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Muppet Wiki is a collaborative encyclopedia for anything and everything related to Jim Henson, The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, and The Muppets Studio. The wiki format allows anyone to create or edit any article, so we can all work together to create a comprehensive database for fans of the Muppets.

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Pipe Dreams: A set of pipes Jim Henson and friends painted in their dressing room during The Jack Paar Program have been officially added to the 30 Rock studio tour at NBC Studios.

Daytime Emmy Nominations: Sesame Street was nominated for fourteen Daytime Emmy Awards, including nominations for all five slots in the Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series (Kevin Clash, Caroll Spinney, David Rudman, Chris Knowings, and Joey Mazzarino).

Lost Muppets: Producers of ABC's Lost Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse team up with the Muppets for a new series of "Lost Slapdown" videos. The first webisode features Rizzo the Rat and Bobo the Bear storming the writers' office with a group of Lost fans.

MAMA!: The Muppets Studio's "Bohemian Rhapsody" video won the Best Viral Video and Best Music Video categories of the 2010 Webby Awards!

Director announced for the next Muppet movie: The Hollywood Reporter announced in January 2010 that Flight of the Conchords co-creator James Bobin has been hired to direct The Greatest Muppet Movie of All Time!!!

Making the rounds: Early in the New Year, The Muppets made the rounds to promote Disney's Give a Day. Get a Disney Day campaign with appearances on America's Funniest Home Videos and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Sesame Street's 40th Anniversary: Sesame Street is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The show first hit television airwaves on November 10, 1969. To mark the occasion, Sesame Workshop released several celebratory items on November 10, 2009 (the 40th anniversary, to the day, of Sesame Street's debut). A collectible book, A Celebration of Forty Years of Life on the Street, and a retrospective DVD set, 40 Years of Sunny Days hit stores on November 10th. Sesame Street's landmark 40th season premiered on PBS stations nationwide the same day. Google also celebrated for the week leading up to the anniversary with a series of Sesame Street Google Doodles.

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Henson

Jim Henson began working with puppets as a college student, creating the show Sam and Friends in 1955 for a local Washington, D.C. television station. The energetic Muppets soon became a popular fixture, and led to appearances on national variety shows. Henson's commercials for a local coffee company, Wilkins Coffee, were so popular that he was hired to create similar commercials around the country. In the early 1960s, Henson moved to New York City to work on a variety of projects, including a regular guest spot on The Jimmy Dean Show for the first Muppet star, Rowlf the Dog.

In 1969, Henson was invited to participate in a ground-breaking educational show for television, Sesame Street. Initially, the Muppets were meant to be just one element among many on the show -- but the popularity of Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster, Grover, Ernie and Bert soon made the Muppets the core of the show. Over the years, the Muppet cast has grown to include Mr. Snuffleupagus, Count von Count, Zoe, and, of course, the international superstar Elmo, who stars in his own segment, Elmo's World. Sesame Street is now in its 40th season, and the newest star is fairy-in-training Abby Cadabby.

In 1976, Henson created his signature project -- The Muppet Show, a weekly prime-time variety show filled with songs, sketches and talented guest stars. Kermit the Frog is the charming and mostly unflappable host, presiding over a motley crew of performers, including diva Miss Piggy, hopeful comedian Fozzie Bear, daredevil performance artist Gonzo, and the house band, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. The Muppet Show was a huge international success, making unlikely stars out of the Swedish Chef, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant Beaker, and the two old cranks in the balcony, Statler and Waldorf.

The Muppet Show cast has continued to entertain audiences for over 30 years, spinning off into a popular series of movies, including The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, The Muppets Take Manhattan and The Muppet Christmas Carol.

In the 1980s, Henson created new worlds -- the magical underground civilization of Fraggle Rock, the imagination-filled nursery of Muppet Babies, and the fantasy worlds of The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. Henson's work has continued to live on beyond his death in 1990, and new productions featuring his creations are always in progress.

This wiki is dedicated to documenting, exploring and enjoying the enormous body of work that Jim Henson has created and inspired.