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Dancing with the Stars

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Dancing with the Stars is a television series that premiered in 2005 on ABC. Hosts have included Tom Bergeron, Tyra Banks, Samantha Harris, and Alfonso Ribeiro. It is based on Strictly Come Dancing in the UK where Bruce Forsyth served as host.

Appearances[]

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 October 2, 2007

Count von Count (voiced by Jerry Nelson) appeared briefly in "The Counting Room" on Jimmy Kimmel's insert, which was supposed to give viewers some insight on how the audience's votes were counted. He's forced to reset the counting, when Kimmel tells him that Mel B. and Scary Spice are the same person.

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 September 28, 2009

Animal appeared before Aaron Carter's and Karina Smirnoff's dance playing the drum intro to "The Muppet Show Theme." Gonzo blew the trumpet at the judges' table at the end of the number, into judge Bruno Tonioli's ear. In the interview before the scores, Samantha Harris and Karina make a passing reference to Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy. (The same routine was performed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.)

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 November 24, 2009

Several Muppets appear on the Season 9 finale. Aaron Carter and Karina Smirnoff reprised their dance to the "Muppet Show Theme" from earlier in the season. Animal once again appeared before the start of the dance, but this time attired in a tux in honor of the occasion. Statler and Waldorf appeared in the audience to heckle Len Goodman, (Statler: I like this show. Waldorf: Why? Statler: Because of that judge in the middle! He's older than me!) And Miss Piggy interviewed past contestants Cloris Leachman, Jerry Springer, Steve Wozniak and Joanna Krupa backstage, and appeared with Maksim Chmerkovskiy backstage.

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 November 14, 2011

A few seconds of Kermit and Piggy's backstage rehearsal for their upcoming appearance is shown.

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 November 15, 2011

The Muppets (Kermit, Piggy, Gonzo, Walter, Scooter, Fozzie, Rowlf, Sam the Eagle, the Swedish Chef, Beaker, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Pepe) appear to perform "Life's a Happy Song." Gonzo aids Tom in introducing the number. Afterward, Statler and Waldorf judge. Tom remarked that it was like having "Len times 2".

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 September 28, 2015

The Muppets (Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie and Scooter) appear to promote The Muppets. The show's "hot guys" do a brief sexy dance before commercial, and afterwards, Miss Piggy runs up to Derek Hough and kisses him on the chest. Hough is taken aback, but then appreciates the attention. A publicity photo shows Piggy and Hough in a romantic pose.

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DWTS Disney Night
 October 17, 2017

Kermit makes appearances throughout the show on Disney Night. Drew Scott and Emma Slater dance a Viennese waltz to "Rainbow Connection." The song was sung, offstage, by Felicia Barton, a former American Idol contestant. During the outro, Kermit can be heard singing along to the theme music of The Mickey Mouse Club. Tim Lagasse assisted Matt Vogel in performing Kermit for this appearance.[1]

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 October 12, 2021

Gonzo and Pepe appear to promote Muppets Haunted Mansion during "Disney Week: Villains Night." The two also dole out their own scores for the various dancers (all 10s).

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 October 10, 2022

Kermit, Miss Piggy, and Animal make prerecorded appearances introducing Selma Blair and Sasha Farber's quickstep to a new recording of "The Muppet Show Theme" (which repurposes footage of the Muppets in the arches originally produced for The Muppets Take the Bowl). Fozzie appears in the rehearsal footage. Host Tyra Banks also promoted The Muppets Mayhem.

Muppet Mentions[]

  • October 15, 2012 - Tom Bergeron commented on Sabrina Bryan's dance costume, saying "How many Cookie Monsters can we make out of this?"
  • April 11, 2016 - Football player Doug Flutie and Karina Smirnoff danced to "Rainbow Connection" in honor of Flutie's parents, who both died on the same day. It was sung by Andra Day.

References[]

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The parody versions of Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli.

  • One of the Xbox Achievements for the game Once Upon a Monster is called "Advancing with the Stars."

Connections[]

Several competitors who were featured on the show have worked on various Muppet productions:

Also...

  • Paula Abdul judged for one week in season 15.
  • Basim appeared in season 6 of Vild med dans (Denmark)
  • Erik Estrada appeared in season 2 of Mira Quien Baila (USA)
  • Savion Glover performed in season 5 on a results show, 26 September 2007.
  • Wolke Hegenbarth appeared in season 1 of Let's Dance (Germany)
  • Cecilie Hother appeared in season 7 of Vild med dans (Denmark)
  • Baz Luhrmann replaced Len Goodman for one week in Season 9.

Sources[]

  1. ↑ @TimothyLagasse on Twitter, October 16, 2017

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