MTV

We want our MMTV!

DTV

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We want our SMV!

MTV VJ Martha Quinn with Zoot.

I Want My Muppet TV!

We want our NTV!

MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched in 1981, the original purpose of the channel was to show music videos, as well as other music news and events. Today, MTV broadcasts a variety of music, pop culture, youth culture, and reality television shows aimed at adolescents and young adults. MTV has its own company called MTV Networks, which is a division of Viacom.

Appearances

• Muppet Magazine issue 11 featured an interview with MTV VJs Martha Quinn and Alan Hunter.

• In 2002, MTV aired the Keep Fishin' music video and MTV2 aired Weezer and the Muppets Go Fishin', the making of special.

• On December 8, 2006 Kermit the Frog appeared in an MTV News interview promoting Before You Leap and commenting on current entertainment news.

• Kermit appeared at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards with Lady Gaga as his date.

Muppet Mentions

• An episode of MTV's The State contained a sketch called "Eating Muppets."

References

• The channel was spoofed with N-TV on Sesame Street, where Nora Nicks introduced the music video of "The Letter N" by Nick Normal and the Nickmatics. The song can be seen on the Sesame Street Video Player.

• The channel was spoofed as "Mac TV" on Sesame Street, where Old MacDonald introduced the music video for A New Way To Walk by The Oinker Sisters.

• The channel was also used as a parody for some of the airings for How Now Brown and the Moo Wave's "Wet Paint" on Sesame Street.

• A 1988 Sesame Street vhs made a big spoof called "Sesame Street Music Video", with Count von Count as the host.

• The network was spoofed multiple times in Muppet Magazine with the Muppets own version, MMTV.

• This channel was also spoofed on Dinosaurs as "DTV."

• The Muppets spoofed the channels The Real World reality show with The Real World Muppets on Muppets Tonight

• In the 1980s, MTV's slogan was "I want my MTV!" This motto was spoofed by Baby Rowlf as "I want my Muppet TV!" in the Muppet Babies Episode 207: I Want My Muppet TV!.

• Rhea Perlman co-hosted a "Worm TV" television station, devoted to worm music, in the 1994 special Sesame Street's All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!.

Trivia

• MTV also syndicates Scrubs which has many Sesame Street/Muppet Cameos.

Connections

• Downtown Julie Brown hosted Club MTV
• Carson Daly hosted TRL
• Carmen Electra co-hosted Singled Out
• Jenny McCarthy co-hosted Singled Out
• Stephanie Pratt starred in The Hills
• Jon Stewart hosted The Jon Stewart Show

See also

• MTV Europe
• VH1