North Carolina is the 12th state of the United States of America.
- The Muppet Show writer Don Hinkley was born in Richmond, North Carolina.
- Wilmington, North Carolina was used as a filming location in Muppets from Space and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland. In the latter, a studio in Wilmington portrayed Sesame Street.
- John Crichton, the main character of Farscape, was born in North Carolina.
- Charlotte, NC is home to HeroesCon, a convention for which Roger Langridge provided an exclusive variant cover for The Muppet Show Comic Book #1, as well as his own parody of Doctor Who featuring the Muppets for the convention booklet.
- In the Muppet Babies coloring book, Muppet Babies Visit the Fifty States, Baby Kermit and Baby Fozzie stand in for the Wright Brothers and their famous flight in North Carolina.
- In a Twitter posting on July 1, 2010, Cookie Monster tweeted that he heard the world's largest cookie, weighing 37,000 pounds, was made in North Carolina, and he was going to book a flight there. [1]