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Sylvester McMonkey McBean is the main antagonist of The Sneetches, which is the first story of The Sneetches and Other Stories book, which is later adapted to a segment in the 1973 cartoon short Dr. Seuss on the Loose, where he is voiced by Bob Holt. A yellow monkey who happens to be a "fix-it-up chappie," McBean appears and offers the Sneetches without stars the chance to have them with his Green Star-On Machine for three dollars. The treatment is instantly popular, but this upsets the original star-bellied Sneetches, as they risk losing their special privilege. McBean then tells them about his Star-Off machine, which cost ten dollars, and the Sneetches, who originally had stars, happily pay the money to have them removed in order to remain special. However, McBean does not share the prejudices of the Sneetches and allows the recently starred Sneetches through this machine as well. Ultimately, this escalates, with the Sneetches running from one machine to the next until none of them can tell whether they originally had a star or not.
This continues until the Sneetches are broke, and McBean departs a rich man, amused by their folly, and tells the audience, "You can't teach a Sneetch." At the end of the book, the narrator then comments that, ultimately, McBean was wrong, for the Sneeches soon learn that neither star bellies nor lack thereof make one Sneetch better than the other, and they soon all live on the beach as one group.
Physical Description[]
In the book, he wears a green hat and a green bow tie, but in the video, he is more humanistic, wearing a purple hat, a lavender-pink bow tie, and a green jumpsuit. In the book, he has ears, but in the video, he has yellow hair.
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