OCTOBER 14, 2014 Grover made a video with the adorable Kid President, as they both deliver a pep talk about helping homeless people in need. The video is at once adorable, brilliant, and hysterical. I absolutely love it. You really can’t miss this one. Cookie Monster and Elmo stopped by Entertainment Weekly last week to present the “Elmy” awards, celebrating…
Michael Wermuth – Ten years ago last month, The Walt Disney Company purchased the Muppets from The Jim Henson Company, without buying the whole company. To casual fans, it can be confusing to figure out what all Disney owns, exactly. It should be obvious that Disney owns the Muppet characters and properties from The Muppet Show…
NEWS UPDATE: June 7, 2013 This week, the Writers Guild of America posted their list of the 101 Best Written TV Series. Included on the list were both Sesame Street (at #56) and The Muppet Show (at #91). Check out the blurbs below for what the Writers Guild had to say about the shows. Thanks to our…
We have been wondering for years if we would ever see them again… but here we are, in the year of their 30th anniversary, that Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Boober, Red, and Uncle Traveling Matt return in full force!! That’s right, thanks to the combined efforts of The Jim Henson Company, Chris Hardwick, The Nerdist Channel,…
NEWS UPDATE: August 16, 2012 One of our favorite actors, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (of 500 Days of Summer and The Dark Knight Rises) fame appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday night to discuss things that shouldn’t really connect to Muppets… but somehow they did, and JGL’s love for our fuzzy friends was revealed! Check out the…
Ryan Dosier – Welcome to summer school, class! If you had studied harder maybe you wouldn’t be here… but I’m pretty sure you’re all glued to your seats after our Muppet Labs lesson so maybe that’s why you’re here. Anyway… have students will teach I always say! And after last week’s exciting revelation of two…
Since 2005, The Jim Henson Company has been juggling around ideas for a feature film based on Jim Henson’s classic, beloved television series Fraggle Rock. The Fraggles, Doozers ,and Gorgs and the world of Fraggle Rockis already very wide-reaching and cinematic in scope already, but the Henson Company seemed bent on bringing them to the…
Greetings, Muppet fans! We’re reaching out to YOU with a very exciting opportunity from our friends at The Jim Henson Company. We mentioned this contest on the site a few weeks ago, but we don’t feel like we gave it the spotlight it deserves. The Jim Henson Company is hosting an art competition asking any…
Ryan Dosier – September 24th is always a special day in the lives of Muppet fans, and this year is no different. 2011 marks 75 years after the birth of Jim Henson. Jim is responsible for everything you see here on this webpage and we truly wouldn’t be anything without his being born on this…
J.D. Hansel – On May 7th, I had the privilege of going to the Philadelphia Zoo. Living in Delaware, I am no more than an hour away. While I’ve been to this zoo before, I’ve never quite gotten the same experience as I did this time. I wanted to go now more than ever before…
The Muppet Mindset 