instead, the strip featured several new characters created by roberts, such as jasper and julius, christopher clumsy, and miss fortune; in 1972, all of these characters appeared in animated inserts on "sesame street" itself. also regularly seen was professor drummond bugle, a lecturer, similar to more generic characters used in roberts' animated segments. roberts fleshed out the strip's cast with a vast menagerie of newly minted animal characters. amongst them were lotta elephant, richard bird, hedda the frog, balderdash the mouse, titus the snake, thomas turtle, crawley the worm, and an errant spider. a pair of nameless, muppet-esque monsters also skulked through on occasion.