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The Muppets Collection on Disney+.

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, packaged as part of "The Muppets Collection." The at-launch titles were first revealed as part of Disney+'s soft launch in the Netherlands on September 12, 2019. The titles were confirmed through a thread of consecutive posts on the Disney+ Twitter on October 14, 2019. These 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. An episode of the anthology series Prop Culture focused on The Muppet Movie, and a segment of Disney Insider briefly mentioned the Regal Eagle Smokehouse. The Jim Henson Company-produced Earth to Ned premiered on the platform in 2020 and was the focus of an episode of Disney Insider as well.

Several titles 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 deleted song "When Love Is Gone" on The Muppet Christmas Carol; multiple deleted scenes on The Muppets; and a blooper reel and "On-Set with Walter" featurette on Muppets Most Wanted.

Muppet/Henson Titles on Disney+

Movies

• The Muppet Movie (1979) (D+)
• The Great Muppet Caper (1981) (D+)
• The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) (D+)
• Muppet Treasure Island (1996) (D+)
• The Muppets (2011) (D+)
• Muppets Most Wanted (2014) (D+)

Series

• The Muppet Show* (1976) (D+) (minus some omissions)
• Dinosaurs* (1991) (D+)
• The Muppets* (2015) (D+)
• Muppet Babies (2018) (D+)
• Muppets Now* (2020) (D+)
• Earth to Ned* (2020) (D+)

*inaccessible to kids' accounts

Shorts

• Muppet Moments (2015) (D+)
• Muppet Babies: Show and Tell (2018) (D+)
• Muppet Babies Play Date (2019) (D+)

Edits and Omissions

The Muppet Show (US)

Entire episode missing

• Episode 506: Brooke Shields
  (previously released in the Best of the Muppet Show DVD)
• Episode 519: Chris Langham

Partial episode missing

• Episode 117: Ben Vereen
  (previously released on the Season One DVD)
  • Statler's reaction to his pants being on fire in the epilogue is cut

• Episode 201: Don Knotts
  (previously released on the Season Two DVD)
  • "Lullaby of Birdland"

• Episode 212: Bernadette Peters
  (previously released on the Season Two DVD)
  • "They Call the Wind Maria"
  • "I'm Five"

• Episode 316: Danny Kaye
  (previously released on the Season Three DVD)
  • "Jogging"

• Episode 321: Roger Miller
  (previously released on the Season Three DVD)
  • "Down at the Old Bull and Bush"

• Episode 324: Cheryl Ladd
  (previously released on the Season Three DVD)
  • "There's a New Sound"

• Episode 415: Anne Murray
  • "Dancing on the Ceiling"

• Episode 505: James Coburn
  (previously released in the Best of the Muppet Show DVD)
  • "Birdwalk"

• Episode 513: Tony Randall
  (previously released in the Best of the Muppet Show DVD)
  • "Ti-Pi-Tin"

• Episode 517: Hal Linden
  • "If I Ruled the World"

• Episode 518: Marty Feldman
  (previously released in the Best of the Muppet Show DVD)
  • "Sesame Street Theme"

• Episode 520: Wally Boag
  • "The Ying Tong Song"

• Episode 522: Buddy Rich
  • "A Transport of Delight"

The Muppet Show (Europe)

Entire episode missing

• Episode 317: Spike Milligan
• Episode 401: John Denver
• Episode 506: Brooke Shields
• Episode 519: Chris Langham

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.

Blu-ray

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Content disclaimers

18 episodes of The Muppet Show on the service are preceded by an unskipable disclaimer:

This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive figure together. Disney is committed to creating stories with rich diversity of the human experience around the globe. To learn more about how stories have impacted society visit: www.Disney.com/StoriesMatter

Episodes where disclaimer appears

• Episode 103: Joel Grey
• Episode 106: Jim Nabors
• Episode 208: Steve Martin
• Episode 216: Cleo Laine
• Episode 219: Peter Sellers
• Episode 312: James Coco
• Episode 317: Spike Milligan
• Episode 402: Crystal Gayle
• Episode 410: Kenny Rogers
• Episode 503: Joan Baez
• Episode 509: Debbie Harry
• Episode 518: Marty Feldman
• Episode 520: Wally Boag
• Episode 521: Johnny Cash

External links

• The Muppets Collection on Disney+