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I was very curious to see so few posts on the Kermit posers. I got mine last week - am I the only other person who actually has his in his possession? They are, for the price, quite good. The armature is excellent - better than the real Henson posers, in fact. The fleece is a very close...

John Henson did not perform Sweetums on "Feud" - that was Victor Yerrid, a puppeteer who has worked on Greg the Bunny and Crank Yankers. To the best of my knowledge, John Henson has not performed any Muppet character other than Sweetums - he has not shown any particular interest in performing...

The character I believe you're referring to was called Blue Bird. He was, in fact, a superhero bird character that Big Bird was supposed to have made up and have fantasy sequences about. Only two bits ever aired. In the first one, shot on location in Central Park, Big Bird is sort of brushed...

The myth of a magical "Henson Stitch" is pretty much just that - a myth. Don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise. A good stitch for hand-sewing fleece is what is frequently referred to as a baseball stitch. It is particularly successful with fleece and fur fabrics because it creates a...

Frank did, indeed, work on MFS, for a couple of days. He did Piggy's key scenes in the television studio. He did not puppeteer Fozzie (usually John Kennedy) or Animal (Rickey Boyd) or Sam (Bill Beretta or Steve Whitmire) at all. He did, at least, loop all of his characters' dialogue (for the...

Comedy Central cranks up "Yankers" Tue Jul 2, 6:06 AM ET By Melissa Grego HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Comedy Central has ordered 20 additional episodes of "Crank Yankers," after airing just five installments of the primetime series. The 10-episode first season of "Crank Yankers," in...

It is not entirely accurate to say they are closing the Muppet workshop. They are moving out of the building they have occupied for something like 20 years, and relocating the workshop to the basement of the Henson offices a couple blocks away. It IS accurate to say that they are downsizing...

The Animal head in TMM actually is an over-scale robotic Animal head, not a photographic effect. Obviously, it is ENORMOUS, and they'd never do it that way nowadays. But it was real.

Pilly fleece is usually the result of one of three things: dyebath water that is too hot, material that is over-worked in the dyebath, or machine drying. You should only use water that is just hot enough to dye fleece. Most people can use their hottest tap water. Over-working it will pill it...