Currently available:"The Muppet Movie" (1979)"The Great Muppet Caper" (1981)"The Muppet Christmas Carol" (1992)"Muppet Treasure Island" (1996)"The Muppets" (2011)"Muppets Most Wanted" (2014)
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"Muppet Babies" (2018) features adorable versions of classic Muppet characters.
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Rosita was the first Latina muppet (and second bilingual Muppet) on the show.
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"The Muppet Movie" (1979) — 74%"The Great Muppet Caper" (20143) — 70%"The Muppets Take Manhattan" (1984) — 64%"The Muppet Christmas Carol" (1992) — 64% "Muppet Treasure Island" (1996) — 64%"Muppets from Space" (1999) — 53%"The Muppets" (2011) — 75%"Muppets Most Wanted" (2014) — 61%
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"It just wasn't 'The Muppet Show' or the 'Muppet' movies we grew up on," she said.
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"He'd been making such funny and light-hearted entertainment with 'The Muppet Show' and 'The Muppet Movie'," Ms Henson says.
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The success of The Muppet Show and The Muppet Movie reopened some of the doors that had been closed to Henson.
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In addition to his association with "The Muppet Show," which began in 1976 and earned him two Emmy nominations, he collaborated with Jerry Juhl to write "The Muppet Movie" (1979) and was a writer on two straight-to-video Muppet productions, both released in 1985.
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Origin: Jim Henson's most famous Muppet is known for his frequent flailing jags on The Muppet Show, and this GIF captures the height of that tendency.
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"'Most Wanted' is easily the best Muppet film since the first 'Muppet Movie' way, way back in 1979," wrote Little White Lies critic Adam Lee Davies.
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The show stars two main characters: Jad, a young boy Muppet who is new to the neighborhood, and Basma, a Muppet girl who happily befriends him.
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Disney Junior "Muppet Babies" Fozzie Bear Small Plush, $12.99, available at TargetMuppets fans, especially those of Disney Junior's "Muppet Babies," love this furry Fozzie Bear plush.
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"I used to work for Jim Henson, and when you walked into his office, Gonzo the Muppet would rise up and take your picture," said Mr. Grabenstein, 60, who wrote for "Little Muppet Monsters," a short-lived TV show, and Dial-a-Muppet, a phone service, in the 1980s.
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Hell, I used to watch Muppet Babies all the time, and I loved that crazy shit, including the intro credits when Star Wars actually appeared with the Muppet Babies.
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Little surprise, then, that her brother, Brian Henson, is also a puppeteer and director, helming "The Muppet Christmas Carol" (1992), "Muppet Treasure Island" (1996) and "Muppets from Space" (1999).
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Directed by Brian Henson, son of Jim — who has directed a few features before, including The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island, and a lot of Muppet-driven TV — and drawn from a story and script by Todd Berger, The Happytime Murders sets itself up as a riff on detective noir.
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Watch "The Muppet Christmas Carol" on Disney Plus"The Muppet Movie" was a favorite of mine growing up, so I was thrilled to see the Christmas iteration available on Disney Plus.
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More Muppets were added as time went on, like Count von Count in the 1970s, and more recently, Julia, the first Muppet with autism, and Lily, the first Muppet to experience homelessness.
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A love letter to the Muppets, the film follows Gary (played by Jason Segel, human Muppet) and his brother Walter (actual Muppet) on a journey to bring the Muppets out of retirement.
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Yes, the son of the creator of the Muppets and the director of childhood classics like The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island, is going blue because it's not easy being green.
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The film is set behind the scenes at a Muppet Show-like theatrical company, and it nods to The Muppet Movie with its story about raggedy puppet entertainers dreaming of making it big.
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In the Muppet version, they rap about how they met.
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It kind of comes off sounding like a constipated Muppet.
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"It's always good to see the ginger muppet," he quipped.
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There's a scary muppet guy, there are floating happy faces.
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"I'll be 100 years old, doing Muppet stuff," he said.
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Thankfully, with The Muppet Movie, you get about 247 pairs.
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For a decade he was integral to the Muppet empire.
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Thankfully for Muppet fans, we now have at least one: Kernit.
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At the March for Science, the Muppet Beaker was a mascot.
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There's a new Muppet in town and her name is Karli!
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My first interview with a Muppet was surreal and absolutely delightful.
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"A Very Muppet Babies Christmas/Summer's Super Fabulous Holiday Surprise" – Nov.
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Toast is survived by her two fur siblings Underpants and Muppet.
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The ultimate yuppie muppet probably lives in an organic compost bin.
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What strange to Muppet community is Muppets always like Donald Trump.
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Beaker — from The Muppet Show — was almost as popular as Spock.
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Oh yeah, "Don't Put It in Your Mouth," the Muppet one?
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Gritty has frequently been likened to a Muppet, a comparison that Allen finds astute, as he drew a lot of inspiration from Jim Henson's early Muppet creations and work for the 29 film The Dark Crystal.
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Matt Vogel, Sesame Street's Muppet Captain and Big Bird understudy, called to let Gordon know that the show's producers picked her to play Julia, the first-ever autistic Muppet and a new addition to the broadcast.
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Later in the exhibition, visitors can see a full-scale model of the church scene in "The Muppet Movie", which shows all the Muppet wedding guests on one level and then underneath reveals the puppeteers operating them.
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He continues the fine tradition of mascots as fever dream muppet rejects.
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"The Muppet Show plus Star Wars equals Magic Leap in my head."
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According to People, Sturino will retain custody of Toast, Muppet, and Underpants.
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Whatever Mr Trump decides, there is demand for the Muppet-flowered weed.
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The Happytime MurdersA detective buddy drama starring Melissa McCarthy and... a muppet.
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Julia, the first muppet with autism, will now appear alongside her family!
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In 2017, the show introduced Julia, a female muppet who has autism.
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The result is as funny as a Muppet abattoir — or as sad.
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The mascot was immediately christened the "Brexit Muppet" by social media users.
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Sesame Street is debuting their newest friend — a red-headed muppet named Julia.
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She's a sweet little muppet and now she's getting her own Kickstarter campaign.
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"Sesame Street" has introduced its first Afghan Muppet, and she has a mission.
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Kami, the HIV-positive muppet from South Africa, brought awareness to HIV/AIDS.
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Fact: Almost any ad will be improved by the addition of a muppet.
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I've seen a lot of Muppet characters recently, which have really floored me.
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Last year, Sesame Street featured a homeless muppet, the seven-year-old Lily.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%Summary: On a vacation to Los Angeles, Muppet super fan Walter (Peter Linz) and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) uncover a villainous plot to turn the Muppet Theater into an oil-drilling operation.
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The Goonies; Indiana Jones; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Muppet Treasure Island.
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Like I said at the beginning, some people thought it was a Muppet show.
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At the Awards, Ninja was also a presenter, onstage with a punny prawn muppet.
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No, that film I have never watched is surely about a muppet home invasion.
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Non-profit organisation Sesame Workshop owns the Muppet characters that appear on Sesame Street.
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This is the sort of cute, sweet humor you'll see in a Muppet movie.
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His main character on "The Muppet Show" was the trickster rodent, Rizzo the Rat.
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Then him and Pence'd look like those 13 old men hecklers in the muppet.
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You can just grab a muppet and teach the little fuckers anything you want.
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She's 7, bright pink and the first Muppet on "Sesame Street" to experience homelessness.
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A new Muppet will join the cast for the first time in 10 years.
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While working in advertising, Henson was experimenting with muppet-free projects on the side.
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Didn't you spend your childhood watching Kermit the Tea Lizard on The Muppet Show?
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There are few films that make me as hungry as The Muppet Christmas Carol.
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This time, they're introducing the subject of parental addiction through a Muppet named Karli.
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The 1987 television special "A Muppet Family Christmas," showing every day at 11 a.m.
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But Melania, you say, the Muppet Babies only aired on TV from 1984 to 1991.
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Afghanistan got Zari, an ambitious young girl Muppet, to counteract prejudice against women getting educations.
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Years ago, The Muppet Show ran a segment mocking politicians for their stereotypical robotic behaviour.
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Other characters he's tackled across Muppet properties include Floyd Pepper, The Count and Lew Zealand.
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Gonzo was originally going to portray Christmas Yet to Come in The Muppet Christmas Carol.
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" Strong reposted the shot and poked fun of himself, writing, "Still rocking the muppet mouth.
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Anyone know why Melania Trump's portrait was taken in front of the Muppet Babies Window?
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" — The Muppet Christmas Carol The Occasion: Snow, duh The Quote: "I never eat December snowflakes.
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Once you've made it on the cover of Muppet Magazine, haven't you done it all?
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Zeerak is described as an "adorable orange Muppet" who wears glasses and regional Afghan clothing.
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So was performing on stage during a Muppet ABC special with her and Elton John.
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Lily, a 25-year-old bright pink Muppet, was introduced to the world in 2011.
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Sherpa is more wearable than, like, a muppet, so we ended up going with sherpa.
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The global "Sesame Street" family is getting three new Muppet members: Basma, Jad and Ma'zooza.
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So it's a good bet we see some more action in Muppet Westeros sometime soon.
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And on "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," she vamped with their goggle-eyed denizens.
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We can't wait to see which White House official will get their own Muppet remix next.
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But I'm going to miss having that whirling-dervish Adonis-Muppet over there on my right.
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Alex, an orange Muppet with spiky blue hair, is grappling with the incarceration of his father.
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He speaks to the orchestra, the balcony, the "muppet seats" along the side of the stage.
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I learned all of this when I got my first puppy mill rescue, Muppet, in 2010.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It's official: Sesame Street's Muppet couple Bert and Ernie are not gay.
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Well, a Muppet production before the likes of The Happytime Murders, but that's for another day.
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The food disappeared overnight, and on Monday, a scraggly-looking Muppet emerged from the burned landscape.
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The character, the brother of the older muppet Zari, is there to encourage respect for women.
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Anyone can watch Karli grapple with her mother's addiction, and see her Muppet friends support her.
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He also took cues from "The Muppet Show" and the high energy of Japanese game shows.
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Sesame Street's new autistic Muppet was really designed to normalize autism, a disorder caused by vaccines.
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Ostrovsky and Sturino married in 2014 and are the proud parents of three furry pups: Underpants, a Japanese chin, Muppet, a Cavalier King Charles, and Toast, another King Charles who boasts 370,000 Instagram followers and, like her sister Muppet, a tongue that won't stay in her mouth.
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So get yourself a fuzzy, muppet-like pair for your own wardrobe to ensure a standout post.
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Aristotle, a blue Muppet with orange hair who began appearing on the program in 1982, was blind.
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He started with Muppet Studios in 1978 and voiced Statler and Rizzo the Rat, among other characters.
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Exhibition-goers can try their own hands at Muppet-design, with various googly eyes, wigs, and accessories.
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Three-year-old Tahira Sreen keeps interrupting the Muppet, getting up and kissing its fuzzy purple cheeks.
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"The Muppet Show" was a big one for me, and "The Carol Burnett Show" was another staple.
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There's a romance happening with a muppet-puppet situation...can you tell us the inspiration behind that?
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Osvaldo taught us about different cultures (he was from Puerto Rico) and was the first bilingual Muppet.
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Osvaldo was the first bilingual Muppet on the show; now, Spanish is spoken frequently on the series.
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The plot is more like The Muppet Movie than American Pie, but the soundtrack proliferated American hallways.
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But among Muppet fans, the idea that Kermit is only his voice won't be an easy sell.
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When it was all said and done they turned the sassy 'Muppet' into a plastic surgery nightmare.
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Like their mainstream Muppet brethren, they might be more at home on smaller screens, in shorter bits.
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"Sesame Street" provided a pre-school education; "The Muppet Show" offered an introduction to theatre and celebrity.
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Scholars call it the "Yoda effect" — the wizened Muppet was an old rebbe, teaching the ancient wisdom.
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One time my mom gave me this Muppet-like puppet that my aunt had bought for me.
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Like their mainstream Muppet brethren, they might be more at home on smaller screeners, in shorter bits.
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Moving in Say hello to Julia, the newest resident of "Sesame Street" and the first Muppet with autism.
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Little Julia serenaded her visitors with "Rainbow Connection," made famous by Kermit the Frog in The Muppet Movie.
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Kami, a shaggy bright yellow Muppet who appeared in the South African production in 2002, was HIV-positive.
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Mahboub, an Arab-Israeli Muppet, appeared in both the Israeli and Palestinian versions of "Sesame Street" from 2006.
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In 2017, Sesame Street introduced Julia, the first autistic Muppet, as a regular member to the series cast.
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On Monday, Sesame Street announced it was adding Julia, the first-ever autistic Muppet, to the regular cast.
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That's one thing, but now this whimsically-haired muppet is disturbing the NFL schedule, and it's downright untenable.
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I hate it more than the thirsty hair muppet the Philadelphia Flyers are now claiming as a mascot.
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Baghch-e-Simsim, Afghanistan's Sesame Street show, just introduced a new muppet named Zeerak, the Associated Press reports.
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In 2002, "Sesame Street" in South Africa, called "Takalani Sesame," introduced Kami, the world's first Muppet with HIV.
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Kami, the 5-year-old yellow Muppet, is often shown laughing, playing and linking arms with her friends.
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My first introduction to the Murphy bed was watching one repeatedly crush Muppets in The Great Muppet Caper.
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And there's a lot more of the latter on YouTube than folks with their own educational muppet show.
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You can even explore Afghanistan with Zari, a 6-year-old Muppet character who hails from the country.
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" This journey has been nothing but a dream come true for Zerdin, as he started to pursue his life goal when "I was 9 or 10 years old, and I had always been a massive fan of puppets, in particular Sesame Street and The Muppet Show and all those Muppet characters.
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"Crocodile Rock," which wouldn't be released for another three years, was lightweight pastiche best used on the Muppet Show.
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The mischievous Jareth, Goblin King, a wicked grin stretched as his muppet minions cavorted around pirate boot-clad ankles.
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And in 2019, a Sesame Street muppet is causing the newest viral uproar: did Grover drop the F-bomb?
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As reported by the site, Sturino will take custody of Toast, while Ostrovsky will presumably take Underpants and Muppet.
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Corden discovered that when he tries to imitate Aguilera's vocal style, he just ends up sounding like a muppet.
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They're in tuxedos, and one of them looks a bit like the lab assistant Beaker from The Muppet Show.
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Haynes teamed up with a pal to portray the Muppet power couple of Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog.
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His name is Zeerak, he's 4, and he is the younger brother of Zari, Sesame Street's first Afghan Muppet.
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A few years ago, I ordered my boyfriend a make-your-own Muppet designed specifically to look like him.
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From 1976 to 1981, "The Muppet Show" welcomed celebrity guests such as Julie Andrews, Elton John, and Mark Hamill.
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If he raises his voice and tries to talk like a Jim Henson Muppet, he can complete entire sentences.
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That's true whether the text starts with a viral moment, a captioned Muppet, or random pixels on the screen.
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I have my suspicions as to why The Muppet Christmas Carol isn't considered a "food movie," whatever that means.
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Humans rent themselves out in a turbocharged gig economy, while Muppet-like robots hustle chess games in the park.
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In December, the show introduced Lily, a muppet who is homeless and living in shelters and on friends' couches.
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Lily, a fuchsia Muppet with a mop of hair, debuted on "Sesame Street" seven years ago, writes Nikita Stewart.
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The Sesame Street muppet turned up with an entourage to Taronga Zoo in Sydney on Monday, searching for cookies.
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An early trailer release for the film shows Muppet-like characters engaged in sex, coarse language, drugs and violence.
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The label also drew a wry collective sniff from Britons for whom the term "muppet" is a mild insult.
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Afghanistan's version of Sesame Street, Baghch-e-Simsim, introduced a new muppet, Zeerak, who's spreading the importance of women's education.
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In the restyled opening titles, Elmo, the baby-talking red Muppet, blows soap bubbles that burst juicily in slow motion.
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Pink and wispy, with a bushy yellow tail, it looks like a cross between a Chinese lantern and a Muppet.
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Disney's reimagined Jim Henson's Muppet Babies series, which has begun production, is set to hit Disney Junior in early 2018.
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Longtime fans of the show took to Twitter to express their, well, displeasure for the Muppet Babies' new animated look.
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After 27 years as the voice of Kermit the Frog, puppeteer Steve Whitmire will no longer voice the famous Muppet.
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Like so many of humanity's greatest creations—poetry, spacecraft, A Muppet Christmas Carol—this exists purely because it can exist.
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Ryden's merry band of misfits includes a smiling half-dragon, half-muppet creature, and tiny humans masquerading as multilayered cakes.
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"Sesame Street" has reportedly introduced a Muppet character in foster care as part of its "Sesame Street in Communities" program.
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The original, hand-drawn animated series, Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, aired for eight seasons from 1984 to 1991 on CBS.
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But this much is also true: When I left Blooom that day, no one could say I was a muppet.
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Kami was introduced as the first ever HIV-positive Muppet on the South African version of 'Sesame Street' in 2002.
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George Lucas can't write dialogue and you should never use CGI when a Muppet—or even a puppet—will do.
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The result is a kind of gospel Muppet Dada that is etched somehow not only in parody but in warmth.
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The live-action version had Carrey in makeup that looked something like a combination of a gorilla and a Muppet.
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Matt Vogel, a Muppet veteran, will instead take his place as the voice and action behind the iconic green frog.
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"I said, 'You look like a muppet, and I want to make you look like a rock star,'" Duke recalled.
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"Someone said I was one of those old duffers in the balcony on 'The Muppet Show,' " Schieffer told me, laughing.
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Outside the Central Embassy mall in Bangkok stands an 8-metre-tall blue Elmo-like muppet with its eyes crossed out.
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On Monday, the blue Muppet traveled to Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia to meet his brand new friend, a lovable quokka.
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With a big smile beneath an umbrella-width mustache and huge glasses, Phelps also looked like the world's slugging-est Muppet.
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A completely unrecognizable Colton Haynes was decked out in prosthetics for his vamped-up version of the beloved Muppet, Miss Piggy.
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The Muppet rock band also tweeted about their experience, including a photo of "Floyd and Animal having a picture perfect time."
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Now, the show is adding a boy muppet who will show kids the importance of respecting women, the Associated Press reported.
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The Muppet then goes through a list of famous Jasons — including Mraz, Schwartzman and Alexander — before the actor finally introduces himself.
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CBS's "60 Minutes" introduced a new "Sesame Street" Muppet named Julia, who will debut on the children's educational show next month.
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Fans of Instagram-famous pup Toast need not worry: she's not being separated from her four-legged siblings Muppet and Pants.
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He also had a close friendship with Jim Henson and contributed to some Muppet illustrations, both on and off Sesame Street.
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By the end of the 1960s, Henson was developing the pilot for what would become The Muppet Show and Sesame Street.
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Cookie Monster himself took to Twitter to clarify the situation: "Time to put end to rumors," the Muppet tweeted in 2010.
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"Sesame Street" developed a curriculum on AIDS and HIV in 2000, and created Kami, an HIV-positive Muppet from South Africa.
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From Dr. Gilani, Ms. White developed a devotion for karaoke (his rendition of "Man or Muppet" is legendary among their friends).
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Spinney would join the Muppet crew when "Sesame Street" was about to turn them from popular phenomenon into an American institution.
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This is my own memory because I am an old, relatively speaking, but I can't think of "You rang?" without thinking of Lurch from "The Addams Family": 15D: Big Bird's appearance at the Muppet creator Jim HENSON's memorial made many Muppet lovers, myself included, cry: 26D: Break out the quinoa bowls and avo toast, as Ms. Weintraub says below.
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Here's how liberally: At one point, the standard version gave way to a scene between Sarah Palin and Rowlf the Muppet dog.
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Rowlf, the first Muppet "star", was created to advertise Purina dog food, which led to regular appearances on Jimmy Dean's variety show.
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The 1994 return of Ronald Grump was a bit unexpected, seeing as how he magically transformed from a muppet into a human.
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Here's the deal, Grover was talking with another muppet about cameras during a recent episode ... when he made a very excited comment.
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The nonprofit behind "Sesame Street" is having a muppet experience homelessness to bring attention to the number of children living without homes.
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This is just one of many Muppet movies you'll be able to watch on Disney Plus, but it's our favorite holiday treat.
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For the rest of the weekend I begin to look less like a muppet and more like one of the Gallagher brothers.
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The Muppet Christmas Carol has receded into that same, homogenized cultural canon of Christmas movies as Home Alone and The Santa Clause.
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Watch: Lily, a fuchsia Muppet who first appeared on "Sesame Street" seven years ago, returns in this YouTube video as someone homeless.
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In a story line that begins this week, a Muppet character whose family faced hunger in past episodes has lost her home.
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Lily, a fuchsia Muppet with a mop of hair, green eyelids and a lavender nose, debuted on "Sesame Street" seven years ago.
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Nikolaus Habjan, this latest version's director, populates his phantasmagorical production with an army of diseased- and degenerate-looking Muppet-like ventriloquist's dummies.
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Transgressive Muppets and Muppet-like puppets that are mean and misanthropic and sexual and otherwise deviant are a shocking inversion of that.
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The latest Saturday Night Live unleashed this hilarious faux-trailer for Grouch, a gritty origin story for TV's favorite trashcan-dwelling Muppet.
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In May 2019, Sesame Street presented Karli, the green Muppet with yellow hair, to viewers through the Sesame Street in Communities website.
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In the video, many of these famous men are turned into Muppet-style puppets, including DJ Khaled, Lil Wayne and 50 Cent.
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A Muppet-voiced psychology professor was holding a Q. & A. session with students about the process of obtaining a Ph.D. in psychology.
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Marilyn Monroe, Janice the Muppet, Queen Amidala—we use lipstick to paint our faces, whether in this galaxy or one far, far away.
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Fans on Twitter seem to think that there are remarkable similarities between Harry Styles' style and that of the muppet Gonzo the Great.
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Most recently it launched Zari, the first local Muppet in Afghanistan, a country where many young children lack access to education, especially girls.
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With Sesame Street in the midst of a five-year deal with HBO, here's hoping we see some fuzzy muppet White Walkers next.
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Their creative union produced new creatures like the first full-body Muppet, a dragon that spewed fire in an ad for La Choy.
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Henson was worried about being pigeonholed in children's television, so he created a variety programme, "The Muppet Show" to appeal to adults, too.
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Then, on Sunday, children can switch gears and enjoy some pure Muppet silliness in Brian Henson's 653 movie adaptation of a literary classic.
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" For example: Always link to the relevant research, avoid "muppet flailing" (excessive fervor, I gather) and "don't let the trolls get you down.
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Gritty, meanwhile, is a giant ugly chaos muppet who wants to tear everything the fuck down with an unhinged smile on his face.
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Shirzad -- a twenty-three year old student of music at Kabul university- has been performing with the Muppet for less than a year.
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The return of "Muppet Babies" continues the trend of networks and studios digging into their content vaults to find shows with nostalgia value.
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By Black Friday 21983, the electric, stuffed Muppet was sold out in stores across the country and chaos ensued whenever they were restocked.
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Among headshots of the younger Bateman, Aniston also pulled out a hilarious relic from the past — the actor's cover of the Muppet Magazine.
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He starred in "The Muppet Show" and all of the subsequent Muppets movies — and he's the subject of quite a few hilarious memes.
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The Muppet Movie, Bugsy Malone, A League of Their Own, Star Wars: Most people working the opening shift just grabbed one without looking.
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The episode featured catchy songs, celebrity guests, and goofy and thoughtful Muppet characters, including Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, and Oscar the Grouch.
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Elmo was a background Muppet on "Sesame Street" for years, but he made his first appearance as a main cast member in 1984.
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Abed was to me what Sesame Street's writers are hoping the new autistic Muppet Julia will be to today's children on the spectrum.
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"The Muppets are 'The Muppet Show' characters, and Disney manages those," said Mr. Henson, whose new film is being released by STX Entertainment.
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After his long and fruitful partnership with Avery Schreiber ended, he went on to produce "The Muppet Show," writing about two dozen episodes.
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The reality star wears a plunging black sequined minidress paired with a Muppet-pink (faux?) fur coat and matching stilettos in a campaign image.
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We were the two men in The Muppet Show, in the balcony, seeing the world the same way, even though we had different backgrounds.
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The book's been adapted into plays and Bill Murray comedies and a children's Muppet musical, and basically created Christmas as we know it today.
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The original Muppet Babies ran from 1984 to 1991; now, because Disney is simply the best at mining its own past, they are back.
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Steve Whitmire, the voice of Kermit the Frog, is speaking out after being fired from his 27-year position as the beloved, green muppet.
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You're playing right into her hand, you trusting Muppet fool, and every living soul in the Seven Kingdoms is going to pay for it!
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"This is a three-minute animated short inspired by a happy toddler, an unhappy car ride, and a pink muppet," reads the video's description.
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On Sunday night, Tony believed he spotted Muppet so he left some food out for the missing cat, according to the Australian Associated Press.
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A lovable 70s dad with a penchant for puppets, Jim Henson is best known as the creator of The Muppet Show and Sesame Street.
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Roosevelt Franklin was a main character on "Sesame Street" from 1970 to 1975, and was the first black Muppet to appear on the show.
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She comes at him anyway, in a bathrobe as plush and scarlet as a Muppet, full of mucus and the R&B of Guy.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Long-running children's television show "Sesame Street" is welcoming a new kid to the block - a Muppet with autism called Julia.
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You'll also be able to stream new classics like Lilo & Stitch, Tarzan, The Emperor's New Groove, Muppet Treasure Island, and The Princess and the Frog.
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Today I've decided to be in charge of cyber bullying, which is why I had my photograph taken in the nursery of the Muppet Babies.
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Do you risk tumble drying it and looking like you just murdered a muppet, or do you resign yourself to never washing the grime out?
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In The Muppet Christmas Carol, the flowing look of the Ghost of Christmas Past was achieved by submerging the puppet in a water tank. 7.
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Miss Piggy, the most stylish Muppet, is back on the fashion scene — this time as the new star of Kate Spade New York's holiday campaign.
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" She continues, sharing another anecdote, "The best Muppet experience was when Big Bird's on the set, he's played by an elderly man with white hair.
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"Oh boy, me so excited because me going to sing the 7th inning stretch 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game,' " the famous muppet said.
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My brother and I would wake up before our parents, and creep downstairs to the family room to watch Muppet Babies and Pee-wee's Playhouse.
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Dave Grohl—lead Foo Fighter, savior of safely practised rock and roll, and occasional muppet—played a private solo show at Cannes Lions last night.
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Today is brought to you by the letter J. J is for Julia, a redheaded Muppet who is the first "Sesame Street" character with autism.
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A few hours later, I for sure hear lots of voices in his room — a man, a woman, someone/thing who sounds like....a muppet?
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After you admire the glorious thread, we encourage you to take a minimum of five minutes today to think about your own ideal Muppet cast.
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Now, the world watches what happens when public policy is piloted by a real-life Muppet with People Eyes, a thrilling omen for the Nov.
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Sesame Street is about to introduce the first permanent addition to its Muppet family since 2010: a shy 4-year-old with autism named Julia.
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"I have sung 'Rainbow Connection' probably 16 million times but I definitely mix it up," Garner says of the song from the 1979 The Muppet Movie.
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In honor of the 40th anniversary of "The Muppet Movie" the beloved film is returning to 700 movie theaters across the country for two days only.
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If it was a bit of a Muppet show, there would be no point in me being involved, because it would have looked bad for me.
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HBO's campaign also includes a rap by Common, featuring Muppet versions of Cersei, Tyrion, Bernard, and Delores singing and dancing along with the Sesame Street gang.
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This changed with The Muppet Show which, while short on formal innovation, provided the cast and formula for one of Henson's earlier ambitions: a feature film.
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The Muppet Show is, of course, in another category altogether, but here Mostel's strategy is different: his gags are more coded, made simultaneously accessible and impenetrable.
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The actor was even manicured like the Muppet, as he showed off some acrylic nails as he blew a kiss to the camera in a video.
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Here's a look at that, care of my muppet-esque visage: It is, of course, very early days for both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
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Just when you start to think Claudio might be a saint... In 2004 I wrote to Claudio Ranieri and asked him who his favourite muppet was.
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The director of communications for Sesame Workshop, Philip Toscano, said the Muppet was based on research aiming to develop a character that would resonate with viewers.
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Roosevelt Franklin, the first black Muppet on 'Sesame Street,' was accused of perpetuating negative stereotypes about black children and was removed from the show in 1975.
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The Israeli version of Sesame Street introduced Mahboub, an Arab-Israeli Muppet who spoke Hebrew and Arabic, as a response to the growing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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But what few of us have mentioned is that this Muppet doesn't just have the potential to teach allistic kids how to treat autistic kids better.
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This 90-minute stage musical, which features actors playing the Muppet and monster residents of the "Sesame Street" television show, introduces Chamki, Grover's friend from India.
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On a warm Tuesday evening a month later, Conte opens the gate to the East Bay home he shares with Dawn and their rescue dog, Muppet.
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"Sesame Street" will add Julia, a 4-year-old female muppet who has autism, to its cast next month as part of an expanding autism initiative.
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The illusion that Obama must create to protect his legacy from a Donald Trump sledge hammer is that Trump is a Putin puppet; a Moscow Muppet.
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But the way two other black characters (Amanda Warren and Darrell Britt-Gibson) and a smitten dwarf (Peter Dinklage) bop around Mildred is almost Muppet-like.
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That would be fine, but it would've also been nice to see Julia included when she's not the focus of attention, and treated like any other Muppet.
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He is seen standing at his desk, hands thrown in the air, with a giant, blue Muppet-like figure on his desk wearing a Brexit t-shirt.
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The Muppet also has two separate sets of arms; one set is specifically for when Julia "flaps" her hands, a common form of stimulation for autistic kids.
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HelpstersIntroduced by Big Bird, Sesame Street Workshop has teamed up with Apple to create a coding-centric show for preschoolers with some new muppet called a...Helpster.
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A tall man with a shambling manner, he recently grew a white beard, which softens his round face, giving him the cuddly appearance of an elderly Muppet.
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Together they performed the wistful 1979 "The Muppet Movie" tune "Rainbow Connection" alongside a keening string section, Nelson's aged rasp a great pair for Musgraves' smooth croon.
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"Lily is the first Muppet we've created whose storyline includes that she is experiencing homelessness," Sherrie Westin, president of the non-profit group Sesame Workshop, told CNN.
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The Sesame Street muppet and the uber popular U.S. senator hung out in Austin, Texas on Saturday and captured the blooming relationship in the only worthy way.
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An online web series called "Sesame Street in Communities" has introduced a muppet named Karli whose mother "went away for awhile" to deal with an opioid addiction.
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But the way two other black characters (Amanda Warren and Darrell Britt-Gibson) and a smitten dwarf (Peter Dinklage) bop around Mildred is almost Muppet-like. (Mr.
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He was described by the Philadelphia City Council as a "ghastly empty-eyed Muppet" and a "shaggy orange Wookiee-esque grotesquerie," and yet, he was soon beloved.
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Alex, whose father was imprisoned, was added in 2013 as a way for "Sesame Street" to discuss incarceration; Julia, an autistic Muppet, was brought on in 2015.
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Hulu goes full-on Jim Henson with the return of these two classic Muppet films, which are both a delight even though they couldn't be more different.
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The sound of Garcia's first satisfying sip is enough to convince the actor to make his getaway with Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear in the Muppet Movie.
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The makers of the educational children's program "Sesame Street" are suing the production company behind comedian Melissa McCarthy&aposs new R-rated movie co-starring Muppet-like puppets.
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So, understandably, Lopez was a little sad about things for his exit interview, and decided to bring his beautifully-coiffed wonderpup Muppet along with him for emotional support.
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It's time to meet Zari, the show's first Afghan Muppet, who will debut on season five of Baghch-e-Simsim, the Afghan version of the famous children's program.
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There is also a sculpture of a black-clad figure with a bushy beard and bulbous, pink nose that is based on a muppet-like statue by KAWS.
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Lily's story as a Muppet serves as an example of how homelessness has become a growing issue in America, said Hustings, who has no relationship with Sesame Workshop.
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Instead of a trailer, Disney showed a video of Kermit bickering with a Muppet lawyer about all the things he wasn't allowed to say about the new show.
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"The Happytime Murders," written by Todd Berger and directed by Brian Henson — a son of Jim Henson, the Muppet patriarch — is less satirically ambitious but more technically impressive.
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If you've always dreamed of seeing yourself on screen in some outlandish way (who hasn't wanted to play the only human in a Muppet movie?), now's the time.
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Barrel-chested and big-mouthed, with a long wattle dangling from the top of its beak, this rainforest bird looks more like a Muppet than an avian Casanova.
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In 2011, a Muppet named Lily joined the cast when her family was struggling with hunger, and later she was a part of a focus on family homelessness.
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In a storyline that is part of the Sesame Street in Communities project, Karli the muppet reveals that she is in foster care because her mother battles addiction.
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The show also features Muppet characters like Bert and Ernie, who have gift-giving issues to resolve, and Oscar the Grouch, for whom "Happy Holidays" is an oxymoron.
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"Mom has a long-standing relationship with the Henson Company," Walton Hamilton said, as anyone who remembers Andrews singing "The Lonely Goatherd" on "The Muppet Show" can attest.
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He would not say what those reasons were, nor would Muppet Studio or its parent company , who have not responded to requests for comment from The Associated Press.
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He's both a talented, understated comedian — sad Muppet meets Buster Keaton — and gives one of the most emotionally devastating performances of the year in Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story.
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There is also the Tío de Nadal or caga tío, a wooden log painted with what looks like the psychotic face of a Muppet after a few CBD lattes.
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Last year, it started distributing high-quality educational resources to refugee children and also introduced Zari, the first Afghan Muppet, who talks about the importance of education for girls.
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The animated show followed Kermit the Frog, Piggy, Fozzie Bear, and their other pint-sized Muppet pals as they went on imaginary adventures within the walls of their playroom.
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Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)When the Afghan Muppet named Zari makes an appearance at an orphanage on the outskirts of Kabul, the faces of the children light up in wonder.
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Apple did some recruiting on Sesame Street for its latest celebrity-powered commercial, which features the sugar-crazed Muppet in the kitchen waiting impatiently for his cookies to bake.
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I'm fairly sure I was demonstrably stewing around the Icelandic penis museum, huffing and shaking my head and scowling at the walls like a Muppet in a bad mood.
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The point is Robin looks right at home and this photo would only be enhanced if he had his dog, a doodle named Muppet, in the saddle with him.
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Complicating matters, he introduced a life-size Muppet-like puppet, Carlos the Lion, who served as a sort of elder antagonist figure, constantly prodding Chance to remain on message.
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For Kendrick's family, "Muppet Christmas Carol" is the go-to holiday flick during family gatherings in the winter and it's a film they'll be able to watch on Disney+.
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There's a George Condo painting that makes the sitter look like Beaker from ''The Muppet Show,'' hung in a space once occupied, perhaps, by a 22014th-century academic oil.
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The way Ms. Forrer does it, flinging loose clusters of marauding, Muppet-like figures across backgrounds of bold color and complex pattern, also tempers the pictures' importance as pictures.
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The chorus of "no"s Henson heard in response to his more serious pitches partly inspired The Muppet Show, a hit variety series about underdog entertainers with big dreams.
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Unlike the all-ages The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock was aimed at kids just slightly older than a Sesame Street audience but not old enough for The Dark Crystal.
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Henson's creations entertain everybody, in both innocently wholesome ways (as on Sesame Street) and slightly more grown-up but still generally PG-rated ways (as on The Muppet Show).
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An early Muppet character, Roosevelt Franklin, was beloved by many, including the show's black staff, but was ultimately sidelined for what some saw as a perpetuation of negative stereotypes.
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Ella se le insinúa de todos modos, con una bata tan afelpada y escarlata como un Muppet, llena de mocos y poseída por el espíritu R&B de Guy.
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Karli, introduced earlier this year as a muppet who was in foster care, will tell her story through the Sesame Street in Communities project, which offers free content online.
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Until Disney puts the original '80s "Muppet Babies" cartoon on the service (along with that great "Star Wars" parody episode), the 2018 show is a funny and charming substitute.
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Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel, there have been several remakes of "Treasure Island," including "Muppet Treasure Island" in 1996 and a made-for-TV movie in 2012.
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Perhaps the best way to explain this idea is via the too-infrequently-used Ascending Muppet meme, which nods to how Gritty does kinda look like a Jim Henson creation.
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Fashion label Kate Spade New York just announced the Disney Miss Piggy Collection, which was inspired by the stylish muppet — and no one is more excited than Miss Piggy herself.
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Also available are video journeys to six different habitats produced by BBC Earth, and a kid-friendly jaunt to Mexico with Sesame Street muppet Lola, to learn about Mayan ruins.
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It'd be like Muppet Babies, except instead of Kermit in a diaper, we'd get a teenage Paulie Walnuts who loves his mom and still inexplicably has that weird gray hair.
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It was the product of a seed of an idea from the Muppet master himself, Jim Henson, who wanted to do a show about the last days of the dinosaurs.
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The video for "Pet Cemetery" captures that play between light and dark, showing Tierra hanging out with giant Muppet-like creatures in a graveyard while singing about death and mourning.
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Mahboub is an Arab-Israeli Muppet who is bilingual in Hebrew and Arabic, and was added to the show in an effort to promote tolerance to the show's young viewers.
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"You could envision a Muppet with a story line where they have to leave their home, or lives in a tent, or becomes best friends with a neighbor," she said.
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Miniature, moving 3-D figures of the Italian designers, dimly recalling Statler and Waldorf from "The Muppet Show," turn their hands to everything in the windows of the famous store.
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In addition to those events, which require tickets, the day will offer drop-in puppet making, family tours of "The Jim Henson Exhibition" and a continuous showing of Muppet clips.
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The scraggly, googly-eyed, orange-haired mascot was made public Monday morning, and looks like the result of an unholy union between the Babadook and a Muppet from Fraggle Rock.
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Redmayne fully embraces Newt's awkward charm, even if he spends most of his time stretching his face into a panicked smile reminiscent of a Muppet trying to grin through immense pain.
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A desiccated muppet valiantly struggles through tech fail after tech fail to eventually be anointed as Donald Trump's cyber czar and, maybe, finally have a chance at becoming a real boy.
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The visual element is as varied and vibrant as the music is, filled with the grotesque imagery of a Muppet-filled cemetery, a face swollen shut, and a weird taxidermy dog.
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You can look forward to these Day Three highlights: If you watched Day One and Two of The Mashable Show, you know there is no better co-host than a Muppet.
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This week welcomed the world's first Muppet with autism (new Sesame Street character Julia), which will likely work wonders for increased awareness of what it means to be on the spectrum.
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The lens will transform you into a more Muppet-y state with feathers, pink and blue eyeshadow and a felt beak, but be sure to sing your ABCs for full effect.
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Yesterday, on that same stage for the Country Music Awards, Musgraves and country icon Willie Nelson teamed up for a rendition of "Rainbow Connection" from the 1979 film The Muppet Movie.
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" A writer from the Guardian described him as "a horrifying bearded man-Muppet hybrid whose eyes are permanently rolling in their sockets, presumably from years of drug use… toxic masculinity incarnate.
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There's a preview in The New York Times in which a reporter focuses on Brian Henson and the weight of carrying on his father's legacy through a show about Muppet dinosaurs.
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Given this context, it is perhaps significant that when asked to perform imitations by an audience member at Whitmire's 2015 Dragon Con appearance, "Kermit" chose to imitate a Muppet named Constantine.
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Again, it's totally at odds with the Muppet television specials he'd go on to make throughout the 1970s—but you very much get the sense that this was a passion project.
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Opening Young Minds With the Arts When Schools Are Closed Here's a roundup of activities, from Muppet movies to zombie tag, at New York museums during the public school spring break. _________
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Few things on Disney+ are this much of a joy to watch, and if enough people watch it, maybe Disney will finally make all of The Muppet Show available to stream.
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He laughed at himself as a Muppet, in Donny Miller's "Ernie Bernie" (183), and took in other artworks that illustrate his campaign themes and lionize his face as a political icon.
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The Muppets Meet the Classics book series — for kids 9 and up — first launched in 2017 with Kermit and crew starring in a Muppet-y version of the Phantom of the Opera.
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" Towards the end of his post Whitmire called out to fans directly, saying he created the blog to be a space for every fan to come to talk about "all things Muppet.
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Sesame Street introduced the character — a young Muppet in foster care — on Monday as part of a new initiative that offers support to children, foster parents and providers who serve foster families.
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Julia isn't exactly a new face — she was first introduced in October 2015 as a digital Muppet through the organization's broader autism initiative, Sesame Street and Autism: See Amazing in All Children.
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"Reading a script outdoors and snuggling our new foster pup Muppet — captain of the scaredy cats," Bell wrote on Instagram on Tuesday, sharing a picture of herself with the caramel-colored pooch.
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In the video, Elmo admits that he doesn't know the alphabet in Spanish, so what better way for Rodriguez to teach the muppet than by breaking out in full song and dance.
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A couple of years ago, Sesame Street took a major step toward reaching out to even more children by introducing a character named Julia, a Muppet meant to represent an autistic child.
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The thing is directed by Brian Henson—director of Muppet Treasure Island and son of the late, great Jim Henson, the guy who created the Muppets and the characters in Sesame Street.
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Jim Henson's mild-mannered muppet is nearly as versatile a meme as Spongebob, whether he's sipping Liptons and calling you on your bullshit, or giving voice to the evil in your head.
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Lily, a 7-year-old muppet, was reintroduced this week after first being depicted on the show in 2011 as experiencing food-insecurity due to her family lacking a consistent food supply.
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Every unhappy couple is now unhappy in exactly the same way, and every unhappy woman is a rotten-to-the-core fiend with the interiority of a Muppet (apologies to the Muppets).
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At the time, Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit that produces "Sesame Street," wanted to create a Muppet that could help illustrate the food insecurity that was affecting nearly 17 million households with children.
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His face — 3/4 heartthrob, 1/4 muppet — has a trampoline's elasticity and he usually looks like he has just thought of a joke he might or he might not tell you.
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Farther south, Philadelphians rallied around their own unusual choice: a "ghastly empty-eyed Muppet with a Delco beard" — the new mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers and an icon of left-wing activists.
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In several new videos, Karli, a 6-and-a-half-year-old green Muppet with yellow hair, tells Elmo and other friends that her mother has a "problem" and is in recovery.
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You also get to know my all-time heroes Statler and Waldorf, the professional haters in the "Muppet Show" balcony who remind us that even we critics can deliver a punch line.
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He also reached younger generations with his theme songs for the sitcom "Blossom" and the cartoon show "Curious George," and through his Muppet musician doppelgänger, Dr. Teeth, leader of the Electric Mayhem.
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Also looks like a muppet who did a bunch of whip-its in the parking lot behind a Denny's yet he is still THRIVING Gritty is putting the kid in the penalty box.
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The last time I visited Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz at the company's secretive Florida offices, he told me about the time he met Beaker, the meeping beeping scientist on the Muppet Show.
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It was only about a month ago that we discovered the Alexa-enabled Big Mouth Billy Bass, and now a couple of enterprising college students have created a muppet-esque talking coffee pot.
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When I first met him he was in his bedroom watching cartoons in the nude while on the phone with 9-1-1, desperately asking the operator if the Muppet Babies were real.
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For her first cameo on the hit PBS show Sesame Street, singer Sia donned her signature black and white wig as she danced and sung along with some adorable Muppet pals last week.
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However, I guess if I had one concern, it would be that I come out of this kind of looking like a Muppet or really rocking that, like, Lily Collins intense brow look.
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Ties In "Meet Julia," an episode of "Sesame Street" that will air April 10 on PBS and HBO, Elmo and Abby Cadabby introduce Big Bird to Julia, a new muppet character with autism.
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"The Jim Henson Exhibition" includes nearly four-dozen puppets, plus hundreds of sketches, videos and props from "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," early commercials, misfired experiments and cult films of the 1980s.
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Two massive memes, Kermit sipping tea and Evil Kermit, earned the Muppet his place in meme Valhalla, and made a bunch of smaller memes (Sad Kermit puppet, Kermit in the car) take off.
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The longtime voice of Kermit the Frog squared off against executives at Disney on Monday over the company's decision to fire him after almost three decades of bringing that beloved Muppet to life.
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Like many Americans, I grew up watching Kermit the Frog and Cookie Monster on Sesame Street, but I never imagined I would one day spend time in this fantasy world, talking to a Muppet.
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Jim Henson was surely aware of this tradition when he created his most famous muppet, Kermit the Frog, whose signature song is a melancholy reflection on racial shame, "Bein' Green" (written by Joe Raposo).
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The CDC has filed legal docs stating its intention to make a deal with the famous Muppet company to produce an educational cartoon that dishes mosquito bite prevention methods to kids and their families.
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Being called a "shit-spackled Muppet-fart" or "that wheezing bag of dick-tits" isn't going to faze a villain who can shrug off point-blank gunfire, or a sword-thrust through the chest.
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As of this writing, you can't watch Annie Hall, Argo, The Exorcist, This Is Spinal Tap, Taxi Driver, Schindler's List, The Muppet Movie, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Fight Club, or Frozen on Netflix.
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The hope is that the Muppet, called Zari, will become a strong role model for girls in a country with a poor record of promoting women's rights, according to the production company Sesame Workshop.
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She plays with dolls that look like her, reads books that feature brown children and had the "Sesame Street" video of a muppet proclaiming that she loves her kinky-curly hair in steady rotation.
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Lily, a fuchsia Muppet with a mop of hair, green eyelids and a lavender nose, debuted on "Sesame Street" seven years ago and described how her family did not have enough food to eat.
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Earlier this week, the Muppet duo Bert and Ernie gave Will Smith's iconic Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song a revamp, rapping about how the inseparable puppets met, while wearing the cutest ball caps.
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Alligator Boots, which West cocreated along with collaborator and friend Rhymefest, came to life as a filthy, irreverent spoof of The Muppet Show, hosted by West and costarring a felt-covered pig named Pork Troy.
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Joining host Kerri Doherty, Bert will stop by to give his important Muppet opinion on everything going down at SXSW, and we have a feeling we might just be in for some very hot takes.
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Going by the name Obvious Plant, some of his recent creations range from believable bootleg dollar store finds, like Mobile Suit Garfield, to the more conceptual, like an empty plastic bag filled with Muppet screams.
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I'll be honest: I didn't expect Garfield and Elmo wind chimes to be this dynamic, but Detroit-based artist Jonathan Rajewski's playful mobiles fixed me in their googly muppet eyes and handily dispatched my assumptions.
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The new character and accompanying initiative is designed for children aged 2 through 6 to have them see what homelessness looks like through the lens of someone — in this case a muppet — their own age.
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So, we're left with two possible scenarios: either some muppet meant to send $137,000 to a small bitcoin company because he really, really just likes them a heck of a lot, or somebody fucked up.
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Out in the real world, Big Bird expressed his grief over the death of the Muppet master Jim Henson by singing at his memorial service, a moving way to send off his very best friend.
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Mashable Australia took some time to be a muppet around town with Cookie Monster, soaking in the sights of Sydney Harbour, the Opera House and the Museum of Contemporary Art, for a dash of culture.
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In another she sings along with her fellow muppet Abby to the Sesame Street theme song, "Sunny Days:" Stacey Gordon, a Phoenix-based puppet artist who plays Julia, is the mother of an autistic child.
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Muppet Treasure Island is a wisecracking, fourth-wall-breaking, musical take on the Robert Louis Stevenson tale, starring Tim Curry in one of his most fun performances as a scenery-chewing, singing Long John Silver.
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In 2017, Sesame Street introduced Julia, an autistic Muppet, as a regular member of the show's cast, and earlier this month Sesame Place opened as the world's first theme park designated as a Certified Autism Center.
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Among the first uses of radio control in Henson's puppetry featured in the bike riding scenes in The Muppet Movie and Muppets Take Manhattan, and culminated in puppets that were, in part or largely, controlled remotely.
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Miss Piggy embraced her ultra-glamorous side for her sexy shoot (draped in jewels and wearing a luxurious lavender faux fur coat) alongside her fellow Muppet costars and celebrities like Rita Ora, Winnie Harlow and more.
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The new Muppet is a way for children of both sexes to identify with a strong young character, Sherrie Westin, the executive vice president of global impact and philanthropy for Sesame Workshop, said in an interview.
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So no, seeing a muppet-like creature going downtown on the singer as she croons about being "high as fuck" with her nipples "hard and ready to go" doesn't come as that much of a surprise.
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Today in Cool Stuff Brought to You by Science, we have the encephalophone—an invention that, despite sounding like a discarded Muppet Show prop, is actually a fascinating new instrument developed for neurological and music research.
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Introduced along with two more conventional dogs — the fuzzy pumi, cute as a Muppet, and the un-fuzzy sloughi, an elegant creature out of North Africa — was a somewhat startling breed called the American hairless terrier.
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Pandu Nayak, Google's vice president of search, said at a briefing Thursday that the muppet-monickered software has made Google's search algorithm much better at handling long queries, or ones where the relationships between words are crucial.
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After LSU QB Danny Etling rattled off a 47-yard bomb, Chark received the ball from underneath the desperate swipes of his coverage, only to explode out of his gear like a tossed muppet losing his hat.
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The unpopular and untrue conspiracy theory started after Sasha Stewart joked on Twitter that the back drop to Melania Trump's White House portrait looked a lot like the window in the nursery on the Muppet Babies set.
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Give it a watch, and let the impossible wholesomeness of it all wash over you: "When Elmo has a problem with his friends like Abby, or Cookie Monster, Elmo doesn't get upset," the wise red Muppet says.
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Disney built a bot based on the Muppet Miss Piggy that users can talk to if they are bored, and there's even a version of Zork, an early, text-based video game, that works in there, too.
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It was a bit like "The Muppet Show": Geared toward kids on the surface, but with plenty of oddities — sneering gargoyle sculptures, taxidermied animals, an abandoned school bus — random and fascinating enough to keep adults entertained, too.
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The title character is the "Muppet Babies" version of Jim Parsons's "Big Bang Theory" character Sheldon Cooper, a brilliant physicist passionate about comic books and generalized geek culture, with limited empathy and a rigid set of routines.
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The first video she uploaded was "a purple Muppet singing a nonsense song," and her kids' strong reaction to the video helped her to realize the power of user-generated content and its ability to attract visitors.
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Henrick Vibskov's Gravity Orchestra (2018) was a full ensemble of elongated Muppet-like characters donning black and white evening suits, hung upside-down from a towering steel grid; it was a great installation for hide-and-seek.
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After first being introduced to the Sesame Street world in 2011 as a child facing national hunger, the children's program has brought back Lily, a 7-year-old bright pink Muppet, to shed light on homelessness in America.
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"With any of our initiatives, our hope is that we're not only reaching the children who can identify with that Muppet but that we're also helping others to have greater empathy and understanding of the issue," said Westin.
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"Bringing 'Muppet Babies' to Disney Junior is a wonderful opportunity to reach a new generation of viewers and to creatively build on the innovative original series," said Debbie McClellan, vice president of The Muppets Studio, in a statement.
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We don't know much else about the movie, like who's getting lost and where they'll end up, but honestly that's not a problem for Muppet fans — just that fact that there's a movie on the way is enough.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 1222s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 36003s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 20005s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 273s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 7083s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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In particular, lead single "144 My Back" provides what seems like an inner monologue spoken through a vocoder, and it seems fitting that the subject of its music video is a melancholic muppet floating through a black void.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 63363s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 37903s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 43793s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 13s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 95333s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 570600s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 2111s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 218950s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 923s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 2126s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 2125s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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It is tempting to divide his music into a handful of categories—mournful folk, bedraggled hip-hop, postmodern sound collage, sexy electro-pop—but the majority of his records fall somewhere in between: Superman sheriff with a Muppet.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 3600s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 57003s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 77103s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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It has already introduced its first Afghan Muppet in that country's version of the children's television show, called "Baghch-e-Simsim," which translates to "Sesame Garden," with the hope the puppet will become a role model for girls.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late '2212s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 57003s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 7183s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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The influence of early variety television, with its succession of skits and songs, runs through "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," though Henson also spent the late 1960s crafting peace-and-love documentaries and prototyping a psychedelic nightclub.
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But it's a decision supported by homophobia and outdated, incorrect views about queerness, which are the only reasons that Bert and Ernie shouldn't join the pantheon of officially sanctioned Sesame Street Muppet couples—right next to Oscar and Grundgetta.
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"We are proud, and a little bit giddy, to begin production on our new version of the much-loved 'Muppet Babies,' " said Nancy Kanter, executive vice president, Original Programming and general manager, Disney Junior Worldwide in a press release.
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The stylist posted a snapshot of Jenner on the stoop next to a Muppet — the latter of whom, per the placement of her tag, may or may not be wearing custom Miu Miu — with the caption "Papped today #kermit".
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Last night, Marcus Smart was out there looking like some kind of flailing Italian soccer Muppet in the Celtics-Hawks Game 3 of the Eastern Conference NBA Playoffs, as he dove in just about the most absurd way possible.
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"She has always fascinated historians and artists, but there has been renewed interest in Marie Antoinette in the past 20 years, ranging from Miss Piggy in 'The Muppet Show' to characters in Japanese manga culture," Mr. de Baecque said.
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"Lily is the first Muppet we've created whose storyline includes that she is experiencing homelessness," said Sherrie Westin, president of global impact and philanthropy for Sesame Workshop, formerly Children's Television Workshop, which is the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, according to CNN.
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The story kicks off with Mamet and everyone's favorite Muppet running into each other on a very, very long elevator ride up to the top of the Empire State Building, where, presumably, the party of the year is going down.
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Fans of Stranger Things got the chance to hear Maya Hawke hilariously belt "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in a fan-favorite scene opposite Joe Keery, and now the actress is releasing music of her own that's decidedly less Muppet-inspired.
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The Sesame Street skill brings the adorable Elmo into your home with hide-and-go-seek games and fun sound effects, while the lovable Muppet teaches preschoolers and kindergarteners about the letter of the day, like "A" is for Alexa.
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" (Meaning: You must have done something to provoke him if he hit you.) The music ranges from "Til It Happens to You," Lady Gaga's anthem about sexual assault, to "The Rainbow Connection," Kermit the Frog's wistful ballad from "The Muppet Movie.
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Muppet veteran Matt Vogel made his vocal debut as the iconic frog on Monday's episode of "Muppets Thought of the Week," allowing fans to hear the new Kermit for the very first time — and luckily not much seems to have changed.
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The cute Muppet militants of Mutant Year Zero were not just on a mission to save their home, but were constantly confronted by the mystery of their own origin and alienation from the ruins of the human world that preceded them.
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Dark Crystal was an epic fantasy told with sophisticated puppets, directed by the muppet creators Jim Henson and Frank Oz. If you ask a Gen Xer to name the first movie that freaked them out, Dark Crystal's a likely answer.
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It was after a disastrous performance at a puppet festival in Utah that Spinney met Muppet master Jim Henson, who came backstage and told him, "I liked what you were trying to do," Spinney remembered Henson saying, in his memoir.
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As anyone who has grown one can tell you, there are two types of beards: The first is the type where hair on the chin grows right up to the lip, hiding the mouth beneath a layer of hair like a Muppet.
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The new kids' show will focus on coding, because "coding fosters collaboration, critical thinking skills and is an essential language that every child can learn," Apple announced today by way of a muppet called Cody, who has learned to speak in PR soundbites.
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Or don't you remember her enthusiastic arm-flailing during a Boston Pride Parade in 2018 -- where she was draped in a "voluminous, Muppet-esque rainbow feather boa" -- or her instantly meme-able running during a New Hampshire town hall this past summer?
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If Henson and Oz conceived her as a satirical contradiction—a glamorous pig—that's over by The Muppet Movie, which cements her as one of the few genuinely layered characters in the ensemble, who gets to be loved for exactly who she is.
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John Travolta (as Robert Shapiro) and David Schwimmer (Robert Kardashian) try their best, but both come off a little wooden and desperate — though watching the latter tote around mini-Kardashians makes me crave some sort of Muppet Babies spinoff with little Kim & co.
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This inaugural installment doesn't include a Muppet that is autistic or has a parent battling addiction — two of the most recent innovations — but it does showcase the pioneering series's multiracial cast, urban setting and freewheeling mix of animation, live action and puppetry.
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" School-age visitors can meet actors portraying some of the story's main characters and attend dramatized readings of excerpts from the book, she said, while little ones can dress up in period-style costumes and watch a screening of "The Muppet Christmas Carol.
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Starting Friday, little visitors can enjoy daily screenings of "The Tale of the Bunny Picnic" (1986), a Muppet television film with an anti-bullying theme, and nearly daily showings of "The Muppets Take Manhattan" (93), in which the title characters tackle Broadway.
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Until last week, the most noticeable attribute of Mr Gennett's career was probably his nickname: he started going by the name of his favourite Muppet Babies character at the tender age of five, in an effort to hide his true identity from a police officer.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads At the end of "The Jim Henson Exhibition," now on permanent display at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, the visitor is faced with a wall of screens bearing slideshow episodes from the Muppet Master's career.
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HBO, however, will be suffering a far greater loss: not only will The Great Muppet Caper and the Back to the Future trilogy be leaving HBO Now at the end of the month, but the first four Tremors films will be departing as well.
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This time around, Malucelli's tapped into the creative energy of Katie Sturino, the popular plus-size fashion and lifestyle blogger behind The 12ish Style, who's also made an empire around her dog-mom status to Muppet, Pants, Cheese, and the late, world-famous Toast (R.I.P.).
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Among Ben's other most promising rose-winners are small business owner Jennifer, law school grad Samantha (drawback: sounds like a dying Muppet), and Lauren H. and Jackie, who toss him a wedding bouquet and print up a Save the Date for their engagement, respectively.
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The show's references to beloved films of the '80s have been much remarked upon, but "Stranger Things" also calls to mind all those books and TV shows — from "The Chronicles of Narnia" to "Muppet Babies" — where parents are either absent or pushed into the background.
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These are the curtain-raisers on a house in the Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, built by Mr. Henson, scion of the Henson Muppet empire and director of the new R-rated puppet film "The Happytime Murders," and Ms. Sara, an actress and poet.
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Amazon's fare is divided into the free stuff — a lot of sappy, made-for-TV dreck mostly — and options to rent or buy, including the original "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947) (nice cast, I guess) and the very engaging "A Muppet Christmas Carol" (1992).
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The DIA has noted that its puppet most closely resembles the version of Kermit on The Muppet Show, which debuted in 1976, except for its double crenellated collar (emphasis theirs), which bears more resemblance to a version of Kermit seen on Sesame Street in 1969.
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When producers from "Sesame" made a series of visits to the Creature Shop last year to discuss muppet design and look at prototypes, Zaid Baqaeen and Khaled Haddad of Jordan Pioneers, the show's head writer and an executive producer, joined from Amman via video chat.
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For generations of preschoolers in America and scores of countries where the program is broadcast, Big Bird and Oscar were vivid playmates and subtle tutors in a Jim Henson Muppet menagerie that included Kermit the Frog, Bert and Ernie and the voracious Cookie Monster.
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Once they team up, they outsmart their targets with extensive illicit research and they out-fight them only because they prepare — with intense training, slick black suits, and gravelly voice changers that make them sound just like Christian Bale's weird, muppet-y interpretation of the famous bat.
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He spent time and considerable expense ("He's not cheap," said Joey Laurenti, his amused boss) to outfit his new offices: a furry couch like a hibernating Muppet, faux Mies van der Rohe chairs reupholstered to his taste, floor-to-ceiling bookcases stocked with his own reference library.
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The lyrics from the "Rainbow Connection", sung by Kermit the Frog in the "Muppet Movie", feel especially resonant as a visitor walks through "The Jim Henson Exhibition", a new permanent feature at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, a neighbourhood in New York City's Queens.
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Director James Bobin, who was so fun in the two recent Muppet movies, is completely overwhelmed by the proceedings here, giving the movie no rhythm or forward propulsion; the movie just sort of flops around, waiting to get started until it finally begins to wait to end.
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The third video to be released from Parquet Courts's brilliant Human Performance LP starts out innocently enough, with lead singer Andrew Savage being filled in for by a crude puppet, the rest of the New York quartet represented by their Muppet avatars, thrashing away at their instruments.
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I was this 18-year-old kid, and he recruited me onto the Muppets at a time when the Muppets were really one of the biggest things on the planet — I mean, they were huge during The Muppet Show, so it was an incredible time to join.
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While his live performance with a Muppet would not be a career highlight, a stumble as the float lurched back into motion and a steadying hug from the famous pig would go viral, and punctuate a year when it already seemed like All Tony, All the Time.
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She decided to switch things up and move to TV, where she later won a Grammy for her show The Electric Company in 1973, a Tony for The Ritz and completed her EGOT title with an Emmy in 1977 for her appearance on The Muppet Show.
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"Alligator Pie" is the title poem of a rollicking verse collection for young people by the Canadian author Dennis Lee (he contributed lyrics to many songs on the Muppet television show "Fraggle Rock"), and now Soulpepper, a Toronto theater company, has adapted his work for the stage.
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Monday's episode, "Meet Julia" (the first half of which you can view above) formally introduces Julia, an autistic Muppet who was announced back in 2015 as a character who would appear in some digital videos, apps, and books, but who's only now making her appearance on the flagship series.
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In an alcove, hand-and-rod puppets, the prototype for the major players in the Muppet-verse, can be manipulated (arms with the plastic rod, mouth with the sleeved hand) in view of a camera and TV screen to recreate clips from Henson's first show, Sam and Friends.
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And in their stubborn denial of Bert and Ernie's coupledom despite so many other straight Muppet couples existing, Sesame Workshop played into exactly the prejudices that Rebecca Sugar and other creators like her have worked so hard to subvert: that queer characters don't belong in stories told to children.
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The primetime version of The Muppets was apparently a little too grown up for some viewers (the mockumentary sitcom was cancelled by ABC after one season), but Disney is hoping that a revival of Muppet Babies will hit the nostalgia sweet spot for longtime fans and their kids.
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George's desolate lyrics in "Church of the Poison Mind"—"Love is hard to find in the church of the poison mind," George sings—are backed with fast beats reminiscent of a sing-a-long song sung by the Electric Mayhem on The Muppet Show (in a good way).
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In the wake of the announcement that Julia, an autistic Muppet, would make her television debut on Sesame Street this month, a lot of allistic people have been discussing how her presence on the show can raise awareness and help teach allistic children to be more understanding and inclusive.
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And the stunts were outrageous: Over the course of the weekend, Gemma Bubblegum fisted a "muppet" (read: human) to a song by Jason Segel and newly crowned Miss Bushwig Serena Tea brought the house down transforming out of a literal custom car bodysuit before voguing the house down.
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The activities, which encompass subjects like fashion and product design, interior decorating and landscape architecture, include planning a model park, producing prototype eyeglasses, making a two-dimensional Muppet with Sesame Workshop and using a coin cell battery and a motor to engineer a robot that can draw on paper.
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Jones has said Oprah Winfrey is trying to reduce the African population by half, that Sesame Street's new autistic Muppet was designed to normalize an increasingly common disease that's caused by vaccines, and that the Atlantic and other lefty periodicals are hinting at an imminent decapitation of President Trump.
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Mr. Peterson's office has objects scattered and strewn throughout: There is a hat from a gulag, some steampunk masks he thought were cool, stacks of papers and cords, and a Kermit puppet his sister sent him because his fans joke that his voice, high and hoarse, sounds like the Muppet.
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Lord Lew Grade, who produced 'The Muppet Show', funded my father and Brian Froud [a fantasy illustrator who was the film's concept designer] to do seven years of research and development, something which you couldn't imagine these days, so the world was developed and designed even before the story was worked out.
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Campy and dripping with theater references, the gang from The Muppet Show escape to New York to hobnob with a coterie of stars from Liza Minnelli to legendary Sardi's owner Vincent Sardi Jr., all while trying to make it big on Broadway so that Kermit and Miss Piggy can finally get hitched.
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Next thing: Being an outré Hollywood colorist means that he is subject to the whims of his high-profile clients, whether that means turning Katy Perry's hair a shade of "muppet-referenced, sherbet-pink orange" or providing Zoe Kravitz a "blond moment that will withstand the history of time" for Allure magazine.
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In Fraggle Rock's attractively designed and well-thought-out universe, the fun-loving title characters and their Doozer helpers live in a network of caves, nestled between the kingdom of the enormous, galumphing Gorgs and the workshop of a human tinkerer named Doc (and his super cute dog, Sprocket, an astonishingly realistic Muppet creation).
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The figural collages depict scenes from Carr's and Campbell's lives, and the arrangement of the images in strips or bands around the perimeter of the room gives the impression of having walked into a comic book — an impression reinforced by the images' low-resolution, brightly colored quality (Campbell has called the figures "muppet-y").
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The name of his band may evoke other worlds, but Mr. Kubart has been quite successful here on earth: He hosts the preschool television show "Sunny Side Up"; his release "Home" won a Grammy Award for best children's album; and he was co-author of the "Sesame Street" song that introduced Julia, a new Muppet with autism.
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And while not every AI language model using these new techniques is named after a Muppet (OpenAI's well-traveled GPT-2 is one exception, though "Snuffleupagus, or Snuffy for short" was considered as a name before being rejected as too flippant), it's a pretty sure thing that if you see a Muppetware model you know what approaches it's using.
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Autism: While widely praised for introducing the concept of neurodiversity through Julia, an autistic muppet who debuted on the show in 2017 (and digitally back in 2015), "Sesame Street" drew criticism from some in the community because of its partnership with Autism Speaks, a powerful but polarizing nonprofit that encourages parents of a newly diagnosed child to grieve for their loss.
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If you haven't revisited the early Muppet canon in a while, you might be surprised how often it's actually Piggy, not Kermit, who saves the day—whether breaking free of her rope restraints to take down a human goon squad and rescue Kermit from Mel Brooks, or prying apart her prison cell bars, stealing a motorcycle and driving it through a window to stop a robbery.
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