Guy Smiley

Game shows

• Can You Guess? — a satire of To Tell The Truth — Three Muppets, a father, mother and son, each announce themselves as "the mother of this family," and Grover has to guess which is the true mother.
• Pick Your Pet — a blindfolded little girl Muppet, Betty Lou, must choose one of three animals as her own pet without being able to see any of them, after asking each of them how they would behave in her home as her pet and listening to their answers.
• The Mr. and Mrs. Game — the first skit in which the host was named Guy Smiley, this satire of The Newlywed Game featured a monster couple. The object was for the wife to guess her husband's favorite color, food and sport without being told in advance, after Betty Lou took him into a soundproof booth so he couldn't hear his wife's answers.
• The Remembering Game — a spoof of Concentration, two contestants try to match prizes on a four-space board. In its one appearance, Cookie Monster and an Anything Muppet named Bill Smith didn't like the prizes they had "won," so they traded prizes after Cookie had won an airplane and Bill had won a cookie.
• What's My Part? — a spoof of What's My Line? — Three blindfolded celebrities had to identify a body part before all three of them were disqualified. The first segment, featuring a nose, starred panelists Cookie Monster, Bennett Snerf and Arlene Frantic as noseless monsters.. None of the them guessed right and the nose won the game. The second segment, featuring a foot, starred Snerf, Frantic, and Professor Hastings as Anything Muppets with human features. Professor Hastings won the game by accident after he complains his foot fell asleep.
• What's My Letter? – Based on the sixth track from the 1971 Sesame Street record The Muppet Alphabet Album, this sequence featured Smiley challenging Prairie Dawn to guess a particular letter of the alphabet.
• Get Wordy - a spoof of Jeopardy!, Smiley reads a meaning of a phrase and contestants have to guess what the phrase is.
• Mystery Guest — a spoof of a term used on What's My Line? — The contestants,, must guess who the Mystery Guest is. In this clip, it was the letter X, but nobody guessed correctly, and it turned out that the letter X belonged in the exit sign. It ran once.
• Beat the Time — a spoof of Beat the Clock — The contestant must bring in a number of things that rhyme with the key word or contain something. In the most famous segment, Cookie Monster must find three things that rhyme with "rain", and will win a cookie if successful before the arrow on the clock reaches zero. Cookie manages to find a cane he stole from an old man, a chain holding a monster and, at the last second, arrives onto the stage by smashing through the wall with a train. It ran for five segments. Another "Beat the Time" involved the Count, where the Count has to bring in two things that come from the sky. This is the one where Smiley reveals his real name to be Bernie Liederkranz.
• To Tell a Face — a spoof of To Tell the Truth — A Baby must figure out who is real person out of three panelists. It ran for seven segments.
• The Triangle Is Right — A spoof on the title The Price Is Right — Every question is answered with the response, "A triangle". It was short-lived.
• What's My Job? — another spoof of What's My Line? - The three contestant monsters have to figure out what the person's job is. Round 1 was a firefighter, Round 2 was a dentist, and Round 3 was another game show host named Sonny Friendly. They argued at the end leaving with Guy Smiley remarking "This whole thing was a rotten idea! Who put this man on the show?" His suit was provided by Sierra Lagoon, while Sonny Friendly's suit was provided by Frederick La Frensworth.
• Say the Word — a spoof of The $25,000 Pyramid - The contestants are Chet O'Leary and Maurice Monster. Guy gives Chet the word "STOP" but Chet cannot say that word but give out clues to Maurice Monster on the word. He tickles Maurice Monster until Maurice yells "STOP!" and Guy Smiley blurted "That's right. You said the word STOP! Congratulations!"
• Name that Sound! — a spoof of Name That Tune There were two skits.
• * Grover: Grover has to guess the three sounds. He got them all right, but after he guessed the faucet dripping, it got flooded.
• * Honker: A Honker has to figure out the sounds but since Guy Smiley couldn't understand them, the Honker brings in things that have been mentioned by the sounds.
• Dialing for Prizes Movie — a spoof of Dialing for Dollars The lucky contestant is Mr. Lucky. And the lucky word is "Fur". And the prizes are furry monsters.
• Here is Your Life — a spoof of This is Your Life - Guy Smiley honors the contestant They include:
• * an oak tree
• * a loaf of bread
• * a tooth
• * a right foot sneaker
• * a painting of a bowl of fruit
• * a house
• * a carton of eggs
• The Letter of the Day Pageant — a spoof of Miss America Pageant in which all letters compete. The letter S can swim; the letter C addresses herself as the letter C; and the letter T can tap dance. Up came the vowel finalists, A, E, I, O, and U. The letter E wins the pageant, and Guy Smiley sings him a song about the letter E to honor the winner.

  Other appearances

Casting history

• Jim Henson: Sesame Street Season 1 – Season 21
• Don Reardon: CD-ROM games
• Eric Jacobson: Sesame Street Presents: The Body – present

  International