All five seasons of Jim Henson's famed variety program, "The Muppet Show,” will begin streaming on Disney+ on Friday, February 19.

With The Muppets finally coming to Broadway, we are looking back at some of their most significant stage shows over the years ...

Someone considerably less known, however, is Lars Kuprik Backman, the man who claims he's the real-life model for the whimsical kitchen oddball of the Muppet Show.