* 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 is an American primetime television show produced by puppeteer Jim Henson and featuring Muppets.

" 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

According to The Phantom of the Muppet Theater, the theater was built by a stage actor named John Stone in 1802.

The character of Beaker was introduced in the second season ; during the first season Bunsen hosted Muppet Labs by himself, but the writers soon realized that another character was necessary to show Bunsen's failings.

* 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.

In the first season, the Muppet Newsman read out news items that occasionally featured the guest star for that week playing a character that was somehow involved in the item.

As the scene goes, he was reported directly above the Muppet News Room and he landed on and crushed the Muppet Newsman.

Since 1969, Sesame Street had given Jim Henson's Muppet creations exposure ; however, Henson began to perceive that he was pigeonholed as a children's entertainer.

Later, three volumes of The Very Best of The Muppet Show were released on VHS and DVD in the UK ( volume 3 was a release of full episodes as opposed to compilations ).

When the CTW tested the appeal of the new show, they found that although children paid attention to the shows during the Muppet segments, their interest was lost during the " Street " segments.

In 1998 the popular segment " Elmo's World ", a fifteen-minute long segment hosted by the Muppet Elmo, was created.

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.

Burton played a role as a visitor to Fantasy Island, was a participant in Battle of the Network Stars, a guest of the Muppet Shows televised premiere party for the release of The Muppet Movie, and a frequent guest on several game shows.

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

* Muppet creator Jim Henson was from Leland.

The song was popularly recorded by The Kingston Trio and also appeared in episode 5 in the first season of The Muppet Show.

" This sketch was reworked into the Hugga Wugga sketch on The Muppet Show.

Beautiful Day Monster was first seen here before his appearances on Sesame Street and The Muppet Show.

* Mah Nà Mah Nà ( November 30, 1969 ) – Mahna Mahna ( performed by Jim Henson ) and the Snowths were featured in this song before it was repeated on The Muppet Show.

Twill's puppet was recycled from Fred from the Munchos commercials and later used for Zelda Rose in The Muppet Show.

Connolly is also an actor, and has appeared in such films as Indecent Proposal ( 1993 ); Muppet Treasure Island ( 1996 ); Mrs. Brown ( 1997 ), for which he was nominated for a BAFTA ; The Boondock Saints ( 1999 ); The Man Who Sued God ( 2001 ); Water ( 1985 ); The Last Samurai ( 2003 ); Timeline ( 2003 ); Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events ( 2004 ); Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties ( 2006 ); Open Season ( 2006 ); The X-Files: I Want to Believe ( 2008 ); and Open Season 2 ( 2008 ).

He was nominated for a shared Emmy four times, for his writing on The Muppet Show, finally winning the award in 1981 for Outstanding Writing in a Variety, Music or Comedy Program.

She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the role of a mother whose young child is abducted by aliens in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977, and had an uncredited short role in The Muppet Movie.

Exceptions include characters appearing on Sesame Street ( as they were previously sold to Sesame Workshop, although they have always had creative rights, only reimbursing The Jim Henson Company to create and provide their Muppet characters for their use ) and the Fraggles of Fraggle Rock ( which are still owned by the Jim Henson Company ).

A replica of the theatre serves as the setting for the Muppet * Vision 3D attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney California Adventure.

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.

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.

Two specials were produced and aired that are considered pilots for The Muppet Show.

Reruns of The Muppet Show aired in syndication for many years and eventually turned up on TNT from the channel's sign-on in 1988 to 1992.

Time-Life began marketing ' best of ' volumes of The Muppet Show for mail-order in 2001, with six initial volumes with 3 episodes on each VHS and DVD.

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.

He has sung in film roles as well, including for the musical film, The Muppet Christmas Carol.

Unlike its counterpart Sesame Street, which licensed its Muppet characters for merchandising, The Electric Company did not have a brand or character that could help generate profit.

" Oscar also appeared in the Jim Henson holiday special, A Muppet Family Christmas, when the Sesame Street Gang comes to the Grizzly Farm House for the holidays, in the film he befriends Rizzo the Rat ( whose name parodies that of the Midnight Cowboy character Ratso Rizzo ) who asks the Grouch if he could stay in his trash can for the night.

Major French political figures were designed by artists: Alain Duverne, Jacques Loup, Jean-Yves Grall ... representing as characters similar to those of The Muppet Show, with, for instance, François Mitterrand portrayed as a frog named Kermitterrand ( and naming himself God ), a reference to Kermit the Frog.

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.