Amazon.com is an e-commerce company that began in 1995 as an online bookstore. They have since gone on to sell DVDs, CDs, housewares, clothing, and a variety of other products.
In the summer of 2005, Amazon.com offered an exclusive streaming interview with Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog for pre-orders made to The Muppet Show: Season One and The Muppets' Wizard of Oz DVD. Piggy is asked if she could take Sydney Bristow from Alias in a fight and states that she'd like to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. She figures that Amazon.com sells everything, so that's what's on her Wish List: everything. Kermit says he stays young by attending a spa back in the swamp and would like to play the part of Yoda.
To promote The Muppet Show: Season Three on DVD, Kermit and Fozzie Bear appeared together in a series of interviews culled from questions submitted by fans.
Amazon's audiobook and podcast subsidiary, Audible, has produced exclusive Sesame Street podcasts, including The Sesame Street Podcast with Foley & Friends and Ready, Set, Ride with Elmo.
References[]
- On Sesame Street, in Episode 4408, Rosita orders a book from "Hamazon.com," delivered by a pig mailman.
- In Sesame Street Episode 4514, Oscar the Grouch browses for products on Scramazon.com.
Mentions[]
- Amazon warehouses utilize robots to "improve safety and free workers for tasks that require critical thinking skills." Beginning in 2021, various automatons have been affectionately named after Muppet characters including Ernie, Bert, Scooter, and Kermit.[1]
- At the beginning of the day on September 24, 2021, Amazon's Alexa A.I. wished Jim Henson a happy birthday during its morning news brief, quoting lyrics from "The Muppet Show Theme" and "Rainbow Connection".
Sources[]
- ↑ Slate "Why Amazon Is Naming New Warehouse Robots After Muppets" by Dustin A. Abnet, July 12, 2021