The Muppets are back with a new movie on the big screen. It’s time to brush up on your Muppet knowledge.

IN MINUTES News and events — visually

Sam and Friends

Sesame Street

The Muppet Show

The Muppet Movie*

The Great Muppet Caper*

The Muppets Take Manhattan*

Jim Henson’s Muppet Babies

A Muppet Family Christmas*

The Muppet Christmas Carol*

Jim Henson’s Animal Show

Muppet Treasure Island*

Bear in the Big Blue House

Muppets from Space*

It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie*

The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz*

*Movies

Muppet movies and tv series

Unlike most other Muppets of Sesame Street, Cookie Monster has four fingers

and a thumb.

Oscar the Grouch was

orange in the first season of Sesame Street.

Fozzie Bear was named after Faz

Fazakas, the person who created the mechanism that allowed Fozzie to wiggle his ears.

The earliest version of Kermit

was created using a turquoise ladies’ coat Henson’s mother had discarded. Two ping

pong balls were used for the eyes.

INSIDE the Muppets

Rod Muppets

Two-handed and full-body MuppetsThe Muppet is usually

held above the head, with one hand operating the head and mouth and the other manipulating the hands and arms, either with two separate control rods or by “wearing” the hands like gloves.

Two or more Muppeteers may be used to control a single character — wearing the puppet like a costume.

The Mr. Snu�eupagus Muppet takes

two Muppeteers to operate.

As technology has evolved, the Jim Henson team and other puppeteers have developed an enormous variety of means to operate Muppets for film and television, including the use of suspended rigs, internal motors, remote radio control, and computer enhanced and superimposed images.

Kermit goes by several di�erent names around the

world. In Portugal, he’s Cocas. In Latin America,

Rene. In Spain, he goes by the name

Gustavo.

SUSAN BATSFORD, GRAPHICS EDITOR, TWITTER @SBATS1; INFOGRAPHIC BY TARA CORRAN/QMI AGENCY