Also he got one less episode per season than those guys did (12 vs. 13) And fewer specials outside of the proper seasons (he'll have 4 including the 2017 Regeneration Spectacular, while Matt Smith had 5 and David Tennant had 8).

It was apparently popular enough at some point to have a tie-in book "by Schmidt" published, which seems crazy.

The Buffy influence is there in A:TLA, for sure, but Korra is basically Avatar remade in the image of Buffy. The Avatar is a conflicted teenager instead of a (mostly) happy-go-lucky kid, every season has a different Big Bad, and she even has a Giles figure in Tenzin.

Can't wait for next year's The Outsiders 35th Anniversary Celebration.

CJ was only on two seasons (3 and 10).

Here he is 29 years ago - http://www.nbc.com/saturday…

Solid reference to the Veronica Mars Kickstarter pitch video!

Yeah, what a delightful surprise that was. It wouldn't have been half as funny without him, and it seemed like he had a good time.

There are a ton of Osborne intros on YouTube. I'm gonna leave 'em on autoplay all afternoon.

Yeah, I really like her. She seemed stiff right away, but she's gotten much more natural.

Yep! They even gave the Jim Henson one an action figure - http://muppet.wikia.com/wik…

He tried it, didn't work.

But they still use old Kermit material, which is a difference from the Henson/Disney deal. Henson had to cut Kermit out of Emmet Otter and some other specials, but Sesame can still put DVDs like this one (released in 2011):

100% correct.

I actually think the team on the two recent movies (and especially the second one) did a pretty good job. Muppets Most Wanted isn't perfect, but it feels more like Classic Muppets than anything else they've done since Jim died. I'd love to see Nick Stoller and James Bobin take another crack at doing Muppet stuff.

Oh okay.

Ryan Dillon (the current performer) is pretty quick-witted too.

Yeah, that's the thing. As big of a loss as Jim Henson's death was (obviously), Jerry Juhl's retirement in the mid-90s hit them just as badly, I think. He was the head writer of the The Muppet Show and Fraggle Rock, and no one has ever quite captured that combination of warmth and silliness as well as he did.

I get that, but I agree with Erik on this one. MMW has funnier jokes, more memorable songs, and (like you alluded to) it's a story about the actual Muppets rather than a story about how awesome Jason Segel is for getting to write a Muppet movie.

Henson doesn't own the Sesame Street characters anymore either. Those rights belong fully to Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop) now, part of the same deal that sent the Muppets to Disney.