Roosevelt Franklin and Herbert Birdsfoot

[bandit957]

Roosevelt Franklin and Herbert Birdsfoot are two long-lost Muppet characters on 'Sesame Street' from the 1970s. I remember Roosevelt Franklin quite well, but I only very vaguely remember Herbert Birdsfoot.

Did anyone else always get Roosevelt Franklin confused with Franklin Roosevelt? Did anyone else always get Herbert Birdsfoot confused with Herbert Hoover?

[jon daly]

I was watching that show at that time and I have no recollection of those characters. Sorry.

[Rothman]

I remember Roosevelt, but not the other guy.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

Roosevelt Franklin and Herbert Birdsfoot are two long-lost Muppet characters on 'Sesame Street' from the 1970s. I remember Roosevelt Franklin quite well, but I only very vaguely remember Herbert Birdsfoot.

Did anyone else always get Roosevelt Franklin confused with Franklin Roosevelt? Did anyone else always get Herbert Birdsfoot confused with Herbert Hoover?

Find some photos of the two, well at least of the "birdsfoot," and try again.

[Big John]

Herbert:   Roosevelt:

[cjk374]

I remember seeing both....but I know I saw Roosevelt much more often.

[1995hoo]

I recall there was a school and Roosevelt Franklin was one of the students. Smart Tina was another. I recall her best for singing the line "Ten wind-up rabbits" in the Sesame Street version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (other lines: "One delicious cookie," "Six rubber duckies," "Seven rusty trashcans," etc.). Their classmate Hardhead Henry Harris sang the line "Two baby frogs (what kind of jive present is THAT, man?!)."

[GaryV]

Roosevelt Franklin, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szarGMjW1lw