Divorce

Divorce (or the dissolution of marriage) is the termination of Marriage|a marital union, canceling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage and dissolving the bonds of matrimony between the parties. The legal process of divorce may also involve issues of child custody.

The topic of divorce has been explored in several Muppet productions:


 * In 1992, Sesame Workshop attempted to tackle the issue of divorce in an episode where Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce. The episode was not well received by test audiences and did not air.


 * "The Bird Family" is a Sesame Street song from a News Flash sketch wherein Kermit interviews a small bird in the park, who sings about how her parents live in separate trees (implying they are divorced or separated). Despite this, she knows she is loved no matter which home she is in.


 * The Dinosaurs episode "Unmarried... with Children" satirically explored the issue of divorce when Monica DeVertebrae, the first divorced female in history, shows Fran that the single life has possibilities.


 * The subject of divorce was tackled by Sesame Street through the perspective of Abby Cadabby whose parents are divorced with the production of the educational resource video Little Children, Big Challenges: Divorce which debuted online in December 2012.


 * The 1991 Muppet Kids storybook "Worried About Divorce" deals with the issue of divorce.


 * In the 1996 Muppet Kids storybook "Fozzie's Big Worry", Fozzie's mom and dad have a big argument, and Fozzie leaps to the conclusion that they will be getting a divorce.


 * In a Muppet News Flash segment of episdoe 120 of The Muppet Show, Mrs. Klinger (Valerie Harper) explains that her husband Gus has transformed into a rug, with fringe, over the last few months. She plans to divorce him because he doesn't match the curtains.


 * Kermit the Frog, Marlo Thomas and the Muppets sang the song "Something for Everyone" which describes the varieties of extended or differently structured families, including divorced parents and stepfamilies.


 * In the Muppet Babies episode "Fine Feathered Enemies," Scooter and Skeeter get angry with each other and "divorce" each other from being siblings


 * In an appearance on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Waldorf implied that he and Astoria are divorced.