"The Muppet Show" and "Sesame Street" characters, from left, Swedish Chef, Big Bird, Miss Piggy and Kermit, Cookie Monster, and Statler and Waldorf. (Photo illustration by An Amlotte/Los Angeles Times ...

With the well-publicized bid for The Walt Disney Co. still fresh on people's minds, last week the world-famous entertainment company announced it was purchasing the Muppets, which include characters ...

There have been some fun entertainment-industry beefs, but it doesn’t get much better than the Muppets taking shots at Fox News. “That’s categorically not true,” Kermit the Frog said of Bolling’s ...