However, the show soon found its groove, and fans thrilled to its wacky take on vaudeville variety routines. Even though first season guest hosts included people who would never in a million years ...

Bradley Freeman Jr. was sitting in a hotel room, staring at Rizzo the Rat, trying to work up the courage to work with the puppet. Freeman, a puppeteer based in San Antonio, was preparing to bring ...

These decisions made Muppet Treasure Island the second Muppet movie in a row where, rather than Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie, and Gonzo serving as the most prominent characters, the foreground would be ...

A variety show that’s still revered for its absurdist, slapstick humour debuted 50 years ago. It starred an irreverent band of characters made of foam and fleece. Long after The Muppet Show’s original ...

It all looks so familiar, but something’s off. There’s the Swedish Chef, but his segments are littered with captions in multiple languages. Here are those old coots Statler and Waldorf, but they’re ...

On a semi-regular basis, a discussion prompt resurfaces on various social networks that amounts to this question: What movie or book would you like to see adapted with Muppets replacing all of the ...

Readers were first introduced to Doctor Manhattan in the classic Watchmen. Jon Osterman was a physicist who was in an accident that should have killed him, but he was able to recreate his molecular ...

These throwback photos prove The Muppets belong in London. Fifty years ago, a mild-mannered felt frog with a banjo leapt into pop culture history and somehow never left. Now, as The Muppets mark their ...