The Muppets

Jim Henson's (now Disney's) long-running franchise, starring his special type of marionette/puppet hybrids. For the puppets themselves, see Muppet.^[1]

Shows:

• Sam and Friends (1955-1961)
• Sesame Street (1969-present)
• The Muppet Show (1976-1981)
• Fraggle Rock (1983-1987)
• Muppet Babies (Animated) (1984-1991)
• Little Muppet Monsters (live action Muppets with animated shorts) (1985)
• Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series (1987)
• The Ghost Of Faffner Hall (1989) ^[2]
• The Jim Henson Hour (MuppeTelevision section) (1989)
• Dog City (1992-1995)
• Muppets Tonight (1996-1998)
• Mopatops Shop (1999-2004)
• Play with Me Sesame (2002-present)
• Muppet Viral Videos
• The Hoobs
• Bear in the Big Blue House
• The Wubbolous World of Dr. Seuss
• Dinosaurs
• Farscape

Films and Specials:

• The Muppet Movie (1979)
• John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together (1979)
• The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
• Big Bird In China (1983)
• Dont Eat The Pictures (1983)
• Rocky Mountain Holiday (1983)
• The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
• Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (1985)
• A Muppet Family Christmas (1987)
• Big Bird In Japan (1989)
• The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson (1990)
• The Muppets at Walt Disney World (1990)
• The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
• Muppet Classic Theater (1994)
• Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
• Elmo Saves Christmas (1996)
• Elmopalooza (1998)
• Muppets from Space (1999)
• The Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland (1999)
• It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
• The Muppets Wizard of Oz (2005)
• Abby in Wonderland (2008)
• The Dark Crystal
• Labyrinth
• Studio DC: Almost Live (2008)
• A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa (2008)
• Muppet*Vision 3D (a Disney Theme Parks attraction) (1991-present)
• Muppet Mobile Lab (an attraction in Hong Kong Disneyland) (2007-present)
• The Muppets (2011) (formerly known as The Greatest Muppet Movie of All Time!!!)
• The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made! (in Development Hell since 1985 and finally announced in 2009, but currently set aside yet again to make way for The Muppets)
• Untitled The Muppets sequel ^{[dead link]} , possibly The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made!

Specials not starring the standard Muppet cast (although Kermit introduces, narrates, or appears in several of them):

• Hey Cinderella (1969)
• The Great Santa Claus Switch (1970)
• The Frog Prince (1972)
• The Muppet Musicians Of Bremen (1972)
• Emmet Otters Jug Band Christmas (1977)
• The Tale Of The Bunny Picnic (1986)
• The Christmas Toy (1986)
• Mr Willowbys Christmas Tree (1995)
• Kermits Swamp Years (2002)

In other shows: Muppet Cameo

The main members of The Muppet Show cast include:
Kermit the Frog		Perpetual Straight Man / Only Sane Amphibian and leader of the motley crew
Miss Piggy		Kermit's Love Interest with Tsundere-like tendecies
Fozzie Bear		Resident jokester and Kermit's second-in-command
The Great Gonzo		Stuntman extraordinaire and eternal Butt Monkey
Scooter		The Everyman and "gofer" of the group
Rizzo The Rat		Deadpan Snarker and Gonzo's best friend
Sam the Eagle		Uber-patriot and the Stop Having Fun Guy of the group
Dr. Bunsen Honeydew		Gadgeteer Genius Ditz who runs Muppet Labs
Beaker		Honeydew's Unintelligible assistant and Chew Toy
Statler and Waldorf		Two old men who exist solely to heckle the other cast members
Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem		The Muppets' '70s Rock and Roll band, featuring Animal on drums
Rowlf the Dog		Expert pianist and all-around nice guy
The Swedish Chef		A chef who speaks solely in Swedish-like gibberish

For more detailed descriptions, see the Character Sheet.

Minor Muppet characters include:
Camilla the Chicken		Gonzo's on-and-off girlfriend
Clifford		Resident cool guy
Pepe the King Prawn		Jerk with a Heart of Gold and suave Charmer
Robin		Kermit's nephew
Sweetums		The 9-foot-tall Gentle Giant
Crazy Harry		Laughing Mad Bomber
The Penguins		An entire flock of Plucky Comic Relief characters
Marvin Suggs		An egotistical French Jerk who uses a "Muppaphone".
Lew Zealand		Enigmatic Cloudcuckoolander, whose act involves boomerang fish.
And a motley crew of pigs,		monsters, creatures, talking food, and various human Muppets

1. ↑ Legally speaking, "The Muppets" now only refers to The Muppet Show characters owned by Disney, although Sesame Workshop has permission to use the term to refer to Sesame Street characters. The Fraggle Rock characters (still owned by the Henson company) were Muppets to start with, but are no longer referred to as such.
2. ↑ (This brief-lived HBO series holds the distinction of being one where the main characters were built by the Creature Workshop instead of the Muppet Workshop, giving them a look rather shockingly different from the paradigm seen on most other Muppet productions.)