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onehandle

(51,122 posts)
Wed Sep 25, 2013, 12:12 PM Sep 2013

Miss Piggy, other Muppets, join Kermit the Frog at Smithsonian

Source: Reuters



(Reuters) - Miss Piggy is finally getting the attention and recognition she desperately sought.

On Tuesday, the glamorous, fame-seeking pig secured her place in history when she and some of puppeteer Jim Henson's other creations were donated to the Smithsonian Institution.

Twenty-one of Henson's puppets from "Sesame Street," "The Muppet Show" and other projects - including Cookie Monster, Bert, Ernie, Fozzie Bear and the Swedish Chef - will join Miss Piggy's longtime squeeze, Kermit the Frog, in the Jim Henson Collection at the Museum of American History on Washington's National Mall.

Tuesday's induction ceremony took place on what would have been Muppet creator Henson's 77th birthday.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/25/entertainment-us-usa-muppets-idUSBRE98N17Q20130925

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Miss Piggy, other Muppets, join Kermit the Frog at Smithsonian (Original Post) onehandle Sep 2013 OP
Long overdue Hayabusa Sep 2013 #1
Definitely. (nt) Posteritatis Sep 2013 #2
Kermit, everyone's frog. Glad the others now get to be there too as they are also important uppityperson Sep 2013 #3
Ha! Ha! Ha! Haaaaa! One Muppet at the Smithsonian! longship Sep 2013 #4
This is so very, very wrong... awoke_in_2003 Sep 2013 #7
Fraggles?? oberliner Sep 2013 #5
If I am correct, last time these guys got together in DC was for the million muppet march. (pic) zonkers Sep 2013 #6

Hayabusa

(2,135 posts)
1. Long overdue
Wed Sep 25, 2013, 12:14 PM
Sep 2013

While Kermit may be the most iconic muppet, the others have just as big an impact on pop culture and the imagination of children.

longship

(40,416 posts)
4. Ha! Ha! Ha! Haaaaa! One Muppet at the Smithsonian!
Wed Sep 25, 2013, 01:02 PM
Sep 2013

Two! Two Muppets at the Smithsonian!

Three! Three Muppets at the Smithsonian!
Ha! Ha! Haaaaa!



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