For anyone who adores Kermit the Frog and the rest of Jim Henson’s Muppets ensemble, having a Disney+ subscription is the felt-covered holy grail, considering the service boasts most of the Muppet-related projects out there, from the near-complete Muppet Show lineup to the canceled-too-soon Muppets Mayhem. One glaring exception is Muppet Babies, the beloved 1980s Saturday morning cartoon that has never been fully available to either own or watch on demand. So why isn’t Muppet Babies on streaming, or even Blu-ray or DVD?
The answer is a frustrating one, especially when told through the candidly pragmatic perspective of Guy Gilchrist, the highly accomplished cartoonist who brought the O.G. Muppets comic strip to life on top of crafting Muppet Babies’ character designs. Gilchrist gave a rather definitive answer to the streaming mystery in an Instagram interview with Dennis Pastorizo, which basically proves how special and unique Jim Henson was in the profit-minded world of entertainment. Here’s the first part of his answer:
