Editing Caroll Spinney (section)

===Early puppeteering===
In 1955, Spinney relocated to [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]], where he performed in the show ''Rascal Rabbit''.<ref name=npr/> He returned to [[Boston]], joining ''The Judy and Goggle Show'' in 1958 as a [[puppeteer]] "Goggle" to [[Judy Valentine]]'s Judy. Throughout the 1960s, he performed on the Boston broadcast of ''[[Bozo the Clown|Bozo's Big Top]]'', where he played various costumed characters which included Flip Flop the Rag Doll, Mr. Rabbit, Kookie the Boxing Kangaroo as well as Mr. Lion,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/caroll-spinney-dead-dies-sesame-street-big-bird-oscar-the-grouch-1203428981/|title=Caroll Spinney, Puppeteer Behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, Dies at 85|last=Nyren|first=Erin|date=December 8, 2019|website=Variety|access-date=December 9, 2019|quote=Before joining "Sesame Street," Spinney worked at "Bozo's Big Top" in Boston following his service in the Air Force, which he joined at 19. He portrayed several characters including Kookie the Boxing Kangaroo and Mr. Lion, though he eventually left the show, winding up in Salt Lake City, performing at the fateful festival where he met Henson.}}</ref> who created [[cartoon]] drawings from the names of children participating in the show.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKEV7FKIeBU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/kKEV7FKIeBU| archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live|title=I AM BIG BIRD: Exclusive THE BOZO YEARS|author=Copperpotpics|date=July 31, 2012|website=YouTube|access-date=December 9, 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Through that decade, he was also a commercial artist and animator.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}

Spinney created a puppet duo consisting of two cats named Picklepuss and Pop, which he utilized throughout the 1960s.<ref>{{cite book|last=Spinney|first=Caroll|title=The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch)|date=2003|pages=[https://archive.org/details/wisdomofbigbirda00spin/page/18 18–19]|publisher=Villard |isbn=0-375-50781-7|url=https://archive.org/details/wisdomofbigbirda00spin/page/18}}</ref> Many years later, Spinney's Picklepuss and Pop puppets were characters in ''Wow, You're a Cartoonist!''<ref>{{cite web|title=The Art of Caroll Spinney Comes to Pittsburgh|url=http://www.toughpigs.com/art-of-spinney-pittsburgh/|website=Tough Pigs|access-date=June 30, 2017|date=November 2010}}</ref>