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
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