Dolly Parton and Rowlf
Parton with Piggy on the 1987 series Dolly.
Parton with Kermit on Good Morning America in 2012.
Dolly Parton (b. 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, author and actress. She also operates the Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
In 1986, she received an "Honorary Muppet Award" in Muppet Magazine issue 14.
Miss Piggy and Kermit appeared on her TV variety show, Dolly in 1987.
Parton tells this story about a discussion she had with her manager Sandy Gallin in her 1994 biography. Sandy said to her, "How can Kermit sing with a man's hand up his ass?!" To which Parton replied, "That's nothing; I did that for seven years on The Porter Wagoner Show!"
Kermit and Dolly sang "Islands in the Stream" on Good Morning America, November 27, 2012.
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- Sesame Street created two parodies of her, Dolly Pardon and Polly Darton.
- Parton's song "Here You Come Again" was sung by Leslie Uggams and Lew Zealand in episode 318 of The Muppet Show.
- Baby Piggy imagines herself as country singer Piggy Parton in the Muppet Babies episode "Musical Muppets."
- In the book The Muppets Make Puppets!, directions for how to make a rod puppet named "Dolly Carton" are included.
- A photo of Parton at the Kennedy Center Honors features among a number of inspirational women on Doctor Doc's Shero Wall in Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock.