Like Henson's Muppets, the Feebles are animal-figured puppets ( though some were people in suits ) assembled together as members of a theatre troupe.

Films produced by current Disney subsidiary The Jim Henson Company have also aired on Disney Channel in the past, although most of them are not presently owned by Disney, including The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Buddy, The Muppet Movie, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets From Space, The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland.

His lessons are often wrong, leaving himself open to correction by a group of kids or Muppets.

The duo are featured characters at both of Disney's Muppet * Vision 3D at Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney California Adventure Park as audio-animatronic Muppets helping Bean Bunny escape the theater and, of course, heckling the show.

When the telethon fails to raise enough money and Tex Richman orders the Muppets out of the theater, Statler and Waldorf, too, are sad about this, as they are shown among the crowd of sad Muppets.

However, when it is discovered that the fans don't care about Tex's laws and will get the Muppets back on top without the theater or their name, Statler and Waldorf are happy again, and are last shown at the top of a building dancing and singing during the finale ( though Statler states that he and Waldorf are happier when the Muppets don't sing ).

* Statler and Waldorf are featured characters in the 2011 movie, The Muppets.

Another trailer ( released theatrically with Muppets from Space and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland ) shows shots from the movie that are featured.

Other shows like " Secrets of the Muppets " went behind the scenes at Henson studios, showing how the Muppets are built and operated.

Newer additions are Feli Filu the Monster reporter, the comic duo Pferd the Horse and Wolle the sheep, a few grouches ( including Grouchella and an Übergrouch ) and some Anything Muppets.

The show portrays childhood versions of the Muppets living together in a large nursery in the care of a human woman called Nanny ( the whereabouts of their parents are never addressed ).

* In The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the East is played by Miss Piggy ( as are all of the other witches ).

This is one of the very few Muppet productions to feature Muppets associated with all four of the major Muppet franchises: The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock and Muppet Babies ( who are seen as actual puppets here instead of cartoon counterparts ).

When Kermit entreats Tex Richman to return the ownership of the Muppet Theater, Tex says no and reveals that the Muppets will also lose their trademark name and rights which he plans to give to an imitation group, the Moopets.

* The Elvises-A group of Muppets resembling Elvis Presley that star in " Great Moments in Elvis History.

* Muppets Tonight Writers-A group of three monkeys who did the writing for the show as seen in the " Andie MacDowell " episode.

* Statler & Waldorf ( musicians ), a music production group named after the Muppets

The Muppets as a group sang the song during the climax of The Muppets.

He is best known for " playing " an instrument known as a muppaphone, a group of small, round, furry pink and orange Muppets that emit a tonal " ow " when Marvin strikes them on the head with his mallet.

Before Star Trek: The Next Generation, McFadden often worked for Jim Henson productions, including the films The Dark Crystal ( as choreographer ), Labyrinth ( as Director of Choreography and Puppet Movement ), The Muppets Take Manhattan ( choreographer and a brief on-screen appearance ), and uncredited work on Dreamchild ( again supervising choreography and puppet movement ).

A similar routine was used with the same puppet on The Muppets on Puppets.

Oz is also well known for his work with the puppet of Yoda in the popular Star Wars movie series and as a director of movies such as the musical Little Shop of Horrors, The Muppets Take Manhattan, and The Indian in the Cupboard.

The additions to the puppet cast were Feli Filu ( 2000 – 2007 ) the Monster reporter, the comic duo Pferd the horse ( 2000 – present ) and Wolle the sheep ( 2000 – present ), as well as a few recurring grouches, and some Anything Muppets.

Muppets Tonight is a live-action / puppet television series created by Jim Henson Productions and featuring The Muppets.

Bobo the Bear's puppet was previously seen in The Muppets Take Manhattan as a generic bear that was performed by Jerry Nelson.

Since the Muppets began on television, it has always been a standard technique for Muppeteers to perform by watching the characters on a monitor screen rather than by watching the puppet itself, so this arrangement required little adjustment either for the puppeteer performing Waldo or for the puppeteers performing the characters he interacted with.

Steel Rabbit is a puppet character, one of The Muppets.

The production was produced and directed by puppeteer and filmmaker Jim Henson, and was one of several experiments with the live-action film medium which he conducted in the 1960s, before focusing entirely on The Muppets and other puppet works.

The characters on Sam and Friends were forerunners of Muppets, and the show included a prototype of Henson's most famous character: Kermit the Frog.

Animal, one of puppeteer Jim Henson's characters from the Muppets TV show and movies, was rumored to have been based on Keith Moon, due to the fact that both share similar hair, eyebrows, outrageous personality and wild drumming style.

The legal trademark on the term " Muppet " is currently held by The Muppets Studio, a wholly owned division of the Walt Disney Company, although Sesame Workshop and the Jim Henson Company continue to occasionally use the term on their characters with certain permissions from Disney.

Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets, owned the trademarks to those characters, and was reluctant to market them at first.

As more female Muppets performers like Fran Brill, Stephanie D ' Abruzzo, and Leslie Carrara-Rudolph were hired and trained, stronger female characters like Abby Cadabby were created.

In addition to performing a variety of characters, Oz has been one of the primary collaborators responsible for the development of the Muppets over the last 30 years.

His Muppets were taken over by Eric Jacobson and David Rudman in 2002, though Oz still performs his characters on occasion.

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The shows feature original music scores and songs, complemented with old favorites from the show, and professional dancers as costumed characters performing the parts of the Muppets.

In the mid-1970s, the Count became friendlier, did not have hypnotic powers, and interacted more with the characters ( both live actors and Muppets ).

The producers reshot the Street segments ; Henson and his coworkers created Muppets that could interact with the human actors, specifically Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird, who became two of the show's most enduring characters.

Unlike the two " silent " pilots before it, The Muppet Show series incorporated its own laugh track onto the show, but in a completely different manner ; because the variety program was modeled after vaudeville, oftentimes the viewers would be treated to glimpse of the theater audience and their reactions to The Muppets ' antics on stage ( though the audience was composed of Muppet characters as well ).

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The new series got rid of the early Muppets and replaced them with new characters like:

As more and more previously used Muppets were borrowed from Sesame Workshop, more secondary characters evolved in their own sketches, such as the green Wolf vom Wörtersee in 2007.

A live-action version of all the characters except Skeeter also appeared in A Muppet Family Christmas in the form of a home movie, which the adult Muppets watched during the Christmas Party.

Articles related to the Walt Disney Company's The Muppets franchise of characters.

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Bill Barretta took over the role beginning with The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz so that Kennedy could start performing Floyd instead following the retirement of Jerry Nelson, Floyd's original performer ( although Matt Vogel later assumed the role of Floyd, as well as most of Nelson's primary Muppet characters ).

At this time, Nelson retired from performing most of his characters, citing health reasons, and John Kennedy took over the role, beginning with The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz.