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Mr. HooperHarold Hooper (known almost universally as just Mr. Hooper) was a character on Sesame Street who was the original proprietor of Mr. Hooper's Store, which still retains his name. When the actor who played him, Will Lee, died in 1982, rather than replace him with another actor, the character was also killed off. Sesame Street devoted an episode to Big Bird's acceptance of his death and his understanding of what death means. A portrait of Mr. Hooper that Big Bird had been about to give him still hangs in Big Bird's nest. Mr. Hooper is Jewish, according to Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. In true Sesame Street fashion, his religion was irrelevant to all other plots, although there was an episode of the show in which Big Bird enquires about the languages that various members of the community can speak. Mr. Hooper reveals that he was taught to read, write and speak Yiddish at after-school religious instruction. For some reason that wasn't really explained, Big Bird had trouble saying "Hooper", instead using various words that rhymed with it, such as "Looper" or "Crouper". This led to frequent retorts of "Hooper! Hooper!" from Mr. Hooper whenever Big Bird missaid his surname. His forename was revealed on the March 15, 1976 episode (#871), in which he received his GED.
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