Talk:1955

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Source

Here are the source, Aleal:

http://web.archive.org/web/20001003125242/www.henson.com/ask/ask_archives_body.html

35.) What was the first Muppet?

Jim Henson made his first puppets in the spring of 1954, his senior year in high school, as part of a school puppet club. He performed them briefly on local television that summer. Among those puppets were Pierre, a Frenchman based on a cartoon character that Jim created for a high school publication, and two cowboys, Longhorn and Shorthorn. It was not until the spring of 1955, when Jim began performing puppets on a daytime show, Afternoon, and then on his own show, Sam and Friends, that he began calling his puppets "Muppets". So, the first Muppets would be the group who appeared on Sam and Friends: Kermit, Sam, Harry the Hipster, Yorick, Mushmelon, Icky Gunk, Moldy Hay, Chicken Liver, Hank and Frank, the Professor, and Pierre.

Karen Falk 
Archivist, The Jim Henson Company

And that is why I put "The word Muppet appeared in this year"

Joekido 06:33, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Overlap

Does the Sam and Friends image overlap the timeline bar for anyone else or is it just me and my browser? -- Peter (talk) 15:29, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Looks ok in my browser. -- Wendy (talk) 16:04, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

What do you use? I'm in Firefox, and I can't see the right half of the timeline. This is happening for me with the epnav boxes on some of the Farscape episodes, too. -- Peter (talk) 16:08, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm also in Firefox. Most of the farscape episodes are overlapped for me (I figure more text will eventually fix that), but not this page. -- Wendy (talk) 16:12, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm on Firefox, and the box fits nicely on my screen. It ends where the image begins. I have a pretty wide screen, though. -- Danny (talk) 17:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Looks okay for me in Opera viewing at 1024x768 and 1280x1024. -- Scott (talk) 17:20, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

It looks fine to me as well, and I'm currently using Internet Explorer on a medium sized monitor. Andrew Leal (talk) 17:26, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm living in an alternate universe, then. Carry on. -- Peter (talk) 17:30, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

It's probably a combination of Firefox and a small monitor, as I'm running Firefox on a 1280x1024 and it looks fine to me. Chunk 19:01, 14 June 2006 (UTC)