When we asked our listeners to tell us which muppets were their favorites, we knew you'd

all come through and did you ever.

More than 6,000 of you cast more than 18,000 votes and we have the results.

Today we're sharing your definitive ranking of the best muppets.

I'm Stephen Thompson.

And I'm Linda Holmes.

And in this encore episode of NPR's Top Culture Happy Hour, we're talking with our co-host

Aisha Harris and Glenn Weldon about your ranking of the best muppets.

This is very, very exciting.

And before we get started, we do want to go over a couple of the rules just so you understand

what the parameters were.

As we mentioned, thousands of people voted and each person could pick up to three muppets.

It wasn't weighted for your first choice or whatever.

You just got three votes for three muppets.

People voted.

I am told for over 150 different muppets.

Could I name 150 muppets?

Most definitely not.

These could be any muppet from any property or era, including the muppet show, muppet

babies, fraggal rock, sesame street, labyrinth, whatever.

But they had to actually be muppets, right?

So for example, Yoda is not a muppet.

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