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Instances when characters dress up as animals (including if they're animals to begin with).
| Picture | Impersonator and Animal | Production | Notes |
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| Akshar Kumar as a rabbit | Galli Galli Sim Sim | Akshar Kumar, Bollywood movie star from India, in one of his many movie roles. | |
| Akshar Kumar as a tiger | Galli Galli Sim Sim | Akshar Kumar, Bollywood movie star from India, in one of his many movie roles. | |
| Alan as a fly | Sesame Street Episode 4273 | Alan posses as a fly to attract a frog for a princess to kiss. | |
| Alice the Actress as a rabbit | Sesame Street Episode 2619 | Alice the Actress appears on Hoots the Owl's talk show in her "Flopsy" costume from her play, The Three Sisters. | |
| Baby Bear as a monkey | Sesame Street episode 3853 | Baby Bear helps Elmo bring the zoo to Maria. | |
| Baby Bear, Telly Monster and Elmo as cats | Sesame Street episode 3948 | The three portray cats to keep Little Murray Sparkles company. | |
| Baby Bear as a Honker | Sesame Street episode 4028 | Elmo and Baby Bear cavort as species indigenous to Sesame Street. | |
| Baby Bear and Telly Monster as dogs | Sesame Street episode 4137 | Baby Bear and Telly dress as dogs to try and lure the word "dog" back into their book. | |
| A banana as a tiger | Sesame Street | A banana being asked to play the part of a tiger in a movie agency sketch. | |
| Barkley as a cow | Sesame Street Episode 2367 | As an experiment, Dr. Nobel Price places horns and a cowbell on Barkley, to see if he'll moo. | |
| Bats as cows | Sesame Street 4-D Movie Magic | The Count's bats play cows in his movie The Counting Kid Counts Again. | |
| Bert as a pigeon and Ernie as a duckie | Sesame Place The Count's Halloween Spooktacular | The park's Bert and Ernie walk-around characters dress-up as their favorite birds for Halloween. | |
| Bert as a caterpillar | Sesame Street Butterfly Pageant | Bert dresses up as a caterpillar for the pageant. | |
| Bert as a deer | Sesamstrasse Die Grosse Sesamstrassen-Musikshow segment (EKA: Folge 2472) | As part of Finchen's song about the woods, Ernie dresses Bert up like a deer. | |
| Bert as a rooster | Sesamstrasse Die Grosse Sesamstrassen-Musikshow segment (EKA: Folge 2475) | As part of Lena and the chickens' song about farm animals, Ernie dresses Bert up like a rooster. | |
| Bert as a shark | Sesamstrasse Die Grosse Sesamstrassen-Musikshow segment (EKA: Folge 2460) | Bert plays the shark in Samson's song about underwater. | |
| Bert as a swan | Sesamstrasse Die Grosse Sesamstrassen-Musikshow segment | In Pferd's song about dancing, Ernie dresses Bert up as a swan. | |
| Big Bird as "Big Fish" | Sesame Street episode 3161 | Wolfgang the Seal chases fish explorer Wanda Cousteau all over the Street. Big Bird pretends to be Wanda's huge friend, Big Fish, to scare Wolfgang into leaving Wanda alone. | |
| Big Mean Carl as "Carl the Big Mean Bunny" | Muppets Tonight "Stand By Me" | Carl dresses as a bunny during the game show "Swift Wits" and as part of a violin act in episode 106. In "Stand By Me", he dons the same bunny ears to attract fellow rabbits so he can eat them. | |
| Big Mean Carl as a frog | Muppets Tonight! Episode 211 | In a scene from Four Weddings and a Frog, Carl appears in a long line of frogs waiting to meet Andie, posing as one by going "Ribbit. Ribbit." One frog sees through his attempt and gets eaten. | |
| Bob as a bee | The Perfect Thing | Placido Flamingo sings about the perfect thing for bees to do. | |
| Bob as a chicken | Episode 4063 | Bob dances the "Clucky Clucky" to help Elmo fall asleep. | |
| Bunsen, Beaker and penguins as bunnies | Muppetisms | Bunsen and Beaker test a theory about bunnies. | |
| Buster the Horse as a zebra | Learning About Letters | Buster in stripes to demonstrate the letter Z. | |
| a cat as a dog | The Jim Henson Hour episode 104 | A stunt-cat dresses as a dog in a behind-the-scenes feature for Dog City, failing to prove that the "thing" between cats and dogs is just a myth. | |
| The Cat in the Hat and Little Cats A, B, and C as birds | The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss "The Cat in the Hat's First-First Day" | The Cat in the Hat and the Little Cats dress as birds to cheer Terrence McBird as he tries to fly. | |
| a chicken as the Dormouse | The Muppet Show episode 506 | An ordinary chicken with buckteeth, ears, and whisker playing the Alice in Wonderland Dormouse. | |
| Cookie Monster as the Cookie Bunny | Sesame Street | Cookie Monster wearing long blue ears, small nose, whiskers, and buck teeth, until they fall out of his mouth as he "hides" his colorful cookies. | |
| Cookie Monster as the Cheshire Cat | Abby in Wonderland | Cookie Monster appears as the Cheshire Cookie Cat in the 2008 direct-to-DVD production. | |
| Count von Count as the Caterpillar | Abby in Wonderland | The Count plays the character as "The Counterpillar" (because he loves to count things). | |
| Croquette as a unicorn | Fraggle Rock "We Love You, Wembley" (French version) | Doc straps a horn on Croquette, to pose for Madame Pontaven's crest. | |
| a dancer as a lion | The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show | During the "Calendar Song," a chorus dancer appears as a lion, to demonstrate March. When he turns around, however, on his back is a Muppet-style lamb, who opens his mouth and bleats. | |
| Dinosaur as Moola the Cash Cow | Dinosaurs "Variations on a Theme Park" | A dinosaur teen dresses up as a cheerful cartoon cow. | |
| Doc as Sprocket | Fraggle Rock "I Want to Be You" | Doc goes as his own dog to the society costume ball. | |
| Earl Sinclair as Georgie | Dinosaurs "George Must Die" | Earl dresses up as Georgie the hippo. | |
| Doc Hopper as a frog | The Muppet Movie | Doc Hopper portrays a frog in a commercial for Doc Hopper's French Fried Frog Legs | |
| Dr. Teeth as the Cheshire Cat | The Muppet Show episode 506 | Another Alice in Wonderland portrayal, the regular Dr. Teeth head on a cat body and with ears. | |
| The Elephant as a penguin | Sesame Street Episode 3145 | An elephant is seen dressed as a penguin during the penguin party at the Furry Arms. | |
| Elmo as a lion | Sesame Street episode 3853 | Elmo dresses as a lion to bring the zoo to Maria. | |
| Elmo as a puppy | Sesame Street episode 3952 | Elmo dresses as a puppy in a song. | |
| Elmo as a Dinger | Sesame Street episode 4028 | Elmo and Baby Bear cavort as species indigenous to Sesame Street. | |
| Elmo as a "chicken-kitten-cow-bunny" | Sesame Street episode 4032 | Elmo dresses as every animal he can think of, rolled into one, to get a vet appointment with Gina and declare his love for her. | |
| Elmo as a cow | Sesame Street | Elmo plays a silly cow who quacks in the song "Baby, Say It Loud." | |
| Elmo as a sheep | Sesame Street | Following a Count sketch where a delivery man dresses as a sheep, Elmo appears in a short tag, dressed as a sheep himself. | |
| Elmo as a wolf | Sesame Street episode 4095 | Elmo and Zoe dress up as wolves for their Big Bad Wolf auditions. | |
| Elmo as the White Rabbit | Abby in Wonderland | Elmo appears as the "Red" Rabbit in the 2008 direct-to-DVD production. | |
| Elmo as a butterfly | Sesame Street Episode 4268 | Elmo pretends to be a butterfly to make friends with one. | |
| Eric the Parrot as a penguin | The Muppet Show episode 507 | When Eric the Parrot disguises himself as a penguin, he appears as any other Muppet penguin. However, he is actually wearing a penguin costume, under which he cannot wear his parrot suit for fear of wrinkling it. | |
| Ernie as a sheep | "Journey to Ernie" Season 35 | Ernie poses as Little Bo Peep's sheep to evade Big Bird. | |
| Fat Blue Delivery Man as a sheep | Sesame Street | When the sheep go on strike, The Count has a delivery man dress as a sheep, so he can count him and go to sleep. | |
| Fay Ray as a frog | Sesame Street | Fay dresses up as a frog or maybe Kermit the Dog. | |
| Fay Ray as a polka-dotted black insect | Sesame Street | Fay dresses up as a polka-dotted black insect. | |
| Fay Ray as a moose | Sesame Street | Fay dresses up as a moose, yak, or maybe a deer. | |
| Finchen as a rooster | Sesamstrasse Folge 2398 | The gang impersonates the Musicians of Bremen. | |
| Floyd Pepper as the Caterpillar | The Muppet Show episode 506 | Another Alice in Wonderland animal. | |
| Fluffinella as a French poodle | Fraggle Rock "Red's Blue Dragon" | Though not shown onscreen, Fluffinella attends Ms. Ardath's masquerade party as a French poodle. | |
| Fozzie Bear as a lion | The Muppets Go to the Movies | As the Cowardly Lion, from the Wizard of Oz sketch. | |
| Fozzie Bear as a lion | The Muppets' Wizard of Oz | As the Cowardly Lion. | |
| Frackles disguised as cute, furry animals | The Muppet Show episode 524 | Three Frackle spies pose as animals to infiltrate Roger Moore's closing number, "Talk to the Animals". | |
| Gonzo as a bat | Muppets Tonight episode 108 | Gonzo is costumed appropriately for a role in his own musical, "Bats." | |
| Gordon as a wolf | Sesame Street episode 4095 | Gordon acts as a temporary replacement for the Big Bad Wolf. | |
| Grover as an elephant | Sesame Street | In a lecture on noses, Grover demonstrates with an elephant's trunk. | |
| Grover as a mouse | A Muppet Family Christmas | Grover plays the unstirring mouse in The Night Before Christmas pageant. | |
| Grover as a peacock | The Street We Live On | Grover wears a peacock feather, possibly to match Ming. | |
| Grover as a puffin | Sesame Street episode 4109 | Grover dresses as a puffin in a Global Grover segment about Iceland. | |
| Grover as a crow | Sesame Street | In a Global Grover segment, Grover shows how well a Polish scarecrow works by dressing as a crow and being scared by it. | |
| Harvey Korman as a chicken | The Muppet Show episode 110 | Kermit puts Harvey in a white chicken suit. | |
| Herry as a butterfly | Sesame Street Butterfly Pageant | Herry dresses up as a butterfly for the pageant, wearing orange Monarch butterfly wings. | |
| Herry Monster as a fish | Sesame Street Food Pageant | Herry plays a fish in a pageant about healthy food (though his mother made his costume too small). | |
| Hudson as a pig | The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence | The astronaut poses as "Hudson," a pig butler. | |
| Jack Black as a chicken | Sesame Street Episode 4173 | Jack Black dons an elaborate chicken disguise to fool Elmo while explaining the word "disguise." | |
| Jason Alexander as a bat | Muppets Tonight episode 108 | Jason is costumed appropriately for a role in his own musical, "Bats." | |
| Jon Voight as a brown turkey | The Muppet Show Live | Voight performs with the chickens. | |
| Kermit as a rabbit | Sesame Street News Flash sketch | Reporting on rainy day activities, Mona shows how to pretend and makes Kermit pretend to be a rabbit. | |
| Kermit as a cow | Sesame Street Season 15 | Kermit being switched to a cow after he and Gladys switch roles in a sketch in Season 15. | |
| Kermit as Frogo the Dragon | Muppets Tonight episode 207 | Kermit as the dragon in Dennis Quaid's screen test of Dragonheart. | |
| Kermit as Frogzilla | Muppets Tonight episode 203 | Kermit as the reptilian monster in a sketch The Hardy Pig Boys. | |
| | Kevin Kline, Telly Monster and Colambo as chickens | Sesame Street episode 3129 | Nick Chicken (Kline), Telly and Colambo disguise themselves as chickens to find find a mysterious chicken thief. |
| Kids as zoo animals | Sesame Street episode 3853 | Devon dresses as a giraffe, Sara as an elephant and Devon's rabbit as a leopard. | |
| Leela as a tyrannosaurus rex | Sesame Street Episode 4313 | Leela dresses up in a T-rex costume for a Letter of the Day Show, claiming to love the animal (and also because she wished to be on the show). | |
| "Margaret" as a chicken | The Muppets Take Manhattan | Gonzo's boat driver at the aquacade, in the same chicken suit from The Muppet Show. | |
| Maria as a queen bee | Fiesta! | Maria plays the queen bee to officiate at the fiesta carnival | |
| Monty as a penguin | Sesame Street episode 3091 | Monty dresses as a penguin for his new penguin school. | |
| Natalie Portman and Elmo as elephants | Sesame Street | Natalie and Elmo play "The Princess and the Elephants" with a real Elephant. | |
| Oscar the Grouch as the Cat | Elmo's Musical Adventure: Peter and the Wolf | Oscar plays the role of the Peter and the Wolf cat. | |
| Oscar the Grouch as a bug | Sesame Street Episode 4175 | Oscar and Slimey dress as bugs to make Slimey's new pet bug feel welcome. | |
| Pferd as a donkey | Sesamstrasse Folge 2398 | The gang impersonates the Musicians of Bremen.
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| Red Fraggle as a flying fish | Fraggle Rock Episode 103: Let the Water Run and Episode 303: Boober and the Glob | Red dresses as a flying fish to dive into the pool. | |
| Rosita as a bear | Sesame Street episode 3853 | Rosita helps Elmo bring the zoo to Maria. | |
| Rosita and Zoe as pigs | Sesame Street Episode 4004 | Rosita and Zoe pretend to be pigs after wanting to be wolves to play Little Red Riding Hood. | |
| Sally Hagen as a bee | Aliens in the Family | Sally wears a bee costume to teach Bobut about the letter B. | |
| Samson as a dog | Sesamstrasse Folge 2398 | The gang impersonates the Musicians of Bremen. | |
| Scred as a bee | Saturday Night Live | Scred attired as Aunt Bee, for a Killer Bees sketch. | |
| Shirley and Nat Muskrat as a horse | Emmet Otter's Jug-band Christmas | Shirley and Nat perform in a horse costume, which they can't seem to connect, at the talent contest. | |
| Slimey the Worm as a bug | Sesame Street Episode 4175 | Oscar and Slimey dress as bugs to make Slimey's new pet bug feel welcome.
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| Mr. Snuffleupagus as a sheep | Sesame Street Episode 2412 | Snuffy dresses as a sheep for Meryl Sheep's production of "Little Bo Peep". | |
| Mr. Snuffleupagus as a horse | Elmo's World: Horses | Snuffy appears at the end of Elmo's quiz, dressed as a horse in his cave. | |
| Snuffy as a dinosaur | Sesame Street Episode 4152 | To assuage Elmo's grief at the dinosaurs' extinction, Snuffy dresses up so that Elmo may have a pet dinosaur. | |
| Sprocket as a horse | Fraggle Rock "All Work and All Play" | Sprocket decides he wants to be a horse. Doc outfits him with a saddle and cellophane-attached horse shoes. | |
| Sprocket as a doberman pinscher | Fraggle Rock "Red's Blue Dragon" | Sprocket does a vocal impression of a doberman, snarling at Doc, considering costume party ideas. | |
| Sprocket as an elephant | Fraggle Rock "Red's Blue Dragon" | Sprocket considers an elephant costume for Ms. Ardath's masquerade party. | |
| Sprocket as a french poodle | Fraggle Rock "Red's Blue Dragon" | Sprocket ultimately goes to the costume ball as a yappy French poodle. (Fluffinella goes with the same costume.) | |
| Sprocket as a cat | Fraggle Rock "Boober Gorg" | Sprocket pretending to be a cat, to comfort Ned in Fluffinella's absence. | |
| Stinky the Skunk as an elephant | The Animal Show "Elephant & Hunting Dog" | Stinky dressed up as an elephant to keep himself cool by using the big ears to fan himself and trunk to suck up water through a pail. | |
| | Suey as a bird and lamb | Sesame Street Episode 3525 | In an effort to make people like her, Suey the Pig dresses like a bird (like Big Bird) and a lamb (like Lamb Chop), but learns people will like her for who she is. |
| The Swedish Chef as a pig | Muppet Treasure Island | When the Chef appears in a pig's nose as cook for the pig natives, a talking vegetable quips, "How else were we going to get him into this movie?" | |
| The Swedish Chef as the Easter Bunny | Donna's Day | The chef in rabbit ears. | |
| Telly Monster as a duck | Sesame Street | Telly plays a silly, mooing duck in the song "Baby, Say It Loud." | |
| Telly Monster as an elephant | Sesame Street | In a sketch about the power of the imagination, Telly imagines he's an elephant. | |
| Telly Monster as a goat | Sesame Street | In the same sketch, Telly imagines he's a goat. | |
| Telly Monster as a lion | Sesame Street | In the same sketch, Telly imagines he's a lion. | |
| Telly Monster as a lion | Sesame Street Episode 3952 | Telly Monster dresses up as a lion in a song. | |
| Telly Monster as the Duck | Elmo's Musical Adventure: Peter and the Wolf | Telly plays the role of the duck, another Peter and the Wolf portrayal. | |
| Telly Monster as a penguin | Sesame Street Episode 3145 | Telly dresses as a penguin, as he was invited to the Penguin Party at the Furry Arms. | |
| Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose as The Birthday Bird | The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss "The Birthday Moose" | Thidwick impersonates the Birthday Bird since the Birthday Bird was captured in the ice. | |
| Two-Headed Monster as a two-headed chicken | Sesame Street | In a Journey to Ernie segment. | |
| Uncle Traveling Matt as a pig | Fraggle Rock "I Want to Be You" | Matt dresses as a pig to fit in on a hog farm. | |
| Undercover Rover as a penguin | Muppet Time | Undercover Rover poses as a penguin to learn how they keep warm. | |
| Wembley as a fly | Fraggle Rock "Space Frog Follies" | Wembley dresses as a fly to attract a frog. | |
| Wolfgang the Seal as a penguin | Sesame Street Episode 3145 | Wolfgang dresses up as a penguin to get into the Furry Arms' penguin party and scarf down their supply of fish. | |
| Wolle as a cat | Sesamstrasse Folge 2398 | The gang impersonates the Musicians of Bremen. | |
| Zoe as a tiger | Sesame Street episode 3159 | Zoe explains that her tiger suit is her plan to avoid being tickled by Aunt Chloe. | |
| Zoe as the Bird | Elmo's Musical Adventure: Peter and the Wolf | Zoe plays the role of the Bird, another Peter and the Wolf animal. | |
| Zoe as a wolf | Sesame Street episode 4095 | Elmo and Zoe dress up as wolves for their Big Bad Wolf auditions. | |
| Zoe as the Dormouse | Abby in Wonderland | A miniature version of the Zoe puppet was created specifically for this direct-to-DVD film. | |
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| Baby Fozzie as a lion | Muppet Babies' Classic Children's Tales | As the Cowardly Lion, from the Wizard of Oz story. | |
| Baby Fozzie as the March Hare | Muppet Babies Storybook Calendar 1990 | A photo puppet of Baby Fozzie appears as the March Hare at the Mad Tea-Party in the 1990 Muppet Babies Storybook Calendar and the companion book Muppet Babies' Classic Children's Tales. | |
| Bert as a cat | Sesame Street Magazine cover, June 1991 | Bert dressed as a cat. | |
| Bert as a pigeon | Sesame Street Halloween card | Bert dresses up as a pigeon to go trick-or-treating. | |
| Bert as a pigeon | The Sesame Street Dictionary | Bert dresses up as a pigeon for Halloween. | |
| Betty Lou as a Tiger | Sesame Street storybook Happy and Sad, Grouchy and Glad | Betty Lou dresses up as a Tiger for a pageant. | |
| Big Bird as an alligator | Sesame Street Halloween card | Big Bird dresses up as an alligator to go trick-or-treating. | |
| Cookie Monster as a cow, Ernie as a dog, Bert as a hen, Grover as a Sheep, Herry as a pig | The Little Red Hen | Dressed in character for a Sesame Street Pageant. | |
| Cookie Monster as the Wolf | The Sesame Street Players Present Peter and the Wolf | Dressed in character for a Sesame Street Pageant. | |
| The Electric Mayhem as dogs | The Muppet Show Comic Book: Muppet Mash | Animal, Dr. Teeth, Janice, Floyd, and Zoot dress as dogs for Howlin' Jack Talbot's song, "Doggone Dallas Blues". | |
| Ernie as a Twiddlebug | Sesame Street Halloween card | Ernie dresses up as a Twiddlebug to go trick-or-treating. | |
| Ernie as a butterfly | Sesame Street Magazine cover, June 1991 | Ernie dressed as a butterfly. | |
| Elmo as a fish, Telly Monster as a cat | Sesame Street storybook Happy and Sad, Grouchy and Glad | Dressed in character for a Sesame Street Pageant. | |
| Fozzie Bear as a lion | Look-in | As the Cowardly Lion, from the front cover of the 1981 issue of Look-in. | |
| Fozzie Bear as a lion | Look and Find Muppets | As the Cowardly Lion, from the "Wizard of Oz" page. | |
| Miss Piggy as a bear | The Muppet Show Comic Book: Family Reunion issue #6 | Miss Piggy dresses in a bear costume to help raise money for Robin. | |
| Oscar the Grouch as a wolf | Sesame Street storybook Ernie and His Merry Monsters | Oscar is auditioning for the role of The Big Bad Wolf. | |
| Ernie, Bert, and Herry Monster as The Three Bears | The Sesame Street Dictionary | A Sesame Street Pageant featured the trio dressed as the fabled bears. | |
