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The 25 most beloved Muppets

It’s time to play the music, light the lights, and all that good stuff. In 1976, “The Muppet Show” debuted. In the ensuing 50 years, we have gotten all manner of Muppets TV shows and movies.
"It's time to raise the curtain." When Disney bought the Muppets in the early 2000s, it seemed like the perfect home for Jim Henson’s characters after his death in the 1990s. However, more than 20 ...
Following the success of 1992’s The Muppet Christmas Carol, the next theatrical outing for Jim Henson’s beloved characters was Muppet Treasure Island, a loose adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ...
It’s time to cut the music. It’s time to dim the lights. On Saturday, June 7, Muppet*Vision 3D ends its 34-year standing engagement at Walt Disney World. The significance of this theme-park attraction ...
Mere hours after Disney Experiences held its big showcase at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California and touted major and exciting new film, TV and parks projects at D23, the “ultimate Disney fan ...
Legendary filmmaker Orson Welles was certainly onto something when he claimed Sesame Street was the greatest thing to happen to television. Populated by a menagerie of Muppets created by Jim Henson, ...
Why can’t The Walt Disney Company make the Muppets work? Like, really work? Why do we keep getting TV shows and specials that fail to find an audience? Sporadic nostalgia plays that never quite hit ...