Henson supposedly bought the rights to the show's recording and created the Swedish Chef (who DOES have a real name, but it's not understandable). He was on "Good Morning America," he says, and caught Jim Henson's eye. Real Swedish Chef Lars "Kuprik" Bäckman claims he was the inspiration for the Swedish Chef. There are rumors that he got the name Kermit from a childhood friend of Henson's or a puppeteer from the early days of the Muppets, but Henson always refuted both of those rumors. By the time he showed up on Sesame Street in 1969, though, he had made the transition to frog. At the time, he was more lizard-like than frog-like. The first Kermit was made out of Henson's mom's coat and some ping pong balls. Kermit was "born" in 1955 and first showed up on "Sam and Friends," a five-minute puppet show by Jim Henson. He is apparently quite the ladies' man - he has been linked to Countess von Backward, who loves to count backward Countess Dahling von Dahling and Lady Two.ĥ. He was quickly made more appealing to little kids, though. He used to be more sinister - he was able to hypnotize and stun people and he laughed in typical scary-villain-type fashion after completing a count of something and thunder and lightning would occur. Count von Count made his first appearance in 1972 and was made out of an Anything Muppet pattern - a blank Muppet head that could have features added to it to make various characters.
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