The Tortoise

The Tortoise -- or "the Turtle," as he's sometimes known to sports fans -- is one of the main characters from the classic Aesop fable "The Tortoise and the Hare."
On Sesame Street, Kermit the Frog broadcasts from the scene of the great race between the Tortoise and the Hare in a "Sesame Street Sports" sketch. When the race begins, the Hare offers to give the Tortoise a head start -- but when Kermit rushes to the finish line to see the results, the Frog is inadvertently crowned the winner of the race. 
In a second "Sesame Street News Flash" sketch, the Hare challenges the Tortoise to a rematch. This time, the Tortoise comes equipped with a jet-pack. 
==Puppet design==
In the first sketch, the Tortoise was made out of the regular Green Anything Muppet with a distinctive cone-shaped head. In the second sketch, while the Hare retains his Anything Muppet design, the Tortoise is repurposed from a generic turtle puppet that had been used for "Shelly" in The Turtle Who Wanted to Make Friends and "Tony" in a Waiter Grover sketch.
==Book appearances==
*The Sesame Street Dictionary (1980)
Image:Tort_hare_diction.JPG|The Tortoise and the Hare in The Sesame Street Dictionary
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