Kermit was not the first true Muppet “star.”
The original Kermit was made out of an old coat that once belonged to Jim Henson’s mother and the eyes were made from ping-pong balls.
The original Kermit now resides at the Smithsonian.
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Jim Henson first created The Muppets in 1955 for his TV show called Sam and Friends.
Sam and Friends was Jim Henson's first TV show. The show was only five-minutes long and aired twice daily on WRC-TV, in Washington, D.C.
The show ran from May 9, 1955 to December 15, 1961.
According to Jim Henson, the Muppets got their name from a combination between the words “Marionette” and “Puppet.”
Kermit would occasionally don a blond wig to assume a feminine alter ego, Kermina.
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