Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Jim Henson Company sold off the Muppets to Disney in 2004 for a cool $75 million, but not everyone thought it was a good deal.

When the new Muppets movie debuts in February of next year, one very conspicuous thing will be missing: Frank Oz’s name in the credits. The puppeteer, who worked for decades with Jim Henson and ...

As a scholar of popular culture, I believe that the Muppets’ reign, which began in the 1950s, has helped shape global culture ...