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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2161573" data-attributes="member: 151">You also have to consider that they've changed their focus over the years.  They used to skew older, but changing education requirements and a different view of television in general means that 2-4 year olds are now their target audience.  That's the motivator for changing the show's format to solid blocks of things (like the continuing story through an episode having been condensed to a segment, for instance).  The Snuffy change came directly from the high-profile child-abuse cases of the late 70s and early 80s...the creators didn't want to think that kids hadn't told adults about abuse because they'd continually seen everyone disbelieving a very earnest Big Bird whenever he tried to tell them about Mr. Snuffleupagus.As for why you don't see certain characters much any more...well, several of the old muppeteers have passed away, not the least of which is Jim Henson himself.  Frank Oz remains, of course, but he works mostly in Hollywood now...however, he volunteers for virtually no pay to work for four days every season, to make sure that Bert, Grover and all the other characters he does are present in some form.   Plus, you've got to remember that they just finished a new Muppet movie, the Muppet Wizard of Oz, and that Henson's studios are constantly working on stuff (even if it happens to be a series of Pizza commercials <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />).</blockquote>

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