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Someone better tell Nanny that she needs a new pair of green & blue knee socks. Because the Muppet Babies are headed back to the nursery. Copyright Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved Sometime in early 2018, a reimaging of this much-beloved TV show (which - back in the 1980s - was a four...
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So when Jim Henson finally signed the Muppets over to The Walt Disney Company, where exactly did the deal go down? New York City? London? LA? Nope. According to Brian Jay Jones , the author of " Jim Henson: The Biography " ( Ballantine Books , September 2013), this fateful meeting actually...
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It has often been said that "... behind every great man, there's a great woman." Well, that certainly wasn't the case with Jane Henson . Take a look at these pictures from the early, early days of the Muppets . Back when these characters starred in their own late night television series...
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And the winners are ... / And the next JHM contest is ...
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