Netflix — muppet

"Muppets & Puppets" had its own genre category on Netflix (circa 2011).

Netflix is a provider of on-demand Internet streaming media. Launched in 1997, Netflix began as a flat-rate DVD-by-mail rental service. The DVD rental service offered many commercially available Muppet and Jim Henson home video releases to US customers, and their "watch instantly" on-demand video streaming service has offered many Muppet titles for viewing on-demand; including several episodes and titles not available on DVD or other platforms. Original content includes the Jim Henson Company produced (or co-produced) series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Julie's Greenroom, The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell, and Word Party, along with the 2022 film Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio.

Netflix has produced other original content for its streaming service, such as House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Crown and Stranger Things; plus revivals and continuations such as Fuller House, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return, Cobra Kai and additional seasons of Arrested Development, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Unsolved Mysteries, and Black Mirror.

On May 19, 2025, it was announced that Netflix would release first-run episodes of Sesame Street starting with Season 56, as well as "library episodes" from previous seasons. In a departure from the show's previous deals with HBO and HBO Max (wherein new episodes would air on PBS following a nine-month window), episodes premiere on Netflix and PBS on the same day.^[1] The series My Sesame Street Friends (previously on HBO Max) was added to the platform as well.

References

In Muppets Most Wanted, Nadya stops Kermit from escaping The Gulag and says he should give up because she has a Netflix account with search keywords "prison escape". She's seen every prison movie ever made (even the ones in space).

In The Muppets episode, "Bear Left Then Bear Write," Gonzo says that he can live without Debbie, to which Pepe the King Prawn says, "What else you got? Netflix?"

At both The Muppets Take the Bowl and The Muppets Take the O2, a series of Muppet television parodies are shown on a streaming service called "MuppStream" parodying the Netflix logo.

For Halloween 2025 and to promote the upcoming season of Sesame Street, Netflix posted a video of Sesame Street characters dressed in costumes inspired by different Netflix shows on their various social media channels.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] Netflix Latin America posted a series of stills from the video shoot.^[6]

An online video was posted in November 2025 of Sesame Street characters auditioning for Netflix productions, One Piece, Squid Game, Is It Cake?, Nobody Wants This, I Think You Should Leave, Bridgerton, Stranger Things, and Happy Gilmore 2. (YouTube)

Appearances

In a teaser reel for 2026 Netflix projects called "Your Future is on its Way", Oscar the Grouch makes a brief appearance in a trash can who later turns back into pine tree branches. (YouTube)
In a trailer for 2026 Netflix projects called "Discover Your Future", Cookie Monster, Abby Cadabby, Elmo, Grover, and Oscar appear when a woman ends up in the world of Sesame Street. (YouTube) Their section was filmed in Shepperton Studios, and additional puppeteers included Warrick Brownlow-Pike, Louise Gold, Dave Chapman, Andy Heath, and Iestyn Evans.^[7]