The Muppets

On the data. Eight theatrical films, several television films, six series and no continuity worth the name. That is deliberate. The Muppets are presented as real performers who are independent of the people operating them and who take roles in films. Kermit plays Bob Cratchit; Gonzo plays Dickens. So The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island are not events in anyone's life. The films that do purport to be about the Muppets themselves contradict each other cheerfully: The Muppet Movie is framed as a film they are watching about how they met, The Great Muppet Caper opens with Kermit and Fozzie declaring themselves identical twins, and Muppets from Space gives Gonzo an alien origin nothing else acknowledges. There is no canon to reconstruct and a watch order that claims one is inventing it. The only ordered pair is The Muppets from 2011 and Muppets Most Wanted from 2014, which opens where the first ends. The scope line matters here more than usual, because the puppets are related and the companies are not. Sesame Street belongs to Sesame Workshop, which bought those characters in early 2001, three years before Disney bought the Muppets. Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth and the Creature Shop stayed with The Jim Henson Company. None of that is listed here. Muppet Babies is listed, in both versions, because it originated inside The Muppets Take Manhattan and is Disney owned. The Muppet Show's dates are the original British transmissions on ATV, not the American syndication, which is why season three appears to begin a week after season two ends. The American schedule was different. The hundred and twenty episodes exclude two earlier pilots, The Muppets Valentine Show and Sex and Violence, which have a different host character and are usually left out. Muppets Tonight's ten and twelve season split is a broadcast artefact rather than a production one: ABC cancelled it after ten and the rest, including episodes ABC never aired, turned up on Disney Channel. Twenty two in total is solid; the split is not, and the entry is flagged accordingly. Four titles need disambiguating by year. The Muppets is a 2011 film and a 2015 series. Muppet Babies is a 1984 series and a 2018 one. It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie and The Muppets' Wizard of Oz are television films rather than theatrical, which is why only eight films are in the cinema group. A thirty two minute Muppet Show special aired in February 2026 as a possible pilot for a revival. It is one special rather than a series and no full order had been confirmed when this was written, so nothing is listed for it.

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