The Smithsonian already had a Kermit puppet from the "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show" era.
Jason Segel was an unlikely candidate to make the deal to reboot The Muppet franchise.
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But that muppet-like dinosaur or blue horse roaming the stands will draw his attention immediately.
The Muppet Show made its TV debut in 1976 and has enjoyed enduring popularity.
While baseball goes for Muppet-like characters, the NBA favors tough animals--bulls, mountain lions, coyotes, gorillas--acting goofy.
Sure, he could have a handful of you-know-whats, but even a Muppet has to watch his waistline.
There's nothing like adding a Muppet character to a sporting event to hook a young fan for life.
While baseball mascots tend to be Muppet-like and light hearted, their basketball counterparts are athletic and daring.
This year, Bret McKenzie's Man or Muppet from The Muppets beat Real in Rio, from Rio, to win the accolade.
Pennant said he was harassed and was reported to have called his attacker a "muppet" before being knocked to the ground.
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Or maybe even an animated plane like this Muppet Mobile Lab (image courtesy Creative Commons on Flickr by Jurvetson).
Add to that DVD sales (not to mention Muppet merchandise) and you can bet Disney is confident it made the right deal.
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In one music therapy room, Kate heard 10-year-old Bethany Woods' rendition of Rainbow Connection, a well-known children's song from The Muppet Movie.
Greg Smith, who headed Goldman's equity derivatives business in Europe, said it was common to hear talk of ripping off their "muppet" clients.
But of course, the best of the best when it comes to puppets at Christmas will always be The Muppet Christmas Carol.
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Why not change the avatar to a picture of a squid for one day, why not tweet a link to an old Muppet Show clip.
The blue- and green-striped Muppet fur covering copies of Schizophrenology suggests that the North Carolina band The Majestic Twelve might not have picked up on the difference.
If you think Beaker, for example, is a garbage Muppet, you won't lament his mostly missing meeping, while if you're a purist, you'll cringe at every appearance of shrimp-come-lately Pepe.
But now Smith is saying that at least one muppet, after the financial crisis, wised up and openly declared entering into transactions with the care that is required.
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On Saturday I asked David Cameron whether - given his dismissal of the Welsh Government as the Muppet Show - he would trust them with any tax varying powers?
Segel, 32, who says he obsessively watched those three original Muppet films while growing up in Southern California, lobbied hard to co-write and star in the new Muppet film.
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In some cases, their jobs are carried over from past show-within-a-show Muppet joints, while other characters have been shunted off to an "Up Late" writers' room populated by motley talking vermin and crustaceans.
The Muppets never have lacked for emotional nuance, but in exploring the reality of their lives, a demystifying occurs that isn't always for the best when it comes to the Muppet legacy in your mind.
"She loved the Muppet characters as though they were part of her own family, " and the actual puppets themselves were special to her, one of the couple's daughters, Cheryl Henson, said at a news conference.
"She loved the Muppet characters as though they were part of her own family, " and the actual puppets themselves were very special to her, one of the couple's daughters, Cheryl Henson, said at a news conference.
Kermit managed to make a success out of the Muppet Show and its ancillary marketing despite a ton of obstacles in his path, including amnesia, Frog Leg moguls, and the attempted theft of the Baseball Diamond.
Mr. Meeks tends toward the unflappable, and sure enough, when I barged into his office to interrupt a meeting, he simply smiled and shook my hand, as if a giant Muppet intrusion was an everyday occurrence.
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