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The Muppets (stylized as the muppets.) is an American sitcom that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2015, to March 1, 2016. Co-created by Bill Prady and Bob Kushell, [2] the series was produced by ABC Studios and The Muppets Studio, with Randall Einhorn and Muppet performer Bill Barretta serving as executive producers alongside Prady and Kushell. [3]
The first Muppet characters appeared in Sam and Friends, a Washington, D.C.–based show which was broadcast from 1955 to 1961. Kermit the Frog was one of the show's regulars, and thus was one of Henson's first Muppet creations. [1] The characters became a household name after their appearance in the children's television program Sesame Street. [1]
Statler and Waldorf are a pair of Muppet characters from the sketch comedy television series The Muppet Show, best known for their cantankerous opinions and shared penchant for heckling. The two elderly men first appeared in The Muppet Show in 1975, where they consistently jeered the entirety of the cast and their performances from their box seats.
Muppets Tonight is an American live-action/puppet family-oriented comedy television series, created by Jim Henson Productions and featuring The Muppets.The series ran for two seasons between March 1996 to February 1998, originally airing on ABC before later being aired and rerun on the Disney Channel.
The third season began promptly after the second season in the Spring of 1978, then took a summer and autumn break when Jim Henson went to work on production of The Muppet Movie, resuming in November 1978. All of the characters and sketches from the previous season remained.
Disney bought the Muppets and the Bear in the Big Blue House franchise from the Henson family in February 2004 and controls the characters though their flagship studio, though the deal excluded the Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock characters. [1] [2] [3] Subsequent projects have included the television film The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005), two ...
Big Mean Carl, a greedy green monster who will eat anything and everything. Howard Tubman [broken anchor], a rich pig and RuPaul superfan who appears in the first episode, interrupting Kermit's interview with his idol. Bubba the Rat [broken anchor], a butch rat and friend of Yolanda. Bobo the Bear, an absent-minded, easy-going bear.
The Muppets was a commercial success, accumulating a box office gross nearly quadruple its $45 million budget. It grossed $6.5 million on its opening day and debuted in second place, behind The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1. [110] The following day, Thanksgiving Day, the film grossed $5.8 million for a two-day total of $12.5 million ...