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.

Big Bird premiered in the very first episode in 1969, according to Muppet fandom, and he's an adorable character known to make friends easily. However, as generations have grown up, questions ...

For Bay Staters, the celebration of Big Bird’s life may resonate deeper than fondly remembering the Muppet who was everybody’s friend; they may also recall the Massachusetts man who brought ...

O’Donoghue hated writing “The Land of Gorch” so much that he strung up a Big Bird doll by its neck in the writers office, and described the Muppets as having been made from the debris left ...

On Tuesday, Elmo – yes, the perennially joyful red Muppet who loves ... boost that keeps me and others healthy.” Yes, Big Bird got vaccinated. And Ted Cruz was on the case!

But even as Hunt feared for Bird’s life and for his own, he ran the roost at Little Muppet Monsters, a new Saturday morning program which began filming in July. After a day’s work and a late ...