The Muppet Show! Or, make that one month: Disney+ has announced that all of five seasons of Jim Henson’s pioneering variety show will join its library February 19 the show’s streaming debut, if you don’t count all the YouTube rips we’ve been watching while waiting for the show to come to streaming.
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Running for 120 episodes and airing in more than 100 countries between 1976 and 1981,
The Muppet Show introduced many of the colorful, chaotic characters who remain Muppet mainstays to this day. “It’s going to be great to welcome back longtime fans, and to give a new generation of fans a chance to see how we got our start, how Miss Piggy became a star and so much more,” said Kermit the Frog, a fictional character who can be plausibly quoted in a press release in large part thanks to the personality he developed on