* Animal ( Muppet ), a drummer character in The Muppet Show band, Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem

* Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, fictional character from the Muppet Show

He guest-starred much later in his career in episodes of The Muppet Show, The Cosby Show and in the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone.

As a puppeteer, Henson performed in various television programs, such as Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, films such as The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and created advanced puppets for projects like Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth.

The success of Sesame Street spawned The Muppet Show, which featured Muppets created by Henson.

Although the term is often used to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive style of The Muppet Show, the term is both an informal name and legal trademark owned by the Walt Disney Company in reference to the original characters created by Henson.

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 ).

* Special guest star of 18 January 1979 edition of The Muppet Show

Floyd Pepper, a character from The Muppet Show and related works

" The Muppet Show Theme " was played at the beginning and end of every episode of The Muppet Show.

Statler and Waldorf then sang a new verse expressing their hatred toward The Muppet Show.

Each episode ended with an extended instrumental performance of " The Muppet Show Theme " by the Muppet orchestra before Statler and Waldorf gave the last laugh of the night.

The Muppet Theater is the setting for The Muppet Show — a grand old vaudeville house that has seen better days.

This would have taken place sometime after 1996, as J. P. can be seen ( and referred to as such by the head of the KMUP network ) in episode 107 of Muppets Tonight, the 1990s reworking of The Muppet Show.

Fozzie Bear and Rowlf the Dog perform " English Country Garden " on episode 2. 18 of The Muppet Show

The legal trademark on the term " Muppet " is currently held by The Muppets Studio, a wholly owned division of the Walt Disney Company, although Sesame Workshop and the Jim Henson Company continue to occasionally use the term on their characters with certain permissions from Disney.

In episode 106, Kermit identifies the name of the theater as The Benny Vandergast Memorial Theater, although by the time of It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, it is simply called " The Muppet Theater.

The Muppet Theater is shown to be in New York City as Rachel Bitterman plots to tear down the Muppet Theater and build a club.

She is thwarted when Pepe the King Prawn manages to get the Muppet Theater to be made into a national landmark.

In The Muppets, a version of the Muppet Theater is seen in Los Angeles and is the main plotline of the movie where the Muppets reunite to raise money to buy back the Muppet Theater deed from an oil magnate named Tex Richman ( who got the deed from Statler and Waldorf tricking them into believing that he will rebuild it as a museum ) as he plans to demolish it and drill for oil.

* Muppet News Flash – The Muppet Newsman gives a newsbrief only to have some disaster befall him ( typically the same disaster he was just describing ), or another strange scenario: such as the time that he ran on, stated " There is no news tonight.

A third example, a cross-over with the Swedish Chef, has the Swedish Chef open and cause a wine bottle " explosion " ( if a bottle is shaken too much before opening it for the first time, fizz will shoot up and out of the bottle ) and flies through the air, classified as a UFO by the Muppet Newsman.

He is also apprenticed at the Muppet workshop in New York City, and on the set of The Lord of the Rings films in New Zealand, in addition to working as a stilt-walker with a troupe in England.

Oscar the Grouch is a Muppet character on the television program Sesame Street.

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.

This live-to-tape segment comprised all cast members and occasional surprise celebrities dancing before a 1960s " Mod " party backdrop, delivering one-and two-line jokes interspersed with a few bars of dance music ( later adopted on The Muppet Show, which had a recurring segment that is similar to " The Cocktail Party " with absurd moments from characters ).

The community is the birthplace of Kermit the Frog, a Muppet created by Jim Henson, who was born in nearby Greenville.

Fozzie Bear is a Muppet, created by Jim Henson.

Joe: A Real American Hero, Inspector Gadget, Muppet Babies, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, DuckTales and Garfield and Friends.

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.

Jim Henson's Muppet Babies ( commonly shortened to Muppet Babies ) is an American animated television series that aired from September 15, 1984 to November 2, 1991 on CBS.

In December 1978, CTW began the show and created their own characters — Caponata, an orange, purple and yellow bird with curly pink hair ( a full-body Muppet and counterpart to Big Bird ), and Perezgil, a green snail with glasses ( this character is permanently set on a wall ) -- while retaining the American characters ( Ernie and Bert, Kermit and Grover, etc.

The song has been sung in films and on TV shows, for example by Harrison Ford in the film American Graffiti ( 1978 reissue ), by an itinerant chanteuse in Crossing Delancey ( 1988 ), by Jon Bon Jovi on Ally McBeal in the episode " Homecoming " ( 2002 ) and by Bert in episode 102 on the Muppet Show ( 1977 ) to Connie Stevens.

The rights to The Muppet Show, however, are held by Disney, with North American and UK home video rights controlled by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.

After the segment was dropped, Narf strictly became a background player, an Anything Muppet monster ; it is possible Narf will continue to appear in such limited fashion on the American program.

The American version of Sesame Street has regularly included penguins, and they have become a Muppet standard addition in gags since The Muppet Show, but this Georges is the first fully developed penguin character.

Although the producers decided against depending upon a single host for Sesame Street, instead casting a group of ethnically diverse actors, they realized that a children's television program needed to have, as Lesser put it, " a variety of distinctive and reliable personalities ", both human and Muppet.

The Looney Tunes characters have had more success in the area of television, with appearances in several originally produced series, including Taz-Mania ( 1991, starring The Tasmanian Devil ), The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries ( 1995, starring Sylvester the cat, Tweety Bird and Granny ), Baby Looney Tunes ( 2002, which had a similar premise to Muppet Babies ), and Duck Dodgers ( 2003, starring Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Marvin the Martian ).

Denver was also a guest star on The Muppet Show, the beginning of the lifelong friendship between Denver and Jim Henson that spawned two television specials with The Muppets.

* Koozebane — A mysterious planet full of weird aliens, encountered several times in the television puppet comedy The Muppet Show.

* A character star, Art Carney ( 1918 – 2003 ) later appeared as Santa Claus in CBS ' December 1970 hour-long Muppet special, The Great Santa Claus Switch, and in ABC's December 1984 television film, The Night They Saved Christmas.

He was also a guest star on a memorable episode of The Muppet Show in 1978, in which he performed his signature song " Day-O " on television for the first time.

Jim Henson's work has entertained children for decades on television series such as Sesame Street and the adult oriented The Muppet Show.

Bert is a fictional character, a Muppet on the Public Broadcasting Service's long-running children's television show, Sesame Street.

Ernie is a fictional character, a Muppet on the Public Broadcasting Service's long-running children's television show, Sesame Street.

She was praised for this early work and for appearances on The Muppet Show, The Carol Burnett Show and in other television work, and for her roles in films like Silent Movie, The Jerk, Pennies from Heaven and Annie.

Grover, also known as Grover Monster is a Muppet character on the popular television show Sesame Street.

Lefty the Salesman — commonly known as Lefty or simply The Salesman ) was a Muppet character on the children's television program Sesame Street.

Additionally, Horne played herself on television programs such as The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, and Sanford and Son in the 1970s, as well as a 1985 performance on The Cosby Show and a 1993 appearance on A Different World.

He has also acted in a variety of movies and television shows, most notably the title roles in Kenny Rogers as The Gambler and the MacShayne series as well as his appearance on The Muppet Show.

She was a puppeteer and voice actress for The Muppet Show, for four seasons from 1977, and later for Sesame Street, and she has performed voice and puppet work on various other Muppet films, albums and television specials.

* Murray, a Muppet character on the television show Sesame Street ( see List of characters in Sesame Street )

They are two disagreeable old men who first appeared in the television series The Muppet Show heckling the rest of the cast from their balcony seats.

Statler and Waldorf also appeared ( as adults ) in the Saturday morning animated television series Jim Henson's Muppet Babies Both characters were voiced by Dave Coulier.