what is the difference beetween a muppet and a puppet?

Answer 1

muppet hand controlled...puppet string controlled

Answer 2

The Muppets are a group of puppets and costume characters, and the company created by Jim Henson. Individually, a Muppet is properly one of the puppets made by Jim Henson or his Creature Shop – though the term is often used erroneously to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive style of The Muppet Show and Sesame Street characters, the term is both an informal name and legal trademark linked to the characters created by The Jim Henson Company. After frequently changing hands since the death of creator Jim Henson in 1990, The Muppets have been owned by The Walt Disney Company, through the Muppets Holding Company, since early 2004.

The word "Muppet" itself was said by Henson to have been created by combining the words "marionette" and "puppet"; however, Henson was also known to have stated that it was just something he liked the sound of, and he made up the "marionette/puppet" story while talking to a journalist because it sounded plausible. [1]

Muppets are distinguished from ventriloquist "dummies", which are typically animated only in the head and face, in that their arms or other features are also mobile and expressive. Muppets are typically made of softer materials. They are also presented as being independent of the puppeteer, who is usually not visible, hidden behind a set or outside of the camera frame.

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A puppet is an inanimate object, usually but not necessarily a character, used in play or a presentation. There are many kinds of puppet and they are usually sculpted or modelled, sometimes simple in the extreme, and sometimes highly sophisticated artifacts. A puppet may be operated directly by a puppeteer, or indirectly - by the use of strings, for example, or by other mechanical contrivance or even remotely by electronic guidance. Puppets moved by strings are also known as marionettes (from the medieval Passion play figure attributed to Marion or the young Mary, the mother of Jesus). Puppets may also be animated by using stop motion animation.

A general distinction between a puppet and an automaton is the former is mostly operated live and the latter is mostly programmed (for example a coin-operated automata-show or piano-roll sideshow figure).

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Answer 3

A puppet has a hand up inside of it. A marionette has strings and is operated from above. A Muppet is supposed to be a combination of the two but they often have mechanical gadgets to move their eyes and sometimes they are just a dude in a costume.

Answer 4

Puppets are controlled from the outside and Muppets are controlled from the inside.

Answer 5

A puppet is something that looks like a living thing but has no soul and is controlled by someone else, a politician is a prime example of this. A muppet is someone who supports Arsenal.

Answer 6

A muppet is a cross between a marionette and a puppet.

Answer 7

A "Muppet" is a kind of puppet. I always thought "Muppet" was the name specifically given to creations by Jim Henson (or his son/company). I.e., Kermit, Miss Piggy, cast of Sesame Street, etc.

Answer 8

A muppet is a puppet that is copyrighted by Jim Henson

Answer 9

The muppets was a tv show, i.e. it is a brand name. A puppet is the generic term for, well, a puppet!

Answer 10

Muppet was the name given because they were monstrous puppets

Answer 11

a muppet is the name of a puppet like tellytubby