Jellybean the Snail - A cantankerous snail puppet seen on the sitcom THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW/CBS/1961-66. When comedy writers Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke), Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam) and Sally Rogers (Rose Marie) thought they were going to be fired from their job on "The Alan Brady Show," they interviewed with ventriloquist Claude Wilbur (Paul Winchell) who had a children's show starring a snail puppet named Jellybean. Throughout their interview, the snail kept hitting Rob Petrie in the head until Rob was about to kill the snail and the ventriloquist attached.