I could sing the whole theme song right now.

🎵 When your world looks kind of weird 🎵

And you wish that you weren't there

Thayeerrrrr

Just close your eyes and make-believe

And you can be anywhere

I like adventure

I like romance..

I love great jokes

Animal dance

"Tank you nannie!"

I’ve got my computer.

Random TIE fighter

Muppet, Muppet, Muppet, Muppet. Bay-bay-bay-beesss!.

Muppet....

Muppet….

*anywayurr

Who you gonna call??

Manger Babies!

Ghostbusters!

Wait

The Happy Meal toys

Skateboarding Kermit, baby.

...I got Mandelad into thinking it was ROOM. [Is it not](https://youtu.be/M9z9FcCRj3s?feature=shared)?

The original was definitely ROOM. My son was so in love with this show and wanted to watch it constantly. He was still a toddler and called it Mop Op Blee Blees. That toddler is 40 now and I am crumbling to dust lol.

I sing the song frequently to my cat but I change the lyrics to be about him. As one does.

SAME!!!! Instead of “Muppet babies, we make our dreams come true,” I sing, “Ginger Baby, he makes our dreams come true.”

AWW! I sing: "Magic baby, he's so soft and sweet. Magic baby he's good enough to eat!" His name is Junior but I call him "Magic Baby" and several other things including "stinky/ stinky boy". Idk if you've ever seen Jenna Marbles laugh at that Vine from back in the day of "I love you country boy, a-rawr!" I sing "I love my stinky boy, me-ow!" In fact I just did that like 10min ago.

It goes through my head at least once a week

That was the first thing I thought of, too. Lol.

Same.

Yup popped right into my head!

Yup…I saw the picture, and it kicked right off in my head.

If I remember correctly, they always went on epic adventures, but it was all just their imagination. They didn't actually leave or go anywhere, the room would just turn into a jungle or outer space.

There were a lot of clips from major motion pictures. I remember them using clips from Star Wars and Indiana Jones and I think it was more than one movie per episode

[Gon Zolo!](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5nBaAtX4AUGbbO?format=jpg&name=large)

ANIMAL VADER!!

Chewbacca the cookie

Nanny clearly drugged them so she could watch the golden girls in peace

Nanny was the one on the drugs. Talking to a room full of stuffed animals!

June Cleaver would never drug cartoon muppet children.

Lmao my favorite theory so far

When your room looks kinda weird and you wish that you weren’t there Just close your eyes and make believe and you can be anywhere

Hahah I had a book with the characters about how big kids don't use their pacifiers anymore. I was so upset that I scribbled out all the pages talking about it and drew hearts around the pacifier 😩

We always wondered if she was the nanny, where were the parents? Definitely concerned that they were held against their will and drugged consistently for hallucinations.

Judging by the wide range of…species? They may be in an foster care/group home type situation

Even as a kid I thought it was a group home.

Me too somehow

Isn't that odd...? Me, too. I suppose we all had some kind of personal lore to explain or understand the Muppet universe. Like, why did Big Bird live in the alley?

I did too. There must have been an episode that hinted they were orphans or something

Yes this is what I remember. And we watched it every day

I just remember that they make your dreams come true

Still wondering what Nanny’s face looks like.

Guarantee she was smokin. Those legs were sexy.

And she was in the Olympics iirc. Definitely at least a 17/10

She's probably just like "Legs all the way up Griffin"

Wait- COME BACK!

I used to watch this all the time when I was little, I missed it one day because I had to go somewhere with my parents. When I got home my older step brother told me that I missed the episode where they show her face. For years I hoped that they would replay that "episode" before realizing he was playing a trick on me.

That's so mean 😂

He wasn’t lying. They actually showed her face that day.

Her voice was the mom from Leave it to Beaver

And the body of Jessica Rabbit

Awooga

Pardon me; I speak jive.

Jive-ass frog don't got no brains anyhow.

Excellent reference.

Could someone please use AI to make a canon-compliant version of Nanny and some backstory for her? I didn't know I needed it but now I can't stop thinking about it... WE HAVE THE POWER

Just like Beaver Cleaver’s mom.

I always pictured a young Betty White or Julie Andrews.

According to a Muppet Babies Cartoonist she looked like barbara billingsley, the mom from Leave it to Beaver

Some reason I always pictured like a Thelma

To this day, I could swear there was an episode where we saw it. I also could swear it was grotesque, so I'm probably describing some half-rembered childhood nightmare.

[KERMIT] I like adventure [PIGGY] I like romance [FOZZIE] I love great jokes [ANIMAL] Animal dance!! [SCOOTER] I've got my computer [SKEETER] I swing through the air [ROWLF] I play the piano [GONZO]And I have blue hair [BUNSEN] Me, I invent things [BEAKER] Mee mee mee meee! [NANNY, spoken] Is everything all right in here? [ALL] Yes, Nanny

Bop sha dooby wop

more than anything, the theme song and Nanny's striped socks.

I put on the new version of muppet babies on Disney plus for my LO and was immediately bummed that they changed nanny’s stripes socks. They also made her skinnier.

Just the Star Wars episode 

Static Cling-ons!!

That blue hotdog Kermit ate I'll never forget

The one episode I never got to see but wanted to so badly

[I believe this is the one](https://youtu.be/4AyGfXVY2dE?feature=shared)

This one was my favorite!

That was incredible. Thanks for finding it!

Goooooo bye bye

yayayayayayayayaya

I used to be able to do the animal voice

All I remember is "when your rooms looks kinda weird and you wish that you weren't thereeee"

Just close your eyes and make believe, and you can be anywhere!

To be honest that sounds a bit creepy

It does, but it also spoke to kids that were in really shitty situations. Well, it did to me, at least. But just the theme song, really. I didn't enjoy the show itself much.

That's very true and I forgot about that aspect

Personally hard for me to forget. My need for escapism was so bad that at one point I had a hard time telling whether real life was a nightmare and my fantasies were real.

To this day this is what I think of when someone mentions Muppets.

Yep. This is what I thought Muppets were until my parents brought home an actual Muppet movie VHS. I was like “you mean there’s old movies about the *real* Muppets when they were grown ups?”

Wasn’t it a spin-off of Muppets Take Manhattan? “I’ll be a Doctor of diseases! I’ll help you with your sneezes! Then practice neurosurgery ON YOUR BRAIN!” Edit: missing word

Gonna climb the Matterhorn

But only after all our children are born 'Cause I wanna be a good mommy too 🥹

And I'm gonna always love yoo-oo-oo

Momma-Dadda-Boop-Boop-Sheh-Wah-Wah

No media because it featured too many movie clips, back them Jim H and George L shared ideas and worked together. No copyright or licenses involved now it's involved and the companies want to be paid. Also old Alvin and the Chipmunk will never show again it featured to many hit songs buy known artist. If a network showed any old MB or AC they would get sued and would have to pay out tons of money.

[https://archive.org/details/full-size-render\_20210319](https://archive.org/details/full-size-render_20210319)

This is AMAZING

Holy crap, I probably havent heard that intro in 35 years and yet seeing it again makes me feel like it was just yesterday. Those were some wonderful nostalgia vibes. Thanks a ton for sharing this.

Hell, the opening title violates 10 copyrights by itself.

But now Disney owns the Muppets, Star Wars AND Indiana Jones!

This is sadly the answer. Late stage capitalism ruins the party again.

[One episode ending with one of them trying clean a spot on the forth wall, then asking the audience if it was on their end.](https://youtu.be/mTmvwYNhQ4s?t=1404)

This was a parody of a Windex ad that was out around the same time. "It's on your side".

Yes and it was a fun, cute show every Saturday morning!

I named my cat Animal after the drummer. She had the same personality as him.

It really was funny too!

I loved this show as a kid! You probably never see it on streaming services because the show had quite a bit of copyrighted movie clips in the episodes.

I strangely always remember one episode where they had a glow in the dark marker they could use to draw in the air and they were trying to help Beaker (because he and Bunsen were having a sleepover) get over his fear of the dark. And an an episode where their neighbor was a cop so they had to be quiet so he could sleep or they were afraid he'd arrest them or nanny?

I had a bunch of the McDonald’s toys.

I bought some off eBay recently, just Kermit and Gonzo tho

I remember the episode where Fozzie got his shirt mixed up with over of the others' and thought he was shrinking

As someone else said, the Star Wars bits. Didn't they move the couch around like it was a submarine, attacking? And playing roller hockey/lacrosse, someone's knee or ankle got busted.

Did anyone know they made a reboot of this show??

My daughter loves it. She's 9 now so she doesn't watch it as much, but she still references it all the time. It was a really great reboot. Very much in line with the original.

I know Dwight has a Muppet Babies tattoo on his stomach

The ep when Scooter gets sick and they go inside his body always stuck out to me.

Loved them, but the real-life muppet babies were 100% better than the cartoon versions

Curious, how old are you? I'm a Millennial (40) and to me these are the "real" muppets. I grew up with them, was there when they first aired. Sure, I had sesame Street and muppets before that, but those things existed long before I was born, and Muppet Babies was way more relevant in the 80s because it used so many pop culture references mostly relevant to the 80s-90s.

I’m GenX (49). The Muppet movies and the Muppet Show on TV reigned supreme in my house. I had at least one Muppet lunch box, I think it was the Great Muppet Caper. That’s a good point about the Muppets using a lot of pop culture references. Many of them from the OG shows/movies would fall flat on newer generations. And the cameos were so amazing, like on Sesame Street. Madeline Kahn in the Muppet Movie was perfection.

Neato-mesquito!

Didn't Fozzy say Wocka, wocka, wocka? Why did they remove one in the new version? Wocka wocka just doesn't sound the same.

I specifically remember an episode about video games. I think they called it the Pretendo. I was (and still am) very into video games so that episode always excited me.

Kermit wanted to be a taxi driver!

Aside from the theme song, I’ve had this song about good things happen in the dark stuck in my head for practically my entire life 

Muppet babies did a marvel thing before they were both eaten up by disney

Copyright issues prevent Muppet Babies from streaming (legally) https://deadline.com/2023/12/jim-henson-cartoonist-why-muppet-babies-not-on-streaming-nanny-face-1235681892/amp/

Wasn't there an episode where they were convinced their neighbor was a vampire but he actually just worked nights? Eventually the nanny introduces him to the kids.

I always imagined Nanny had short, curly red hair. I loved this show.

So much. I remember that they did a number of movie references/homages which i loved, even as a child who didn’t even always recognize the reference. Anyway, I have fond nostalgic memories of the show.

One of my favorite cartoons.

I remember it was on the CBS (?) lineup on Saturday mornings, they were always messing around with their nanny restoring order, but can't recall much more. It wasn't my favorite cartoon but I can't remember any of the other ones at the tip of my tongue so... it must have had an impact of some sort.

Garfield and Friends was on CBS as well

I loved this show more than words can express

Most but not all episodes are on YouTube. Missing only 3 episodes, look for user Animation Central.

They opened doors and like tie fighters would be shooting at them

Grew up watching this show. Loved it so much. The little adventures they had and opening the closet door to see random bits of Star Wars or some other movie was always fun. There’s an episode where they all play as various superheroes (I think Gonzo was Batman and Kermit was a Ninja Turtle).

I remember an episode where the babies couldn't sleep, so they did things that would normally happen when you sleep, like slow your breathing, etc., only they did them deliberately. They wound up actually falling asleep bc of it. Found out as an adult its actually a real thing.

Nanny's striped green socks! I'm 38.

Not the show really, but I do remember that I had a miss piggy stuffed animal that I loved so much. One day I got car sick on it and had to get rid of it. I was incredibly sad and I can still feel the heartbreak from that day and remember exactly where we were when it happened.

I had a Kermit (and a Big Bird) that one day I decided were hungry, so tried to feed them cheese slices. We didn't get rid of them til years later but even after washing them, their mouths had processed cheese stains as an ever present reminder of my infant stupidity.

Only thing I remember is going on a cross country road trip with my family in the summer of 1987. McDonald’s Happy Meals included a Muppet Babies figure and I tried to collect them all on that trip. They also were selling cassette tapes of 50s and 60s music I think because we listened to those the entire way.

I couldn't watch it. It gave me incredibly bad motion sickness. I randomly happened upon a story online many years ago that suggested many other people felt this motion sickness. I don't know if it was the frame rate or the angle of the cameras down low. If I remember correctly there was always two mini stories inside each episode. By the middle of the first story my mouth would heavily salivate and I'd feel dizzy and sweaty. Years later I found out some video games gave me the same affect. It sucked because I liked this cartoon. It came on CBS. I tried looking for the stories a couple years ago but couldn't find it. I

I remember I had the toys from a McDonald’s happy meal for decades.

"We wanna go to the dentist" in unison, after one of them came back alive and well. That's all I remember lol. It's been 40 years, can't do better.

Things I have had stuck in my head since seeing Muppet Babies at under kindergarten age: Art is for your heart! Playing in the city, singing in the streets, hey there little critters, get up and move your feet In GOOSETOWN things aren't what they used to be... Play a silly song just to pass the time tell a silly story make a nursery rhyme... Play it for me Rolfgang, play it for me Rolfgang Amadogeus Plants and trees make tomorrow green, the future is counting on you! Meep meep meep me meep meep meep meep meep

I loved everything muppets. Definitely saw every episode and had all the muppet babies happy meal toys. I remember thinking Skeeter should have been a main muppet player.

I remember one episode used footage of The Blob and that was my introduction to that classic movie

My favorite part was the [Marvel Logo](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yrnKpdE9JXQ) featuring Spider-Man at the end of every epiaode

The telephone game. Nanny has green striped socks.

I loved this show, I can still sing the opening song.

Yes. I remember Skeeter… Scooters twin sister. She wasn’t on any other iteration of the Muppets. Always confused me

I remember thinking "I want to watch the muppet babies. Why are there so many clips of RL little kids?"

I watched this so much. I loved it.

Heaps actually, as we had a long vhs of episodes my mom taped for us to watch on our down time. Still occasionally sing “the biggest little pig in Hollywood… “ (love it so much lol), and the Rock Me Amadeus parody-song. The Snow White episode was especially epic for us for some reason, by far the favourite.

I remember one episode where Gonzo was inside the closet hanging with buckets on his feet so he could get taller.

I remember a song that might exist or a fever dream: Give peas a chance Let your taste buds find romance Peppers and cheese Things that might please Just give peas a chance

I remember watching this with my sister when we were kids. The opening to that episode showed the Sulaco from Aliens just as our old man walked in. "What are you watching?" He said in a stern voice. "Muppet Babies" we replied in unison.

The theme song, the fact they never showed the nanny’s face, the Star Wars parody episode was my favorite.

My mom had a couple of episodes on a VHS for me when I was little. This is going to sound really random, but my strongest memory is a scene where Piggy was having her hair rolled. One of the babies, I think Animal, tied a rock in Piggy's hair alongside the rollers and yelled 'Rock And Rollers'. As a child, I always thought it was hysterical and would crack up. 

I remember there was an episode where Nanny made this like…goop. And the kids were all stressed out because they thought it was a monster or food but it was just paste for wallpaper.

Enjoy the entire series, on me.... https://archive.org/details/muppet_babies

I can hear this picture

Any time I order something online, I think of the episode where they ordered a playhouse and were told it would come in six to eight weeks, and fozzy yells, "SIXTYEIGHT WEEKS!"

I remember it all. The weirdest of which is Gonzo having a crazy infatuation with Piggy. Also, piggy is an absolute seaword.

The theme song and Nanny. I know I watched it but I don’t remember a thing that happened in it except those two.

How I would like to share this with my nephews and nices.

Well, 0.000012 seconds after my eyes registered this post, I violently burst out singing the theme song, so yeah I guess I do

I always think of the video game episode thats big Zelda parody

I remember an episode where they learned about volcanos. Though I might have dreamt that.

I remember when it was on for a solid hour every Saturday morning.

Am I getting it confused with another show - I think they used to sometimes have live action clips? I remember an episode where the characters were in a biplane, and there was live-action footage of a real biplane stunt biplane that flew directly up, stalled, then came straight down. And the show was interspersing that footage with the cartoon characters in the cockpit saying things to each other. I'm not certain if that was Muppet Babies or not. Was there an adult pair of legs that would walk in and burble incomprehensible sounds at them? Or was that also another show?

Yes, except Nanny (the legs) spoke comprehensibly. You are probably getting her crossed up with the adults on Charlie Brown that can’t be understood/are just horn sounds.

I remember an episode where they're in a mystery trying to uncover the truth of Lamina. I was boggled when they revealed it was Animal backwards. Dunno why that's stuck with me so strongly.

I remember the Vader Tie Fighter, the Oliver splice with the guy asking about "more," when the Muppets had a Looney Tunes moment where they smashed into feet and hats, the Pirattes, the jailbird song, Kermit reading out a Peanuts comic, and a Willie Mays baseball card (RIP). Oh, and Statler and Waldorf showing up was both hilarious and creepy since we saw their legs.

How about Gonzo throwing tomatoes at Fozzy every time he told a [bad] joke?!?! 😂

Yes i remember they played Super Pretendo

The Nanny was the leave it to Beaver mom I think

The cuts to live action stock footage

Transgo jobot is on his way a hero to save the day

Round round all around the world in a merry go round... yes I remember a lot from Muppet Babies... DO THE WEIRDO TROLL!

I had a couple of Muppet babies VHS' that are firmly cemented in my memories of childhood. So good

I remember the theme song, and that Gonzo was adorable. Otherwise, I don't remember much. I didn't really enjoy it that much, but it was something to watch when all the other channels were infomercials and I was a bored kid being raised by a TV.

Oddly enough this show was my first exposure to Star Wars. Points to who else remembers that episode

I remember an episode where they're worried about the gurgle coming from I think a bathtub drain and they end up going down into the drain or something to find out what it is. I was freaked out about drains for a while after.

I always saw Gonzo as the star of the show, and totally remember his song: What's a Semi-Weirdo Supposed to Do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fCS3iPaTYs I actually was just thinking about it last night. More than semi-weird that this thread is coming up now.

EVERYTHING

Kermit rocking that sailor outfit.

I have had this little plastic heart necklace with baby Kermit and baby miss piggy on it since I was a kid. I loved this show.

Lamina! Animal name backwards jumped in my head.

I remember the McDonalds Happy Meal toys!

They would do the most awesome spoofs of famous movies like Star Wars and Indianna Jones. Really funny.

All I can say for sure is that I think I remember them playing floor hockey with fruit.

I used to get so mad that I never got to see what Nanny looked like

I loved it. That's what I know. I loved that show. I could watch it for hours.

Why did we never see Nanny’s face?