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The Muppet Show (1976)
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The Muppet Show (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Muppet Show is a comedy-variety television series produced by puppeteer Jim Henson and featuring The Muppets. After two pilot episodes produced in 1974 and 1975 failed to get the attention of America's network heads, Lew Grade approached Henson to produce the programme for his ATV Associated Television franchise in the UK. The show premiered on 5 September 1976, and five series were produced until 15 March 1981 at ATV's Elstree Studio just north of London, lasting 120 episodes. The series shows a vaudeville or music hall-style song-and-dance variety show, as well as glimpses behind the scenes of such a show. Kermit the Frog stars as a showrunner who tries to keep control of the antics of the other Muppet characters, as well as keep the guest stars happy. The show was known for outrageous physical slapstick, sometimes absurdist comedy, and humorous parodies. Each episode also featured a human guest star. As the show's popularity rose, many celebrities were eager to perform with the Muppets on television and in film. Many of the puppeteers also worked on Sesame Street. Muppet performers over the course of the show include Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz, Fran Brill, Eren Ozker, Steve Whitmire, Louise Gold, Kathryn Mullen, Karen Prell, Brian Muehl, Bob Payne, and John Lovelady. Jerry Juhl and Jack Burns were two of the show writers.
Style: humorous, feel good, exciting, sitcom, funny, light, retro, sketch comedy, slapstick, not serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, adult, preschool
Plot: puppet, muppets, pig, media satire, bear, friends, showbiz, fame, workplace, performer's life, eagle, variety show, escapades, nothing goes right, disorder, couple relations, puppetry, pop culture, sketch, robot, space travel, inventor, friendship between men, weirdo, sesame street ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s, contemporary
Place: usa
Keyword: sketch show, preschoolers

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, not serious and exciting films and TV series with plots about disorder, friends, friendship, puppet, muppets, weirdo and goofy hero mostly in Comedy, Family and Musical genres. Some movies like The Muppet Show: The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984), The Jim Henson Hour (1987), LazyTown (2002), Muppets Tonight (1996), Dinosaurs (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the ...
Style: humorous, fantasy adventure, slasher, exciting, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, adult, preschool
Plot: muppets, puppet, puppetry, pig, amnesia, children, sesame street, wedding, rat, dog, musician, weirdo ...
Time: 20th century, year 1984, 80s
Place: new york, usa, maine, delaware, pittsburgh ...
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The Muppet Movie (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Kermit the Frog is persuaded by agent Dom DeLuise to pursue a career in Hollywood. Along the way, Kermit picks up Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, and a motley crew of other Muppets with similar aspirations. Meanwhile, Kermit must elude the grasp of ...
Style: funny, humorous, uplifting, grindhouse, avant garde ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, adult, preschool
Plot: muppets, road trip, puppet, mad scientist, children, friendship, puppetry, hollywood, eternal love, pig, chaos, good versus evil ...
Time: 70s, year 1979, 20th century
Place: california, georgia, usa, los angeles
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The Jim Henson Hour (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: The Jim Henson Hour is a short-lived television series that aired on NBC in 1989. It was developed as a showcase for The Jim Henson Company's various puppet creations, including the popular Muppet characters. Only nine of the twelve episodes ...
Style: anthology, exciting, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, adult
Plot: puppet, muppets, sesame street, heroes, escapades, ambition, danger, buddies, workplace, disorder, toys, friends ...
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LazyTown (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music, Sport
Country: Iceland
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Things are upside-down in LazyTown. Stephanie, an optimistic girl with bright pink hair, comes to live in LazyTown and meets a zany mix of townspeople, including the world’s laziest super-villain, Robbie Rotten. Fortunately for Stephanie, ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, colorful, light, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: laziness, surrealism, friends, puppet, rivalry, health and fitness, children, fantasy world, activism, meme, love, teenage girl ...
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100%
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Muppets Tonight (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: France, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Muppets Tonight is a live-action/puppet television series created by Jim Henson Productions and featuring The Muppets. Much like the "MuppeTelevision" segment of The Jim Henson Hour, Muppets Tonight was a continuation of The Muppet Show, ...
Style: not serious, exciting, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, adult
Plot: muppets, weirdo, sesame street, sketch, puppetry, media satire, fame, showbiz, musician, guest, celebrity culture, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
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Dinosaurs (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Dinosaurs follows the life of a family of dinosaurs, living in a modern world. They have TV's, fridges, microwaves, and every modern convenience.
Style: sitcom, humorous, entertaining, light, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, adult
Plot: dinosaur, puppet, eccentric family, mischievous children, workplace situations, everyday life, parents and children, boss and employee, society, disorder, stupidity, anthropomorphism ...
Time: 90s, prehistory, 20th century, prehistoric times
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Super Dave (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Super Dave is a Canadian/American variety show starring and hosted by the fictional character Super Dave Osborne. It ran from 1987 to 1991 on Showtime in the US and the Global Television Network in Canada. Super Dave was spun off from the sketch ...
Style: parody, sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: stuntman, weirdo, sketch, satire, silly humor, danger, disorder, chaos and mayhem, goofy hero, media, escapades, showbiz ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Yo Gabba Gabba! (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Yo Gabba Gabba! is an American children's television show that airs on the Nick Jr. cable network in the United States and the Nick Jr. networks in the United Kingdom & Ireland, Italy, France and Australia as well as Treehouse TV network in ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, surreal, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: toys, friendship, puppet, imaginary, friends, androids and robots, monster, imagination, african american protagonist, robot, disorder, music ...
Time: 21st century
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Mr. Bean (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Mr Bean turns simple everyday tasks into chaotic situations and will leave you in stitches as he creates havoc wherever he goes.
Style: humorous, not serious, sitcom, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: weirdo, stupidity, goofy hero, misfit, nothing goes right, fish out of water, love, storytelling, lonely, humour, new year's eve, sketch ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place: london, britain, europe, england, united kingdom
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Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story: Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is an American sketch comedy television series, created by and starring Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, which premiered February 11, 2007 on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim comedy block and ran until May ...
Style: sketch comedy, surreal, humorous, parody, not serious ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: sketch, prank, celebrity impersonation, farce, siblings relations, media, workplace, artists and showbiz, partner, media satire, goofy hero, showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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A Muppet Family Christmas (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
Story: In this one-hour Christmas special, Fozzie Bear surprises his mother Emily on Christmas Eve by bringing the entire Muppet gang to her farm to celebrate the holidays. Doc and his dog Sprocket, who had planned a quiet Christmas, end up joining the ...
Style: christmas special, not serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, puppet, muppets, holiday, xmas, new year, christmas season, weirdo, blizzard, sesame street, puppetry, guest ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
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The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Musical, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, ...
Style: avant garde, fantasy adventure, not serious, exciting, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, adult, preschool
Plot: muppets, puppet, heist, caper, children, puppetry, gay, robbery, hotel, adventurer, bicycle, sesame street ...
Time: year 1981, 80s, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Muppets (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: The Muppets return to primetime with a contemporary, documentary-style show. For the first time ever, a series will explore the Muppets’ personal lives and relationships, both at home and at work, as well as romances, breakups, achievements, ...
Style: sitcom, mockumentary, humorous, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, adult
Plot: muppets, puppet, eccentric family, lifestyle, family relations, family life, kids and family, relationships, humour, satire, sesame street, weirdo ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Muppets Most Wanted (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Musical, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.
Style: exciting, humorous, entertaining, light, colorful ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: muppets, puppet, prison, mistaken identity, master criminal, interpol, treasure hunt, good versus evil, frog, friendship, gem, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Big Bird worries when Oscar tells him that if Santa Claus can't fit down the chimney on Christmas Eve, nobody would get presents.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, christmas special
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, muppets, holiday, xmas, puppet, sesame street, family relations, disorder, friends, social relations, skating, wizards and magicians ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Follow That Bird (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.
Style: melancholic, light, entertaining, sweet, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: friendship, muppets, road trip, adoption, storytelling, happy ending, unlikely friendships, family drama, on the road, runaway, puppet, sesame street ...
Time: year 1985
Place: illinois, usa, turkey
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44%
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So Random! (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: So Random! is an American Disney Channel musical sketch comedy series that premiered on June 5, 2011. It was announced as an independent series after Demi Lovato left the parent series, Sonny with a Chance. The series features the actors who acted ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, satirical, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: disorder, social satire, satire, humour, teenager, adolescence, teenage girl, sketch, silly humor, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Pee-wee's Playhouse is an American children's television program starring Paul Reubens as the childlike Pee-wee Herman. The show was developed from Reubens' popular stage show and the one-off TV special The Pee-wee Herman Show, ...
Style: humorous, absurd, mysterious, surreal, not serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: weirdo, magical, djinn, sketch, friendship, dance, surrealism, silly humor, disorder, friends, imaginary, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Show Offs (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
TV show
Story: The Show Offs are a troupe of long-form improvisers like you've never seen before! With no script and no rehearsals, the cast must bring to life a spontaneous musical, prompted by random ideas from the studio audience and accompanied by a live ...
Style: funny, exciting, feel good, entertaining, humorous ...
Plot: performer's life, friendship, friend, showbiz, friends, group of friends, topical humor, improv, humour, television, artist, artists and showbiz
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The owner of a bank (Miss Bitterman) wants to own the Muppet Theatre so she can build a nightclub over it. After she tricks Pepe into giving her the only copy of the contract between her father and the Muppets, she changes it so the Muppets have ...
Style: humorous, christmas special, witty, stylized, not serious ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, kids, preschool
Plot: muppets, christmas, puppetry, holiday, goofy hero, friendship, puppet, xmas, christmas season, alternate reality, god, parents ...
Time: year 2016, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 48 min.
Story: A poor otter family risks everything for the chance to win the cash prize of a talent contest for Christmas.
Style: christmas special, christmas classics, gothic, humorous, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, muppets, holiday, christmas season, puppet, music, furry, bike, rock and roll, xmas, family relations, country music ...
Time: 70s, year 1977
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story: Mr. Show with Bob and David is an American sketch comedy series starring and hosted by Saturday Night Live writer/actor Bob Odenkirk and stand up comedian/actor David Cross. It aired on HBO from November 3, 1995 to December 28, 1998. Cross and ...
Style: sketch comedy, sitcom, surreal, funny, absurd ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sketch, satire, nihilism, variety show, comedian, silly humor, media, workplace, performer's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, goofy hero ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
Story: Bill Cosby takes us on the tour to Sesame Street as the show goes on it's 20th Anniversary. It had interviews of the cast and crews of the show and memories of the show. It also features a multi-language version of some classic Sesame Street ...
Style: educational, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: sesame street, muppets, puppet, friendship, showbiz, personal safety, friends, artists and showbiz, youth, lifestyle, best friend, memories ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 60s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and future.
Style: funny, christmas special, humorous, talky, christmas classics ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, adult, preschool
Plot: christmas, ghost, holiday, muppets, childhood, puppetry, scrooge, christmas carol, greed, time travel, christmas season, puppet ...
Time: 19th century, year 1992, 1800s, 90s, 1840s ...
Place: england, london, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Muppets Mayhem (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
TV show
Story: The Electric Mayhem Band goes on an epic musical journey to finally record their first studio album. With the help of a driven young music executive, Nora, the old-school Muppet band comes face to face with the current day music scene as they try to ...
Style: funny, humorous, captivating, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: muppets, puppetry, ambition, music band, music, satire, musician, music business, music industry, band
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Perfect Strangers (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Perfect Strangers is an American sitcom that ran for eight seasons from March 25, 1986, to August 6, 1993, on the ABC television network. Created by Dale McRaven, the series chronicles the rocky coexistence of midwestern American Larry Appleton and ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, game show, slapstick, realistic ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: friendship, odd couple, team, racist, weirdo, roommate, cousin cousin relationship, newspaper, greek, fish out of water, problem solving, partner ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, fictional island, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Muppets from Space (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Gonzo's breakfast cereal tells him that he's the descendant of aliens from another planet, his attempts at extraterrestrial communication get him kidnapped by a secret government agency, prompting the Muppets to spring into action. ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, feel good, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, adult, preschool
Plot: muppets, space travel, benign alien, space, friendship, unlikely friendships, secrets, mad scientist, puppet, heroic mission, rescue, fish out of water ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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ALF (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage.
Style: humorous, sitcom, cliffhanger, hilarious, game show ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: benign alien, alien, extraterrestrial, suburbs, family relations, space and aliens, fish out of water, space, muppets, buddies, magic, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 80s, future, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em is a BBC situation comedy, written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. It was first broadcast in 1973 and ran for three series, ending in 1978. The series follows the accident-prone ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, realistic, humorous, melancholic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: goofy hero, workplace, nothing goes right, job seeking, couple relations, supportive spouse, misfit, family relations, couples, disorder, workplace situations, comedy of errors ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide is an American live action sitcom on Nickelodeon that debuted in the Nickelodeon Sunday night TEENick scheduling block on September 12, 2004. The series' actual pilot episode aired on September 7, ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: school, teenager, friendship, high school life, teenage life, survival, teaching the ways of the world, friends, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, buddies, best friend ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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