I’d never heard of Jerry Juhl, or so I thought, but when I read his obituary last week I realized that I’d probably seen and ignored his name a number of times. The Muppets were a large part of my media input as a child and Juhl was their defining writer. Lisa Henson said of Juhl: “He was — in many ways — the real voice of the Muppets and of every project from the Jim Henson Company.” Juhl was the first employee hired by Jim Henson back in 1961, soon turning from performing to writing, shaping that irreverent Muppet humor. He spent six seasons writing for “Sesame Street,” was the head writer of “The Muppet Show,” and co-wrote the various Muppet movies. And I suppose you can blame him for a cartload of bad puns (I just want to know who’s responsible for The Rhyming Song). Kenneth Plume points out that Jerry Juhl remains with us as we hand the Muppet magic down to our children.