Miss Piggy wound up on top of the "New York Times" Bestseller List. Miss Piggy's personality and voice were seen and heard in other female characters performed by Frank Oz before the character's debut. For instance, a "Sesame Street" Muppet skit from 1971 featured Snow White performed by Frank Oz and acting (as well as sounding) like Miss Piggy. Another sound-alike came from a contestant in a Guy Smiley sketch called "The Mystery Mix-Up Game". In "The Muppet Show" episode 106, Piggy is referred to by the full name "Piggy Lee," and in episode 116, Piggy tells guest star Avery Schreiber that
Miss Piggy ranked her number 23 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list. In a 1979 interview with "The New York Times", performer Frank Oz outlined Piggy's biography: "She grew up in a small town in Iowa; her father died when she was young, and her mother wasn't that nice to her. She had to enter beauty contests to survive, as many single women do. She has a lot of vulnerability which she has to hide, because of her need to be a superstar." During development of "The Muppet Show", Oz assigned a hook for each Muppet he performed;