Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 1981 musical comedy, The Great Muppet Caper is the second full-length movie featuring The Muppets, the iconic characters created ...

2016 was a very, very bad year no matter how you slice it. In tough times, comedy is often a form of escape that people turn to when they need comforting. With that in mind, we asked our contributors ...

In the 1981 film The Great Muppet Caper, the Muppets get shipped across the Atlantic in crates stenciled with the species ...

When I first heard the news that comic actor Charles Grodin had died at the age of 86, I exclaimed, “No!” Grodin’s performances in a string of family comedies — most notably The Great Muppet Caper — ...

If Jim Henson was alive, he'd turn 90 years old on Sept 24 of this year, but he died at the rather young age of 53 on May 16, 1990. Although it's now been 36 years since he passed away, the legacy of ...

Aside from the "bookending" Muppet movies --- the first “The Muppet Movie,” in 1979, and the franchise reboot “The Muppets,” in 2011 --- the Muppets’ shtick has been to gently satirize a classic ...

The Nostalgia Fact-Check is a recurring Vulture feature in which we revisit a seminal movie, TV show, or album that reflexively evinces an “Oh my God, that was the best ever!” response by a certain ...

On July 13, 1984, TriStar Pictures distributed the third Muppets movie, The Muppets Take Manhattan. It followed 1979’s The Muppet Movie and 1981’s The Great Muppet Caper. Frank Oz, who had voiced Miss ...