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Playboy

The October 1965 issue featuring Penny James, seen in Henson Associates' presentation for La Choy.

Wilson's Meats - Playboy June 1966

The June 1966 cover featuring Mary Warren, seen in the second Wilson's Meats film.

KermitsHouse-PlayboyFashion

Kermit's side of the Playboy Fashion cover is obscured in the set photo (top left); Welch's side is obscured in the screenshot from the blooper reel (bottom left).

Playboy is a monthly magazine, founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates and targeted at adult men. The magazine is published monthly and features photographs of nude women, along with various articles on fashion, sports, consumer goods, and public figures. It also has short fiction by top literary writers. Playboy's use of "tasteful" nude photos is often classified as "softcore" in contrast to the more "hardcore" pornographic magazines that started to appear in the 1970s in response to the success of Playboy's more explicit rival, Penthouse.

References[]

  • Kermit's mansion in The Muppets is decorated with various magazine covers. One of them is a doctored cover of the Fall 1982 issue of Playboy Fashion with Kermit and Raquel Welch. Although the cover has been manipulated for the movie, the two did once share the actual cover of Us magazine in 1978.
  • In a "Co-Star Challenge" video published by People on September 6, 2014, Pepe says that his favorite place to go for a swim is the grotto at the Playboy Mansion.

Muppet Mentions[]

The comic feature Little Annie Fanny, created by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder, featured a Miss Piggy appearance in the Dec. 1983 issue's installment, "Little Annie Fanny's Workout Show." In 1998, the comic was revived with different artists for two issues, and again Miss Piggy appeared.

The magazine rated The Witches 2 1/2 bunnies, calling Creature Shop's contribution "invaluable."[1]

Notes[]

In 1989, Caroll Spinney told The Chicago Tribune about getting stopped by a friend at a newsstand who spotted him thumbing through an issue of Playboy and said, "Hey I didn't know Big Bird read those kinds of magazines." Spinney claimed to only be looking at it for the articles and replied, "I'm not Big Bird. I'm Caroll Spinney."[2]

Connections[]

Several artists whose work has appeared in Muppet/Henson productions have also contributed to Playboy.

Models[]

Sources[]

  1. Bruce Williamson, "Movies", Playboy Magazine, July 1990.
  2. The Chicago Tribune "The Brain Of Big Bird Talks About His 20-year Love Affair With A Famous Character" by Robert E. Sullivan Jr, November 14, 1989
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