"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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" In a statement released to TIME, a spokesperson for The Muppets Studio wrote: "The Muppets Studio thanks Steve for his tremendous contributions to Kermit the Frog and The Muppets franchise.
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It's yet another collaboration for Stoller and Bobin, who also worked together on The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted.
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"Muppets Now" is a new "unscripted" series starring Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, and the rest of the Muppets.
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"Isaiah loves the Muppets and his favorite movie right now is Muppets Most Wanted," explained the "Cry Pretty" singer, 35.
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The actual Muppets are in the midst of a new resurgence; writer-actor Jason Segel helped reboot the franchise with 2011's The Muppets, and Disney reportedly wants a new Muppets TV series for its upcoming streaming service.
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Whitmire had been with the Muppets since 1978, and took over as Kermit after the untimely death of Muppets founder Jim Henson in 1990.
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" A spokesperson released the following statement on Whitmire's departure: "The Muppets Studio thanks Steve for his tremendous contributions to Kermit the Frog and The Muppets franchise.
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As THR points out, Disney acquired The Muppets Studio in 2004 and has already created a Muppets TV series for ABC, which was canceled after one season.
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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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The two made TV appearances on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," ″30 Rock" and "Saturday Night Live" and in films like "Muppets Most Wanted" and "The Muppets.
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Well, they're all back for another acid-trip adventure in this sequel, produced by Burton and directed by James Bobin, who also helmed The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted.
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As you might have guessed, the simple answer is: it's an inside joke, with researchers naming AI models after Muppets because other researchers have named AI models after Muppets.
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A planned "Muppets" reboot titled "Muppets Live Another Day," from "Frozen" star Josh Gad and "Once Upon a Time" creators Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis, fell apart over creative differences between the writers and executives with Muppets Studio, which is owned by Disney and is a subsidiary of Disney parks, experiences, and products.
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The Muppets: Disney's put out two Muppets movies and a TV series in the past few years, but despite the characters' blue-chip appeal, none of them seem to have stuck.
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The affable Mr. Bobin, who hit a home run with "The Muppets" but struck out with "Muppets Most Wanted," is the latest lesser-known director to benefit from Hollywood's franchise obsession.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Muppets to the rescue!
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James Bobin, who directed The Muppets, The Muppets Most Wanted, and this year's upcoming Alice in Wonderland sequel, Alice Through the Looking Glass, will take on directorial duties instead, according to reports.
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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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Is Whitmire's firing simply the result of an escalated workplace feud, or has Whitmire's longtime sense of ownership over Kermit and the Muppets come into conflict with Disney's direction for the Muppets franchise?
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And even if you're not a fan of the Muppets, The Muppets Take Manhattan is worth watching just for its status as — honestly — one of the quintessential show business films of the '22016s.
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I've only seen the Muppets version of A Christmas Carol.
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Please note that these rankings will not include any Muppets.
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Altogether, Saltzman's Queerty interview has little to do with Muppets.
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Maybe she just needs the Muppets to build her confidence.
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A "Muppets" series will never see the light of day.
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More than a decade before, Disney acquired the Muppets Studio.
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The actress was Miss Piggy's receptionist in "The Muppets" (2011).
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" 1975: The Muppets tape the special "Julie: My Favorite Things.
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Muppets fans, you may need to sit down for this one.
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The Muppets will appear on MasterChef Junior Thursday at 8 p.m.
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Soon, people had stopped talking about muppets and Greg Smith altogether.
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What strange to Muppet community is Muppets always like Donald Trump.
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Integrity is everything, and that's true for the Muppets, as well.
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No one would accuse this young Russian artist of making Muppets.
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I was just kind of Janice from the Muppets of drag.
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There were people dressed as mermaids, muppets, cartoon characters and ghouls.
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The Muppets footage was just an ad-lib by the videographer.
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She teamed up with the Muppets in 2013 for the warm-and-fuzzy Thanksgiving TV special Lady Gaga and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular; the following year, she released a duets album with Tony Bennett, Cheek to Cheek.
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The idea of dirty Muppets is funny partly because so many of us spent our childhoods with squeaky-clean Muppets on Sesame Street teaching us the alphabet and basic Spanish and the rules of kindness and sharing.
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If anything, it's made the celebrity even more of a Muppets fan.
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The rights to the Muppets characters were acquired by Disney in 2004.
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The Muppets have been a key part of "Sesame Street" since 1969.
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Mr. Henson's unexpected death two years later threw the Muppets into crisis.
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PLEASANTVILLE "The Muppets" (2011), voices by Jason Segel and Amy Adams. Aug.
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They're animatronic muppets from a planet with a super-high Scrabble score.
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Like Statler and Waldorf in the Muppets, he's just up there heckling.
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Boomer parents saw Henson's name on it and figured, hey, muppets, cool.
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No Muppets or "Sesame Street" characters appear in the movie, STX said.
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A couple of Muppets join Gordon Ramsay in the "MasterChef Junior" kitchen.
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The Muppets have always walked a thin line between sadness and silliness, and it seems likely that Kermit's personality changes on the TV show were part of its attempt to make the Muppets more explicitly targeted to adults.
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Jim Henson, American puppeteer and creator of "The Muppets," poses with his creations.
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Jim Henson, the mastermind behind "The Muppets," died in 1990 at age 53.
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What Happened: That Riverdale/Muppets crossover you didn't know you wanted is here.
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The Muppets will focus on special topics like inclusion, respect, and gender equity.
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Even Sesame Street is participating with its Girl Muppets Around the World tour.
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One spoiled a ballot with the words, "Bring back Malcolm Turnbull you muppets".
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The Marine Band played selections from Sesame Street, the Muppets and Disney movies.
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Like the Muppets and the Simpsons, Pee-wee Herman seems not to age.
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It is no longer the Muppets if core values are lost or discarded.
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Constantine appears in the 2014 movie Muppets Most Wanted as a Kermit impostor.
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Tillerson will return to his previous job as the eagle from the Muppets.
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"Muppets," Mr. Prest said, affectionately mocking his colleagues, himself, their New York excursion.
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"Sesame Street" will reveal one of its muppets' mothers suffered from opioid addiction.
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A chance meeting with Jim Henson, the Muppets' creator, gave him that opportunity.
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"I'm like the chef on the Muppets," says The Masked Singer cohost, 47.
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"The Muppets," introduced in the fall to significant marketing hype, has been a flop.
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The first time I met him it was like meeting one of the Muppets.
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It's TV Week and we are dancing to the theme from The Muppets Show.
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Castle, the network's longrunning crime procedural, Dr. Ken, Nashville, Agent Carter and The Muppets.
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Vogel previously voiced Constantine, Kermit's evil doppelgänger, in the 2014 movie Muppets Most Wanted.
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Whitmire, 57, voiced Kermit since the death of Muppets creator Jim Henson in 1990.
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The most realistic CGI always looks dated in 10 years, but Muppets stay awesome.
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I look like a cross between Neru and the Swedish one from The Muppets.
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"The Muppets," one of ABC's most-promoted new shows last fall, will not return.
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The Muppets first featured on "Sesame Street" were created by legendary puppeteer Jim Henson.
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This character is a little bit of a queasy stereotype, surprising for the Muppets.
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According to Entertainment Weekly, Disney confirmed that Matt Vogel's ribbiting reveal was made Monday on The Muppets YouTube page as part of their recurring segment, "Muppets Thought of the Week," in which fan-favorite characters offer up their silliest advice and passing ideas.
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"I have been outspoken about what's best for the Muppets since the Muppets came to Disney [2004], but the fact is I have respect for everyone who was involved in the creation of that series for their own particular contributions," he said.
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You might have heard of it if you move in nerd circles, maybe referred to as "Muppets in Space" (but not Muppets From Space), or the thing superstar video game voice actor Claudia Black did before she was in all the Uncharted games.
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It was Don Sahlin, however, whom Henson credited with the "basic style" of the Muppets.
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"Ultimately I'm just gunning for a job on the next Muppets TV show," he said.
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"Happy Birthday to our friend #EltonJohn (@eltonofficial) from all The Muppets!" wrote Kermit on Twitter.
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Muppets are getting murdered, and those that are living have answers, and plenty of demons.
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So it matters, that the universe of the Muppets rewards and validates Miss Piggy's aspirations.
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Like all the Muppets created for Sesame Street, they were designed to help educate preschoolers.
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But the puppeteer was suddenly replaced this summer by Disney, owners of The Muppets Studio.
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The couple previously starred together in the 2011 film The Muppets, but shared no scenes.
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Jason Voorhees and the Muppets both take Manhattan, though not in the same movie, thankfully.
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Kermit is the de facto leader of the Muppets, who have been around since 1976.
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There will "probably" be a new Muppets show and Marvel-themed shows, too, it said.
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If this is true, it would be a sad and alarming tale for Muppets fans.
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In other matters, I liked Studio 360's oral history of the Muppets, on Slate.
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I still go most weeks, and I am missing my little muppets fiercely right now.
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The internet really, really wants the Muppets to take their career to the rap world.
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"We absolutely adored the Muppets," she said in an interview with The Telegraph in 2003.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 80%Synopsis: The actress had a small cameo as a ballerina in 2014's "Muppets Most Wanted," which follows The Muppets as they embark on a European tour and accidentally become involved in a Kermit look-alike's scheme to steal precious jewels.
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"I debated the all-time biggest sports questions with the muppets from Sesame Street," Wilder details.
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Sesame Street's beloved Muppets will soon help some of the most vulnerable children in the world.
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"Sesame Street" has a long history of probing social issues and celebrating diversity through its Muppets.
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They'll join other headliners including the Muppets and Olympic gold medalists Laurie Hernandez and Michelle Carter.
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I chose "Rainbow Connection" from the Muppets movie because I naively thought it would be easy.
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Alicia Keys, Demi Lovato, DJ Khaled and some of the Muppets are also scheduled to appear.
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His on-and-off relationship with Miss Piggy has also captivated avid Muppets fans for decades.
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And what better way to teach Rohingya and Syrian refugee children than to bring them Muppets?
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STEVEN McELROY 'THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN' (JULY 3) at the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival.
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Before his government career, he ran the Jim Henson Company, the ancestral home of the Muppets.
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We spoke with Sesame's music director, writers and Muppets about the challenge of keeping things fresh.
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Today, we learned just how hard memes — and muppets — can be, courtesy of Good Morning America.
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Oh yeah, by having a couple muppets in Eugene Melnyk and Pierre Dorion running the show.
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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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The most striking difference to the look of Sesame Studios is the absence of the Muppets characters.
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Previous governments were good at encouraging what Mr Nightingale calls muppets, or "marginal undersized poor performance enterprises".
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Reporter Leslie Stahl was introduced to Julia on set by one of the most popular Muppets, Elmo.
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It already has classic Disney cartoons, "Star Wars," Pixar, the Muppets and some of the Marvel characters.
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Sesame Workshop is the educational organization behind the PBS kids' show "Sesame Street," which features Muppets characters.
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He looks a bit like a towering, gruff, slightly psychedelic rendering of one of Jim Henson's Muppets.
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We're waving our Dannebrog for the old guy on the left from the balcony in The Muppets.
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She looks like a feminine mix of Eddie the Eagle and The Swedish Chef from The Muppets.
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"The company even went so far as to sue The Muppets over a boar character named "Spa'am.
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The show's writers, Muppets and Usher go behind the music on the 50-year-old children's program.
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Yes, from "The Muppets" to "End of the Tour," that's about as different as you can get.
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The Muppets reboot would also continue Disney's trend of populating its streaming service with its own intellectual property.
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He's got this crazy, spiky hair, and he looks like Animal from The Muppets when he plays drums.
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The Jim Henson Company sold the rights to the Muppets to the Walt Disney Company 12 years ago.
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The two, along with the rest of the Muppets, star in the latest episode of Apple's Carpool Karaoke.
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The spot will feature the "Sesame Street" muppets modeling healthy mobile phone behavior by putting their devices away.
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Last year, ABC canceled a mockumentary-style version of The Muppets after just a single season; Documentary Now!
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The comedy and heart of Jim Henson's Muppets paired with the classic Christmas tale is a must-see.
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It can be difficult to get her attention, and sometimes she sees things the other Muppets don't see.
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Steve's performance of Kermit has strayed far away from my father's good hearted, compassionate leader of the Muppets.
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Jim Henson, the legendary creator of Sesame Street and the Muppets, could get a brand new traveling exhibition.
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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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The other muppets try to comfort her, knowing that the noise bothers her, which helps to normalize meltdowns.
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Whitmire has been with the Muppets since 1978, and took over as Kermit after Henson died in 1990.
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Look how happy they all look — Muppets will do that to even a blood-thirsty, brother-loving queen.
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Dinosaurs, monsters and Muppets transformed Times Square into a big puppet show on Monday to celebrate World Puppetry Day.
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In between takes, Gaffigan sits in his sleigh, joking with the Muppeteers and Muppets readying for the next shot.
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There's a fun way for elementary school kids (and parents!) to engage in literary classics: Let the Muppets help.
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Spinney met Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets, at a puppetry festival in 1962 in Salt Lake City.
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Mexican stars Eugenio Derbez and Adriana Barraza also appear, and James Bobin (The Muppets, Flight of the Conchords) directs.
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And this is the story of Jim Henson, their creator and in the case of some Muppets, their voice.
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The folks behind the muppets noted that much of this came down to "David Rudman improvising with the character".
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Plenty of Muppets are in romantic relationships, so who cares if a couple of obviously gay puppets are gay?
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Besides Ciara, LOVE enlisted a more unconventional model for day 24 of LOVE Advent: Miss Piggy and The Muppets.
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The Muppets would add just enough sass and humor to the show to give a bit of comedic relief.
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" At the end of the day, Whitmore insists that his main focus is doing "what's best for the Muppets.
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It kind of sounds like it could be a mix between Home Alone 2 and Madagascar, but with Muppets.
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Ivanka Trump got "Janice" from "The Muppets", while Eric Trump got "Draco Malfoy" from the "Harry Potter" book series.
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In November 1969, "Sesame Street" broke new ground in children's TV programming by introducing viewers to the lovable Muppets.
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The Muppets were incredibly expensive to maintain, and ratings never really went through the roof, despite growing critical attention.
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It's hard not to love the Muppets, but Henson's gift for imaginative experimental storytelling didn't stop at Fraggle Rock.
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They did a capsule collection with the Muppets (hipster Kermit on a green sweater) and an Intel smart watch.
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Disney acquired the Muppets, along with "Bear in the Big Blue House," from The Jim Henson Company in 2004.
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" The other muppets follow her lead, adapting the game to accommodate her by playing what they call "Boing Tag.
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Gordon Ramsay and his fellow judge, Christina Tosi, welcome the Muppets Miss Piggy and Swedish Chef into the kitchen.
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The Hollywood Reporter and ABC News reported Wednesday that longtime Muppets performer Matt Vogel will take over as Kermit.
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Brian Henson, son of famed "Sesame Street" puppeteer Jim Henson, who created the Muppets, directed the raunchy movie, People reported.
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If Sesame Street was set just north of Midtown, you'd have Muppets power-walking for a $12 cardboard-rivaling panini.
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Interdimensional muppets enter the room, and zap Heidecker into a human turkey, with a red boil hemorrhaging from his butthole.
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"I always thought, how fortunate for me that I got to play the two best Muppets?" he told the NYT.
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Brian Henson, son of famed "Sesame Street" puppeteer Jim Henson, who created the Muppets, directed the raunchy movie, People reported.
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Underwood also gave a sneak peek at Isaiah's birthday bash by showing off his Muppets-themed Kermit the Frog cake.
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"The Grammys was so silly, and I was with CeeLo [Green] and there were Muppets for some reason," Paltrow said.
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At the same time, I also have insight into their limitations with respect to how well they know the Muppets.
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She rang the opening bell at Monday to celebrate the premiere of a new season of "The Muppets" on ABC.
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So what if The Muppets and Sesame Street introduced generations of kids to Beatles music as much as Yellow Submarine?
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"The Happytime Murders" is directed by Brian Henson, son of former "Sesame Street" puppeteer Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets.
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We all want to look nice, and be seen from the best angle, whether it's 'Anal Destiny' or the Muppets.
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"Muppets Now" is an unscripted, short-form series debuting on Disney Plus in 2020 that will feature celebrity guest stars.
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Because a bunch of muppets wanted a fast track to fame and to look cool in front of their mates.
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The first was that he apparently gave too many negative and unwanted notes on ABC's failed 2015 series The Muppets.
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Meanwhile, the New York Times spoke to an unnamed producer on "a Muppets-related project" who generally corroborated Disney's statement.
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" Now 84, he said, "I always thought, 'How fortunate for me that I got to play the two best Muppets?
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It showed the two muppets cuddling in front of the TV, a moment of intimacy to celebrate a historic ruling.
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It has also featured muppets on the autism spectrum, kids who are bullied, and kids who have parents in jail.
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"We dragged a whole bunch of our monster muppets out," said Rollie Krewson, a master builder at the Creature Shop.
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The trio hits the road in an effort to get the Muppets back together and put on one last show.
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It's maybe the best joke on the current Muppets sitcom: a female late-night talk show host on a major network.
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I know Muppets occasionally visit the SSCU, but I'm gonna keep those add-ins off the list for the time being.
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Matt Vogel will be succeeding Whitmire and makes his Kermit debut next week with a "Muppets Thought of the Week" video.
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The one who bought you the best Barbie dolls and took your little behind to the movies to see The Muppets.
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"What's come down at Disney is that the Muppets have sort of been treated like a box of crayons," says Whitmire.
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The muppets then gather around a table and happily chatter until they notice Cookie Monster is still on his phone, texting.
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How is it that Bowie fits just as perfectly in a Trent Reznor collaboration as he does dancing with goblin muppets?
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Oscar obviously, he's the most rationale and real of the Muppets, and would approach the situation with the seriousness it deserves.
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Earlier this month, news broke that Disney's Muppets Studio had quietly fired Whitmore in October, replacing him with a different performer.
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B ut if you imagine the Muppets heavily influenced by French surrealism and a few psychotropics, you will have some idea.
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We talked about the "Sneakerheadz" documentary, eBay auction anxieties and my fear of the Muppets (the reason I've never seen "Labyrinth").
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I wish the other Muppets and the adults around them didn't spend so much time explaining Julia or talking over her.
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But relatives of Jim Henson, the founder of the Muppets and the original voice of Kermit, said they agreed with executives.
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Frank Oz, a puppeteer and longtime collaborator of Muppets creator Jim Henson, who died in 1990, also chimed in on Twitter.
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People should resent Disney more for keeping the Muppets locked away somewhere, only letting them out to shill for Facebook cameras.
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From gross-out muppets and art installations, to adult babies and VR cats, this year's festival was a bazaar of the bizarre.
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"And ALSO, it's not safe for us to be on the same planes as royals or presidents you absolute muppets," Jamil added.
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"This is what we wore every day," Glover, 35, joked, adding that late Muppets genius Jim Henson's creature shop made the costume.
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But the magic is really seen in the story behind the felt: how the Muppets, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock came to be.
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Visitors can see not just "Sesame Street's" stars but also the craft behind the programme, from storyboarding to designing the various Muppets.
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Disney is planning to create a new Muppets TV series for its not-yet-launched streaming service, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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And of course, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Elmo and more Sesame Street muppets were on site to help commemorate the big event.
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Not a fan of CGI Muppets...lets stick to the basics..afterall, isn't that why we enjoyed them in the first place?
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But no celebrity couple should be responsible for validating my concerns that my boyfriend doesn't love the Muppets the way I do.
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"If a six-year-old kid is looking at me, it's probably for Night at the Museum or The Muppets," he says.
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One of its most popular ads, starring "The Muppets" character Cookie Monster, generated over 11 million YouTube views as of July 2016.
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It might seem bold to say, but this movie is the best combination in existence of Muppets, MIchael Caine and Charles Dickens.
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Here's a rundown of what we do and don't know about the firing — and what the fallout might mean for Muppets fans.
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The Muppets Studio is blaming "unacceptable business conduct" for its dismissal of Steve Whitmire as the longtime performer of Kermit the Frog.
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When Jim Henson came up with Muppets, he was trying to make TV puppets that could have a wide array of emotions.
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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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"I always thought, how fortunate for me that I got to play the two best Muppets?" he told the NYT last year.
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He wrote that he's experienced "every possible emotion since October 2016" when The Muppets Studio's executives said they were going to recast.
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It features a cast of colorful puppets known as Muppets, including popular characters such as Oscar the Grouch and Bert and Ernie.
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A designer who used to work on the Muppets was hired on a contract basis to come up with the Phanatic's costume.
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For some reason, when I picture Blondie, I think of Debbie Harry singing ONE WAY OR ANOTHER on "The Muppets" in 513.
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The Muppets are taking Queens, where "The Jim Henson Exhibition" will be on permanent display at the Museum of the Moving Image.
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They brought in a Harvard professor for pedagogy advice and borrowed from commercial TV to create memorable characters, including Jim Henson's Muppets.
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They brought in a Harvard professor for pedagogy advice and borrowed from commercial TV to create memorable characters, including Jim Henson's Muppets.
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And it canceled so many shows, including long-running stalwarts like Nashville and Castle and the once much-buzzed-about The Muppets.
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We can't think of two entities more polar opposite than the Muppets of Sesame Street and the women of The Real Housewives franchise.
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The snow tumbles down on Muppets in top hats as a mustachioed Cookie Monster offers a Santa'd Jim Gaffigan a chocolate chip cookie.
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All it takes is one look at my avatar—which shows me hanging out with Cookie Monster—to gauge my feelings on Muppets.
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The breakup shtick seemed like too much of a gimmick when Kermit and Miss Piggy did it in the revamped Muppets TV show.
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To everyone in the five boroughs and beyond, mark your calendars: TechCrunch is set to take Manhattan like so many tech-obsessed Muppets.
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The service will also include a revival of The Clone Wars animated show and it might also include a reboot of The Muppets.
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Phil Phillips (puppeted and voiced by Muppets stalwart Bill Barretta) is a disgraced former cop working as a private detective in Los Angeles.
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Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't worked in television since 1996's Muppets Tonight, which just goes to show how much things have changed for HBO.
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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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His wife, the artist Kristi Sword, created a set of "tinsel mammals," full-body costumes that made their wearers look like shimmery Muppets .
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We're also getting a "Lizzie McGuire" series, a new "Monsters, Inc." spinoff show, a new "Muppets" series, and three "Star Wars" prequel shows.
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"A Christmas Carol" has been adapted for the screen multiple times, in iterations featuring everybody from George C. Scott to Jim Henson's Muppets.
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The new show is a collaboration between Disney Junior, Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media's (DCPI) Content & Media group, and The Muppets Studio.
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Prince's episode of Muppets Tonight is an unhinged delight, letting the entertainer poke fun at himself while palling around with Kermit and company.
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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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When it comes to interviewing world-famous personalities, the Muppets require a few special accommodations (they also brought their own pop-up chairs).
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The holidays generate plenty of warm and fuzzy feelings, so why not celebrate them with something equally warm and fuzzy, like the Muppets?
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Wolfson joked that his inspiration for Sanders came from watching Statler and Waldorf, cantankerous elderly Muppets who lob critiques from their balcony seats.
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The parody is completely on point We can't imagine the Muppets ever being mean to one another, but the parody is completely on point.
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ET. PBS airs that program, and it features recording artists and celebrities like Carole King, the National Symphony Orchestra and muppets from Sesame Street.
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Chris Van Vliet from WSVN-TV also sat through the Reynolds-Gyllenhaal joke fest, with the pair discussing Muppets for much of the interview.
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While they initially released a short statement thanking Whitmire for his time with The Muppets franchise, they kept their reasoning behind the decision vague.
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According to Karen, the idea was all Tami's, the drummer for the band and a fairly accurate human version of Animal from The Muppets.
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The duo danced to the tunes of The Muppets' theme song on TV night and scored a 24 out of 40 for their quickstep.
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On Sunday, Underwood showed off the festive and elaborate Muppets-themed cake (courtesy of Ivey Cake) that she served at her son's special celebration.
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But with no major new projects on the horizon for the Muppets, it's unclear what immediate effects, if any, the actor change will have.
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Brian Henson, who is the company's chairman, told the Times that Whitmore often sent emails attacking writers, directors and others involved in Muppets projects.
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Several pictures show him working alongside Jim Henson, the iconoclastic creator of the Muppets, who recruited Spinney to "Sesame Street" all those years ago.
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Caron reminisces about how a quick favor turned into a chance to hang out with Jim Henson, shortly before the Muppets' creator passed away.
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Another hunk is the shaggy, mint-green troll, which looks as though it stumbled in from Muppets central casting, probably after eating a few.
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A prominent figure on the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 21974s, he wrote songs performed by Bette Midler, Carly Simon and the Muppets.
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That's what we have Robert Mueller for: To lay the question to rest, if only the president and his congressional muppets will let him.
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Both were built at Jim Henson's Creature Shop in Queens, where rows of desks are covered with half-constructed muppets and older ones midrepair.
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The Muppets, Mr. Magoo and Bugs Bunny have all had their own — there has even been a "Doctor Who" episode based on the tale.
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Some of those same family members say they supported the decision to replace Mr. Whitmire, though they are no longer involved with the Muppets.
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Wolfson joked that his inspiration for Sanders came from watching 'Statler and Waldorf,' the cantankerous elderly Muppets who lob critiques from their balcony seats.
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One Instagram account, Army of Jesus, morphed from a Muppets Show fan page to focusing on The Simpsons to finally settling on a religious theme.
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He dressed up in drag as Ursula from The Little Mermaid two years ago, and rocked a Miss Piggy from The Muppets look last year.
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There's a real story being told here, with a sense of scope far beyond the bratty Muppets parody Meet the Feebles initially seems to be.
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While most characters were baby versions of adult muppets, like Baby Piggy, Baby Beaker and Baby Kermit, there was one mysterious human character: the nanny.
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I'm 50 percent more influential than MC Hammer, Apostle Judas Iscariot, the KIA Sorrento, 10 percent more influential than Barbara Bush, the Muppets, Bob Newhart.
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Chrissy Teigen was such a fan of Kermit the Frog when she was younger that she would've permanently immortalized the Muppets character on her body.
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Real Jim Henson heads know that Sesame Street and the Muppets are child's play when it comes to the genius of everybody's favorite puppet master.
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SESAME STREET'S EDGY SIDE: Via The Washington Post's Drew Harwell, after spending 28503 years on PBS, the Muppets of Sesame Street are heading to HBO.
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Mr. Clark-Spear got down on one knee and proposed with a Christmas ornament of the Muppets, Kermit and Miss Piggy, kissing under the mistletoe.
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Mr. Wolfson has been playing Mr. Sanders in the mock forums, taking inspiration in part from the curmudgeonly Muppets characters Statler and Waldorf, he said.
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"I have a picture of me sitting on the step of a brownstone stoop with my mom and all the Muppets around us," she recalled.
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When Julia introduces "boing tag," the other Muppets aren't upset that she's breaking the rules of tag — they're grateful to learn a new game and experience.
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They're not surprised to see me getting a pie in my face or if I'm signing a song with Ariana Grande and the Muppets or something.
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In a lawsuit filed Thursday in New York City, Sesame Workshop alleges that "The Happytime Murders" is abusing the famed Muppets' sterling reputation in its advertisements.
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His Muppets films, his Flight of the Conchords episodes, even his Enlightened installment — they're all generally interesting to look at, with a nice sense of pace.
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So far, we know that some of those guest judges include Martha Stewart, a few of the Muppets, and — drumroll, please — special guest star Michelle Obama.Mrs.
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The wide-ranging roster of clients he worked closely with included Barbra Streisand, Harry Belafonte, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Redford, Billy Wilder and the Muppets.
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He's also known for his work on films like Total Recall, The Green Hornet, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Gone Girl, Muppets Most Wanted, and The Social Network.
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The muppets also appeared on "The Tonight Show" in 2013 to perform the Sesame Street theme song with Fallon and The Roots using only, classroom instruments.
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"I always thought, 'How fortunate for me that I got to play the two best Muppets,'" Mr. Spinney said in a retirement interview with The Times.
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The Muppets is proof positive that Disney owning Jim Henson's most famous creations can still lead to great movies starring the best puppets in show business.
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The tweet encouraged people to pick a movie, choose one actor from that movie to keep, and imagine the rest of the actors played by Muppets.
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So like Diddy himself, his fragrance has two sides: a tough exterior, but not so tough that he won't turn down a cameo in Muppets Most Wanted.
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For five decades, the Muppets of Sesame Street have hung out in living rooms all over the world, teaching life lessons to young kids and parents alike.
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Brown was best known for her catchphrase, "Wubba Wubba Wubba," which originated from when she mistakenly read a camera person's "Muppets" shirt instead of her cue cards.
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In his spiel to Mazuma, Mr. Smith did not say that mutual fund companies were treating 2300(k) savers like muppets, but he might as well have.
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"Doing what is best for the Muppets is the lens through which all my interactions have been filtered," he wrote in his initial July 11 blog post.
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As one of the last two active originators of the Muppets, I still have a big job to do before the next group can effectively step in.
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They plan to introduce a version of "Sesame Street" this fall with Arabic-speaking Muppets that deal with experiences that children in these countries can relate to.
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Henson, who is fifty-six, is the oldest daughter of Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets; she is now the C.E.O. of the Jim Henson Company.
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Now Mr. Whitmire must contemplate a future without Kermit, Ernie, Rizzo the Rat, Statler and the many other beloved Muppets that he brought to life for decades.
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Unlike the Partnership for a Drug Free America—PSAs that feature Clint Eastwood, Pee Wee Herman, the Muppets, and many others—Direct Effect was not star-studded.
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We'd argue that all of the Muppets are important, especially since they've helped young people understand issues ranging from whether or not it's okay to eat cookies all the time (it's not) to what it feels like to grieve the loss of a friend, but here are 10 Muppets who have been particularly instrumental in teaching parents and children about tough topics over the show's past 19823 years.
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Ms. Heller said the two groups would work more closely on planned collaborations of a spinoff series based on the "Sesame Street" Muppets and other new children's series.
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The meme features a screenshot from Muppets Most Wanted, according to KnowYourMeme — and shows Kermit the frog confronted by his double, who is shrouded in a black hood.
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Now, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Rizzo and more return to take on another literary favorite with Muppets Meet the Classics: Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm (out this week).
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In recent years, commercials for Toyota featuring Kaley Cuoco of "The Big Bang Theory" and the Muppets have been created by the ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi, Los Angeles.
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One day earlier, Isaiah's mama Carrie Underwood showed off the festive and elaborate Muppets-themed cake (courtesy of Ivey Cake) that she served at Isaiah's special birthday celebration.
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Kermit and Miss Piggy spoofed Adele's record-smashing "Hello" music video in a new commercial for The Muppets that aired during the 2015 American Music Awards on Sunday.
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Sesame Street provides broadcast and educational materials, such as storybooks, puzzles, and video featuring the Muppets of Sesame Street, while the IRC offers direct services like home visits.
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After all, the Muppets themselves were a gangly, cartoony bunch that charmed their way into millions of children's hearts through the way their characters expressed themselves on screen.
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"I've been with the Muppets since 1978, just short of 40 years, and 27 of those were as Kermit, along with many other characters too," Whitmire tells PEOPLE.
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While the young contestants seem thrilled to see the Muppets in the kitchen, things appear to have gone sour between "Miss Piggy" and MasterChef Junior host Gordon Ramsay.
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Lady Gaga and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular (2013) It's hard to believe this ever actually happened, but it did, and we, as a nation, are better for it.
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Evil Kermit plays off of a still taken from the 2014 film Muppets Most Wanted, in which pure and wholesome Kermit is chatting with his sinister doppelgänger, Constantine.
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Brian Henson, the son of the legendary Muppets creator Jim Henson, told The Hollywood Reporter Tuesday that Kermit the Frog actor Steve Whitmire was fired for unprofessional conduct.
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Remakes like the recently canceled "Muppets" and the much-maligned "Fuller House" usually materialize because dusting off old hits carries less risk than trying to introduce new ones.
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These two and their furry band of Muppets have been part of Sesame Workshop's "Dream, Save, Do" program, a joint venture of Sesame Street and the MetLife Foundation.
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Members of Henson's own family, who sold all intellectual property rights to the Muppets to Disney in 2004, have been blunt about supporting the company's version of events.
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But talented as he was as a puppeteer, in a sense Henson simply saw the Muppets as a commercially viable creative outlet to help fund his other interests.
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Though Oscar and Big Bird seem to have little in common, Spinney observed that they were both solitary characters who performed with other humans but few other Muppets.
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With Pixar, Marvel and the Muppets now under the Disney umbrella, I could probably list two dozen of them that we as a family love and watch regularly.
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Ruby topped the fierce-looking skulls, each the size of an armchair, with mops of colorful, acrylic-yarn hair that made them look more Muppets than Jurassic Park.
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UPDATE (9:50 July 12, 20173): This story has been updated to include confirmation from a spokesperson for The Muppets Studio and a response from Steve Whitmire's blog.
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Vogel joined Sesame Street in 1996, and has since played several roles, including Count von Count, Floyd Pepper, and interestingly enough, Kermit's doppelgänger, Constantine in Muppets Most Wanted.
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But something that's gone largely unnoticed is a secondary trend — a shadow to the first — and that is: a surprising number of these tools are named after Muppets.
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They were a formidable intellectual couple who, she said, surprised people by telling them that they spent a lot of time watching sports and the Muppets on television.
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Here the detours take him to a White House receiving line, to a performance where he shared the bill with Muppets, to Massachusetts for a family trip, and more.
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A fan has combined the iconic '90s vid with your favorite Muppets, and the result—featuring Big Bird and Cookie Monster—might have topped the Spike Jonze-directed original.
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On a graffiti-stained set and and sitting on royal chairs reminiscent of the 1990s TV series Fresh Prince, the two Muppets sing along about their history as roommates.
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While the audio comes straight from the real trailer, Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga are replaced with everyone's favorite Muppets using footage from their five movies and TV show.
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The new show, geared toward children ages 4-7, is a co-production between Disney Junior, Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media's Content & Media group, and The Muppets Studio.
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Back in 1988 the Muppets were already on top of their Trump trolling game, as children tuned in to watch a conniving Ronald Grump build his iconic Grump Tower.
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Since then, Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, Idina Menzel, Meghan Trainor, One Direction, Adele, The Lonely Island, Madonna, and the Sesame Street Muppets have all given the segment a shot.
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The model was spotted on a stoop in New York yesterday modeling some of Miu Miu's latest fashions, but with a couple of furry friends in tow: the Muppets.
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"Embedded in the content, Sesame's Muppets will model inclusion and respect, and gender equity, and they will provide engaging educational messages, always from a child's perspective," the release reads.
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More astonishing, the dolls can speak, and they offer dry, witty commentary on Harriet's storytelling and call to mind an edgier version of the Muppets' two old heckling men.
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From a stern, stiff-postured eagle to silly, squiggly jellyfish, this celebration on Sunday in Queens will honor Muppets and puppets, and all that they can do on film.
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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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To find out, we spoke with Sesame's music director, its writers, its Muppets and Usher, who took what the "Sesame" composers and lyricists gave him and essentially deconstructed it.
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According to Knapp, the wedding videographer cut a clip of Muppets footage into the video without permission, a truly perplexing move that is now cemented in the couple's history.
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Henson, determined to prove herself "edgier than the Muppets," became the first female president of the Harvard Lampoon , then moved to Hollywood and became the president of Columbia Pictures.
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Apart from the teeth, I can see why; she has the mad energy of Animal in The Muppets and loves what the Chinese call "renao," or "hot noise," excitement.
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Steve Whitmire, the puppeteer who was fired after 27 years as Kermit the Frog, said Thursday he is "devastated to have failed" Muppets founder and his mentor Jim Henson.
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Executives at Disney also helped arrange an interview for a Times reporter with a producer on a Muppets-related project who expressed the same criticisms as the Henson family.
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The Muppets Studio issued a statement Monday, saying the official reason they pulled the trigger was "unacceptable business conduct" -- which is pretty much what Cheryl said ... with bigger words.
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Bex Schwartz, a television writer and creative director at the media company Alkemy X, cited the 2015 reboot of "The Muppets," which ran for a single ignominious season on ABC.
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When Kermit the Frog needed to secure his raincoat for an appearance on the U.S. children's television show "Sesame Street," the Muppets' clothing designer turned to Tender Buttons for help.
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But instead of taking a much-deserved nap, she went right back to work the next day, posing for Love magazine's latest cover surrounded by a whole bunch of Muppets.
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Skype first introduced partner-driven custom emoji in September of last year, rolling out around 150 different video clips and animation options from Universal Studios, BBC, and the Disney Muppets.
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Last year saw the Alphabet network yank 5 of its freshman shows, while this year saw that number increase to 13 — including the much buzzed-about return of The Muppets.
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When he was hired to direct the $170 million "Alice Through the Looking Glass," which arrives on Friday, May 27, Mr. Bobin had made only two modestly budgeted "Muppets" movies.
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Explained is the somewhat routinized process of putting out a variety show, back in a brass age of them that somehow stretched to accommodate both Dean Martin and the Muppets.
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Whitmire first began working with Muppets in 22014, and ascended through the ranks to be appointed Jim Henson's successor as Kermit's voice and puppeteer after Henson's unexpected death in 22015.
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Whitmire has clearly personally identified with Kermit for most of his life, but he's certainly not the only person involved with the Muppets who feels a deep connection to them.
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The Muppets Studio is blaming "unacceptable business conduct" for its dismissal of Steve Whitmire as the longtime performer of Kermit the Frog, a firing that created outrage on social media.
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The full schedule, on the museum's website, also comprises "Muppets Most Wanted" (2014), a crime caper film, and a Sam Eagle tribute, consisting of clips starring that fiercely patriotic bird.
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I feel that I am at the top of my game, and I want all of you who love the Muppets to know that I would never consider abandoning Kermit.
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His bond with the Muppets began when, at age 10, he wrote a letter to Mr. Henson asking questions about puppetry around the same time "Sesame Street" had its premiere.
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Now I don't ... See, the last show I was on was "The Muppets," and we had the same problems in the writer's room with everyone's watching videos and on their phones.
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"Even though they are identified as male characters and posess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation."
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The Muppets' house band were one of the acts Sunday at the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco, where they opened for Third Eye Blind, Chance the Rapper and Lionel Richie.
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"As a puppeteer myself, I've never had more admiration for any performer than I have for Steve Whitmire," wrote one Muppets fan on Reddit after the news of Whitmire's firing broke.
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So this little oddity I had intended to stream for a few minutes, mainly because it looked like, pardon my french, "fucked up acid muppets," kept me going for far longer.
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Twitter user Molly Knapp shared a video early Wednesday morning, the day of her parents' 25th anniversary, that shows their wedding video with a bizarre edit: The Muppets are in it!
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Kermit was Henson's signature character, and the centerpiece of the Muppets franchise, from 1955 until 1990, and when he died it was unthinkable for many to imagine someone else doing it.
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The "Sesame Street" television show and a leading charity received a $100 million grant on Wednesday to use the Muppets to reach millions of war-affected children in the Middle East.
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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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But Alice's mission feels as manufactured as the story's whatsits and doodads, as Bobin struggles to infuse make-believe with emotion (something he managed winningly within the comic realm of The Muppets).
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Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characters (as most Sesame Street Muppets™ do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation.
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Along the base of the cake, a message proclaimed, "Happy birthday Isaiah," along with a "MOST WANTED" stamp — a reference to the birthday boy's favorite movie at the moment, Muppets Most Wanted.
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When I've done comedy stuff in the past — I did a few films, like the Muppets movie when it was revived, Flight of the Conchords — [I was] trying to understand the line.
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In addition to Obama, a string of famous chefs and celebrities will act as guest judges in order to replace former MasterChef Junior judge Graham Elliot, including Martha Stewart and the Muppets.
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Along the base of the cake, a message proclaimed, "Happy birthday Isaiah," along with a "MOST WANTED" stamp — a reference to the birthday boy's favorite movie at the moment, Muppets Most Wanted.
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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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Here are three I made from this week alone: Kermit is a stand-up member of society and a role model to kids who grew up on Sesame Street and The Muppets.
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Kermit first debuted in 1955 on Henson's five-minute puppet show, "Sam and Friends," which aired on WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. He went on to become the star of "The Muppets."
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In a 2015 Longreads profile of Whitmire, writer Jon Irwin recounts that in the buildup to the release of the 2011 film The Muppets, Disney wouldn't actually allow journalists to interview Whitmire.
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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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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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As the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet noted, Twitter users were quick to ridicule Mr. Trump's remark, with joking references to the Swedish Chef, the "Muppets" character; Swedish meatballs; and Ikea, the furniture giant.
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In this initial period you'll need to get a timed ticket to meet the Muppets, which seems sensible given the show's narrow, winding galleries; you'll want to reserve your family's spots now.
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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 elder Henson&aposs Muppets -- including characters Kermit the Frog, Bert and Ernie and Big Bird -- have been a key feature of "Sesame Street" since the show launched on public television in 1969.
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Written by Todd Berger and directed by Brian Henson — son of Muppets creator Jim Henson — The Happytime Murders is a hard R-rated comedy set in a world where puppets and humans coexist.
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Clinton will also spend time fund-raising on her West Coast swing, attending an event hosted by Lisa Henson and David Pressler at Jim Henson Co. Studios, the original creator of the Muppets.
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She is physically one of the strongest Muppets, the only one with real combat skills, and even as the main girl in a largely-male ensemble she is rarely the damsel in distress.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren says the Florida mass shooting is sadly a vicious cycle set on repeat ... and her colleagues won't do anything about it because they're a bunch of muppets for the NRA.
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Mr. Robinson (NBC) The Muppets (ABC) The Mysteries of Laura (NBC) Of Kings and Prophets (ABC) The Player (NBC) Person of Interest (CBS) — The currently airing fifth season will be the show's last.
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Other streaming services, including HBO NOW and Apple TV+, already have deals with Sesame Workshop, the former which now airs Sesame Street and the latter which will have muppets teaching kids programming basics.
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The Muppets Studio did not detail the nature of Whitmire's "repeated unacceptable business conduct," but said it spanned "a period of many years," adding that "he consistently failed to address" his employers' feedback.
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Oscar the Grouch will be played by Eric Jacobson, a puppeteer who also performs Grover, Bert, and Guy Smiley for "Sesame Street," as well as Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy for the Muppets.
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Semifinalist: Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee Solution: Creating multimedia educational content featuring "Sesame Street" muppets for schools, community centers, social protection programs, and health clinics in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.
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Spinney and Oscar in 2014 "I always thought, How fortunate for me that I got to play the two best Muppets?" said Spinney in an interview with the New York Times about his retirement.
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Premiering on August 17, the R-rated buddy-cop comedy comes from Brian Henson, son of Muppets creator Jim Henson, and is set in a world where humans and Sesame Street–style puppets coexist.
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Seeing Muppets recontextualized like this — particularly in their more extreme moments where they're dropping F-bombs or having graphic puppet sex — holds the same kind of transgressive glee as, say, Team America: World Police.
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" The Muppets Studio then issued a more detailed response, explaining how they "raised concerns about Steve's repeated unacceptable business conduct over a period of many years and he consistently failed to address the feedback.
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" They continue, "Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets™ do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation.
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Sesame Street has been on the air for 50 years, which for so many of us means that we have had the privilege of growing up with the Muppets who have become household names.
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When Julia was introduced, it provided an opportunity for the show to explain her differences and strengths to the other Muppets, which means that the viewers are given the chance to learn, as well.
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To the list of famous things that have been discontinued only to be resurrected later — Marvel Comics, the Muppets and Twinkies, to name but three — add bar cars on the Metro-North Railroad. Gov.
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That allows access to more well-known kids' brands, like Bubble Guppies, Dora the Explorer, PAW Patrol, Peppa Pig and family-friendly movies, including Adventures of Elmo in Groucholand, Muppets Take Manhattan and more.
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Farscape, a show that could get very, very dark and heavy, with beloved character deaths and near-impossible moral grays, could also be the goofiest version of muppets in space that you could imagine.
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There's the Muppets re-enacting the chest-buster scene from Ridley Scott's Alien, or 'Dad's Army of Darkness', a mashup of classic British sitcom Dad's Army and Sam Raimi's cult horror Army of Darkness.
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An incredible cascade of woven yarn by Stephanie Harris, titled "Muppets of Walt Disney World Orlando Florida" (2018), mirrors an equally tall net made from a rainbow of wire-strung beads by Alyssa Gold.
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But if the network had succeeded, it wouldn't have produced the second season premiere, and we wouldn't have Prince shooting the shit with Muppets while wearing overalls and chewing on a piece of hay.
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Stevens said his company Tombot, in the northern Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita, partnered with Jim Henson's Creature Shop, a firm founded by the late Muppets creator, to give the robot realistic movements.
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He had inspirations in mind — the filmmaker Robert Altman, for one, but also the Muppets, because, in Mr. Iconis's fervid imagination, they are the model of an ensemble that successfully integrates friendship and theatermaking.
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One of the show's adult characters has to explain the autistic spectrum to Big Bird so he understands Julia's reaction, and why she's less verbal or interactive than some of the Muppets he's used to.
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As many of the replies to Sesame Workshop's now-deleted tweet pointed out, the characters that Sesame Street Muppets represent have been shown to have a sexual orientation — as long as that orientation is straight.
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For the past five years, 26-year old Zubair Ahmad Kakarr has provided the Afghan voices for many of these Muppets, including Cookie Monster, Grover and Bert [of the apartment-sharing duo Bert and Ernie].
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A new "Muppets Thought of the Week" video was published online to YouTube and social media platforms on Monday, and a rep for Disney confirmed to EW that this marked Vogel's debut in the role.
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" FROM PEN: Patrick Warburton Opens Up About His Classic Seinfeld Role Whitmire believes casting the roles of the Muppets shouldn't be done via auditions, but rather carefully selected "based on a certain level of intuition.
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On the episode covering Prince's death, Levin and Latibeaudiere bantered like the old men in the Muppets for several minutes, with Levin alluding to a story they scooped about the late musician's alleged drug use.
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Besides, the Muppets endure as the kind of cultural icons some naive, earnest part of our culture revisits to feel comforted; all we've become conditioned to expect from these puppets is a sense of warmth.
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Though outlets such as NPR reported earlier this week that The Muppets Studio didn't provide an explanation for the sudden decision, Whitmire has written a statement on his personal blog that aims to clear the air.
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The company is reportedly also developing Book of Enchantment, a series about Disney villains, a Muppets reboot, an adaptation of Escape to Witch Mountain, Secret Society of Second Born, and a series about the Mighty Ducks.
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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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Aside from Gomez, the broadcast will feature a lineup of speakers and performers including Demi Lovato, Tyrese Gibson, Alicia Keys, Alessia Cara with STOMP, Josh Gad, DJ Khaled, Mpumi Nobiva, The Muppets, Lilly Singh and more.
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Directed by Brian Henson, son of late Muppets creator Jim Henson, the film is an attempt to give the cute and cuddly puppets that first shot to fame in the 1970s their own adult-centric makeover.
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Based on Future Islands' bouncy pop song of the same name, it uses the HTC Vive headset to transport participants to a cheery, pastel planet inhabited by muppets and a tiny, endearingly grumpy-looking drum major.
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To give you a sense of things, Terry Jones (of Monty Python fame) wrote the script, which was executive produced by George Lucas and directed by master puppeteer Jim Henson, known best for creating The Muppets.
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This sequel to Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," directed by James Bobin ("The Muppets"), is so cluttered with an unwieldy mixture of Victoriana and special-effects gadgetry that every nook and cranny is crammed with stuff.
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In addition to Reggie and another experienced animal actor, Archie (yes, they're named after Archie Comics characters), Brauner found two more orange tabbies, named Gonzo and Rizzo in a nod to the Muppets, at a shelter.
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With the exception of a mound of stuffed Muppets in the room of their 14-year-old daughter, Millie, and two stone stools on the deck with monster feet, the house does not scream goofy creatures.
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Henson, whose name you might recognize from such franchises as the Muppets, Star Wars, and the cult classic Labyrinth (no big deal), made The Dark Crystal in 1982 using largely puppetry and old fashioned movie magic.
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PASADENA, California — Expectations and hopes could not have been higher for The Muppets' return to television back in September, but it didn't take long for reviewers and fans alike to declare the show had missed the mark.
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We won't be dressed up like Muppets or anything but we're going to pay homage in a really fun way that I think will show off a new side of Ryan that people really haven't seen before.
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It turns viewers into participants in a surreal and slightly Muppets-esque dance party — although if you get too close to your fellow puppets, they'll bat their hands around in mock annoyance, dancing away from your touch.
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Agent Carter, Castle, CSI: Cyber, Crowded, The Family, Galavant, Game of Silence, The Grinder, Heartbeat, The Muppets, The Mysteries of Laura, Nashville, Telenovela, Undateable, Rush Hour, Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life, and Limitless have been canceled.
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Mainstream papers, from USA Today to the New York Daily News, attempted to explain the meme to an audience whose most recent interaction with Kermit the Frog was deleting their DVR subscription of the aborted Muppets reboot.
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When you search at the top of the screen, you can type whatever you're looking for, but Disney Plus also offers helpful suggestions by directing you to collections like Disney Channel original movies or the "Muppets" videos.
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Spinney voiced and operated the two major Muppets from their inception in 1969 when he was 36, and performed them almost exclusively into his 80s on the PBS kids&apos television show that later moved to HBO.
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So far, according to his Facebook page, Mr. Goldstone has made stops in Venice; Dubrovnik, Croatia; and Montenegro, among other places, and posted images of himself with young men — "muppets," as he calls them — in each one.
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Also, there is the Center for Puppetry Arts, the largest organization in the U.S. dedicated to puppetry, where you can actually see your favorite Muppets, Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock puppets on display and in interactive exhibits.
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But Facebook isn't giving up on Portal, having launched a huge marketing blitz featuring promotions in ABC TV shows as well as TV commercials starring the likes of Kim Kardashian West, Jennifer Lopez and, lately, the Muppets.
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There's Jeff Foxworthy's redneck version, Twisted Sister's heavy metal take, and, of course, a Muppets version (featuring John Denver): There's also a 12 days of Christmas diet of sorts, which the Atlantic's Olga Khazan attempted in 2013.
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If Biden doesn't run, and this is interesting, they're saying that he and Bernie Sanders, who's also still deliberating, if they do not run, will spend the rest of their lives in a balcony heckling the Muppets.
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The late-night host lampooned the press secretary for hiding from press among the bushes and he got so sick of hearing Spicer claim Trump to be doing a "phenomenal" job that he created a Muppets-themed remix.
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Only 1,000 of the 20-inch blue muppets have been produced worldwide, and that was enough to draw a long line of eager buyers to the mall, ahead of a one-month KAWS pop-up which launched Thursday.
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Since there has been little to no effort to resolve the issue of lead paint, Oliver brought back the lovable Sesame Street muppets to draw attention to its hazards — because even the tiniest amount can cause irreversible damage.
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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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You're probably familiar with Kermit the Frog, but did you know that the inventor of the Muppets once tried to open an inflatable dome-shaped psychedelic nightclub called Cyclia, inspired by his love of the band Jefferson Airplane?
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Variety specials have long been a staple in the world of television, even in recent years (make sure to hunt down Lady Gaga's excellent 2013 special, Lady Gaga and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular, if you're looking for proof).
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When I tell stories about editing Miss Piggy out of a Q&A with Jason Segel about The Muppets because she's all pink and porky and clearly haram, I'm informed in shocked tones that I was being censored.
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Adam Schleichkorn, the same guy who expertly mashed up the Muppets and the Beastie Boys, has used his editing prowess to help Grover, Elmo, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster and Telly cover "Tha Crossroads" by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
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However, their booth is pretty bleak, so Bash, inspired by The Muppets, enlists Debbie to help him start a whisper campaign, talking up GLOW in front of buyers and making people at the event think it's a huge deal.
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Facebook is expected to open its messaging platform to all sorts of bots (users can already chat with a selected few, including one impersonating Miss Piggy of the Muppets) and launch an online shop which will list the services.
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Ever since the news of his firing became public, however, Whitmire has heavily implied, mainly on his blog, that the real reason he was dismissed is that he cared too much about safeguarding Jim Henson's vision for the Muppets.
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" The makers of "Sesame Street," longtime home of the Muppets, filed suit, arguing the film "deliberately confuses consumers into mistakenly believing Sesame is associated with, has allowed, or has even endorsed or produced the movie and tarnishes Sesame's brand.
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I know Keanu Reeves is amazing and seems like the obvious choice to keep, but the scene where Agent Smith rants about how much he hates humans makes me think how great an antagonist he would be opposite muppets.
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Featuring colorful characters such as the Cookie Monster, Big Bird and other Muppets, the long-running "Sesame Street" is highly regarded for teaching children to read, count and learn colors, along with tackling issues of race, tolerance and death.
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In an adorable new promo for ABC's The Muppets, which was exclusively debuted by Entertainment Weekly, 60 of the iconic characters reunite to promote their show-within-a-show with a souped-up version of the series's original 1970s theme song.
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The campaign launches tomorrow, Tuesday, September 18 at the Global Citizen: Movement Makers Summit with a video in which children from around the world (and Sesame Street Muppets) share their dreams and what they think it takes to get achieve them.
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They were probably lying awake at night, worried their GM was going to sprint into the office, make a trade, pull the fire alarm and then jump out the window, all while flailing his arms like Beeker from the muppets.
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" A spokesperson for The Muppets Studio issued the following statement to PEOPLE: "The role of Kermit the Frog is an iconic one that is beloved by fans and we take our responsibility to protect the integrity of that character very seriously.
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But the depth of that character is what makes him who he is, and it's hard to impress upon people who only watch the Muppets from the outside, how important that is and what a hallmark of Jim Henson that was.
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And while you're killing time, his Late Night swan song, a performance of The Band's "The Weight" with the Muppets, is every type of charming, from Fallon's take on Levon Helm to Animal's aharmonic screams at the end of every chorus.
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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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Though Whitmire hasn't discussed specific incidents or character issues beyond the one he mentioned to THR, he also wrote that he has long felt the Muppets were losing something vital about themselves that he was trying to defend — to no avail.
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"[B]eing outspoken about these very character issues to the top creative executives on the ABC series is at the core of the number one issue stated to me for my termination by [Disney's] Muppets Studios," he wrote on his blog.
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In his own interview with the Hollywood Reporter, he stated that Whitmire would often "play brinkmanship" and make "outrageous demands" because he was Kermit — and that he probably should have replaced Kermit's voice actor before selling the Muppets franchise to Disney.
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Instead, they had to interview Kermit: As part of the pre-launch media rush for 2011's The Muppets, the first feature film since Disney bought the characters from The Jim Henson Company, journalist Steve Marsh wanted to interview Whitmire.
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Other planned series include "New in Town," with films about moving in (like "The Muppets Take Manhattan" and "The Coca-Cola Kid"), and "Shouting at the Screen," with the hosts Wyatt Cenac and Donwill offering live commentary on blaxploitation films.
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By the show's end, a gas leak had everyone believing they were Muppets, multiple characters threatened to riot over a lack of tater tots in the cafeteria, and Jesus visited students by taking the form of a grilled cheese sandwich.
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Called "Ahlan Simsim," which means "Welcome Sesame" in Arabic, the show will feature Elmo, Cookie Monster and Grover, as well as new Muppets — a boy monster Jad, who had to leave his home, and Basma, who befriends the young stranger.
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BERT itself officially stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, and although Google refused multiple requests from The Verge to discuss the origins of the name, it's widely assumed that the researchers, like those from Allen, had the Muppets in mind.
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Beginning in 1901 with the silent film "Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost," Charles Dickens' tale of a man visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet To Come has been reimagined with the Muppets, animation, and in musical form.
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"The role of Kermit the Frog is an iconic one that is beloved by fans and we take our responsibility to protect the integrity of that character very seriously," said Debbie McClellan, head of the Muppets Studio, a division of Disney.
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The Verge wrote that some users have been receiving the unwanted messages, which urge them to tune in to see Kendall Jenner, Hailey Baldwin, comedian Jason Sudeikis, and the Muppets, for weeks via the iOS TV app: We're not sure how many iPhone users received the notifications, but it looks like Apple has tried plugging its show at least twice in recent weeks: once on December 7th for an episode where Kendall Jenner and Hailey Baldwin grill each other using a lie detector test, and once on December 14 for an episode featuring joint singalongs with comedian Jason Sudeikis and the Muppets.
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While Big Bird, Mr. Snuffleupagus, Oscar the Grouch, and Bert and Ernie still make appearances, story lines will feature a smaller group of Muppets — Elmo, Abby, Cookie Monster and Rosita — so that children will see "familiar faces each week," Ms. Johnson said.
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Other performers include the cast and Muppets of Sesame Street, Tom Colicchio, and Padma Lakshmi from Top Chef, Nicky Jam, Bebe Rexha, Lauren Alaina, Cam, Sabrina Carpenter, Sara Evans, Kat Graham, Andy Grammer, Angelica Hale, Olivia Holt, Dustin Lynch, and Jojo Siwa.
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Directed by James Bobin, 11-time Emmy nominee responsible for films like The Muppets, the adaptation will take the beloved adventurer through the rough-and-tumbles of adolescent crushes and familial relationships — all while solving the mystery of a lost Inca civilization.
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After Julia's introductory segment, there are number- and letter-of-the-day segments featuring the likes of Cookie Monster and the Count, and an ending credits song, and while they feature a wide array of Muppets, I didn't see Julia in the crowd.
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Image: AP Photo/Josh ReynoldsJason Segel—actor of How I Met Your Mother, Freaks and Geeks and Muppets fame—is in a unique position: he's the only person alive that can save one very strange man from a lifetime of gastrointestinal discomfort.
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Sugar also detailed some of the obstacles she faced behind the scenes at Cartoon Network, most persistently the harmful idea that queerness is somehow "adult content" — despite, like the heterosexual Muppets of Sesame Street, straight romance being deemed unthreatening to young audiences.
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You can see it with the Evil Kermit meme, which uses a screenshot from a scene in Muppets Most Wanted, where Kermit comes face to face with his evil doppelgänger, as a template for jokes about the allure of taking the low road.
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Many people expressed sadness and outrage, pointing out that Sesame Street and the Muppets have always included a wide range of heteronormative romantic (and implied sexual) expression and that the official statement seemed to be ignoring this history to erase queer identity.
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As much as hymns sparked some of his earliest musical experiences, he also points to a long love of pop music as fuelling Choir Boy, beginning with a record of Muppets' Beach Boys covers he listened to when he was a small child.
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This year's lineup included sets from Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, Lana Del Rey, Lionel Richie, Kehlani, Chance the Rapper, Major Lazer, Vince Staples, Miguel, Grimes, Kamasi Washington, and Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, who, for the unanointed, is the band from the Muppets.
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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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Probably because it was brought to us by Jim Henson, creator of the lovable, bright, and happy Muppets and Fraggles, the original film's dystopian tone, with its barren population and scorched world, is a concept that critics just couldn't seem to get over.
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Straight from the creative mind of Jim Henson who helped bring franchises such as the Muppets, Star Wars, and the cult classic Labyrinth to life, comes a 10-episode prequel series to the 1982 fantasy adventure, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
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She and Jason Weber, the Creature Shop's New York creative supervisor and an expert fabric painter and dyer, call them "anything muppets" — on occasion, they sit in for firefighters or police officers in the background of a scene, or once, for Elmo's grandmother.
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Even people who believe in climate change are climate change deniers: you might know,…Read more ReadDuck Gifs Are the Only Gifs With IntegrityGifs lit up Web 1.0 like Las Vegas—the torches, crystal balls, humping muppets, dancing babies,…Read more Read
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The war of words between Mr. Whitmire and Disney was startling, given the outward harmony of the Muppets brand and the fact that when prominent performers are fired, the two sides usually come to terms and agree not to disparage each other.
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YouTube channel Darth Blender took the time and care to lift scenes from six different Muppets movies (and one 50 Shades of Grey trailer) to put together this fascinating, if a little uncomfortable, journey through the love life of America's favorite frog and pig couple.
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In the past, the right-leaning organization has boycotted American Girl magazine, for featuring a same-sex couple with four adopted children; Olive Garden, for sponsoring the television series Lucifer; and the Muppets, for Kermit's full-frontal nudity and Miss Piggy's feminism, among other reasons.
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They were returning cartoon animals to the crudity of blackface creations like Flip the Frog and denying the artistic depth found in works ranging from Krazy Kat to the Muppets to Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus (where the cats are Nazis and the mice Jews).
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It's the first lady's ability to give hugs and entertain Muppets (actual ones, not just those in the House of Representatives), to have, in short, the confidence with which to be silly, that makes a speech as serious as this week's DNC address so powerful.
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This year is the 15883th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which now covers far more blocks — it begins at 77th Street at Central Park West and ends on 34th Street in front of Macy's — and features performers like Regina Spektor, Tony Bennett and the Muppets.
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This year is the 90th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which now covers far more blocks — it begins at 77th Street at Central Park West and ends on 34th Street in front of Macy's — and features performers like Regina Spektor, Tony Bennett and the Muppets.
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Zur allgemeinen Unterhaltung hatte ich außerdem einige Spotify-Playlisten erstellt, darunter eine Auswahl von motivierenden Road-Songs: "Moving Right Along" von den Muppets, Willie Nelsons "On the Road Again", "The Dukes of Hazzard Theme" gesungen von Waylon Jennings und Johnny Cash mit "I've Been Everywhere".
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The performer, Steve Whitmire, broke his silence in a telephone interview on Monday, saying that Disney's dismissal had amounted to "a betrayal" after a career devoted to carrying on the legacy of Jim Henson, the founder of the Muppets and the original voice of Kermit.
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Here are some other hidden categories we were saddened to see didn't have any entries at the moment: War Alien Sci-Fi (3570), Suspenseful Time-Travel Movies (2778), Sentimental Action and Adventure (4879), MTV TV Shows (4221), and Feel-Good Education and Guidance Starring Muppets (4699).
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Along with a spectacle of floats, viewers will also be treated to several live musical performances by talent including the Barenaked Ladies, Martina McBride, Rita Ora, Anika Noni Rose and the cast & Muppets of Sesame Street, Sugarland, Ashley Tisdale, Mackenzie Ziegler, Jack & Jack, Johnny Orlando and more.
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Created in 1969 — they were the only original Muppets to debut with Sesame Street's original pilot — Bert and Ernie seem to have been clearly modeled off Neil Simon's famous Odd Couple, Oscar and Felix, who were tremendously popular and had permeated the culture in the '60s.
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"Please be respectful of the fact that there a bunch of shrieking bigots in Congress who are looking to zero out funding to PBS at any time, so we can never acknowledge the decades-long enduring and healthy love between these two beautiful Muppets." https://t.
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The sweet treat consisted of a giant replica of Kermit the Frog resting atop a cake shaped like the number 4, which was also covered in polka dots and various beloved characters from the Muppets franchise like Miss Piggy, Rowlf, Animal, Gonzo, Beaker and the Swedish Chef.
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No. From her clever "Turnip for What" Vine to singing with the Muppets and grocery shopping with Billy Eichner and Big Bird on Funny or Die's "Billy on the Street," no effort to show children the benefits of healthy eating was too silly for Michelle Obama.
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While I fought very hard for the integrity of the Muppets over the last twelve years largely to my own detriment, maybe I should have fought even harder and louder…and, yes, I would have likely been gone sooner… I fear I was the last samurai.
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KR Sure, you're dealing with a genre that is built around this white strongman/ hero stereotype and it was fun to have those guys be like muppets in the background, and instead focus on more nuanced and stronger guys — I say stronger because they're so vulnerable.
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"They were uncomfortable with the way I had handled giving notes to one of the top creative executives on the series," Mr. Whitmire said, referring to "The Muppets," the most recent television revival of the franchise, which aired on ABC for one season, ending in March 2016.
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The role won him an Oscar, however, and he's since gone on to star in many high-profile American productions, including The Green Hornet, Muppets Most Wanted, Spectre and, of course, Django Unchained, for which he again won an Oscar, as well as a Golden Globe and BAFTA.
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And Groban is one of the most easily likable performers working today — if you need proof, just look at how seamlessly he integrated into The Muppets — and isn't afraid to skewer his squeaky-clean image, as he's done in the past via cameos on Glee and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
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From long running franchises (CSI: Cyber) to new series with big stars (Grandfathered, Telenovela) to those that viewers had high hopes for that didn't quite deliver (The Muppets), the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC), are deciding which of their shows will live and die.
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The sweet treat consisted of a giant replica of Kermit the Frog resting atop a cake shaped like the number 4, which was also covered in polka dots and various beloved characters from the Muppets franchise like Miss Piggy, Rowlf, Animal, Gonzo, Beaker, Fozzie Bear and the Swedish Chef.
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The sweet treat consisted of a giant replica of Kermit the Frog resting atop a cake shaped like the number 4, which was also covered in polka dots and various beloved characters from the Muppets franchise like Miss Piggy, Rowlf, Animal, Gonzo, Beaker, Fozzie Bear and the Swedish Chef.
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In honor of her older child turning 4, the county star — who recently welcomed her second baby, son Jacob Bryan, with husband Mike Fisher — showed off the festive Muppets-themed cake she served at Isaiah's special celebration, which was held a few days before his actual birthday on Wednesday.
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"The Happytime Murders": Melissa McCarthy and a lot of foul-mouthed puppets -- from director Brian Henson, the son of Muppets mastermind Jim Henson -- looked a whole lot better on paper, or maybe felt, than the movie did on screen, yielding an ostentatious comedy flop on most every level.
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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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Whitmire could not immediately be reached for comment, but in an interview Monday with The Hollywood Reporter he said the studio felt he had been too outspoken in expressing how the Kermit character should be portrayed on the ABC prime-time Muppets mockumentary series that aired in 2015-16.
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No, not your usual glazed-eyed fashion week groupies, the actual muppets, led by Miss Piggy, who was listed on the invitation as a host and was at pains to stress that she worked with Katie Grand, Love's editor in chief, for the better part of a decade.
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Katy Perry was party at the top (silver sequins) and Muppets on the bottom (lavender feathers) in a turtlenecked Tom Ford gown that she wore with a shaggy platinum "lob" — though for her rendition of "Chained to the Rhythm," she switched to a white trouser suit over bustier.
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In a 45-minute interview on Monday, a rarity without a piece of felt on his hand, Mr. Whitmire said that last October he received a phone call from two top Muppets Studio executives, both of whom he declined to name, telling him that he was being let go.
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After the phone call with the Muppets Studio executives, Mr. Whitmire said he had a lawyer approach Disney executives afterward to propose adding a provision to future contracts saying he would never give creative feedback again or talk to the union again while a deal was being negotiated.
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"[They are] parents who grew up on Sesame...the younger, who don’t have kids but are super-fans of Sesame, to the older, whose kids are sorta out of the age group, but they still have an incredible affinity to one or many of the Muppets," said Youngwood.
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Then in a follow-up post on July 20143, he described himself as "the last samurai" standing between the Muppets and a loss of their core values: I believe characters like Kermit need to remain built on the sturdy foundation of their past in order to be progressive going forward.
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Willems's books remind me of the short plays of David Ives, crossed with the Muppets and those old Land Shark skits from "Saturday Night Live," in which the person in the goofy foam shark costume pretends to deliver flowers, or candy, and then chomps on the heads of unsuspecting victims.
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In several blog posts and interviews, he's accused Disney of firing him without giving him a chance to respond to the company's complaints about his job performance, and heavily implied that his firing is antithetical both to what's best for the Muppets and to the late Jim Henson's vision for the beloved characters.
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He's also enamored with the wide variety of pop culture references touted in many Supreme products, which recently featured shirts paying homage to iconic art-house rockers The Velvet Underground, while past product lines included references to cultural icons ranging from Miles Davis to The Muppets to the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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This is an opportune time to remind you of when then-Newlyweds Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey hosted Nick & Jessica's Family Christmas in 2004: Or when Lady Gaga hosted Lady Gaga and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular and performed a gender-swapped version of "Baby It's Cold Outside" with Joseph Gordon-Levitt in 2013.
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Jason Segel made his name working in comedy—nine seasons on How I Met Your Mother, numerous big-screen collaborations with Judd Apatow's camp, rebooting the Muppets for a new generation of kids—but lately, the 37-year-old actor is interested in projects that tackle the "big questions," as he calls them.
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Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" had been adapted so many times to heartwarming effect — as drama, in the Reginald Owen and Alastair Sim standards from 1938 and 1951; as a musical, with Albert Finney in 1970; and with Muppets in 1992 — that it needed Bill Murray to drop a few coals in the stocking.
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On Tuesday, Saltzman's "answer" went viral, prompting a massive outpouring of debate and controversy over the two Muppets — and a official negation from Sesame Street — in the form of a now-deleted tweet that contained the following statement: The Sesame Workshop's statement that Bert and Ernie "do not have a sexual orientation" provoked a day of widespread backlash.
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Saltzman's comments about why he wrote Bert and Ernie as a reflection of himself and his relationship are culturally important on a level that has nothing to do with Muppets; they're about the way marginalized voices have always found themselves within and expressed themselves through subtextual coding, because for so long it was the only way they could.
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"We fluffing love Sesame Street and we're obviously very pleased that the ruling reinforced what STX's intention was from the very beginning — to honor the heritage of The Jim Henson Company's previous award-winning creations while drawing a clear distinction between any Muppets or Sesame Street characters and the new world Brian Henson and team created," it said.
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He used it to create music for commercials and to orchestrate perky melodies — most notably "Pop Corn," an instrumental originally released on Mr. Kingsley's 1969 album "Music to Moog By." It became a best seller and was remade (usually renamed "Popcorn") in hundreds of versions: by Kraftwerk, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Aphex Twin and the Muppets, among others.
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Luther StrangeLuther Johnson StrangeGOP frets over nightmare scenario for Senate primaries Roy Moore trails Republican field in Alabama The Hill's Morning Report — US strikes approved against Iran pulled back MORE (R-Ala.), votes were recorded for other public figures such as Ellen DeGeneres, the ghost of Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, and "Muppets" star Kermit The Frog.
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I feel that I am at the top of my game, and I want all of you who love the Muppets to know that I would never consider abandoning Kermit or any of the others because to do so would be to forsake the assignment entrusted to me by Jim Henson, my friend and mentor, but even more, my hero.
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Diddy has six albums under his belt, the most recent being 2015's MMM, but his income doesn't just come from his music: He's also appeared in a number of films including 2014's Muppets Most Wanted and 2010's Get Him to the Greek, has a deal with vodka company Ciroc, and a stake in the Revolt TV network.
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In addition to designing over-the-top muppets, the studio has created life-like animatronic animals for use in movies and TV, and with a deep understanding of how creatures move, they were able to deliver a design for a robotic dog that not only looks more like a real dog than a plush toy, it moves like one as well.
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I really love the tone of comedy from the 1970s — The Carol Burnett Show, Sesame Street, Steve Martin's old comedy routines, the Muppets — things that are really for all ages; they err on the side of being for grownups, but they're appropriate for kids, as opposed to something like Shrek, which is for kids but has a little extra for the grownups.
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The full list: Of Kings and Prophets (yanked from the network after 2 episodes back in March) The Family (after 1 season) Blood and Oil (after 1 season) The Muppets (after 1 season) Wicked City (after 1 season) The Whispers (after 1 season) Agent Carter (after 2 seasons) Galavant (after 2 seasons) Nashville (after 4 seasons) Castle (after 13 seasons) R.I.P. CSI franchise.
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"We fluffing love Sesame Street and we're obviously very pleased that the ruling reinforced what STX's intention was from the very beginning -- to honor the heritage of The Jim Henson Company's previous award-winning creations while drawing a clear distinction between any Muppets or Sesame Street characters and the new world Brian Henson and team created," STX said in a statement.
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Click here to view original GIFGIF: Pablo Lopez, "Trippy Duck," 2018 (Original uncropped version below)Gifs lit up Web 1.0 like Las Vegas—the torches, crystal balls, humping muppets, dancing babies, mailboxes opening and closing to indicate that you've got mail—all signaling that crimson castles, their divorced dads clubs, and in-browser spaceships were hip and exciting places to be.
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"We fluffing love Sesame Street and we&aposre obviously very pleased that the ruling reinforced what STX&aposs intention was from the very beginning — to honor the heritage of The Jim Henson Company&aposs previous award-winning creations while drawing a clear distinction between any Muppets or Sesame Street characters and the new world Brian Henson and team created," STX, the film's distributor, said in statement.
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"What's interesting about Lil' Mamba is that, unlike most Muppets, he would seemingly appear to be a stand-in for a younger Kobe, not a young child in general," says Graydon Gordian, who went from writing about the San Antonio Spurs at the late ESPN blog 48 Minutes of Hell to working as a staff writer for Sesame Workshop, the production company behind Sesame Street, until 2014.
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We're not sure how many iPhone users received the notifications, but it looks like Apple has tried plugging its show at least twice in recent weeks: once on December 7th for an episode where Kendall Jenner and Hailey Baldwin grill each other using a lie detector test, and once on December 14 for an episode featuring joint singalongs with comedian Jason Sudeikis and the Muppets.
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If you're interested in total immersion in the genius of Jim Henson (1936-90) — the creator of the Muppets — along with his gifted cohorts and a sense of how their miraculous art evolved, a new option is at hand: "The Jim Henson Exhibition," which opens Saturday, July 22, in its own newly built gallery at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens.
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