Jim Henson and his Muppeteers from the first season of The Muppet Show 1976
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Muppet Fact #1065
The Fix-It Shop was originally called L and R Fix-It Shop, as it was run by Luis and Rafael. Their first job was fixing Susan's broken picture frame.
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Sesame Street. Episode 0330. January 28, 1972.
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The Muppets Make Puppets (1969)
Who else is excited for the new Jim Henson Idea Man documentary debuting in Disney+ next month? You can watch the brand new trailer here!
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this makes me want to throw up and cry and scream and punch a wall
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Jim Henson filming a commercial for Jomar Instant, an espresso coffee produced by Martinson Coffee. In 1958, Wilkins and Wontkins starred in a series of 15 ten-second ads for Jomar Instant.
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Muppet fact of the day: One of the Muppet show's pilot episodes was called "The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence", but the Muppets are owned by Disney now and Disney really doesn't like the word "sex" so they insist on just calling it "the Muppet Show Pilot"
anyway reblog this forbidden image of Jim Henson in front of the Sex and Violence title card to make Disney mad
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Muppet Fact #1066
Kermit the Frog's children's book For Every Child, A Better World was dedicated to the memory of Audrey Hepburn. The book was a collaboration with the United Nations as a fundraising effort.
Source:
Gikow, Louise, and Ellen Weiss. For Every Child, A Better World. Golden Press, 1993. https://archive.org/details/foreverychildbet0000giko/mode/2up.
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Happy International Dog Puppet Day!
I invented this holiday as an excuse to draw Gromit and Rowlf hanging out
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My Muppet Princess Bride drawings found their way to Facebook and from that came a ton of good suggestions for scenes. Rizzo as a R.O.U.S. has been suggested by a lot of different folks for as long as I've been doing these drawings, but I was never quite sure how to handle the scene until a commenter suggested Rizzo's line. Maybe it resonated with me because I can kinda relate to Rizzo in this moment (especially so soon after Valentines Day!). Thanks to Paul Adams who provided Rizzo's line, and gave me permission to use it in this drawing.
And shout-out to movie-screencaps.com for providing the backgrounds, I like to edit shots from the movie for my backgrounds because it allows me to focus on the fun part of drawing Muppets. There's also just something fun about 'painting' the Muppets into the actual film.
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