Pro tip: Always let Miss Piggy win

Thinking of Richard Hunt today... he would've been 72. Happy birthday Richard ❤️

Beaker requested by beloved friend @doggonetolove . I could literally not resist lighting him on fire

THE TORTURED MEEPS DEPARTMENT 🥼🤍

drew this a lil while ago but i decided not to upload it then but here it is now!

beaker x taylor swift lmao

BEAKERSWIFT‼️✊

Day 16 of Muppet Advent- Bunsen and Beaker of Muppet Labs!

imo, one of the very few movies that did the "follow your dreams" plot in a way that doesn't talk down to the audience nor patronizes the audience is the muppet movie (1979)

Saw this post and couldn't help myself. Aziraphale and Crowley as Bunsen and Beaker as the charity fund gentlemen in Muppets Christmas Carol. Of course!

Also WAHOO season 3 confirmed!!

more data + the muppets bc i just think he'd have such a good time with them. they'd be best buddies

If you haven't read the "Bunsen and Beaker's relationship" article on the Muppet Wiki you're missing out on a great summary of how the two have canonically gone from "could be read as gay but probably not intentionally" to "we're not even pretending these two are straight" over the years. these aren't even half of the entries btw

I got you babe! ❤️

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Kermit at the optometrist.

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Henson supposedly bought the rights to the show's recording and created the Swedish Chef (who DOES have a real name, but it's not understandable). He was on "Good Morning America," he says, and caught Jim Henson's eye. Real Swedish Chef Lars "Kuprik" Bäckman claims he was the inspiration for the Swedish Chef. There are rumors that he got the name Kermit from a childhood friend of Henson's or a puppeteer from the early days of the Muppets, but Henson always refuted both of those rumors. By the time he showed up on Sesame Street in 1969, though, he had made the transition to frog. At the time, he was more lizard-like than frog-like. The first Kermit was made out of Henson's mom's coat and some ping pong balls. Kermit was "born" in 1955 and first showed up on "Sam and Friends," a five-minute puppet show by Jim Henson. He is apparently quite the ladies' man - he has been linked to Countess von Backward, who loves to count backward Countess Dahling von Dahling and Lady Two.ĥ. He was quickly made more appealing to little kids, though. He used to be more sinister - he was able to hypnotize and stun people and he laughed in typical scary-villain-type fashion after completing a count of something and thunder and lightning would occur. Count von Count made his first appearance in 1972 and was made out of an Anything Muppet pattern - a blank Muppet head that could have features added to it to make various characters. Mental Floss: Quiz: Name the Muppet babiesĤ.Mental Floss: The stories behind 5 familiar voices.Mental Floss: The wonderfully tragic life of Charles Schulz.Mental Floss: Strange facts about classic kids shows.Mental Floss: Retro video: How crayons are made.After a while, producers started worrying about his influence on youngsters, so they changed him to make him the chronic worrier he is now.

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He was obsessed with TV and his eyes would whirl around as if hypnotized whenever he was in front of a set. Telly Monster was originally the Television Monster when he debuted in 1979. In 1984, puppeteer Kevin Clash picked up the red puppet and started doing the voice and the personality and it clicked - thus, Elmo was born.ģ. People would try to do something with him, but nothing really panned out. Elmo: The way it's described by a Sesame Street writer, apparently this extra red puppet was just lying around. By that time, he had started working on Sesame Street and decided this monster would have a home there.Ģ. The commercial was never used, but Henson recycled one of the monsters (the "Wheel-Stealer") for an IBM training video in 1967 and again for a Fritos commercial in 1969. Cookie Monster: Jim Henson drew some monsters eating various snacks for a General Foods commercial in 1966. Some of the characters we know and love were recycled from other TV shows and commercials Jim Henson worked on, while others were invented by using whatever materials were around.īe prepared for a little nostalgia, and I hope I didn't leave out your favorite - not all of the characters have interesting background stories (sorry, Big Bird).ġ.

THE MUPPETS (2015) | 01x04 "Pig Out"