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The Evolution of Mahna Mahna (and Bip Bippadotta) (1969-present)


Image As seen in Year Notes
File:Mahnasesame1.jpg Sesame Street
Season 1
1969 This is Mahna Mahna's initial Anything Muppet incarnation. The beard and wild hair would be a trademark, but his eyes and expression would evolve, and alternate according to which production he was used in. His backing group is initially a pair of Anything Muppet girls, as opposed to the later Snowths.
MahnaMahnaEdS The Ed Sullivan Show 1969 Mahna Mahna begins to enter his more familiar form, with purple skin, pink nose, orange hair/beard, "furry" green shirt and sunglasses-esque eyes. In his first appearance on Ed Sullivan, he has shorter hair than his later incarnations. The puppet is able to blink.
Mahnasullivan2 The Ed Sullivan Show 1971 This puppet is similar to the 1969 version, but with longer and wilder hair. Mahna Mahna now has arm rods and can move his arms.
OrangeBip Sesame Street
Season 5
1973 Bip Bippadotta, as Mahna Mahna has been rechristened for his Sesame appearances, continues the green-furred torso of his variety show incarnation, but his facial features return to the angrier eyes of his first Sesame appearance, and would remain in this mold through his Street appearances of the 70s'. His fleshtones are orange.
File:Mahnamuppet.jpg The Muppet Show
Episode 101
1976 Mahna Mahna appears in the premiere episode of The Muppet Show, complete with backing Snowths. He makes sporadic appearances during the first three seasons.
LavenderBip Sesame Street Bip Bippadotta begins to start looking a little bit more like Mahna Mahna. He now has a pair of visor-like "hip" sunglasses in place of the blinking eyes, more hair added, and a goatee, but had lavender fleshtones.
Mahnasesame3 Sesame Street 1986-1989 Mahna Mahna's Sesame incarnation, Bip Bippadotta, has now become much closer to the Muppet Show version, with more feathery hair, purple fleshtones, and an orange nose.
Bandanana CanTeen Bandanana ad 2005 Mahna Mahna has a larger nose, down-turned eyes, and a generally softer aesthetic.
HiddenGem4203 Sesame Street
Season 40
2009 Bip Bippadotta makes a comeback appearance in a 2009 episode of Sesame Street. He now has a different hair style and a new goatee.
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