DefunctTV: The History of Muppet Babies

0:11 Codey: oh no- (screams) boss: oh no.

Thanks for covering the Marvel involvement

Babies can talk especially when the adults are not around.
Rugrats: Am i a joke to you.

What I find rather unfortunate yet understandable is that the Muppet Babies is one of few TV show that never be repaired or repurposed for terrestrial TV and it has limed availability for streaming. This is because due to the footage from other movies being used. Even though Disney now owns the Muppets, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox, some of episodes of Muppet Babies also included clips from movies and TV shows from Warner Bros and Paramount. Since paying royalties dealing with all the "red tape" would be a massive, expensive headache for Disney, they decided it would be far simpler to pretend it never existed and just reboot it as a completely different CG cartoon in 2018. If it wasn't for the internet and YouTube, the original Muppet Babies would've been lost into the animation aether.

Do MirrorMask

It’s interesting to me how the staying power and fan support for a piece of media has almost nothing to do with the critical reviews. The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth have their cult following but also are more well known in popular culture than The Storyteller. I’d personally never heard of it until the first time I saw this video.

If you want 2D pokemon games just play the hundreds of quality rom hacks. I really don’t think we’re ever gonna get another one again aside from sloppy rush jobs in the vein of BDSP, and it’s been long enough to where I’ve made peace with that

13:10 lagiterately the coolest mashup team up ever! The three cornerstones of my childhood in one thing!

Animal PANTS

Muppet Babies was the beginning of the end for the Muppets.

I would have loved labyrinth, but boy do I hate almost all of the music 🎶Dance magic dance🎶

🎶 When your room looks kinda weird and you wish that you weren't there 🎶

Netflix, give us Season Two of The Dark Crystal—Age of Resistance NOW.

You didn’t mention that The Christmas Toy, their is a new toy that doesn’t know it's a toy and thinks the rest of them are aliens

Loved watching muppet babies on Nick Jr

I saw Labyrinth at the theater when I was 7. I was blown away and not expecting to be so enthralled.

Fun Fact – The first episode was written by Jeffrey Scott. (You showed the credit briefly) He's the grandson of Moe Howard of the The Three Stooges.

I loved the Muppet babies. I knew it was time to eat my sigar coated corn puffs when Muppet babies came on.

Special shout out to my two favorite villains: NOS-4A2 the robotic energy vampire and Wirewolf the cyborg lycanthrope. Such fantastic ideas!

How did they not know to get David Bowie a codpiece for Labyrinth?

I recall seeing Labyrinth when I was young and it was definitely one of the most unique and memorable movies I have ever seen. It was really gross though I recall the fart bog. I wouldn't say it was a good movie but it sticks in your mind.

I would argue that Sesame Street characters are just memorizable as Disney characters.
Although I know Elmo wasn’t created by Jim Henson, he is an icon just like Mickey Mouse.
Jim Henson wanted to appeal to adults which is funny how later on in life he wanted the same longevity as Disney which was rooted in entertaining children.