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| - Sesame Street fairy tales have included several Fairy Godmothers. In a Season 2 story, "The Magic Apple", a Fairy Godmother grants a wish to Ernie, a poor but honest farm boy. (First: Episode 0133) She was performed by Fran Brill, and made from the Lavender Anything Muppet. Brill performed the same puppet in another Season 2 story, which tells the Fairy Godmother's backstory. (First: Episode 0135) She explains that she wasn't always a Fairy Godmother -- "before, I was pretty yucky!" But she tripped over a magic wand in the forest, and wished that she would become a beautiful Fairy Godmother. Coming across Cookie Monster, she introduces herself as a beautiful Fairy Godmother. He disagrees, saying that she's not that beautiful. She maintains that she is, saying, "Besides, you're a horrible, ugly monster." She hands him a mirror, but he takes a look and declares that he's beautiful. To prove him wrong, she changes him into a handsome prince -- but he hates it, and insists that she change him back. Happy to be back in his old body, he tries to grab the Fairy Godmother's wand -- and a spell fires which changes her into a furry blue monster, just the way she used to be before. She's horrified, but Cookie Monster assures her that she's beautiful. "I think I love you!" she coos, and he leads her off-screen to a "happily ever after."
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