Characters with disabilities

Over the years, Sesame Street, it's international spin-offs, and other Muppet productions have incorporated a variety of "differently abled" characters (and celebrity guests) as role models and to show that physical differences are less important than shared feelings and friendships. On other occasions, however, particularly in productions featuring The Muppet Show characters, certain disabilities have been played for laughs.

Deafness

 * Linda, Sesame Street
 * Left Door Knocker, Labyrinth
 * World's Oldest Fraggle (partial, carries an ear horn), Fraggle Rock

Blindness

 * Aristotle, Sesame Street
 * Blind Pew, Muppet Treasure Island
 * Skippy, Bear in the Big Blue House