As monsters, they fall in love.
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 | Little Bird's Imagination Game | Episode 0198 | Little Bird plays a game about imagining things. At the end, he imagines a monster behind him, and when he opens his eyes, Herry is behind Little Bird. |
 | Things to do with your mind | Episode 0246 | Farley explains things one can do with their mind - he plans on going to the door, he imagines who's knocking at it, he remembers it's not his mother and he hopes there's not a scary monster at the door. Herry Monster surprises him by bursting through the door, frightening Farley away. Herry's sorry Farley ran away; he wanted to play. |
 | Surprise | Episode 0261 | Grover is going to teach the audience about "surprise" by sneaking up on Ernie. He sees Ernie sitting in his chair -- and he knows that it's Ernie, because he can see Ernie's shirt and Ernie's hair. Grover sneaks up to surprise Ernie -- but then it turns out to be Herry Monster.
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 | Ernie's ball | Episode 0263 | Ernie finds a ball, and claims it for himself, until he learns that it belongs to Herry.
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 | Search for a triangle | Episode 0266 | Herry first spots a rectangle. Grover tells Herry it isn't a triangle, and becomes fustrated. Next he spots a square, Grover tells him it isn't a triangle, and again is fustrated. Grover suggests that Herry cut the square in half and make two triangles.
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 | Between | Episode 0268 | Kermit attempts to demonstrate between by standing between two poles, which are actually mops held by Grover and Herry. |
 | Three Monsters | Episode 0271 | Grover, Herry and a little pink monster rearrange themselves in different ways and count to three, until they get exhausted and faint. |
 | Monster Noises | Episode 0271 | Herry and Cookie Monster practice their "monster noises" (growling and roaring), then have the viewer play a game of imitating animal noises with them. |
 | Prairie Dawn Invites 3 | Episode 0272 | Prairie Dawn invited Grover to dinner, but Grover can't come without Herry, who can't come without Cookie Monster. Afterwards, Prairie learns that they are not cats.
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 | Near and Far | Episode 0279 | Herry finds Betty Lou crying: the other kids teased her because she doesn't know the difference between near and far. Herry helps her by placing three little boys in a row: the one who is nearest will get a surprise. When the surprise turns out to be a kiss, the boys start running far away from Herry... |
 | Letters vs. Numbers | Episode 0298 | A group of Muppets split into two separate teams for a game -- however, one of the small ones points out that they've split into one team of big players and one team of small players. They eventually agree to play Tiddly-Winks. |
 | R! S! M! | Episode 0302 | Two monsters stand on either side of a large plate of cookies. Herry Monster has an "R" on his sweatshirt and growls menacingly, "Rrrrrrrr." A fat blue monster has an "S" on his sweatshirt and hisses ominously, "Sssssssss." While they argue in this way, Cookie Monster (wearing an "M" on his sweatshirt) comes along, eats the cookies, rubs his tummy, and says, "Mmmmmmmmmm." |
 | Suspension Act | Episode 0332 | Grover volunteers to assist Mumford in his suspension act. Grover will get on top of a platform, and Mumford will pull the pillar off from underneath, and the platform will not fall. The trick works, so Grover decides to try it himself, with Herry Monster as his assistant. Grover can't pull it off, and Herry falls.
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 | Here and There | Episode 0678 | A Hot Pink Anything Monster wants to know about here and there, so Herry and Grover demonstrate by spreading apart, each calling the monster over to their side. However, whenever the monster gets to "there," he always finds himself "here". |
 | Surprise | Episode 0683 | A lady volunteers to assist Mumford in his surprise magic trick. Mumford makes her disappear and reappear by saying "Peanut Butter," but when he's going to make her reappear, Herry Monster pops up saying "SURPRISE!" |
 | Herry's Gym | Episode 0808 | Herry Monster asks the kids at home to do simple exercises with him like moving eyebrows, touching toes with fingers, and running in place. Kermit the Frog makes cameo during the running in place exercise.
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 | The Addition Game | Episode 0890 | Herry Monster is a contestant on Guy Smiley's game show "The Addition Game," in which Herry has to add items. Herry is unsure of the last addition problem, so he brings a few cars into the studio to add them up.
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 | TV Chair Battle | Episode 0898 | Ernie and Bert fight over which one of them gets to sit in the chair to watch TV in. Herry tricks them into leaving so that he can sit in the chair.
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 | Ernie Knocks Down Bottles | Episode 0935 | At the carnival, Herry asks Ernie to participate in a game. Ernie has three chances to win a prize by knocking down a pile of bottles with a baseball. Ernie only manages to knock down some, then most of the bottles, but not all of them, so he doesn't win the prize. Herry, on the other hand, can knock the bottles down not with a baseball, but with his loud voice. |
 | Stopping Noise | Episode 1019 | Herry Monster stops all the noise on Sesame Street. |
 | Sharing a Bicycle | Episode 1057 | Cookie Monster and Herry Monster are fighting over a bicycle, when Kermit suggests they share it. The two monsters cooperate, and devour the bicycle together.
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 | Edith Ann and Herry: Proud | Episode 1096 | Edith Ann (Lily Tomlin) talks to Herry about being proud. |
 | Grover spreads Herry's alphabet secret | Episode 1740 | Herry tells Grover a secret, which is the alphabet. Grover spreads the secret to other monsters. Herry observes that Grover is good with the alphabet, but lousy at keeping a secret.
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 | Kermit X-rays Herry | Episode 2254 | Kermit X-rays Herry Monster. Eventually, Herry wants to see his own muscles. Kermit gets behind the X-ray machine, and his bones are seen.
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 | Baby B | Episode 3681 | Herry is babysitting a baby letter B, and explains to Big Bird that when she grows up, she'll start a lot of important words, such as "boat", "bicycle", "brontosaurus", "bar mitzvah", and "biotechnology".
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 | Reading Together | Episode 3765 | Elmo tries to see what Herry is reading, but since Herry's too big he tries to stand at various angles to look around his shoulders.
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 | "Monster Lullaby" | Episode 3957 | Herry and Rosita sing a monster lullaby to their dolls. The lullaby works on Herry, who falls asleep. |
 | Kermit Demonstrates the Number 5 | Kermit tests two blindfolded monsters and aks them which number they're feeling. Herry Monster minus his blindfold describes how he knew the number was a five and in the process breaks the five into pieces. Cookie Monster attempts to feel the number and Kermit tells him that he can't since its broken. Cookie Monster devours the pieces and tells Kermit it tastes like a five. | |
 | The Sesame Street Open | Herry Monster and Cookie compete in "The Sesame Street Open" where they open various things like books or lunchboxes. Cookie Monster wins and eats his trophy.
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 | Late Night on Sesame Street | Conan O'Brien hosts a late night talk show where he is going to interview some monsters, including Herry and Telly. However, since it's the middle of the night, all the monsters fall asleep before he can interview them and they explain it's important to get plenty of sleep to stay healthy.
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