Muppet crowds

“When filming large crowds of Muppets on television—such as the theatre audience of The Muppet Show—Jim [Henson] had usually peppered the set with a number of motionless puppet extras, propped up in the background on wire frames or stuffed with wadding, to fill the spaces while the puppeteers performed around them.”
—Jim Henson: The Biography

Crowd scenes

A list of notable crowd scenes that include more than 50 Muppet characters in a single shot.

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	The Muppet Show Theme Song Starting with the second season, the opening theme features characters appearing in a series of arches. The final shot shows 50 Muppets singing "This is what we call the Muppet Show!" The shot was achieved by filming each row of arches individually and compositing the footage on top of each other. Later recreations, as in The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted, have included fewer Muppets.
	Muppet Theatre Audience A series of stock audience reaction shots were filmed and used on The Muppet Show from season 3 onward, notably used in the opening theme. The audience itself includes 99 Muppets. These shots are actually composite shots, with up to seven filmed elements matted together, achieving one whole image of a theatre populated with Muppets. Some unique shots were also created of the crowded auditorium for certain episodes, such as in 410 with the audience singing "Love Lifted Me."
	The Muppet Movie The final shot of the "Rainbow Connection" finale, according to The Muppet Show Fan Club newsletter, included "250 puppets" and "150 puppeteers."
	The Muppets Take Manhattan The wedding finale of The Muppets Take Manhattan included 169 Muppets sitting in the pews of the church.
	The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years The special includes over 100 Muppets in a single shot for the "Rainbow Connection" finale.
	Muppets Tonight Opening Theme The opening theme song of Muppets Tonight included a shot of the KMUP audience with 101 puppets watching the show.
	The Muppets Kermit's emotional speech at the climax of the film featured Kermit talking to 51 other Muppets. The shot was achieved by compositing multiple shots together.
	Muppets Most Wanted The wedding scene at the climax of Muppets Most Wanted showed 50 Muppet guests in attendance.
	Warburtons commercial The final shot of "The Giant Crumpet Show" commercial featured 55 Muppets, but in actuality only 54 characters. Because the shot was achieved by digitally compositing multiple rows of characters together, Floyd Pepper appears twice (in factory garb and in normal uniform).
	ABC's The Muppets promo "The Muppet Show Theme" a capella cover promo for the 2015 sitcom featured a split-screen composition of 60 Muppets singing the song on screen at the same time.