The Muppet Movie a Florida swamp, strumming his banjo and singing "The Rainbow Connection", when he is approached by a Hollywood talent agent named Bernie (Dom DeLuise) who encourages Kermit to pursue a career in show business. Inspired by the idea of "making millions of people happy", Kermit sets off on a cross-country trip to Los Angeles, but is soon pursued by entrepreneur Doc Hopper (Charles Durning) and his shy assistant Max (Austin Pendleton) in an attempt to convince Kermit to be the new spokesman of Hopper's struggling French-fried frog legs restaurant franchise, to Kermit's disgust. As Kermit continuously declines his offers, Hopper
The Muppet Show misgivings about syndication and accepted. Since its launch in 2005, the British digital channel 'PuppeTV', dedicated to broadcasting puppeteering programmes, has rebroadcast The Muppet Show. It has also dedicated months to broadcasting the show back to back. In 2006 it dedicated the summer to broadcasting the entire series episode by episode from 6:00am to 10:30am, calling it "An Absolute Muppet Summer". It broadcast all Muppet films on the 31st October and 1 November 2009 in "The Muppet Flick Fest" and then in 2011, following the announcement of the Muppet reboot film, rebroadcast all episodes of both The Muppet Show and