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[1]
Fry “Milestones.”

[2]
Graeber “And a Frog Shall Lead Them.”

[3]
Brillstein
Where Did I
Go Right
?
109.

[4]
Skow “Those Marvelous
Muppets.”

[5]
Nuwar “Muppets on the
Move” 66.

[6]
Henson
Best of
The
Muppet Show “George Burns.”

[7]
Gabler
Walt Disney
330.

[8]
Id.
at 331

[9]
Lucas Interview by
Charlie Rose.

[10]
Paik
To Infinity and
Beyond
291–92.

[11]
Mirkin phone call
2/15/2013.

[12]
Harris “Muppet Master.”

[13]
Id.

[14]
Falk
Jim Henson’s Red
Book
3/13–14/1969.

[15]
Henson
The World of
the Dark Crystal.

[16]
Finch
Of Muppets and
Men
65.

[17]
Odell
Dark Crystal:
Creation Myths
“Afterward.” 

[18]
Brillstein
Where Did
I Go Right
?
111.

[19]
Odell
Dark Crystal:
Creation Myths
“Afterward.”

[20]
Brillstein
Where Did
I Go Right
?
111.

[21]
Henson Interview by John A. Gallagher.

[22]
Odell
Dark Crystal:
Creation Myths
“Afterward.”

[23]
— Muppet Wiki “MirrorMask.”

[24]
Paik
To Infinity and
Beyond
284.

[25]
Id. at
285.

[26]
Disney
Snow White.

[27]
Id.

[28]
Grover
The Disney
Touch
218.

[29]
Id.
at 217

[30]
Id.

[31]
Reibstein “Kermit vs.
Mickey Mouse.”

[32]
Stevenson “Muppets Join
Disney Menagerie.”

[33]
— “Look Out, Kermit:
Disney’s Next Meal May Be Muppets”
Wall Street Journal.

[34]
Gubernick “Did Mickey
Shaft Kermit?”

[35]
Masters “Disney’s Muppet
Miasma.”

[36]
Grover
The Disney
Touch
217.

[37]
Davis
Street Gang
312.

[38]
Id.
at 311.

[39]
Id.
at 312.

[40]
Brillstein
Where Did
I Go Right
?
328.

[41]
Adler “Estate-Tax Burden
Cancels Muppets Deal with Disney.”

[42]
Davis
Street Gang
312.

[43]
Masters “Disney’s Muppet
Miasma.”

[44]
— Gottesman v. USA.

[45]
Brillstein
Where Did
I Go Right
?
329.

[46]
Clines “Mr. Muppet’s
Empire Is Thriving.”

[47]
Falk
Jim Henson’s Red
Book
4/25–30/1988.

[48]
Id.

[49]
Clines “Mr. Muppet’s
Empire Is Thriving.”

[50]
Henson
The
Storyteller.

[51]
Id.

[52]
Id.

[53]
— Gottesman v. USA.

[54]
Falk
Jim Henson’s Red
Book
5/–/1973.

[55]
Falk
Jim Henson’s Red
Book
5/17–18/1988.

[56]
Rockwell Interview by Grant Baciocco.

[57]
— “Remembering Jim Henson.” CNN.

[58]
Falk
Jim Henson’s Red
Book.

[59]
Brown “Muppets Deal
Began in April.”

[60]
Davis
Street Gang
313.

[61]
Brown “Muppets Deal
Began in April.”

[62]
Reibstein “Kermit vs.
Mickey Mouse.”

[63]
Henson
The
Storyteller.

[64]
Id.

[65]
Brown “Muppets Deal
began in April.”

[66]
Davis
Street Gang
313.

[67]
Brillstein
Where Did
I Go Right
? 327.

[68]

Hoover’s
Company Records
2012.

[69]
Id.

[70]
Paik
To Infinity and
Beyond
291.

[71]
Guttman “Jim Henson
Content with His Kingdom.”

[72]
Id.

[73]
— “Disney After Walt Is a Family Affair”
Time.

[74]
Culhane “Muppets in
Movieland.”

[75]
Id.

[76]
Clines “Mr. Muppet’s
Empire Is Thriving.”

[77]
Brillstein
Where Did
I Go Right
? 331.

[78]
Falk
Jim Henson’s Red
Book.

[79]
Whitmire Interview by
Kenneth Plume.

[80]
Falk
Jim Henson’s Red
Book
2/25/1988.

[81]
Id.

[82]
Hill “The Muppetty
Takeover of Disneyland that Almost Happened.”

[83]
Masters “Disney’s Muppet
Miasma.”

[84]
Id.

[85]
Id.

[86]
Reibstein “Kermit vs.
Mickey Mouse.”

[87]
Masters “Disney’s Muppet
Miasma.”

[88]
Davis
Street Gang
314.

[89]
Masters “Disney’s Muppet
Miasma.”

[90]
Hill “When the
Muppeteers Were Fretting About the Mouse.”

[91]
— “Editorial: Acquisitions, Mergers and Muppets” 
St. Petersburg Times.
 

[92]
Price
The Pixar Touch
233–34.

[93]
Id.
at 234.

[94]
Paik
To Infinity and
Beyond
290.

[95]
Whitmire Interview by
Plume.

[96]
— “Remembering Jim Henson.” CNN

[97]
Grover
The Disney
Touch
217

[98]
— “Remembering Jim Henson.” CNN.

[99]
Davis
Street Gang
10.

[100]
Davis Interview by Joe
Hennes.

[101]
Engstrom “Davis and
Henson Changed the World of Entertainment.”

[102]
“Remembering Jim Henson.” CNN.

[103]
Angus Interview by
Kenneth Plume.

[104]
Juhl Interview by D.W.
McKim and Phillip Chapman.

[105]
Odell
Dark Crystal:
Creation Myths
“Afterward.”

[106]
Masters “Disney’s
Muppet Miasma.”

[107]
Reibstein “Kermit vs.
Mickey Mouse.”

[108]
— “Jim Henson: Friends and Family” Panel Discussion.

[109]
— “Remembering Jim Henson.” CNN.

[110]
Davis
Street Gang
312.

[111]
Sullivan
Muppets Magic from The Ed Sullivan Show.

[113]
Brillstein
Where Did
I Go Right
? 150.

[114]
Freeman “Muppets on His
Hands” 126.

[115]
Odell
Dark Crystal:
Creation Myths
“Afterward.”

[118]
Falk
Jim Henson’s
Red Book
2/6/1978.

[119]
Freedman “It’s a Muppet
Invasion.”

[120]
Young phone call
1/24/2013.

[121]
Odell
Dark Crystal:
Creation Myths
“Afterward.”

[122]
Henson
It’s Not Easy
Being Green
9.

[123]
Roberts
Seth Speaks
57.

[124]
Henson
It’s Not Easy
Being Green
118.

[125]
Henson
It’s Not Easy
Being Green
58.

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