I would guess it to be Mary Ann's counterpart.... OR
maby a spice of some sort

Ginger= Barnies replacement, however unlike the purple dinosaur Ginger is black ant has cleft pallet, he gets kids trust and then bits their left arm off when they come to hug him (which is what we would all like to see bareney do)
he also has terets syndroms so he completly foul mouthed, at the end of every show he throws severed chicken heads and sacks of vomit at the croud.
NOTE: Was drunk when I wrote this.