Jim Henson’s beloved Muppets probably need no introduction, thanks to the international success both of the Sesame Street franchise, and a long series of excellent Muppet movies. But it’s a little harder to gauge how well-known The Muppet Show was. Airing over several seasons in the late seventies, the television show was produced and aired in the UK, as no US network would touch it.
After that, it’s less clear how widely syndicated the show became. But these excellent builds of show regulars Waldorf/Statler and the Swedish Chef by German builder Andreas Weissenburg (grubaluk) suggest to me that maybe the show did gain some international popularity after all!
Oh, and a word of warning: If you ever meet someone from Sweden, please please please do NOT ask them what they think of the Swedish Chef …it’s still kind of a sore point with them!
Any chance I could get the instruction on the chicken? all were spot on! I loved the MUPPET SHOW blorney florney to you!
Amazing! All three (four, with the chicken) are perfectly captured, despite the relatively small scale. Those Mixel eyes have really revolutionised smaller scale character building.
Fantastic! I love this chicken.
The Muppet Show was very popular in Poland in the 80’s. I liked also Fraggle Rock. It would be nice to see them on TV now.
Airing over several seasons in the late seventies, the television show was produced and aired in the UK, as no US network would touch it.
It was syndicated in the US quite widely. Very popular.
Yes, The Muppet Show was massively popular in the US. (Even won several Emmy Awards, Wikipedia tells me…) I watched it loyally as a kid in the 70s.
Absolutely LOVE these models!
According to Adam Hills, an Australian Comedian who has travelled widely in Europe, in Sweden the character of the Chef was Norwegian.
The Muppet Show was very popular in Sweden as well and most of us Swedes actually love the Swedish chef. He was not a Norwegian character and he is in no way a sore point to us:) I remember as a kid being a little bit proud of a Swedish character in an American show.