Telly Monster

Telly Monster is a furry pinkish-purple monster with an orange nose from Sesame Street. He is a recurring character from 1979 to 1990, a major character from 1991 to 2015 and a minor character from 2016 to present.
On his debut in 1979, he was known as the "Television Monster", a character that was fixated on television. He was violet-red and had antennae standing out of the top of his head, and his eyes would whirl around when he watched television. After that stint through season eleven, producers worried that he would be a negative influence on their easily influenced viewers, and changed him into the worry-wart character that he has been ever since.
His first appearance on Sesame Street, after the Television Monster season, was with guest star Itzhak Perlman playing the violin, while Telly played the tuba.
His name is derived from the British slang term for a television, "telly".
Telly is a triangle lover, and he has a pet hamster, Chuckie Sue. He has been known to Pogo stick uncontrollably around Sesame Street, often causing havoc with all that gets in his way. This segment is shown on Sesame Street Unpaved. Baby Bear is his best friend and appears occasionally in many of the main plots in the later series. Telly also has somewhat of a friendship with Oscar the Grouch, since they appear in many segments together.
Personality-wise, Telly is a fidgeting, nervous wreck, prone easily to manic behavior and paranoia.
In contrast to Kermit the Frog as a news reporter for the Sesame Street News Flash, Telly also has been a roving reporter for his own segment, called Monster on the Spot.
In Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, Telly was also part of finding Big Bird who just left The Dodos to return back to Sesame Street, before the journey starts Telly was worried about Big Bird and Miss Finch (who insists to bring him back to The Dodos) is also out there, will get him and is comforted by Olivia. Telly was assign by Bob on Oscar's sloppy Jalopy with Maria and Honker to find Big Bird before Miss Finch does. In a restaurant Telly and Honker witness everyone in the restaurant including Maria and Oscar are having a food fight with toss salad, commenting that the salad looks great. In Toadstool Telly and the others find Big Bird, however due to a parade happening in the city and Miss Finch's intervention, they lose him again. Unbeknownst to Telly, Big Bird was soon captured by The Sleaze Brothers who run a funfair outside Toadstool. At a gas station Bob (who was informed by 2 little kids who seen Big Bird) informs them that he found Big Bird in the Sleaze Brother's Fun Fair and to his shock he was locked in a cage and painted blue. The next day, they find him and Linda was about to free him. However The Sleaze Brothers wake up thanks to Grover, they drive off with Big Bird in tow in an attempt to prevent them from bringing him back to Sesame Street, Telly tries to wake Oscar up to inform him what is happening, while Gordon and Olivia give chase on the Volkswagen and rescues Big Bird. When Big Bird was finally back at Sesame Street and The Sleaze Brothers arrested for their crimes and kidnapping Big Bird, Telly was happy to see him back home, as Big Bird was talking about his journey back to Sesame Street, Miss Finch (having followed him all the way to Sesame Street from Toadstool) arrives, admitting that the Dodos are not perfectly for him, but manage to find another bird family, causing Telly to objects this and Miss Finch finally convinces that Sesame Street is Big Bird's true home and apologizes for her actions and proudly leaves. 
== Trivia ==
* In Corey's Kid Show, he serves as a mascot for Baby Mozart, representing composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). He also took over Bard the Dragon's role in Baby Mozart.
== Gallery ==
Grouchland 3.jpg|Telly's comical yell
File:Sony Wonder Sesame Street Peter and the Wolf Telly Duck Shocked.png|"What?!"
File:Telly duck with the Wolf.png|"Whoa,Whoa,Whoa,Whoa,Whoa!" "Stop everything!"
File:Sesame Street Elmo's musical adventure telly and wolf.png|"He eats me?!" Nobody told me that the duck gets eaten in the story!" "Well you can forget it!"
File:Telly takes his beak off.png|"Well I quit!"
Oscar tells everyone that elmo is in grouchland.png
Telly and elmo.jpg
Telly and baby bear.jpg
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Elmo with Telly.png
The great numbers game.jpg
Telly-monster-follow-that-bird-7.7.jpg|Telly Monster from Follow That Bird
Tellyduck.jpg|Telly as the Duck from Elmo's Musical Adventure The Story Of Peter and The Wolf
Zoe and her friends came to the castle to rescue Elmo.png
Telly and Two Headed Monsters as the hunters came to rescue Peter Elmo and his friends from the wolf.png|Telly and Two Headed Monster as the hunters came to rescue Peter Elmo, Zoe Bird and Oscar the Cat from the Wolf
Tv monster.jpg
File:Sesame Street Guess That Shape and Color 2.jpg
File:Elmo Big Bird Telly and Zoe.jpg
File:Sesame street telly tut.jpg|King Telly Tut.
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