The Smithsonian already had a Kermit puppet from the "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show" era.

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The Muppet Show made its TV debut in 1976 and has enjoyed enduring popularity.

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Why not change the avatar to a picture of a squid for one day, why not tweet a link to an old Muppet Show clip.

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Wales needed the A-Team, instead they got The Muppet Show.

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Kermit managed to make a success out of the Muppet Show and its ancillary marketing despite a ton of obstacles in his path, including amnesia, Frog Leg moguls, and the attempted theft of the Baseball Diamond.

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Or the fact that I was fortunate enough to grow up in a tiny community in Western Maine where the only media I consumed was The Muppet Show on PBS and a backyard that was filled with gnome gardens and mysterious bogs where my grandparents encouraged me to explore and play.

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In some cases, their jobs are carried over from past show-within-a-show Muppet joints, while other characters have been shunted off to an "Up Late" writers' room populated by motley talking vermin and crustaceans.

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In that tight and often-funny tease, we learned that the Muppet gang was reuniting to work with Miss Piggy on a new talk show and that things were going to be awkward because Kermit already had moved on to a new girlfriend in Denise, the pig running ABC's marketing department.

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