Onky

Onky is a blue humanoid Muppet character who first appeared in a series of ads for On-Cor Frozen Foo of VA, and Southern Bell Telephone.

Onky is a blue humanoid Muppet character who first appeared in a series of ads for On-Cor Frozen Foods. A series of three ads were produced featuring Onky with a human grocer played by Bill Gibson. In 1962, Jim Henson created the new Muppet character, Onky, for the On-Cor Frozen Foods ads. Onky is cited as one of Henson's earliest live-hand Muppets.

“The puppet style was a departure from the hand  ...