What are your Muppet childhood memories?

[Barry Lee]

When I was 3 I was watching "The Muppet Show" and they had the song 'Ulgy' on when Big Mamma popped up and my mom taped this whenever she would pop up I would be sooo afraid!!! Then the aligator came... Oh no!Also whenever Big Mamma popped up I popped up with her!!
Also when I saw went to Disney World I saw 'Muppets Go to Disney World' before I got there so I was looking for the muppets and when Sweetums came on MuppetVision 3-D I wanted so much to touch him so I tried but of course security.
What are your childhood memories???

[AndyWan Kenobi]

I've got tons of them, but here's one for starters--I remember thinking that the "Lime and the Coconut" song on TMS was the coolest thing ever ever ever! I also remember staying in a hotel with my family, and the hotel showing us the pay-per-view Muppet Movie for free because it had been raining so much and the kids were all bored. That was really nice of them!

[Whatever]

When I was about 4, My mom gave my sister and me a bath together. When we got out, before she could dress us, we ran naked into the living room and started watching Sesame Street. Mom took a picture of that.

[HeraLirambar]

Watching Sesame street
Watching Muppet Babies
Watching Follow that Bird
Watching Muppet Family Christmas
Watching Bunny Picnic
Reading some book about Red Fraggle in the doctor's office
Owning Sesame Street colorforms
Owning a talking Big Bird plush (still do, but now it's bwoke)
Seeing Miss Piggy everywhere


Also, I thought I had never seen an episode of The Muppet Show until recently, but back when all I watched Muppet Babies, Animal was my fave character. I knew as a grown-up he played drums in a band, but that was all I knew about the band. For a while, I did have in my mind a very vague image of the band- on a black bandstand with Animal at the top/back. Then I saw the episode with Dom DeLouise (sp?) and the song "Don't Blame the Dynamite" had the Electric Mayhem placed just like my mental image did.

So I'm inclined to believe that I did see an episode of TMS when I was younger, because of that.

[Klonoa]

Too many memories to list! Muppets were my childhood! Nearly so, anyway.

Watching Sesame Street and Muppet Show and Fraggle Rock and Muppet Babies religously, looking forward to watching the old Muppet Christmas special and Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas every year, watching all the Muppet movies in theaters when they came out...and that's just for starters!

--Klonoa

[ceecee]

I have so many good memories of Muppets, mostly Sesame Street. Here is one of my earliest:

For some reason (and I really don't know why), I thought all my favorite SS characters were coming to my house for supper. I was so excited. I started moving in extra chairs, setting extra places at the table, making sure my mom was making enough food, etc. My parents played along with me until supper was ready. Then they were starting to eat. I told them that we had to wait for Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, Grover, etc. They told me that they weren't really coming over, that I was just pretending. Well, I didn't think so. I started bawling. I couldn't believe it. But I eventually understood.

[Klonoa]

It's amazing how real those Sesame Street Muppets seem to us little ones. After visiting Sesame Place when it was in Dallas when I was about 3 or 4 (such a LONG time ago), I got my picture taken with several of the characters. When I got back home, I wrote thank you notes to all the characters I got my picture taken with. In Bert's note, I also enclosed a few paper clips for his collection.

--Klonoa
If only Bert knew about Office Depot...his collection could quadruple!

[rexcrk]

When I was little, I didn't really know all the Muppets. I, of course, watched Sesame Street (who didn't?!). I also had a Muppet Sing A Long songs tape ("It's Not Easy Bein' Green"), Muppet Classic Theater, and Muppet Christmas Carol tapes. And I watched Muppet Babies a lot. But up until a few years ago I never knew who characters like Crazy Harry (or the dynamite guy, as I knew him as from the Muppet Movie preview on one of my tapes), Lew Zealand, the band besides Animal, and so many others were.

[KermieBaby47]

I guess I'm an oldie on this board, but I remember watching the Muppet Show (and getting the humor) before Sesame Street. I was 2 and 3 in 1980, and even then, Kermit was my favorite (duh) little Fisher-Price(?) figure, the kind where you stuck a long white plastic stick in their backs to "perform" them. He went with me everywhere, but his eyesight got worse and worse as I chewed on his eyes everytime I brought him with me to church! I went through two figures before my Mom called it quits on new Kermits! :)

[ohdarling]

my first love was sesame street. i was in love with ernie. i had an ernie doll that i carried everywhere with me and i called 'arnie'. i watched sesame street 3 times a day.

ernie is my hero.

then it was fraggle rock, and that film, the christmas toy, which we still have on an old tape and still gets me misty eyed. it's because of that film i was afraid to ever play with a stuffed animal more than the other and tried my best to give them lots of love. ;)

[frodis58]

My memories go way back.
I can't remember life without hte Muppets.
For me I was born in 1977 and watched The Muppet Show
and Sesame Street from day one.
My Parents deserve credit for my early years since I didn't
have control over what I watched.
I was mezmorised from the begining.
Like I said I don't recall life without Muppets.
I remember going to see The Great Muppet Caper in the theater
and that was like the biggest deal to me (seeing the Muppets on a big screen) And when I got a little older and Fraggle Rock came out(My family
wasn't fortunte enough to have cable but my Aunt would tape episodes for
me. I remember it was 6pm or 6:30 that it aired and every day (even though
I couldn't watch it,) I would think about it at that time and know that
somewhere in the world people were watching the magic.
I have never stopped loving the Muppets.
Thats all for now :)

[KermieBaby47]

My memories go way back.
I can't remember life without hte Muppets.
For me I was born in 1977 and watched The Muppet Show
and Sesame Street from day one.


Yay! I'm not that much of an oldie! Someone else in here was born the same year as me, and I was one of the people across the US that experienced the magic the same time as you!

[AndyWan Kenobi]

Me too--1977 was truly a wondrous year!

[tiggie0686]

I would come home every day and watch Sesame street in kindergarten.

My parents had recorded tapes of the muppet show that I would watch over and over again...I loved the Swedish Chef, Animal, and Sam the Eagle the best. I like Statler and Waldorf, but I never understood them until I got older...now I think they're absolutely hilarious. :D

[McFraggle]

I used to watch Sesame Street and Muppet Babies all the time.
I think one of the first movies I ever seen on video was the Great Muppet Caper.
Of course later was Follow the Bird, the other Muppet Movies up to that time, and Fraggle Rock.

[KermieBaby47]

Hooray! I just got the Fisher Price "Muppet Players" 4-pack figure set I won from eBay! These are the little guys I had when I was a little brat. This is so cool! I'd post a link to the pics, but the seller removed them already. I'm pretty sure the Collectibles Section of MC has a pic.

***chilhood memories come rushing back in 3D!***

[JaniceFerSure]

Well for me,Muppet memories started with Sesame Street,about '72;classic SS. The Muppet Show when it aired & in syndication.The Storyteller/Jim Henson Hour,Dinosaurs,Fraggle Rock & Bear in the Big Blue House(when I had cable),John Denver's Muppet Christmas,The Frog Prince(my brother had the soundtrack on a record album),Musicians of Brehman,Follow that Bird,The Christmas Toy,Muppet Babies. I got to see TMM,Dark Crystal,The Labyrinth & TGMC,MMC,MTI,MFS in the theater(s) when they originally were released. Still haven't seen TMTM all the way through,one of these days.

[Mickey Moose]

Sesame Street, Muppet Show and Fraggle Rock were all part of my growing up. I saw all three of the original muppet movies in the theatres, some more than once.

I also remember playing with my Sesame Street Fisher Price playset with the finger puppets with my friends next door.

I used to have a Rowlf hand puppet that I played with a lot as well, pretending to do Rowlf bits from the show, like when he plays the piano during the end credits.

I also used to record all the Muppet Show openings on audio tape by sticking my tape recorder up to the TV. I guess recording entire episodes would have been too hard for me at the time.

I also remember getting scared at some of the monster sketches, particularly when they ate another muppet.

[Beaker & Gonzo]

I have no Muppet Show memories, My earilest muppet memories are from Muppet Babies, Sesame Street, bits and pieces of Fraggle Rock, and a Muppet Christmas Special in which I belief Swedish Chef was trying to butcher Big Bird.

I remember when I first saw how the actual muppet version of Rowlf looked when I was 4 or 5, I was frightened because baby Rowlf is not an exact match to his older self, especially when you compare their faces.

I remember thinking Floyd Pepper (though I didn't know his name at the time) looked an awful lot like one of my uncles. Anymore I realize it's not Floyd who looks like him, its the Frank Oz muppet who looks like my uncle.

[Beakerfan]

I remember when I was like six I had this totally cool little kids keyboard that had the muppet babies on it and it played muppet babie music and stuff.

[Frogster]

I remember when I was little watching what i believe is a documentary or Best Of documentary with Kermit and Piggy talking about the old times and Piggy sang a song with a choir, and then came down from the choir and started climbing on Kermit for some reason. At the end, the rest of the chorus sang in unison, TEMTATION! Anyone know where I may have gotten this and where I can get it again?

[PiggyPerson]

I watched MTM last tuesday
2 years ago when I went to Austrailia they showed the muppets everyday
I ordered "The Best Of the Muppet Show" yesterday
I went to see Muppets in Space when it was in Cinemas
I once watched a Fragle Rock documentry
And last Christmas I planned to get Elmo in Grouchland for Christmas but didn't

Yep I'm a kid ;)

[Quoix]

I remember a lot of stuff from my childhood, but the one thing I remember the most was going to see Seasame Street LIVE! It was showing in Birmingham, so my mom took me and my sister on the train - not tell either of us what it was. When we got there I was ecstatic, I was a huge SS fan so this was a dream come true. For my sister however, who was 11 at the time this was a nightmare (she loved it really! :p ). We bought a Grover stick puppet. It was like a cloth cut out of Grover with one stick running up the back. I remember the show to this day - I hugged Cookie Monster! :D (and Big Bird, but Cookie Monster was my idol ;) )