It's Time to Meet the Muppets: Get to Know 10 Forgotten Characters (2024)

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Which Muppet says meep? ›

Beaker communicates in a nervous, high-pitched squeak that sounds like "Mee-mee-mee-mee". In books and merchandise, the sound is spelled "Meep". In The Muppet Movie, he "meeps" Honeydew's line "sadly temporary".

The first Muppet characters appeared in Sam and Friends, a Washington, D.C.–based show which was broadcast from 1955 to 1961. Kermit the Frog was one of the show's regulars, and thus was one of Henson's first Muppet creations.

Despite misconceptions and rumors to the contrary, Miss Piggy has never appeared on Sesame Street. While Kermit the Frog is well-known for his many appearances on Sesame Street, Miss Piggy has not appeared on the long-running children's television series.

In The Muppet Show episode 106, Piggy is referred to by the full name "Piggy Lee"; and in episode 116 Piggy tells guest star Avery Schreiber that Piggy is short for "Pigathius," which is "From the Greek, meaning 'river of passion'." However, there is no evidence to support that this is part of her name.

Oscar the Grouch is a Muppet character created by Jim Henson and Jon Stone for the PBS/HBO children's television program Sesame Street. He has a green body, no visible nose, and lives in a trash can.

Janice is a female humanoid Muppet, who serves as the lead guitarist in the rock and roll band Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.

Meet Julia: Sesame Street's First Muppet on the Autism Spectrum.

“Lily is the first Muppet whose storyline includes that she is experiencing homelessness,” says Sherrie Westin of Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop), the nonprofit behind Sesame Street.

Jim Henson poses with his creation characters in The Muppets TV show. Henson died of toxic shock syndrome due to a bacterial infection. His symptoms started a couple of weeks before his death, around the time he made his last public appearance on May 4, 1990, on The Arsenio Hall Show.

A cameo was written for the Sesame Street Muppet Elmo, but was rejected by Disney's attorneys and representatives from Sesame Workshop.

Who is Kermit's wife? ›

Relationship with Kermit

Throughout The Muppet Show's run, Miss Piggy's romantic pursuit for Kermit was consistently expressed. Kermit, however, constantly rebuffed Piggy's feelings. Eventually, in the films, Kermit began returning her affections and even (unwittingly) marries her in The Muppets Take Manhattan.

Miss Piggy is a prima-donna pig who is absolutely convinced that she's destined for stardom, and nothing is going to stand in her way. Her public face is the soul of feminine charm, but she can instantly fly into a violent rage whenever she thinks she's insulted or thwarted.

According to the inside cover for The Kermit and Piggy Story, Kermit's middle name is "the." Kermit claims to have blue eyes in The Muppets on Puppets. According to a web-exclusive video from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Kermit graduated from Juilliard, where his roommate was Stay Human bandleader Jon Batiste.

Three episodes later, in "Little Green Lie", Kermit reveals that Denise ultimately breaks up with him after asking to take a break from their relationship.

Before Gonzo would discover a love for poultry, early episodes of “The Muppet Show” as well as the original “Muppet Babies” animated series showed that he initially had a crush on Miss Piggy.

Rosita is a Muppet character on the children's television series Sesame Street. Fluent in both American English and Mexican Spanish, she is the first regular bilingual Muppet on the show. Rosita comes from Mexico and likes to play the guitar.

Elmo is a 3½-year-old red monster with a distinctive cheerful voice and a contagious giggle.

With that, Lily became the first “Sesame Street” Muppet to talk about being homeless — and the face of a new initiative by the show to address homelessness.

Billy is a puppet that has appeared in the Saw franchise. It was used by John "Jigsaw" Kramer, often appearing on a television screen, or occasionally in person, to describe the details of the traps and the means by which the test subjects could survive.