The Muppets and Sesame Street Revisited: A TVCU Quickie
What's a quickie? See this blog. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Muppets are a group of puppet characters known for an absurdist, burlesque and self-referential style of variety - sketch comedy . Created in 1955 by Jim Henson , they are since 2004 the namesake for the Disney media franchise that encompasses films, television series, music recordings, print publications, and other media associated with The Muppet Show characters. Henson once stated that the term "Muppet" had been created as a portmanteau of the words " marionette " and " puppet ", but also claimed that it was actually a word he had coined. [1] The Muppets debuted on the television program Sam and Friends , which aired locally on WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. from 1955 to 1961. After appearing on skits in several late night talk shows and advertising commercials duri...