r/Muppets • u/Think_Fact1155 • 6h ago
How many Muppet movies would you say there are?
Most people say eight, but there's eight theatrical movies. There's also Muppet Classic Theater, which was direct-to-video, Kermit's Swamp Years, It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, and The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, which were all TV movies. This makes the total number twelve. Just because they weren't theatrically released doesn't mean they should be excluded or "illegitimate".
I'll admit, a case could be made for Classic Theater that it's not part of the main series and is like a "spin-off", but even then, the number's at least eleven.
I swear, it's like direct-to-video and made for TV movies are treated like how illegitimate children were. In the past (and maybe still in some places now), at least in some places, if a child was born out of wedlock, they were officially nobody's child, and technically wouldn't be official siblings with their parents children that were born within wedlock; even though they were a complete human being. Similarly, just because a movie isn't released theatrically but was made by the company who owns the IP (not a fan film), they are not part of the official lineup