Daily Cascade

Muppets

Prompt:
On this day in 1976 The first episode of The Muppet Show, which was cocreated by Jim Henson, aired, and the TV series became hugely popular, known for a cast of puppet characters that included Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.
Did you see it when it originally aired? Which character is your favorite? What fun facts do you know about the Muppets?

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I am more familiar with the earlier Sesame Street Shows than the Muppet shows. When my older son was a tiny tot, I used to sit him in his swing and he'd watch the Sesame Street. The year was 1969. At the time, we were living in an apartment. If I'm remembering correctly, he used to love Ernie and Kermit, but not so much Burt. Then, about a year later, he loved and preferred Oscar the Grouch, which worried my husband as to why our son appreciated a negative character. I'm so glad to say that, eventually, Oscar the Grouch left no ill-lasting effects on either of my sons.

By the way, Miss Piggy annoyed my husband greatly, also. He thought she was a fake character and she was advertising, to young boys and girls, the idea, "Fat is good."

After my younger son turned two in 1974, we moved to our own house, in which the boys had a separate large room with their toys in it, which they named, "Play Room," and they had their own TV there. It was next to the kitchen and the living rooms, so I could hear them all the time.

As to the Muppet show that came later in 1976, I'm not sure I remember any of those shows, myself. We did, however, watch as a family several Muppet shows in my husband's study, where he sat in his desk and did some other thing, while I either sewed or read; however, we were both there to make the boys think we, too, were enjoying the Muppets.

I am sure I watched half or whole shows of either the Sesame Street or the Muppet Show, but I can't recall any of it, now. At the time, my husband and I knew enough to converse about the shows with our sons.

Our sons are both in their fifties now, and I suppose they might not recall any of this. Maybe for the better, as life has to go on.