Two country singing hillbillies appeared on The Muppet Show. Both were performed by Jim Henson and were very similar in look and technique. Slim, a large hillbilly puppet, appeared in The Muppet Show episode 115 where he sang "Put Another Log on the Fire" to his wife. The guitar-playing hillbilly wore a beard, bowler hat, blue jeans and flannel shirt. His head was similar in design to Zelda Rose. The human-sized character was seen sitting in a chair. Although it appeared to be a , it was not a costume worn by a performer. Henson was crouched down under the seat operating the upper part of the character like a normal live-hand Muppet and rods were used to control the hillbilly's tapping legs. This hillbilly later appeared in issue #2 of The Treasure of Peg-Leg Wilson, in which Kermit calls
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