Facebook is a social networking service used by over a billion people worldwide. Companies associated with Muppet characters maintain several accounts for their franchises, often using them to distribute original content.

Official pages

Sesame Street

Official character accounts are denoted either by Facebook's "Verified" status, or their inclusion on Sesame Street's list of "Liked" pages.

• Sesame Street
• Sesame Workshop
• Sesame Street Live
• Sesame Place
• Plaza Sésamo
• Sesamstrasse
• Sesame Street Japan
• Healthy Habits for Life
• The People in Our Neighborhood
• Big Bird
• Bert and Ernie
• Oscar the Grouch
• Abby Cadabby
• Cookie Monster
• Elmo
• Grover
• Zoe
• Prairie Dawn
• Telly Monster
• Count von Count
• Rosita
• The Amazing Mumford
• Mr. Snuffleupagus
• Murray Monster
• Mando (retired)

Sometime around 2009,^[1] the Sesame Street Facebook page hosted an app called the Feel-O-Matic. The interactive feature enabled visitors to share their feelings with help from 24 Sesame Street characters in short video clips that had been shot exclusively for the app. Nine characters were available from the beginning, with the remaining 15 characters to be unlocked through sharing the app with friends.

The Muppets

• The Muppets
• Kermit the Frog
• Miss Piggy
• Fozzie Bear
• Gonzo
• Walter (retired)
• Animal
• Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem
• The Muppets ABC (retired)
• see also: The Muppets' Fan-A-Thon

The Jim Henson Company

• The Jim Henson Company
• Jim Henson
• The Jim Henson Legacy
• Fraggle Rock
• The Dark Crystal
• Labyrinth

Appearances

• In March 2014, Constantine visited infiltrated the Facebook offices in promotion of Muppets Most Wanted his Badfrog website, left a video and photos for proof:

"Constantine here, World’s Number One criminal. I am letting you in on evil secret: I have now taken over this Facebook page! I love this job! #BadFrog"

"Ha! I have infiltrated the Facebooks office. Just making a few improvements to the codings #BadFrog"

"With mole on his face, don’t I look exactly like Mark Zuckerberg? Maybe next time I take his place! #BadFrog"

"It’s not easy being mean #BadFrog"

"I, Constantine, the world’s number one criminal, will be part of the Facebook Live event with the Muppets…& I wasn’t even invited! #BadFrog"

• On March 26, 2014, Constantine, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Ricky Gervais and Ty Burrell did a live chat on their British and German Facebook accounts to promote Muppets Most Wanted, that was subsequently posted in the same spot, split up into two videos.

• In September 2019, the Muppets began appearing in advertisements for Facebook's Portal device.

References

• The "Muppetbook" character bios featured in the digital press kit for Sesame Street’s 40th season parody the style and design of Facebook.

• A Sesame Street t-shirt says "Elmo and Oscar are now friends" mimicking Facebook's news feed and a "Like" button.

• In a segment where Cookie Monster writes jokes for Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy asks Cookie Monster to write a joke about Facebook. Cookie Monster then writes a knock knock joke.

• In The Muppets episode "Pig Out", Fozzie says in LA, a yellow light means update your Facebook status.

• In an interview for CNET, Kermit is asked about the usefulness of Twitter and Facebook, to which he replies, "it's so much easier to stay in touch with fans, friends, and especially family. When you have 2,342 brothers and sisters like I do, Facebook and Twitter save a lot of late night phone calls."^[2]

• In a 2017 video for Wired, the Muppets of Sesame Street are asked how they get celebrities. Count von Count says they get them from Facebook.

Chat Stickers

In March 2014, Walt Disney Studios released Muppets Most Wanted stickers (by Amy Mebberson) for use in Facebook chat.

Kermit and Piggy chat posted by Facebook's Facebook page on March 28, 2014

Notes

• In 2015, a post on The Muppets Studio's official Facebook page was deleted roughly two days later, due to events that unfolded during the course of the day: On Friday, the 13th of November 2015, the studio posted "Wishing you a very dramatic Friday the 13th from Uncle Deadly. Good luck!" Hours later, a string of brutal terrorist attacks in Paris, France, left over 130 people dead. After the public left comments about the accidental inappropriateness of the post, it was removed from the page without comment.

External links

• "Tweet Like a Monster," Sparksheet.com's Nov 2010 interview with Dan Lewis, Sesame Workshop's new-media director
• Muppet Wiki on Facebook

Sources