New Mexico
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New Mexico is the 47th state of the United States of America.
- The state of New Mexico in general served as the backdrop for a series of episodes in Season 7 of Sesame Street. Big Bird, Buffy, and other characters visited Pueblos and learned about Southwest culture.
- The desert scenes for The Muppet Movie were shot in Albuquerque, NM.
- Though much of The Great Muppet Caper was filmed and set in London, England, the opening scenes, in which Kermit the Frog and friends descend in a hot air balloon to a bustling city street below, were filmed in Albuquerque, NM.
- Chauffering the various adults from Sesame Street to the studio in Elmopalooza, Grover takes a wrong turn and winds up in Roswell, NM, best known as the alleged site of alien landings.
