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On-Cor Frozen Foods Commercial (1962)

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Onky

PERFORMER Jim Henson

DEBUT 1962

DESIGN Jim Henson

Onky is a blue humanoid Muppet character who first appeared in a series of ads for On-Cor Frozen Foods.

A series of three ads were produced featuring Onky with a human grocer played by Bill Gibson.

In 1962, Jim Henson created the new Muppet character, Onky, for the On-Cor Frozen Foods ads. Onky is cited as one of Henson's earliest live-hand Muppets.

The puppet style was a departure from the hand and rod puppets Henson had been using – Onky had “live-hands” meaning the puppeteer put his hand in the puppet’s glove-like hand, enabling the character to easily pick up things (like the product being advertised) and give a more realistic performance. While Onky’s arms were short and almost flipper-like, making for an awkward kind of movement, later in the year, Jim and his new collaborator Don Sahlin created a live-hand puppet that was extremely expressive: Rowlf the Dog.

The puppet was later re-worked to become Mack, a character featured in ads for Claussen's Bakery, McGarry's Sausage, C & P Telephone Co. of VA, and Southern Bell Telephone.

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I sent like 4 asks gushing about my s/o thinking that it’s WAY too early for anyone to kin them like the season isn’t even out yet!!! And then I scrolled down!!! And they’re HERE ALREADY IM NOT READY I ONKY REMEMBERED BEING IN LOVE WITH YOU YESTERDAY

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Gee would you look at the time!

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first posted 10/DEC/23

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Onky

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