Lamb Chop has been described as a "6-year-old girl, very intuitive and very feisty, a combination of obstinacy and vulnerability...you know how they say fools rush in where wise men fear to go?
In 1993, when Lewis appeared before the U.S. Congress in an oversight hearing on the Children's Television Act, Lamb Chop provided her own testimony.
[4] Prior to her death, Shari Lewis sold the rights of Lamb Chop to Golden Books Family Entertainment.
Mallory Lewis had worked closely with her mother when producing Lamb Chop's Play-Along and The Charlie Horse Music Pizza.
[6]Shari Lewis's other puppet, Hush Puppy, made his comeback at the Iowa State Fair in 2010.
[8] In the first year's collection of 9 Chickweed Lane dailies, Out Whom Shall We Gross?, the August 31, 1993 strip quotes Lamb Chop as saying, "A virtuous man's honesty exists only in proportion to the pyre upon which he atones for it.