Talk:The Muppets

Time
Can anyone tell us when the program "Exploding Cop" appeared? I saw it in Britain in 1998. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.177.172.64 (talk) 13:22, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I have had great difficulty finding the program you refer to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:B300:C700:3176:200C:9CBC:A2AD (talk) 16:59, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * There is a film called "Exploding Cop", but with dinosaurs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:B300:C700:3176:200C:9CBC:A2AD (talk) 17:06, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * It might not be on the web, with a comparatively early date like 1998. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a00:23c0:7c80:7a01:3540:11e5:8c50:394f (talk) 14:45, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
 * It seems that it is not on the web. I have spent some time on this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C1:E083:8201:1CB2:1264:650F:F2F1 (talk) 09:46, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I still can't find it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.128.220.19 (talk) 12:38, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Attribution
References copied from Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem Muppets to Dr. John. See former article's history for a list of contributors. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 11:46, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

"Broader public exposure"
Quoted from this article:

"Disney acquired the Muppets from the Henson family in February 2004, allowing the characters to gain broader public exposure than in previous years."

But before that, the Muppets had decades of constant play on network TV, and were already essentially universally recognized. I'm not convinced that the claim of broader exposure even qualifies as a possibility in practical terms. TooManyFingers (talk) 23:08, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Agree. -Jason A. Quest (talk) 04:04, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

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 * Rowlf the Dog in Jim Henson's Fantastic World Touring exhibit (in Little Rock, Arkansas).jpg

We should have an article just called Muppet
The Muppets franchise isn't the only franchise that uses the Muppets. Sesame Street and Fraggle Rocks use Muppets too, but they aren't apart of the franchise. So, we should have an article just called Muppet about what a Muppet on its own is, and this article can be about the Muppets franchise. Thomasfan1000 (talk) 20:09, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Technically they can't call the Fraggles Muppets anymore, but I get what you're saying, that an article about the general design concepts in puppetry that Jim Henson innovated and how these three franchises have implemented those designs, and the definitions of the types of puppets used (rod-hand, live-hand, full-body, and, in later works, animatronics) could be interesting. I don't know if that should be a separate article or incorporated here, though. oknazevad (talk) 03:47, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
 * It's probably best to start with adding such information here, and if it gets too big or distracting, it can be be split off. BilCat (talk) 04:36, 9 July 2022 (UTC)