There’s a specific look that people get when they see Lamb Chop, the beloved sock puppet originally voiced by Shari Lewis that’s been entertaining children across generations for nearly 70 years.
Mallory Lewis, Shari’s daughter who took over puppeteer and ventriloquist duties for Lamb Chop after her mother’s death in 1998, knows the look well.
“I call it The Lamb Chop Face,” she tells me over Zoom from her home in Portugal. Imagine if you gasp with glee and your face froze wide-eyed and mouth agape in a huge smile for several seconds before melting into a booming “aww.”
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