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December 2015
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19 years
Muppet Wiki was founded on December 5, 2005. The very first article created on the wiki was for Fozzie Bear with the simple (yet factual) text: "Fozzie Bear is a bear." The wiki's description of Fozzie has since grown with remarkable depth and breadth of coverage. |
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48,451 articles
Muppet Wiki has over 37,000 encyclopedic articles on all sorts of topics related to Jim Henson, Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and The Muppets Studio. If you were to read one article a day, it would take you over 132 years to read them all! |
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3,579 Muppet characters
Learn about your favorite Muppets with our profiles on 1,040 characters in The Muppets franchise, 2,031 Sesame Street characters, 157 Fraggle Rock characters, and other Muppet productions. |
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4,733 Sesame Street episode guides
Sesame Street is one of the longest-running shows in television history. See what has happened over the course of 51 seasons of children's television with our comprehensive episode guides. |
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120 Muppet Show episode guides
The Muppet Show ran for 5 seasons and 120 episodes... and we've got episode guides for all of them! We also have complete episode guides for 1984's Muppet Babies, 1989's The Jim Henson Hour, 1996's Muppets Tonight, 2015's The Muppets, 2018's Muppet Babies, and 2020's Muppets Now. |
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96 Fraggle Rock episode guides
Dance your cares away, we've got coverage of all 96 episodes of Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock, plus all 13 episodes of the short-lived animated spin-off. We also have individual articles on 157 Fraggle Rock characters and 204 Fraggle songs. |
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184 Muppet performers
Get to know the talented puppeteers and performers who bring the Muppets to life — including such names as Jim Henson, Frank Oz, and many more! |
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2,822 celebrities
The Muppets have worked with many celebrities — including actors, musicians, athletes, politicians, and more! See which famous faces have crossed paths with the Muppets. |
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1280 Sesame Street guests
Where do furry monsters and famous personalities mix and mingle? On Sesame Street, of course! Combining celebrities and actors who have appeared on episodic Sesame Street as well as home video releases and specials, and online content, a lot of people have visited the street. |
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1,286 Muppet songs
From "Mah Na Mah Na" (with more than 20 different Muppet performances) to "Rainbow Connection" (with more than 35 different Muppet performances), you can explore all the songs performed by the Muppets throughout the years. |
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3,524 Sesame Street songs
From "Rubber Duckie" to "C is for Cookie," we've got all your favorite Sesame Street songs, plus 220 Sesame Street albums. So just sing, sing a song, sing out loud, sing out strong! |
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1,808 Sesame Street storybooks
We have a detailed guide to the many Sesame Street books that have been published over the years. Be careful of what you find at the end of some of them... |
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50 Christmas specials
The Muppets know how to make the holidays special, and we've got all their Christmas productions covered (plus 162 Christmas carols and more than 64 different Santa Clauses). |
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147 international Sesame Street shows
Sesame Street is the longest street in the world. Discover the different international co-productions from around the globe and get to know 348 international characters. |
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Over 300 Ernie and Bert sketches
We have a comprehensive guide to all the Ernie and Bert sketches from their apartment, their bedroom, their expeditions, and elsewhere. The wiki also has lists of over 80 Ernie and Bert songs and 123 Ernie and Bert storybooks; plus a guide to the duo's animated spin-off. |
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88 Sesame Street Newsflashes
We've got a list of all the many fast-breaking news stories from Kermit the Frog! Check out Sesame Street News Flash for a complete listing and check out other recurring sketches for more from Sesame Street. |
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32 Pigs in Space sketches
Follow the continuing adventures of the crew of the Swinetrek with our complete listing of Pigs in Space sketches, and also explore other recurring sketches from The Muppet Show. |
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Over 1,000 Muppet kisses
Kissy, kissy! We've got a list of kissing Muppets. We've also got lists of married Muppets, driving Muppets, dead Muppets, wet Muppets, stretched Muppets, exploding Muppets, eaten Muppets, smoking Muppets, swearing Muppets, musical Muppets, and much more! |
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Over 6775 Anything Muppets
The Anything Muppets on Sesame Street have filled many roles -- from Mr. Johnson and Sherlock Hemlock to Guy Smiley and The Amazing Mumford. Get to know the people in your neighborhood and explore our lists of Anything Muppets. |
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Over 80 Muppet pigs
We have pages on more than 80 Muppet pigs... although (if you ask her) the only one who really matters is the fabulous Miss Piggy. We also have pages on more than 200 monsters, 150 birds, 100 grouches, 60 doozers, 55 fraggles, 50 dogs, 30 bears, 40 frogs, and 1 whatever. |
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237,535 photos
A picture's worth a thousand words... and we've uploaded a lot of them! With 237,535 pictures and 48,451 articles, that's an average of 5 unique pictures per page! |
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Over 37,000 Facebook fans
"Like" Muppet Wiki on Facebook for fun Muppet content and to stay connected with what's new on the wiki.
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1 wedding cake! |
May 2012
May 2012, more stats
Muppet Wiki Facts:
- Muppet Wiki was founded on December 5, 2005 by people from Tough Pigs, Muppet Central and MuppetZine.
- Our first page was Fozzie Bear. Our brilliant first sentence: "Fozzie Bear is a bear".
- We hit 25,000 pages in six years and five months -- that's 12.6 new pages a day!
- These days, about 150 people contribute to the wiki every month, with 60 regular contributors.
- Our biggest category is Muppet Characters -- 2,700 different characters, from The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock and all the other Muppet productions from around the world.
- (The characters you're thinking of -- the two old guys in the balcony -- are Statler and Waldorf.)
- One of our long-running projects is a comprehensive Sesame Street Episode Guide, with descriptions and screenshots from every segment. So far, we've got a full guide page for 3,082 out of 4,300 episodes. (That's 67%, but it's 51 seasons going back to 1969 -- we'll catch up someday!)
- Muppet Wiki answers some of the world's burning questions, including Is Cookie Monster now the Veggie Monster?, Are Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy married? and Are Ernie and Bert gay?
- More fun stats:
- Almost 80,000 pictures on the site, including 25 pictures of Miss Piggy dressed as the Statue of Liberty
- 1,200+ Sesame Street books
- 600 Muppet Show songs
- 205 Kissing Muppets
- 156 references to the Muppets on Mystery Science Theater 3000
- Muppet Wiki has been used as a resource for a lot of official Henson, Disney and Sesame Workshop projects, including the 2009 book Sesame Street: A Celebration - 40 Years of Life on the Street, the Smithsonian's traveling exhibit "Jim Henson's Fantastic World", the official Sesame Street Japan blog, and the producers of the 2011 film, The Muppets.
- The wiki has an archive of every newsletter from The Muppet Show Fan Club, a behind-the-scenes Fraggle Rock production document "The Encyclopedia Fragglia" and selected documents from the Children's Television Workshop Archives.
- "Poems, Prayers and Promises", a song that John Denver sang with the Muppets in the 1983 special Rocky Mountain Holiday, was article #25,000.