Vic Romano said:
That would have been cool... wait a minute, Fozzie did it... and they're releasing that figure in S9!
True, Fozzie does come with a puppet but that is because he actually used Chuckie on the show. The Jim Henson puppet used on The Muppet Show was not a puppeteer, but a member of a Country Trio band (along with Frank Oz and Jerry Nelson*), and so if Jim Henson (as a character on the Muppet Show) came with a puppet, it would not seem right. Does that make any sense at all?
* Ok, sidenote: I know that the puppet Jim was in a band trio with puppets resembling Frank Oz and Jerry Nelson. I also believe the Lou (the female in Lubick Lou and his Jughuggers) was modeled after Louis Gold. Were there any Muppets based on Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Richard Hunt, or any of the other Muppet performers?