Walter Cranky

  Muppeteer :   Martin P . Robinson 

 Earliest Known Appearance: Episode 4160  Walter Cranky  is a  GROUCH  broadcaster who appears in a season 38 insert featuring Dan Rather - not  & Anderson Cooper. Cranky always responded with a  GROUCHY  " Grrrrrrrrrr ! " when Cooper asked him a question.

Cranky is a  GROUCH  parody of the late news journalist Walter Cronkite.

TV / Movies / Specials

 * SESAME STREET ( 1969 - present )


 * Episode 4160 ( 2007 )
 * Episode 4207 ( 20 10 ) ( repeat of Episode 4160  ( 20 07 ) )