The Muppets As well as "The Muppet Show", Muppet characters feature in such television series as "The Jimmy Dean Show", "Sesame Street", "Fraggle Rock", "The Jim Henson Hour", "Muppets Tonight", "Bear in the Big Blue House", "", and "The Muppets". An adult-oriented Muppet segment, "The Land of Gorch", was a regular feature in the first season of "Saturday Night Live". Guest stars on "Saturday Night Live" occasionally include both the Muppets and "Sesame Street" characters, as well as Muppet likenesses of real people; these likenesses appear recurrently in early episodes of "The Muppet Show" and on "Sesame Street", and appear occasionally on
The Muppets Kermit appeared on "Hollywood Squares" and as one of the celebrity commentators on VH1's "I Love" documentary series. Kermit and the Muppets (and also Bear from "Bear in the Big Blue House") have also made many appearances on "The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon". On July 25, 2007, the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta announced the opening of a new Jim Henson Wing, which would house anywhere from 500 to 700 retired Muppets. The new wing, first set to open in 2012 with films, sketches, and other materials from the Jim Henson Company archives, eventually opened as a