SNUFFLEUPAGUS: BEFORE AND AFTER

I just wanted to point out that in my opinion Mr. Snuffleupagus looked amazing in his first ever appearance...

Doesn't he look more like some 1960s-style monster? When you think about it, that's what he is. He seems like he could be a distant relative of a Weird-Oh, or a Dr. Seuss character or even an Ed Roth creation.
Here's how most of us remember him...

Note the close set, wanna-be soulful eyes with working lids and those floaty-feather lashes that just get in the way. Now check this out...

Woah! Great pointy head. Great wild, yellow egg eyes with eyelash explosions. He's leaner and seems scrappy and a bit bewildered. I'd like to be friends with this Snuffy. I'd explain the world to him and encourage him throughout his life.

He can look two directions at once.

Sheesh, what happened? Celebrity Look-alike: Liza Minnelli

His stare is so intense I can feel him looking into my soul.

Anyway, I brought it up because I just got a great DVD set of Sesame Street episodes from 1969 to '74. If they would have kept that Snuffleupagus design he would have been one of my favorite characters growing up, right up there with Harvey Kneeslapper, Bert, The Amazing Mumford, those yip-yip Martians, Grover, and Count Von Count.

P.S. Here's the DVD set...