2009

Kermit and Miss Piggy with Bob Iger.

The Give a Day. Get a Disney Day. campaign, featuring the Muppets, is announced for 2010.

Television & Movies

• Sesame Street: Coming Home: Military Families Cope with Change on PBS, April 1
• Jim Henson's Dinosaur Train on PBS, September 7
• Sesame Street: Families Stand Together: Feeling Secure in Tough Times on PBS, September 9
• Sesame Street season 40 premieres on PBS, November 10 (Abby's Flying Fairy School debuts)

International Television & Movies

• Studio DC Hosted by Selena Gomez premieres on German Disney Channel, February 21
• Sesamgade premieres on Danish TV2, October 18

Appearances

• Grover on The Sunny Side Up Show, January 1
• Sesame Street Muppets on Scrubs, January 27
• Miss Piggy on Today, February 6
• Sesame Street Live on PIX 11 Morning News, February 6
• Miss Piggy on PIX 11 Morning News, February 12
• Miss Piggy on The View, February 12
• Statler and Waldorf on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, March 20
• Elmo on Today, April 2
• Elmo and Abby Cadabby on The Bonnie Hunt Show, April 7
• Elmo on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, April 15
• Zoe on Today, May 14.
• Fozzie Bear on The Late Late Show, June 2
• Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch, Rosita, and Abby Cadabby on A Capitol Fourth, July 4
• Gary Knell on The Takeaway, July 22
• Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster, and Elmo on Food Network Challenge, July 26
• Oscar on Great Performances, July 30
• Oscar on CBS Sunday Morning (interviewed at Great Performances), August 2
• Sesame Street gets a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Daytime Emmy Awards, August 30
• Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy on America's Got Talent, September 2
• Elmo and Jean Chatzky on Today, September 6
• Elmo and his mom on Today, September 8
• Elmo and Gary Knell on Tell Me More, September 8
• Elmo on Tell Me More, September 9
• Kermit is Lady Gaga's date for the MTV Video Music Awards, September 13
• Gonzo and Animal on Dancing with the Stars, September 28
• Kermit and Miss Piggy on Access Hollywood for Give a Day. Get a Disney Day., September 30
• Kermit on Good Morning America for Give a Day. Get a Disney Day., October 5
• Fran Brill and Zoe on CBS News Philadelphia to promote Jim Henson's Fantastic World and the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street on October 12th.
• Elmo and Cookie Monster on Dinner: Impossible, October 21
• Oscar on CBC Q with Jian Ghomeshi and other Waste Reduction Week events, October 21
• Big Bird and Oscar on Jimmy Kimmel Live, November 4
• Elmo, Cookie Monster and Abby Cadabby on Today, November 6
• Oscar on The Bonnie Hunt Show, November 9
• Oscar, Zoe, Grover, Abby Cadabby and Roscoe Orman on Good Morning America, November 9
• Elmo and Rosita on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, November 9
• Special Sesame Street episode of inFANity, November 9
• Sesame Street Muppets host a week of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, November 9-13
• Elmo and Chris on PIX 11 Morning News, November 10
• Sonia Manzano on CNN.com Live, November 10
• Gary Knell on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, November 10
• Bob McGrath on The Takeaway, November 10
• Roscoe Orman on Tell Me More, November 10
• Oscar, Zoe, and Prairie Dawn on The Doctors, November 17
• Kermit and a Sesame Street Float at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, November 24
• The Muppets on Dancing with the Stars, November 24
• The Muppets on Andrea Bocelli & David Foster: My Christmas, November 28
• The Muppets on Christmas in Rockefeller Center, December 2
• Kermit and Piggy on Today, December 3
• Elmo, Rosita and Cookie Monster on The Tyra Show, December 3
• The Muppets and Andrea Bocelli on The Jay Leno Show, December 7
• Elmo on The Sunny Side Up Show, December 15
• Miss Piggy on The Bonnie Hunt Show, December 18
• Miss Piggy on The Wendy Williams Show, December 18
• Kermit and Miss Piggy on PIX 11 Morning News, December 23
• The Muppets on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, December 23
• Statler and Waldorf, VH1 program The Great Debate

International Appearances

• Elmo interning for a day on Go'morgen Danmark, October 19
• Ernie on German nachtmagazin, November 11
• Kermit and Miss Piggy (via satellite) on The One Show on BBC One, December 17
• Jul med Jeppe, Marie og Elmo, has Elmo and Signe as the primary hosts, December 24

Live appearances

• Oscar the Grouch at The Clearwater Concert: Creating the Next Generation of Environmental Leaders, May 3
• Fran Brill and Zoe at the 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Nomination Party, May 14
• Grover, Eric Jacobson, and Rosemarie T. Truglio, Sesame Street 40th Anniversary & Electric Company Panel Discussion, PBS portion of the 2009 Summer Television Critics Association Press Tour, The Langham Huntington Hotel & Spa, Pasadena, California, August 1
• Miss Piggy at Macy's Glamorama in Chicago, Illinois, August 21
• The Muppets at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, California, September 11 & 13
• Kermit and Miss Piggy in Los Angeles to help announce the Give a Day. Get a Disney Day. campaign, September 29
• Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas squirrels, Skippy, Junior, Jiffy and Nutella, and actors from the stage show at Rosie's Broadway Extravaganza, November 23
• Kermit and Fozzie at United States Postal Service press conference, December 1
• Red Fraggle at the Jim Henson Company's Fraggle Rock Holiday Toy Drive Benefit event at Kitson in West Hollywood, December 9

On the web

• The Possibility Shop debuts, November 20

Home Video

• Elmo Loves You, January 6
• Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures: Pirates and Other Stories, February 23
• Elmo and Friends: Tales of Adventure, March 3
• Follow That Bird: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, March 24
• Bedtime for Frances, March 31
• Being Green, April 7
• Pirates: Elmo and the Bookaneers, April 21
• The Best of Elmo's World: Volume 2, May 5
• Elmo and Abby's Birthday Fun!, June
• Bedtime with Elmo, July
• Sid the Science Kid: Change Happens, August 4
• Sid the Science Kid: The Bug Club, August 4
• Elmo's World: All About Faces!, September 1
• A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa, September 29
• Elmo's Animal Adventures, October 1
• 40 Years of Sunny Days, November 10
• Elmo and Friends: The Letter Quest and Other Magical Tales, November 10

International Home Video

• Bibos abenteuerliche Flucht: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, April 24
• Die Muppets: Briefe an den Weihnachtsmann, December 3

Books

• The Diva Code: Miss Piggy on Life, Love, and the 10,000 Idiotic Things Men Frogs Do, January 27
• Abby Mix & Match Nursery Rhymes, January 27
• Giggly and Wiggly, January 27
• In Elmo's Easter Parade, January
• Farscape: Volume 1, March 25
• Kermit Culture, May 21
• Sesame Street: A Celebration - 40 Years of Life on the Street, October
• Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street second edition, fall

Comics

• Farscape: The Beginning of the End of the Beginning: Part 3: Yes, That's Our Baby, January 29
• Farscape: The Beginning of the End of the Beginning: Part 4: Hynerian Rhapsody, February 25
• Farscape: Strange Detractors: Part 1, March 25
• The Muppet Show Comic Book #1, March 25
• Farscape: Strange Detractors: Part 2, April 29
• The Muppet Show Comic Book #2, April 29
• Farscape: Dargos Lament: Part 1, April 29
• Farscape: Dargos Lament: Part 2, May 27
• Farscape: Strange Detractors: Part 3, May 27
• Muppet Robin Hood #1, May 27
• The Muppet Show Comic Book #3, June 3
• Muppet Robin Hood #2, July 1
• The Muppet Show Comic Book #4, July 1

Merchandise

• Myzos are released, August

Attractions and Events

• Jim Henson's Fantastic World
  • Atlanta History Center (Atlanta, GA), January 1 - 18
  • Orange County Regional History Center (Orlando, FL), February 7 - May 3
  • Experience Music Project|Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (Seattle, WA), May 23 - August 16
  • James A. Michener Art Museum (Doylestown, PA), September 5 - November 29
  • Mississippi Museum of Art (Jackson, MS), December 19 - 31
• Jim Henson: Wonders from His Workshop
  • Center for Puppetry Arts (Atlanta, GA), January 1 - September 13
• Sesame Street at 40: A Night of Celebration with the Legendary Cast, January 30
• Miss Piggy at Macy's Glamorama in Chicago, Illinois, August 21
• New York City proclaims November 10 Sesame Street Day
• Sesame Street photo exhibit, Union Station, Washington, D.C., November 10-30
• Brooklyn Public Library Exhibit, November 14 to February 21
• Sesame Street's 40th Birthday Party, November 15
• Kermit the Frog holiday postmark, December 1-30
• The Jim Henson company's Fraggle Rock Holiday Toy Drive Benefit event at Kitson in West Hollywood, December 9

Parades

• The Tournament of Roses Parade features a Sesame Street float, January 1
• Indy 500 Parade features Super Grover float
• Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, November 24
• 6abc Thanksgiving Day Parade features the balloon versions of Bear with Tutter, Super Grover, Kermit and Elmo

Music videos

• "Bohemian Rhapsody" with the original instrumental tracks by Queen
• "I Believe" with Tiffany Thornton

Stage Shows

• Sesame Street Live presents 1-2-3 Imagine! with Elmo & Friends, the 30th anniversary tour
• Bert & Ernie, Goodnight! at the Children's Theatre Company, September 8 - October 25

People

• Alaina Reed dies, December 17

Websites

• The Muppet Mindset, fan site, August 26

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