Orange Gold

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The Orange Gold Anything Muppet is a yellowish (Pantone 123) hand-rod puppet with a large jaw, used on Sesame Street. Guy Smiley is the most notable example of this type.

The pattern differs from many other Anything Muppets. While Fat Blue or Lavender heads could be attached to different bodies and the features were completely interchangeable, many of the Orange Gold variations feature the same type of face (including a pointy nose), arms, and body with only the eyes, hair, and accessories altered. One variation, Prince Charming, is in fact a near duplicate of Guy Smiley, only with different attire and voice.

In the 1990s, a live-hand version of the pattern was developed for Monty.

An antecedent to the look of this pattern, and of Guy Smiley in general, is the Conrad Love puppet used on The Ed Sullivan Show and in commercials.

Although the Guy Smiley character was used on Sesame Street as far back as its first season, it wasn't until the fourth season in 1972 that a special copy of the Orange Gold puppet was made with eyebrows that were able to raise and lower, allowing Guy and others of this pattern to show more range of emotion.

Examples of the Sesame Street characters developed from this Anything Muppet include the following:

	This page from a 1979 CTW character style guide officially cites the Anything Muppet color type as "Orange Gold."	Announcer for Granny Fanny Nesslerode's "Answer Lady" skits	Captain ("Imagine That")
Captain Breakfast	One of the Christmas carolers in Elmo's World: Happy Holidays	Cowboy with a Drawl	Don Music
Eliot Stabler Muppet	Gardener	Professor Gary Gill	Gassy Dwarf (Dwarf #3)
George Washington in "The American Revolution"	Guy Smiley	Jack Bauer Muppet	The King
Lance (director)	Librarian	Murray Matisse	Nelson
The Pied Piper	Prince Charming	Prince Cha-Cha-Charming	Rick
The Royal Cook	Salvador Dada	Sheryl Crow Muppet	Spaceship Surprise Captain
One of The Tarnish Brothers	Vincent Twice	The Woodsman