The Snerfs

Snerf was a monster created during Jim Henson's early years on television variety shows. It is essentially a little fuzzy tube with eyes and hair, who pops up and down. When Ideal Toys created the first licensed Muppet dolls, the three characters they chose were Kermit, Rowlf and Snerf. However, there's no evidence that the Snerf puppet was actually manufactured and sold.
After a while, multiple copies of the monster appeared at the same time, and they became "the Snerfs."
A slightly altered version of a Snerf puppet was meant to be used in the unmade late '60s special "The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow" as one of the "musical monsters."
The Snerfs also made a few notable appearances during the first season of Sesame Street. Two Snerfs named Sam and Harry disrupt Kermit the Frog's lecture on "tall" and "short" by constantly changing sizes. Another Snerf appears in a two-part segment, where a narrator (Frank Oz) comments on the creature's pride in himself and calls him a "silly Snerf." 
Some Snerfs appeared in the 1970 special The Great Santa Claus Switch. One of them identified himself in a song as "Snickery."
Two unique Snerfs called Snerk and Snork appeared during "Santa Claus Routine with Arthur Godfrey" in the December 24, 1967 broadcast of The Ed Sullivan Show.
A chorus of Snerfs performed "In a Little Spanish Town" in the Herb Alpert and the TJB special (1974) and again as the opening number in episode 113 of The Muppet Show (1976). They appeared again in episode 403 to perform "Little Brown Jug."
Originally, the Snerfs had round noses. In The Great Santa Claus Switch, they had beaks. In their Herb Alpert and Muppet Show appearances, they had trumpets for noses.
==Filmography==
*Ideal Toys commercials
*Sesame Street
** "Tall and Short" 
** "Short and Long" 
*The Muppets on Puppets
*The Great Santa Claus Switch
*Herb Alpert and the TJB
*The Muppet Show
**Episode 113: Bruce Forsyth ("In a Little Spanish Town")
**Episode 202: Zero Mostel
**Episode 403: Shields & Yarnell ("Little Brown Jug")
*MuppetToons
**"The Kermambo"
==Gallery==
===Early Snerf===
Hensonidealtoys.jpg|In Ideal Toys ads
TMOP-Snerf.jpg|With Rowlf in The Muppets on Puppets
IdealSnerfts-1.jpg|In Ideal Toys commercial
IdealSnerfts-2.jpg|In Ideal Toys commercial
IdealSnerfts-3.jpg|In Ideal Toys commercial
File:MusicalMonster12.jpg|As "Gwonck" in "The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow" tests
File:MusicalMonster14.jpg|As "Gwonck" in "The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow" tests
File:MusicalMonster13.jpg|As "Gwonck" in "The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow" tests
Kermit_and_Snerfs.JPG|With Kermit the Frog on Sesame Street
File:MusicalMonster5.jpg|Puppet on display in the Creature Shop in 2015.
==Snerk & Snork==
Snerk_%26_Snork.JPG|Snork and Snerk on The Ed Sullivan Show
1scary.jpg|With Kermit and other Monsters on Sesame Street
SevenDaysSong.jpg|In the Sesame Street song "Seven Days"
Song5-monsters.jpg|With other monsters in a "Numerosity" film
===Frackle Snerf===
SnerfsSketch.jpg|Jim Henson's sketch for six "Snerf" Frackles (proposed character name "Gripe")
GSCS.Snickery.jpg|As Snickery in The Great Santa Claus Switch
Frank-SantaSnerf.jpg|With Cosmo Scam in The Great Santa Claus Switch (performed by Frank Oz)
===Horn-nosed Snerf===
HATB snerf.jpg|With Jim Henson behind the scenes of Herb Alpert and the TJB
HATB snerf1.jpg|With Jim Henson behind the scenes of Herb Alpert and the TJB
JimandSnerf.jpg|With Jim Henson behind the scenes of Herb Alpert and the TJB
113_snerfs.jpg|In The Muppet Show episode 113
LittleBrownJug.jpg|In The Muppet Show episode 403
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