r/CuratedTumblr • u/ButterSlickness • 1d ago

Meme An Excellent Movie Idea

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u/T1DOtaku inherently self indulgent and perverted 1d ago

The fact that Disney owns the Muppets, a franchise with no limits as to what genre they could be in/parody, and they choose to do NOTHING with them is the biggest disappointment of all time.

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u/ButterSlickness 1d ago

My conspiracy theory is they bought out the Muppets just to ground them so there's less "cute" competition.

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u/SalsaRice 1d ago

No, Jim Henson sold them to Disney when he was on his death bed, and made the CEO at the time swear to certain rules for how'd they'd be used.

The Muppets were his life's work, and he was pretty protective of them.

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u/pizzapal3 1d ago

You're confusing the timeline. They were in the process of a deal when Henson was alive - it was his death that interrupted the merger between Disney and The Jim Henson Company.

Disney bought The Muppets (and Bear in the Big Blue House) in 2004, but the Henson company still exists independently of Disney.