* Peggy Lee was known as " Miss Peggy Lee " or " Miss Peggy ," and was the inspiration for the Muppets ' Miss Piggy, a stylish self-assured blonde with a sense of romance.

In the 1970s and 80s, Ft. Lauderdale swimming champion Charkie Phillips revived water ballet on television with The Krofftettes in The Brady Bunch Hour ( 1976 – 77 ), NBC's The Big Show ( 1980 ), and then on screen with Miss Piggy in The Great Muppet Caper ( 1981 ).

It features Captain Link Hogthrob, Miss Piggy as first mate, and Dr. Julius Strangepork ( the name a takeoff on " Dr. Strangelove ").

The early sketches also usually featured odd introductions for all the characters, such as calling Link the flappable captain, Miss Piggy the flirtatious first mate, and referring to Dr. Strangepork as ' describable.

* The Kermit and Miss Piggy Story-Hosted by Kermit and Miss Piggy as they reminisce over their moments on the show, with guest stars Raquel Welch, Tony Randall, Cheryl Ladd, and Loretta Swit.

When Miss Piggy threw a truck driver ( played by Peter Ustinov ) into a pile of boxes and a pile of trash cans, Oscar emerged from his trash can and demanded " Hey, what's all the racket?

Georges Marchais, Marchy la cochonne as Miss Piggy

In 1982, Clifton also appeared on The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show as the host's " new discovery ", although the other Muppets and host George Hamilton remained skeptical of Clifton's talent.

Frank Oz ( born Frank Richard Oznowicz ; born May 25, 1944 ) is a film director, actor, voice actor and puppeteer who is known for creating and performing the characters Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear in The Muppet Show, as well as Cookie Monster, Bert and Grover in Sesame Street.

His characters have included Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, and Sam the Eagle on The Muppet Show, and Grover, Cookie Monster and Bert on Sesame Street, among many others.

The popularity of Miss Piggy overtook Fozzie's, but he remained popular.

Short briefly revived the Ed Grimley role in his 1995 series The Show Formerly Known As the Martin Short Show, for a spoof of the comedy film Dave, and appeared again in a 1996 episode of Muppets Tonight, in which Grimley marries Miss Piggy to obtain an $ 85 inheritance from his deceased great-uncle.

* Eric Jacobson-Animal, Sam the Eagle, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Bert, Grover, replacing Frank Oz.

* Frank Oz-Animal, Sam the Eagle, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Bert, Grover, Cookie Monster and many others.

Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes, John C. McGinley and Neil Flynn reprised their roles as J. D., Elliot Reid, Carla Espinosa, Perry Cox and the Janitor to make a cameo appearances in the 2003 Muppets film It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, trying to reanimate Miss Piggy.

In 1981, he landed in a role in The Great Muppet Caper playing Nicky Holiday, a jewel thief who falls in love with Miss Piggy.

During the production, Brando repeatedly argued with Oz and called him " Miss Piggy ".

Richard Harris, Jon Pertwee, Joan Collins, Leslie Thomas, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Kenneth Williams, Billy Connolly, Gene Wilder, Ewan McGregor, Freddie Starr, David Bowie, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Dave Allen, Michael Crawford, Gary Glitter, John Lennon, Miss Piggy, Noel Gallagher, Tom Cruise, Edith Evans, Mark Knopfler, Luciano Pavarotti, Cher, Madonna, Elton John, David Beckham, Victoria Beckham, Shane Warne, Thierry Henry, Ricky Hatton, Rod Stewart, Phil Collins, Justin Timberlake, Robbie Williams, Ray Winstone, Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Michael Palin, Richard Attenborough, David Attenborough, Mel Gibson, Viggo Mortensen, George Michael, Pierce Brosnan, k. d.

Glinda is the Good Witch of the South and is played by Miss Piggy, as are her sisters the Good Witch of the North and the two Wicked Witches.

" Cockney Jim Waiting For Miss Lesley Miller On The Barbican.

In an interview with Miss Info, Cam ' ron said: " I still haven't spoken to Jim.

During the 1980s the band perfected a detailed stage act involving shabby lift attendant costumes, badly-applied clown make-up, Tim Smith's bullying of other band members ( predominantly his hapless brother and bass player Jim Smith ), and a final formal presentation of champagne and flowers by The Consultant and Miss Smith complete with confetti, taking place to " a euphoric sweep of saxophone and keyboards that wouldn ’ t seem out of place in a ' 70s cigar advert.

* The third book in the Iris Wildthyme series by Obverse Books, Miss Wildthyme and Friends Investigate, begins with a novella entitled The Found World by Jim Smith, a pseudo-sequel to The Lost World featuring Challenger, Dr. John H. Watson and Dracula, among others.

In Stephen King's It, one of Richard Tozier's Voices is a black man named Pickaninny Jim, who refers to the character Beverly Marsh as " Miss Scawlett " in a reference to Gone with the Wind.

* Jim Thompson ( powerboat racing ) ( born 1926 ), manager of three-time Harmsworth Trophy winner Miss Supertest III

During this period, he performed as a founding member of bands such as The Flying Luttenbachers, Miss High Heel ( with Jim O ' Rourke and Azita of The Scissor Girls ), Lake of Dracula ( with Marlon Magas and Heather M. of the Scissor Girls ), To Live and Shave in L. A. 2, 7000 Dying Rats and Hatewave ( replacing founder Nandor Nevai ) among others.

* Used twice as a surname by Dorothy L. Sayers, once in Murder Must Advertise ( Miss Ethel Vavasour, Jim Tallboy's girlfriend ), and once in Have His Carcase ( Maurice Vavasour, a pseudonym of the murderer ).

was designed by Bonnie Erickson, formerly a designer for Jim Henson, and the designer of Miss Piggy, Statler & Waldorf and other Muppet characters.

In 2002 Jim Davie revived Miss Universe in Australia by setting up the Miss Universe Australia organisation.

For the last three years Miss Moneypenny ’ s has also successfully entered the medium of radio, with a syndicated weekly upfront dance music show presented in over 35 countries by Miss Moneypenny's Musical Director, and longtime resident DJ, Jim ‘ Shaft ’ Ryan.

Other characters are often misnamed as well, including " Count Morinanty " for Count Jim Moriarty, " Robin Chood " for Robin Hood and " Miss Balustrade " for Minnie Bannister.

* On According to Jim in the episode The Bachelor Jim and Andy sing Miss Susie ( omitting the first verse ) while accompanying the song with the piano and the harmonica.

The game features Muppets created by Jim Henson in a series of carnival-inspired mini games searching for enough keys to rescue Miss Piggy from Dr. Grump.

In addition, Jim presided as emcee of the annual Miss Canada Pageant, a job he held from 1967 until 1990, about the same length of time his U. S. counterpart Bob Barker presided over the Miss USA Pageant on CBS.

In Four Winds, Anne and Gilbert meet many interesting people, such as Captain Jim, a former sailor who is now the keeper of the lighthouse, and Miss Cornelia Bryant, an unmarried woman in her 40s who lives alone in an emerald-green house and deems the Blythes part of " the race that knows Joseph.

In the depiction of Miss Jane ’ s telling of the story, Jim, the child of sharecroppers parallels if not resoundingly echoes the earlier story of Ned, the child born on a slave plantation.

He has done voices for the animated television series Ripley's Believe It or Not !, The Little Lulu Show, Arthur, A Miss Mallard Mystery, Caillou, Flight Squad, Jim Button, Animal Crackers, The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures, The Triplets, Team S. O. S.

Noted Ole Miss historian David Sansing has stated that " Blind Jim may have been the model for Colonel Rebel.

The follow-up Bruce Fairbairn-produced album, Without Love was released in 1985 with Thayer, St. James and Jim Vallance co-writing the single " Miss Mystery.

Jim Henson's Muppets made three video cover versions of the song, on Sesame Street, episode 19 in 1969, The Ed Sullivan Show in October 1970, and The Muppet Show episode 312 in 1978, which was performed by Robin the Frog, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.

As in most of the director's movies, Frank Oz makes an appearance: first as Mr. Collins from the American embassy in the hospital scene, and later as Miss Piggy in a dream sequence, when David's younger siblings watch a scene from The Muppet Show.

The idea of presenting the Muppets as children first appeared in a dream sequence in The Muppets Take Manhattan, released two months before Muppet Babies debuted, in which Miss Piggy imagined what it would be like if she and Kermit the Frog grew up together.

She is a white poodle owned by Muppet diva Miss Piggy.

* The first verse and the chorus were featured in Episode 211 of The Muppet Show, performed by Miss Piggy.

* Foo-Foo, a fictional poodle belonging to Miss Piggy on The Muppet Show

In a weeklong series of strips starting November 30, 2009 she tells Curtis she was in a Super Fiber Chux cereal commercial at age three, and that her first role in a TV series would have been on " The Muppet Show " had Miss Piggy not felt threatened by her.

She also guest-starred in a first season episode of The Muppet Show where she became the first guest star to be karate chopped by Miss Piggy.

* In the Muppet Babies episode, It's Only a Pretendo, Baby Gonzo, Baby Animal, and Baby Miss Piggy were playing Fantasy Zone.

* Eric Jacobson as Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Yoda Muppet

( the Muppet Theater's Christmas " Spectacular Spectacular " opens with a number set at the " Moulin Scrooge ," which climaxes as Miss Piggy dons the role of Satine and performs " Santa Baby "), Cirque du Soleil ( feebly adapted by an apathetic choreographer as the " Cirque du So Lame "), A Beautiful Mind ( when Dr. Honeydew works out the money needed to save the theater's finances by doodling on a window, and, after listening to Beaker squeak, responds, " Why, thank you, Beaky, I think you have a beautiful mind, too "), For Dummies books ( Daniel is given a book called Performing Miracles for Dummies ), and the old Gift of the Magi comedy routine ( coming to a crashing halt in this film when one of the participants forgot to sell or buy anything ).

The land was to feature two main attractions ; one was Muppet * Vision 3D and the other was The Great Muppet Movie Ride, a parody of The Great Movie Ride featuring Muppet characters such as Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and Gonzo re-enacting scenes from famous films such as Frankenstien and Peter Pan.

In the former, these include a scene where Kermit the Frog critiques Miss Piggy's acting ; in the latter, references such as a tour group of rats taking pictures of " the actual jungle location for the movie Muppet Treasure Island.

Number one was a cover of the Fine Young Cannibals song, " She Drives Me Crazy ", as recorded on the album Muppet Singalong by Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.

Bean Bunny leaves the film at one point after being blamed for ruining several scenes ( mainly Miss Piggy's ), and Sweetums, who is a live full-bodied Muppet, comes out into the audience to search for him having already done so on screen.

* The Muppet Show Characters: Gonzo, Alfredo the Mop Dancer, Ali Baba, Alien, Avocado, Banananose Moldenado, Baskerville the Hound ( episode 524 ), Beauregard, Behemoth ( episode 115 ), Billy the Bear ( episode 412 ), Brewster, Brown Bat, Bullets Barker, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Dr. Salamander, Geri and the Atrics ( Drummer ), The Gingerbread Men, The Gogolala Jubilee Jugband ( Blue Whatnot ), Gorgon Heap ( episode 119 ), Inspector LaBrea, Johnny, Kermit the Pig, Klaus Mueller, Koozebanian Spooble, Lenny the Lizard ( episode 103 ), Sundance, Lubbock Lou, Luis Greco, Luncheon Counter Monster ( occasionally ), Mackerel, Matador, Mean Mama ( episode 202 ), Mildred Huxtetter ( episode 115 ), Miss Kitty ( episodes 101, 103 and 107 ), Mr. Dawson, Muppy, Otto the Automatic Entertainer, Paul Revere ( legs ), Rabbi, Righton Bird, Salzburg Sauerkraut Singer, Signor Baffi, Svengali ( episode 103 ), Timmy Monster ( occasionally ), Tom, Dick, and Harry ( Dick ), Walter Tell, Warthog, Wig Trainer, Zoot

The music video, directed by Marcos Siega, features Weezer as guests on The Muppet Show ( with drummer Patrick Wilson being held captive by Miss Piggy at the beginning ).