Heartwarming / A Hippie in the House of Mouse

• After meeting Bob Ross at Walt Disney World during the first annual Disney Green Technology Symposium in 1991, Jim Henson and Ross become close friends, and Jim goes so far to help Ross out with a situation regarding his business partners Annette and Walt Kowalski, who after the death of Bob's wife Jane in 1992 to cancer, were pressuring Ross to the full rights to Ross' name and image and to relinquish control of his rights in Bob Ross, Inc. After initially trying and failing to convince Disney to buy up the rights to Bob Ross, Inc, Jim buys out the rights himself and after giving the Kowalskis an undisclosed amount of money, works out a profit-sharing deal with Ross and his family to assume the 51% majority share while the 49% minority stake that Henson retains, is added to Jim's private Henson Arts Holding company (resulting in Ross’s son Steve and step-son Jimmie Cox remaining the estate managers but relying on Henson Arts Holding to maintain the day-to-day business affairs, as well as maintaining quality on products bearing Ross' name). The resulting event leads, for the next few years, to Bob Ross producing a Disney Channel art show as well as making guest appearances on Sesame Street (which results in a Painter Ross Muppet^note performed by Martin P. Robinson), W.I.L.D. and Captain Planet, and The Joy of Painting continuing to air long after Ross' death with new hosts.
• After Judith Barsi relates her experiences to Jim (via Kermit) while on the set of The Land Before Time, he hires a group of child psychologists to ensure that child actors in Disney movies turn out better people as adults.
• While walking the streets of Brooklyn, Bernie Brillstein, Sam Fuller and Spike Lee notice a skinny, little Puerto Rican kid standing up to two bigger guys who were beating him up, after he stood up to them for whistling at his sister. Bernie gives the kid a hundred-dollar bill, saying "this is for being a Mensch and standing up for your sister”, with Spike and Sam following suit by giving him bills of their own.
• Michael Eisner chooses to push forward the release of Beauty and the Beast to late October (instead of choosing to face off against Jeffrey Katzenberg's East of the Sun and West of the Moon), as he had grown close with Don Bluth, whose mental health was at risk due to his fears over it becoming a failure, resulting in his hospitalization. Due to the film avoiding competition from Disney's Heart of Ice, it manages to become a critical and financial success.
• Upon Jim's retirement, Jack Lindquist vetoes plans for various statues of him in favor of something simpler and humbler ("as I knew he would insist"): a window on Main Street with an illustration of Kermit reading a book to Robin and the text "Jim Henson: Storyteller" above it, below a rainbow.