Bert and Kermit and Scooter are clearly Order Muppets. Which is Big Bird? Lithwick’s taxonomy, surprisingly, leaves this question unanswered. And he does seem to be causing a lot of chaos lately.

And that would, as Romney admitted, be kind of a bummer. For example, rather than the character of "Big Bird," the star of the American version of Sesame Street, the Israeli version features ...

Here’s a look back at notable Muppet activism. Romney: ‘I Love Big Bird’ Is Snuffleupagus safe? The Republican presidential nominee vowed to make good on his campaign promise to defund PBS ...

McGruff the Crime Dog warned them not to talk to strangers. And in 1972, Big Bird lined up on “Sesame Street” to receive a measles vaccine as part of a campaign to get more youngsters ...

Elmo, another Muppet character who's three years old ... a surreal yet predictable culture war on social media, with Big Bird receiving the brunt of Republicans' ire. "Government propaganda ...

Ted Cruz today has picked a fight with a Muppet," @LEBassett says about Sen. Cruz's response to Sesame Street's Big Bird getting vaccinated. "He and Big Bird have something in common in that they ...

(Fact check: The Grinch is NOT a Muppet.) “Thanks ... extra protective boost that keeps me and others healthy.” Yes, Big Bird got vaccinated. And Ted Cruz was on the case!

Question: In the popular 1985 Muppets movie “Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird,” at a pivotal point, Big Bird stands next to a huge map of the United States to chart his travels and ...

It's always a sunny day on Sesame Street, but for much of the week, things were not A-OK in the land of the Muppets. On January 24, Big Bird, the show's eight-foot-tall, anthropomorphic canary ...

Big Bird, Kermit the Frog, Count von Count, these characters are Muppet icons, and Matt Vogel plays them all. He started in 1996 as an understudy to Caroll Spinney who famously played Big Bird on ...