25 greatest Muppets, ranked worst to best [PHOTOS]

Tom O'Brien and Chris Beachum
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There’s never been a creative artist quite like Jim Henson. The Mississippi-born Henson was arguably the world’s most famous puppeteer, but he was much more than that. A cartoonist, actor, inventor, animator, writer and filmmaker, Henson was in a class by himself, whether his work appeared in films or on television. In addition, Henson founded the enormously successful Jim Henson Company, an entertainment mainstay that has lived on to produce family entertainment long after Henson’s untimely death in 1990.

After Henson got his start at age 18 creating puppets for a local station in Washington, D.C., he was approached by the Children’s Television Workshop to help develop a new series for PBS, “Sesame Street.” Soon kids around the world were marveling at the antics of Big Bird and his friends, and the show’s success led Henson to expand his Muppet empire with such further successful series as “Fraggle Rock” and “The Muppet Show,” which earned four Primetime Emmy Awards from 21 nominations.

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Though Henson directed two successful non-Muppet feature films (1982’s “The Dark Crystal” and 1986’s “Labyrinth” with David Bowie), it is those lovable cloth-covered creatures that has cemented Henson’s shiny legacy through eight feature films, from “The Muppet Movie” in 1979 to 2014’s “Muppets Most Wanted.” From their films and TV shows, such beloved Muppet characters as Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Bert and Ernie, Oscar and Cookie Monster have graced the covers of newspapers and become cultural touchstones all over the world.

But which one is the best? You’ll probably get as many answers as there are Muppet fans out there, but in honor of their creator, tour our photo gallery of the 25 best Muppets as we rank and count them down from worst to best.

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