The Muppets Collection - Disney Plus
The Muppets Collection on Disney+.
The Muppet Show on Disney Plus - Showtime
Ad for the launch of The Muppet Show.
The Muppets (Kermit, Joe the Legal Weasel, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, and Animal) featured in a 2020 promotional art piece for the service.
Disney+ is a subscription-based video streaming service owned by The Walt Disney Company, launched on November 12, 2019. The service offers original and library content from Disney and its various subsidiaries, including Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox, and National Geographic.
Various Muppet movies, series and shorts are available on the platform and packaged as part of "The Muppets Collection." Many titles debuted when the service launched while additional titles and episodes continued to be added after the initial launch. Notably, over a decade after its last home media release, all five seasons of The Muppet Show (albeit with multiple edits and omissions) were released to the service on February 19, 2021.
The series Muppets Now was produced exclusively for Disney+, originally developed as shorts but reworked and released as traditional half-hour episodes in 2020. Another project, Muppets Live Another Day, was reported to also be in development for the platform but was ultimately scrapped. The Jim Henson Company-produced Earth to Ned premiered on the platform in 2020. Disney+ also produced and released the original special Muppets Haunted Mansion in 2021 and the original series The Muppets Mayhem in 2023.
An episode of the anthology series Prop Culture focused on The Muppet Movie, and a segment of Disney Insider mentioned the Regal Eagle Smokehouse while another focused on the making of Earth to Ned and another explored the making of Muppets Haunted Mansion.
Several titles on the platform include bonus feature "extras" along with the main title ― including Doc Hopper's Commercial, outtakes of Kermit riding a bike, and Jim Frawley's Camera Tests on The Muppet Movie; the restored extended cut of The Muppet Christmas Carol with the deleted song "When Love Is Gone"; multiple deleted scenes from The Muppets; and a blooper reel and "On-Set with Walter" featurette on Muppets Most Wanted. In 2023 the platform released upgraded 4K Ultra HD transfers of The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper and The Muppet Christmas Carol for the first time ever.
In December 2022, the Disney+ YouTube channel shared an original video "Gonzo the Great: A Career Retrospective," in which Gonzo recalls his roles in past Muppet productions (namely those available to stream on the platform).
In May 2023, it was announced that a number of Disney+ originals would be removed from the service, including Earth to Ned and several programs with Muppet guest appearances (including Best in Snow, Foodtastic, and Prop Culture).[1]
Muppet/Henson Titles on Disney+[]
- Movies and Specials
- The Muppet Movie (D+) (4K Ultra HD added in August 2022)
- The Great Muppet Caper (D+) (4K Ultra HD added in December 2022)
- The Muppet Christmas Carol (D+) (4K Ultra HD added in December 2022)
- Muppet Treasure Island (D+)
- A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa** (D+)
- The Muppets (2011) (D+)
- Muppets Most Wanted (D+)
- Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow** (D+)
- Muppets Haunted Mansion* (D+)
- Muppets Most Wanted: Sing-Along (D+)
- Jim Henson: Idea Man (D+)
- Series
- The Muppet Show* (D+) (minus some omissions)
- Dinosaurs*** (D+) (minus some omissions)
- Bear in the Big Blue House** (D+) (minus some omissions)
- The Muppets* (2015) (D+)
- Muppet Babies (2018) (D+)
- Muppets Now* (D+)
- The Muppets Mayhem (D+)
- Shorts
* inaccessible to kids' accounts
** inaccessible to some countries
*** inaccessible to some countries, and kids accounts
- Expired
Edits and Omissions[]
The Muppet Show[]
The Muppet Christmas Carol[]
- Bobby Benson's brief appearance as a street choir conductor features him smoking a cigarette in accordance with his "signature" look from The Muppet Show. The version on Disney+ has digitally removed the cigarette.
Dinosaurs[]
- Entire episode missing
- Episode 209: A New Leaf (included for a short time only, with music replacement/redubbing for "Purple Haze" scene)
Bear in the Big Blue House[]
- Entire episode missing
- Episode 107: Why Bears Can't Fly
- Episode 113: Music to My Ears
- Episode 118: Working Like a Bear
- Episode 208: The Ojolympics
- Episode 225: Love Is All You Need
- Episode 235: And to All a Good Night
- Episode 313: I For-Got Rhythm!?
- Episode 326: A Berry Bear Christmas (2)
- Episode 424: A Strange Bird
Promotions[]
Sources[]
- ↑ Deadline "Disney Removes Dozens Of Series From Disney+ & Hulu" Nellie Andreeva, May 18, 2023
External links[]
- The Muppets Collection on Disney+