Over the years, Sesame Street, its international spin-offs, and other Muppet productions have incorporated characters and celebrities with disabilities 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 (especially partial deafness) have been played for laughs.
Blindness[]
- Aristotle, Sesame Street
- Blind Pew, Muppet Treasure Island
- Kerri, Sesame Street
- Monica, Sesame Street
- Skippy, Bear in the Big Blue House
- T'raltixx, Farscape
Deafness[]
- Linda, Sesame Street
- Left Door Knocker (partial), Labyrinth
- Lois (partial), Bear in the Big Blue House
- Pops (partial), The Muppet Show
- World's Oldest Fraggle (partial, carries an ear horn), Fraggle Rock
- Old Fozziwig (partial, carries an ear horn), The Muppet Christmas Carol
- Samara, Sesame Street
Wheelchair users[]
- Ameera (also crutches), Ahlan Simsim
- Emily, Sesame Street
- Ethyl Phillips, Dinosaurs
- Griotte, 5, Rue Sésame
- Katie, Sesame Park
- Maria, Sesame Street Episode 0808
- Ricardo, Talk, Listen, Connect
- Sivan, Rechov Sumsum
- Tarah, Sesame Street
- Traction Jackson, Sesame Street
- Camilo, Plaza Sésamo
- Elin, Sesamstrasse
Crutches[]
- Beggar, The Muppet Christmas Carol
- Long John Silver (amputee), Muppet Treasure Island
- Tiny Tim Cratchit (due to unspecified illness), The Muppet Christmas Carol