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Is Sesame Street canonical to The Muppet Show?

The Muppets does not have canon or a "universe" The question here applies the wrong frame of thinking. These are not shows, or movies, that are interested in creating coherent, ongoing, &...
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Are Sesame Street Muppets human?

The Muppets are a veritable cornucopia of different species. Some are obviously Muppet versions of humans, like Statler and Waldorf... ... although it appears there's a distinction to be made between ...
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Is Sesame Street canonical to The Muppet Show?

In a word, Yes. In the film A Muppet Family Christmas (1987) the Muppets (consisting of Kermit, Fozzie, Gonzo, Animal, etc) go on a road trip that encompasses a trip to Sesame Street, where they meet ...
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Are Sesame Street Muppets human?

Here's an answer straight from Kermit's mouth on what he is. I believe you can extrapolate that out to the other Muppets as well: Weekend Update with Kermit the Frog Meyers: ... which means, in this ...
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Are Sesame Street Muppets human?

While not direct canon, The Happytime Murders directed and produced by Brian Henson and The Jim Henson Company, has the "puppets" as a separate race that evolved alongside humanity, and are ...
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Are Sesame Street Muppets human?

As others have explained, the Muppet characters are all pretty much what they seem to be. Kermit is a frog, Miss Piggy is a pig, Cookie Monster and Elmo are monsters, etc. The history of many of them ...
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Why are there... PIGS... IN... SPACE?

I have seen every episode of The Muppet Show multiple times, although some of them not recently. Watching as a child, I (foolishly) tended to worry about the continuity of Pigs in Space. For example,...
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What year was the Muppets’ “The Muppet Movie” (1979) set in the Muppets’ universe?

Likely, in 1978. That was when the movie started filming, and Mean Mama is seen reading a copy of Variety discussing Holocaust sweeping the Emmy nominations, which happened in 1978. Click to enlarge
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Is Sesame Street canonical to The Muppet Show?

Sesame Street and The Muppet Show characters interact as such There were several episodes of The Muppet Show where Sesame Street muppets came and joined the production. Let's revisit some highlights ...
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Are Sesame Street Muppets human?

Humanoid Muppets (Statler & Waldorf etc) are very similar to humans, but are different. The whole song "Man or Muppet" in The Muppets (2011) makes this very clear, with Walter and Gary ...
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Is Sesame Street canonical to The Muppet Show?

While not directly The Muppet Show, Big Bird was a cameo in The Muppet Movie. The movie purports to be the story of how Kermit became a star and features all of The Muppet Show cast. Big Bird makes an ...
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Are Sesame Street Muppets human?

In some television shows, particularly from Japan, characters are portrayed as animals, but live normal human lives and the type of animal they are is never directly referenced within the fiction. The ...
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