Jim Henson died 32 years ago today. He was only 53 years old. Imagine how different the world would be if he had kept making movies, TV shows, books and toys until he was 80 years old.
@@SuperMarioAaron64 Actually, Jim was going to form a partnership with Disney regardless (although with Jim being alive at the time, I feel he would've had more creative control, with Disney needing his approval before they did anything with the Muppets.) In fact, Disney planned a "Muppets Takeover" event where for a whole year, the Muppets were to take over Disneyland and make it "MuppetLand" But Jim's death led to this publicity stunt being cancelled, and the Disney/Mupper merger being scrapped until Disney bought the Muppets years later.
The fact that Jim Henson only lived to be 53 baffles me. He did things that anyone else would’ve accomplished in twice his lifetime. I believe he is worthy of the Medal of Freedom for his contributions to America and entertainment
I remember his death and I still remember, and now Luis and bob and carol skinny have arrived at the pearly gates as well, its sad but its is the pattern of life to move on.@@maitefurtado2221
Pneumonia really is no joke, I had it for the very first time this past fall and I’m 31. At first they thought I just had bronchitis, but discovered it was actually pneumonia while listening to my chest. Luckily it was still in the very early stages so it was more or less like walking pneumonia I had, but I still felt really sick with it. So glad I got on the antibiotic when I did, felt a lot better within a day or two. Anytime myself or a loved one of mine gets sick like this, I always think of Jim Henson’s story which encourages me to seek medical care right away. Maybe Henson’s story was left as a little reminder to all of us to please remember to take care of ourselves when we fall ill, or it can have tragic consequences unfortunately. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I was 10 when Henson died. I didn’t fully grasp the magnitude of his loss until I became a dad myself years later. There’s simply no one else like him. Nobody has ever been able to replace him…and never will. Thank you Jim for making my childhood so special. I was one of the lucky ones to experience his brilliance at its pinnacle.
The day that Jim Henson died my husband and I wept all day long. We were and still are huge Muppets fans. A world without Muppets is a world I don’t want to live in.
I wasn't born yet at the time. But if I was around in 1990, I would've broken down in tears hearing that Jim Henson died. I am truly a Muppet fan since my childhood. I couldn't believe he passed away way too soon. RIP Mr. Jim Henson
OMG I was not born either!! I was born in 2007!! I'm visually impaired, and I would have broken down myself!! I'm a true fan too, and just hearing all this makes me deeply cry!! :(
It was a loss. Emmet otters jug band had me hooked when I was a kid. I'm 50 now and the kid comes out in me everytime I see Muppets. RIP. Mr. Henson. Thank you
Reelz's Autopsy should do an episode on this! The sad irony is that Disney World special aired the day he died! Also Jim Henson dead, John Tesh still alive!
By 1990, before he died, had completed production on the television special The Muppets at Walt Disney World and the Disney-MGM Studios attraction Muppet*Vision 3D and he was developing film ideas and a television series entitled Muppet High.
Wrong stuff here! Corrects errors: 1; The reporter are talking about Jim’s wife, but footage of Jim’s daugther is shown (at 1:43). And 2; The reporter mentions Miss Piggy as a Muppet cast of Sesame Street (at 2:46). That’s wrong, Miss Piggy was never on Sesame Street. That was The Muppet Show.
@@Mooms Correct, he was only the creator of the Muppet characters of Sesame Street, but Sesame Street itself was created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett
I remember hearing this and being very upset. If it weren't for him, i would probably still be in kindergarten. He left behind a legacy that is quite u ique. And interesting. We share the same birthday. I loved sesame Street and the muppets. He will be remembered.
I can't lie, i was getting through it pretty well until the interview with those kids at the end. That got some tears, I can't lie. He had an undeniable positive impact on all of pop-culture, and he's still missed 3 decades later, even by people like me who weren't even born during his life.
I didn't realize he made the "live" action Ninja Turtles also. He had the Muppets, Sesame Street, Labyrinth, the original Star Wars trilogy and several other projects. If only he had gotten to the hospital a day earlier. He might still be making magic
I remember watching the 2011 Muppets movie in theaters and to this day I still remember how great it was. His vision lives on forever. His innocence and fantasy lives on in all of us. Rest in peace forever legend. The world misses you.
Why wouldn't he go to the hospital. It's sad that he would have lived if he was treated just a couple of hours earlier. I read that he suggested to his wife that he might be dying, but he did not want to take time off from his schedule to visit a hospital.
Jim unfortunately was a severe workaholic, a trait that many of his closest friends always were cautious of. Jim never looked like he took a break, even when he went on vacation. Jim always had his mind around him that he never once thought to think about himself. Wasn't the first time Jim felt heavily fatigued so he assume it was just another one of those. It really sad that Jim never once thought to put his own health first over his creative imagination but that usually is the consequence of many workaholics who have a vision.
@@tavvyprods1275 Steve was chosen to play Kermit by Jim’s family and then once Disney bought the rights to the Muppets they let him go in 2021 and that was wild to me.
As much as it sucks that Jim had to die so young, I think it stings even harder that these reports associated him predominantly with Sesame Street, knowing that he spent the last 20 years of his life trying to shake off the reputation as a children’s performer that the show gave him. Even when Kermit gets mentioned in them, it’s usually in some form of context regarding Sesame Street. And I like Sesame Street, don’t get me wrong, I respect the hell out of it. But it’s horrible to me that all his efforts that included The Muppet Show, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, etc became, at least for a little while, all for nothing - with a lot of the media continuing to hyperfocus on him supposedly being just “The Sesame Street guy” while paying only the briefest of lip service to literally anything else
I feel 50 is the bare minimum to have lived a full life. Henson achieved far more than most will accomplish in however long the might live. We had him for a good stretch of time, and Humanity is proven worthy with the likes of he.
Poor Jenson who was swallowed alive or blown up (it is impossible to tell which) He taught the world how to properate a puppet. This was Jenson’s impact 😢
If there were three people I could make get a full fulfilling life and not taken from us so soon, I'd choose George Carlin, Robin Williams and Jim Henson.
I'm am horrified about hearing of the doctor who just gave him aspirin, and told him there was nothing to worry about, and to go about his life. If he went to a different doctor, he might've been saved.
Shigeo Kageyama I’m not trying to be rude I’m giving out a fact, can you imagine if he never went through that Christian Science and how many more here’s he would of lived
In this video, there is a news report that states he had gone to a doctor a week prior to his death. The doctor did not find anything concerning. It also states he had been healthy prior to that. There is another report in this video that address the Christian Science rumor. I have not followed the story so I'm sure more information has come to light over the past 30 years that may dispute that but, in the end, all we know for sure is a creative talent left too soon.
dvdmc7 I heard people say due to his Christin Science he didn’t want to seek help, but when it was to late he decided to go to the doctors. The doctors couldn’t do anything to help it was too late, the pneumonia toxins spread through his body I believe. I’m not 100% sure if that’s right, but that’s what I’ve seen people saying.
Well, I'm sure you know many people who are reluctant to go to the doctor even when they're not feeling well. Men especially are raised in a belief that they should ignore pain which is why many more men die from cancer than women. Jim Henson never practised Christian Science even though his parents were of this faith. Perhaps he though he will recover from it himself. So many people died this year believing the same thing. Also, the incompetent GP cannot be ignored, not recognising the flu.
Jim Henson died 32 years ago today. He was only 53 years old.
Imagine how different the world would be if he had kept making movies, TV shows, books and toys until he was 80 years old.
Fr, he would’ve been alive if he got to the hospital at least 8 hours earlier than he did.
I heard rumors that every muppet has been visited by the GHOST 👻
And when his wife, Jane, and son, John, died 23 and 24 years after Jim Henson's death, he was like "What took you two so long?" while he was in heaven
If Jim lived longer, imagine the ideas he'd still be doing.
Disney wouldn’t ruin the muppets then if he lived longer
@@SuperMarioAaron64 Actually, Jim was going to form a partnership with Disney regardless
(although with Jim being alive at the time, I feel he would've had more creative control,
with Disney needing his approval before they did anything with the Muppets.)
In fact, Disney planned a "Muppets Takeover" event where for a whole year,
the Muppets were to take over Disneyland and make it "MuppetLand"
But Jim's death led to this publicity stunt being cancelled,
and the Disney/Mupper merger being scrapped until Disney bought the Muppets years later.
@@MetroXLR99 true but Jim would still have most of the control
The world would be nicer.. ❤️
He could’ve been saved if he had gone to the hospital much sooner
The fact that Jim Henson only lived to be 53 baffles me. He did things that anyone else would’ve accomplished in twice his lifetime. I believe he is worthy of the Medal of Freedom for his contributions to America and entertainment
I hope everyone's remembers every child hood memory and never forget it.
Does 2000s childhood remember?
I remember his death and I still remember, and now Luis and bob and carol skinny have arrived at the pearly gates as well, its sad but its is the pattern of life to move on.@@maitefurtado2221
If Jim Henson had gone to the hospital, just a day earlier, he would still be with us. Don’t wait if you feel really sick. Go to the hospital.
He is missed 😢
Exactly being Sick and ending up becoming very Ill is not a thing to Ignore and Mess with
A few hours actually
Pneumonia really is no joke, I had it for the very first time this past fall and I’m 31. At first they thought I just had bronchitis, but discovered it was actually pneumonia while listening to my chest. Luckily it was still in the very early stages so it was more or less like walking pneumonia I had, but I still felt really sick with it. So glad I got on the antibiotic when I did, felt a lot better within a day or two. Anytime myself or a loved one of mine gets sick like this, I always think of Jim Henson’s story which encourages me to seek medical care right away. Maybe Henson’s story was left as a little reminder to all of us to please remember to take care of ourselves when we fall ill, or it can have tragic consequences unfortunately. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Exactly. He was the most creative person on Earth but he was so sick. He was just 53. R.I.P. Jim Henson 🕊️👑🐐
I had Strep Pneumonia along with Ear Infection and Strep Throat when I was 13 I caught it early
I was 10 when Henson died. I didn’t fully grasp the magnitude of his loss until I became a dad myself years later. There’s simply no one else like him. Nobody has ever been able to replace him…and never will. Thank you Jim for making my childhood so special. I was one of the lucky ones to experience his brilliance at its pinnacle.
I was 5 when he died and was still aware of his passing then. That’s how popular and well known the muppets were at that time. Rest well, Mr. Henson.
I was 8 when this Happened
I was not even born yet, I was born in April 1991. He passed away only 16 days before my husband was born though which I find interesting.
@@katiejohnston988I wasn't born yet either when he died but after I did I heard stories about a GHOST haunting the muppets studio
The day that Jim Henson died my husband and I wept all day long. We were and still are huge Muppets fans. A world without Muppets is a world I don’t want to live in.
I was 4 then
I wasn't born yet at the time. But if I was around in 1990, I would've broken down in tears hearing that Jim Henson died. I am truly a Muppet fan since my childhood. I couldn't believe he passed away way too soon. RIP Mr. Jim Henson
OMG I was not born either!! I was born in 2007!! I'm visually impaired, and I would have broken down myself!! I'm a true fan too, and just hearing all this makes me deeply cry!! :(
I was 4 years old and my moms had to explain death to me when Jim Henson died.
I was age 8 when I heard the Sad News of Jim Henson Passing Away Jim Henson will always be Missed
What memories of when my son was a baby. Rest in peace, Jim Henson. You were such a good person.
I remember as a 7 year old kid waking up to the sad news Jim Henson died. We miss you very much.
That was one of the gentlest sad days of my life. It kind of built over the day. I miss him to this day.
I know I do to sometimes.
Jim Henson had been taken away from us WAY too early 😢😢
But he was too old but he's having peace in heaven
Fr
Jim Henson died long before I was around, but I can only imagine the grief everyone felt of his passing. May his legacy live on for all time.
I remember when it happened. I was 11 years old. I was devastated.
@@AlanAvis I'm sorry you had to go through that, especially at a young age.
@@matthewpowell2429 💚💚💚💚🙏👍
It was a loss. Emmet otters jug band had me hooked when I was a kid. I'm 50 now and the kid comes out in me everytime I see Muppets. RIP. Mr. Henson. Thank you
Jim Henson may be gone but his legacy is still going strong today
Still crying about this now. He was a Gem!
Died at 53. I guess the good really do die the young. Growing up in the 70’s, Sesame Street and Muppet Show were huge. I love ❤️ you Jim
My mom couldn't believe it when she heard this
I miss him more every year he’s gone….he’d be 85 had he survived….always go to the doctor…never wait….
Love you Jimmy! You were a genius! You will never be forgotten
He would still be alive today.
Reelz's Autopsy should do an episode on this!
The sad irony is that Disney World special aired the day he died!
Also Jim Henson dead, John Tesh still alive!
Jim would still have plenty to work with had he lived to witness how much his work has evolved for a new generation of young kids.
It was and never will be same with out him. He definitely will always be apart of my life journey and missed 🙏🏾🥲❤
By 1990, before he died, had completed production on the television special The Muppets at Walt Disney World and the Disney-MGM Studios attraction Muppet*Vision 3D and he was developing film ideas and a television series entitled Muppet High.
If they should do a biopic of Jim Henson's Life, They Should Let Christian Bale Do It or Ed Norton.
I think Ed Norton would be the best
Should be John Krasinski
There will be a documentary I think, on Disney+
Wrong stuff here! Corrects errors: 1; The reporter are talking about Jim’s wife, but footage of Jim’s daugther is shown (at 1:43). And 2; The reporter mentions Miss Piggy as a Muppet cast of Sesame Street (at 2:46). That’s wrong, Miss Piggy was never on Sesame Street. That was The Muppet Show.
I hate it when people get The "regular" Muppets and the Sesame Street ones mixed up! Kermit was the only one who was a main character on both shows!
They also refer to Jim as the creator of Sesame Street when it’s that’s technically not true
@@Mooms Correct, he was only the creator of the Muppet characters of Sesame Street, but Sesame Street itself was created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett
I was 9 1/2 years old when Jim Henson passed away
Today is the day learned Jim Henson died
I never knew
I remember hearing this and being very upset. If it weren't for him, i would probably still be in kindergarten. He left behind a legacy that is quite u ique. And interesting. We share the same birthday. I loved sesame Street and the muppets. He will be remembered.
Don't sell yourself short. I'm sure you would have graduated kindergarten by now.
I can't lie, i was getting through it pretty well until the interview with those kids at the end. That got some tears, I can't lie. He had an undeniable positive impact on all of pop-culture, and he's still missed 3 decades later, even by people like me who weren't even born during his life.
I didn't realize he made the "live" action Ninja Turtles also. He had the Muppets, Sesame Street, Labyrinth, the original Star Wars trilogy and several other projects. If only he had gotten to the hospital a day earlier. He might still be making magic
I'm sorry for Jim. When I was a kid no one never told me anything so I grew up and thought things on my own
Sorry to hear that but I hope you're doing good now.
I was 14 when i turned the tv on and saw the news saying jim henson died i cried all day
I remember watching the 2011 Muppets movie in theaters and to this day I still remember how great it was. His vision lives on forever. His innocence and fantasy lives on in all of us. Rest in peace forever legend. The world misses you.
Rest in peace Jim Henson
RIP
Jim Henson
(1936-1990)
He’s been gone well over 30 years and he would still only be 86.
Why wouldn't he go to the hospital. It's sad that he would have lived if he was treated just a couple of hours earlier. I read that he suggested to his wife that he might be dying, but he did not want to take time off from his schedule to visit a hospital.
I know. If he didn't wait until the last minute to go to the hospital, he would probably still be alive today working with Sesame Street.
Jim unfortunately was a severe workaholic, a trait that many of his closest friends always were cautious of. Jim never looked like he took a break, even when he went on vacation. Jim always had his mind around him that he never once thought to think about himself. Wasn't the first time Jim felt heavily fatigued so he assume it was just another one of those. It really sad that Jim never once thought to put his own health first over his creative imagination but that usually is the consequence of many workaholics who have a vision.
Now we have weird sounding Muppets.
on this day 33 years ago, jim henson the creator of muppets had died at the age of 53
R.I.P Jim Henson 1930s-1990
In The Memories Of Jim Henson 1936-1990
We Will Able To Be Missed Forever 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@ignatiuspng6670 yep
R.I.P Jim Henson 😢😢
Anyone else crying
(RIP) Rest In Peace Jim Henson And Thank You For Everything
Not easy Being green 😢😢😭😭
The play at the end was a prototype for "The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson", change my mind.
I can already picture children crying in their parent’s arms being confronted when they heard about his unexpected death
Long Live his Spirit. his Love, and his Muppets.
Agreed. By the way, are you unhappy with Disney keeping the rights to the Muppets and Steve Whitmire being kicked out of the team?
@@tavvyprods1275 Steve was chosen to play Kermit by Jim’s family and then once Disney bought the rights to the Muppets they let him go in 2021 and that was wild to me.
@@Kaylin777 They actually fired him in 2017.
1:27 is actually incorrect. He said it was just something he made up.
Loved Jim Henson.
I remember my mom breaking the news to me 😢 gone way too soon.
RIP 🪦 Jim Henson
Henson would never have had the success he had then today. Better times for artists
If I could go back in time just to stop Jim from dying a day later, I could, when time traveling exists.
Rest easy Jim Henson you will be missed
Jim Henson is a spirit and heart too big.
There are quite a few errors in these reports.
If anyone in the comments section knew Jim Henson, please, tell me what he was like, or what you thought of him/his work. I'd truly love to know.
As much as it sucks that Jim had to die so young, I think it stings even harder that these reports associated him predominantly with Sesame Street, knowing that he spent the last 20 years of his life trying to shake off the reputation as a children’s performer that the show gave him. Even when Kermit gets mentioned in them, it’s usually in some form of context regarding Sesame Street.
And I like Sesame Street, don’t get me wrong, I respect the hell out of it. But it’s horrible to me that all his efforts that included The Muppet Show, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, etc became, at least for a little while, all for nothing - with a lot of the media continuing to hyperfocus on him supposedly being just “The Sesame Street guy” while paying only the briefest of lip service to literally anything else
The day he died was a HORRIBLE day as Sammy Davis Jr. also died that day
I feel 50 is the bare minimum to have lived a full life. Henson achieved far more than most will accomplish in however long the might live. We had him for a good stretch of time, and Humanity is proven worthy with the likes of he.
3:41 The deal fell apart because he died.
But said Deal ended up going through in 2004
We don't do stuff like this anymore.
If Jim Henson was still alive, Sesame Street would be a lot different like it is now
and his widow died in 2013
34 years ago today.
Damn, that was 2 years before I was born!😮
Poor Jenson who was swallowed alive or blown up (it is impossible to tell which)
He taught the world how to properate a puppet.
This was Jenson’s impact 😢
Jim died 15 years before i was born
He sold it for so little imagine how much it would cost today
He sold it 34 years ago, it was an astronomical amount of money at the time.
0:30 lil Raven!!!
0:33 My Birth
All kid will be sad
I was 28 when he died!
Animation look back: the muppets brought me here.
Sesame street is still on the air today.
Jim was such a genius...the man literally changed the world with just some cloth and ping pong balls.😊😊❤❤🎉🎉..."Idea Man" indeed.😊😊
If there were three people I could make get a full fulfilling life and not taken from us so soon, I'd choose George Carlin, Robin Williams and Jim Henson.
Try to not cry
4:38 no Joan gang coney created the streets. Henson created the puppet designs
don't forget Jon Stone!
150 million... and that couldn't save his life.
I'm am horrified about hearing of the doctor who just gave him aspirin, and told him there was nothing to worry about, and to go about his life. If he went to a different doctor, he might've been saved.
😭😭😭
Why? Anybody but Jim Henson.
I go by the Jim Henson studios in Hollywood all the time, and it looks like willy wonka's chocolate factory to me.
Wow
0:13
I WAS BORN 13 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH
I was born 11 years after his death
i was born 10 years almost 11 years after his death
My 5th birthday
Thank You Jim Henson for creating the Muppets
Codenamed the king of puppets.
so basically jim had some form of corona
He had strep throat which developed into a bacterial infection. He died from Toxic Shock Syndrome.
Things would have been much worse if Jim had coronavirus and was still alive
Jim died of organ failure
Jim Henson's cause of death is presumonia.
Presbyterian hospital is much better.
Opal Contrary from The Sims 2 FreeTime
It was all because of the Christian Science he was mind poisoned from ☹️
Shigeo Kageyama I’m not trying to be rude I’m giving out a fact, can you imagine if he never went through that Christian Science and how many more here’s he would of lived
Diego Keyser Cordero he got the pneumonia cause he avoided going to doctors his entire puppet career
In this video, there is a news report that states he had gone to a doctor a week prior to his death. The doctor did not find anything concerning. It also states he had been healthy prior to that. There is another report in this video that address the Christian Science rumor. I have not followed the story so I'm sure more information has come to light over the past 30 years that may dispute that but, in the end, all we know for sure is a creative talent left too soon.
dvdmc7 I heard people say due to his Christin Science he didn’t want to seek help, but when it was to late he decided to go to the doctors. The doctors couldn’t do anything to help it was too late, the pneumonia toxins spread through his body I believe. I’m not 100% sure if that’s right, but that’s what I’ve seen people saying.
Well, I'm sure you know many people who are reluctant to go to the doctor even when they're not feeling well. Men especially are raised in a belief that they should ignore pain which is why many more men die from cancer than women. Jim Henson never practised Christian Science even though his parents were of this faith. Perhaps he though he will recover from it himself. So many people died this year believing the same thing. Also, the incompetent GP cannot be ignored, not recognising the flu.
Did he have aids a lot of aids patients develop pneumonia
This has a rumor that has been debunked...or at least, has no supporting evidence.
No, but Richard Hunt did. He was a fellow Muppeteer
No but Richard Hunt (the guy who performed Scooter, Janice, Beaker, Sweetums, Statler, and many others) died of AIDS in 1991, I believe.