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Snuffleupagus

puppet character
Also known as: Snuffy
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    …1971 his best friend was Snuffleupagus, a large four-legged puppet who resembles a woolly mammoth. Until 1985 none of the adult humans on Sesame Street ever saw “Snuffy,” and so they considered him simply a convenient scapegoat for Big Bird when he got in trouble.

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    …1971 his best friend was Snuffleupagus, a large four-legged puppet who resembles a woolly mammoth. Until 1985 none of the adult humans on Sesame Street ever saw “Snuffy,” and so they considered him simply a convenient scapegoat for Big Bird when he got in trouble.

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