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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) (though the characters aren't "Muppets" on paper anymore since 2004)
- Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series (1987)
- The Doozers (2014)
- Fraggle Rock: Rock On! (2020)
- Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock (2022; ongoing)
- Muppet Babies (Animated; original hand-drawn series) (1984-1991)
- Little Muppet Monsters (live action Muppets with animated shorts; aired in a package with Muppet Babies) (1985)
- The Ghost Of Faffner Hall (1989) [2]
- The Jim Henson Hour (MuppeTelevision section) (1989)
- Dog City (1992-1995)
- The Secret Life of Toys (1994)
- The Animal Show (1994-1997) (about actual animals, not the Electric Mayhem's drummer)
- Muppets Tonight (1996-1998)
- Sesame Park (1996-2002), CBC's all-Canadian version of Sesame Street (from 1972-96, CBC customized U.S. shows with original Canadian content)
- Mopatops Shop (1999-2004)
- Play with Me Sesame (2002-2007)
- Muppet Viral Videos
- The Hoobs
- Bear in the Big Blue House
- The Wubbolous World of Dr. Seuss
- Dinosaurs
- Farscape
- The Muppets (2015-2016)
- Muppet Babies (CGI series) (2018-2022)
- Muppets Now (2020)
- The Muppets Mayhem (2023)
Films and Specials:
- Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978)
- The Muppet Movie (1979)
- John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together (1979)
- The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
- Big Bird In China (1983)
- Sesame Street Presents: Don't Eat The Pictures (1983)
- Rocky Mountain Holiday (1983)
- The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
- Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (1985)
- The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years (1986)
- A Muppet Family Christmas (1987)
- Big Bird In Japan (1989)
- Sesame Street... 20 Years and Still Counting (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 (1982)
- Labyrinth (1986)
- 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!
- The Muppet Show 50th anniversary special (coming in 2026)
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) (although it introduces Bean Bunny, who would later become part of the standard Muppet cast)
- 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 | |
The following tropes are common to many or all entries in the The Muppets franchise.
For tropes specific to individual installments, visit their respective work pages.
For tropes specific to individual installments, visit their respective work pages.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ (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.)