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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The Muppet Show made its TV debut in 1976 and has enjoyed enduring popularity.
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.
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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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.
In that tight and often-funny tease, we learned that the Muppet gang was reuniting to work with Miss Piggy on a new talk show and that things were going to be awkward because Kermit already had moved on to a new girlfriend in Denise, the pig running ABC's marketing department.
Or the fact that I was fortunate enough to grow up in a tiny community in Western Maine where the only media I consumed was The Muppet Show on PBS and a backyard that was filled with gnome gardens and mysterious bogs where my grandparents encouraged me to explore and play.
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The Muppet brand has carried on, now under the watchful eye of The Walt Disney Company, as a result of knowing what it represents to people and never wavering in its brilliant execution or veering from its purpose to make us laugh at ourselves through the idiosyncratic behavior of its denizens.
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"The only major item that I know will not be represented is the Muppet that they made of me, " Mayor Michael Bloomberg joked at the news conference, where he bantered with Miss Piggy about the city's film and television industry and reminisced about their joint work in the 2008 TV special "A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa, " which featured Bloomberg as himself.
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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This year, Bret McKenzie's Man or Muppet from The Muppets beat Real in Rio, from Rio, to win the accolade.
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.
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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While baseball goes for Muppet-like characters, the NBA favors tough animals--bulls, mountain lions, coyotes, gorillas--acting goofy.
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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But that muppet-like dinosaur or blue horse roaming the stands will draw his attention immediately.
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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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.
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