Big Bird's names for Mr. Hooper

thumb|300px|An excerpt of one of Sesame Street's "rhyme game" segments, playing off of Mr. Hooper's name.
Big Bird's inability to properly pronounce or remember Mr. Hooper's name was a running gag on Sesame Street for years.
Typically, Mr. Hooper would casually correct Big Bird and he would quickly comply. On a few occasions, Mr. Hooper attempted to address the problem head on. In Episode 1307, he used large cards to piece his name together to help Big Bird sound it out. In Episode 1434, Big Bird claimed it would be easier to remember his name if everyone's names were the same, so Mr. Hooper asks him to imagine how confusing that would be.
When Mr. Hooper, Gordon, and Susan commit to a gag in which they claim not to recognize Big Bird wearing a disguise in Episode 0919, Big Bird desperately calls out Mr. Hooper's correct name; in response, Mr. Hooper replies, "Looper! Looper, to you!"
In some instances, Big Bird doubles down on the error, either innocently or by design. Episode 1423 implies that Big Bird perpetuated the error on purpose: when he calls him by his correct name, he says that he did it "just for a change." When he makes a sign out of popsicle sticks in Episode 1747, it reads, "Mr. Pooper."
==Names==
;Mr. Tooper
0006, 0072, 0154, 1970 promo
;Mr. Sooper
0008, 0066
;Mr. Booper
0072, 0427, 1307, 1308
;Mr. Pooper
0154, 0158, 0546, 0577, 0690, 0956, 0957, 1006, 1052, 1074, 1081, 1148, 1172, 1205, 1252, 1307, 1565, 1747, 1806, 2073, Sleepytime Bird, Getting Ready for School
;Mr. Looper
0158, 0313, 0320, 0343, 0427, 0461, 0539, 0546, 0593, 0595, 0701, 0748, 0759, 0811, 0813, 0830, 0834, 0845, 0847, 0850, 0926, 1006, 1017, 1040, 1056, 1058, 1074, 1090, 1229, 1246, 1294, 1308, 1317, 1359, 1404, 1422, 1457, 1462, 1478, 1497, 1545, 1575, 1625, 1671, 1706, 1710, 1790, 1839, 1869, 1968, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2069, 2073, 2083, 2209, 2333, 2360, 2455, 2525, 2795, 3160, 3978, Numbers!, The Sesame Street Fairy Tale Album, Sesame Street Sing-Along!, Evening at Pops, A Special Sesame Street Christmas, Follow That Bird, Big Bird's Story Time, Getting Ready for School, Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
;Mr. Crooper
0181
;Mr. Dooper
0320, 0813, 1671, The Sesame Street Book & Record
;Mr. Stooper
0461, 0929
;Mr. Hooker
0471
;Mr. Blooper
1052, The Count Counts, The Sesame Street Cookbook
;Mr. Glooper
0810
;Mr. Cooper
0813, 1246
;Mr. Cunningham
1123 — Big Bird's performer, Caroll Spinney, has mentioned that one day he came up with a new one: "Hello, Mr. Cunningham -- oh gee, I wasn't even close."Borgenicht, David, Sesame Street Unpaved, p. 124 Spinney, Caroll The Wisdom of Big Bird, p. 120
;Mr. Zooper
1307
;Mr. Wainwright
1307
;Mr. Snooper
1467
==See also==
* Big Bird's misnomers
* Oscar's nicknames
==Sources==
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