Muppet Babies any one?

I liked Skeeter. ;)

Gonzo was my favorite character before the writers decided to turn him into a loserly, lovesick doormat. With Piggy, they simply overdid her abrasiveness and attitude.

Rowlf had his moments. The writers attempted to turn Rowlf into a "cool and hip" character for the series, but I can understand why they did it: back on The Muppet Show as well as his earlier appearances on shows like Our Place which preceded even that, Rowlf was more or less another Kermit, personality-wise. And since Muppet Babies already had Kermit as the straight-arrow, level-headed one, Rowlf needed a new dimension. Since The Muppet Show's resident "hipster" musicians, The Electric Mayhem, weren't used for the show (save for Animal), Rowlf was revamped to fit that role.
 
When Jim Henson's Muppet Babies premiered, I was 16yo. I remember viewing parts of it a few times, though I didn't become a fan until its 3d season, becoming a nut fan when it also entered syndication and, if memory serves, appeared on Fox Network stations (at the time, my Fox was North/Middle California's KTVU; since 5/22/2004, it's been West Michigan's WXMI) at a time before what began as "Fox Children's Network".
(P.S.: After JH died in early 1990, there was was talk that JHMB was going to be produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, for what was then Jim Henson Productions was going to be bought by The Walt Disney Company. I remember being angry and vowing to never again view JHMB (on CBS) if that happened. Thank God it never happened, though.) :)
 
The thing I liked about this show is that in animated form the characters could show all kinds of expressions that aren't possible in puppet form. I think it was cute whenever they showed baby Beaker smiling. you never saw the nanny's face, but it's hard not to picture her as June Cleaver, Barbara Billingsly, who did her voice.
 
I remember as a child, Muppet Babies aired on Saturday mornings, I think on CBS. Muppet Babies was probably the highest quality cartoon from my childhood right up there with Alvin And The Chipmunks. It's not available on dvd is it? I know that a few years back a one episode dvd came with the stuffed animal Muppet toy.
 
I vaguely remember watching this show when I was little. I think I have some episodes recorded on really old, most likely not working anymore, video tapes. I thought that it was cute and imaginative show with the Muppets interacting with each other as babies. I liked Gonzo the most, out of what I can remember, since he was kind of the strange, but nice baby in the group. That and I liked how he loved his toy chicken so much. I thought that was cute.
 
I saw this show way more often than The Muppet Show when they aired on Nickelodeon (I never caught it on CBS); I keep forgetting when I see the regular Muppet projects that Skeeter was never one of the "real" Muppets.
 
No, and it probably never will be, due to the series' extensive use of copyrighted TV and movie footage. The opening title sequence alone incorporated footage from Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
 
Ah yes, one of the shows that started the whole "Let's make all these well established character younger again for the cute factor." And for some reason, I thought it worked pretty well, I watched this show whenever I got the chance on Nickelodeon. I say it was pretty good for a kids shows, especially since I was a kid when I watched it, and seeing an episode later down in my life, I thought it held up pretty well.

Personally, I always like Gonzo, Animal, Fozzie, Bunsen, and Beaker, but then again, I always liked them when they were regular Muppets. I also like that one episode where Statler and Waldorf had to babysit the babies, even if their bit was played down a bit.

Too bad about the rights issues, otherwise, this series would be a definite buy from me.
 
The short answer is that TV and DVD are 2 completely different beasts. Different time, different media, different rules. Like it or not, that's why Jim Henson's Muppet Babies has yet to come out on DVD. Any potentially distributor would be faced with either paying Lucas, Spielberg and the other studios a big, fat royalty for the use of the stock footage or put the eps on DVD with all of the clips removed. So it's likely the series will never see the light of day again.
 
Muppet Babies was probably the only "licensed characters as babies" show that didn't feel like it was for babies. I mean heck, the show had the Muppets with friggin' Darth Vader as their babysitter in one episode. Tell me that's not all kinds of awesome.
 
I remember this show inspiring a great running gag on MST3K, where someone would interject "Jim Henson's [blank] Babies" at opportune times during the movie. "Jim Henson's Last Picture Show Babies" was a favorite. :p
 
I remember that episode. I forgot the movie but they said it during the short "Junior Rodeo Daredevils". Before that, a host segment had Joel showing off "Jim Henson's Edgar Winter Babies".
 
But Gonzo always had a crush on Piggy no? Even in the first Muppet series he did, but he got over it later on. I never understood why Gonzo had a crush on her too, she was so mean to him and Fossy.
 
I personally didn't like Piggy one bit. She was so unkind to Fozzie and Gonzo.

Animal was my favorite. His 'Go bye bye' vids were hilarious!​
 
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