Good Morning America

Good Morning America is a breakfast television news and talk show broadcast on the ABC television network; the show has been airing five days a week since November, 1975. The program is currently hosted by Diane Sawyer, Robin Roberts, Christopher Cuomo, and Sam Champion. Longtime anchor Charles Gibson left the program in 2006 to become the lead anchor of ABC World News. Weekend anchors include Kate Snow.

The Muppets have appeared on the show many times. They are a particular favorite of Gibson's, and Kermit the Frog appeared on Gibson's final broadcast in 2006 to say goodbye.

In 1992, the Muppets appeared in a series of ten weekly sketches produced for Good Morning America, spoofing current events of the day -- the presidential election, the Winter Olympics and tax day. These sketches were written by Jim Lewis and Craig Shemin, under the supervision of Jerry Juhl . See below for details and video clips.

Appearances

• Summer, 1976 : Kermit the Frog
• February, 1988 : Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy
• August, 1989 : Jim Henson and Michael Eisner, to discuss the prospective Henson/Disney deal. Henson wore a Mickey tie; Eisner wore a Kermit tie.
• May, 1991 : a behind the scenes feature about Muppet*Vision 3D
• February 18 - April 21, 1992 : Series of weekly Muppet sketches; see below.
• December 11, 1992 : Brian Henson promotes The Muppet Christmas Carol
• December 15, 2004 : Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Statler and Waldorf, and Penguins
• May 19, 2005 : Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, and Ashanti, to promote The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
• February 2, 2006 : Kermit the Frog, to promote his upcoming commercial for the Ford Escape Hybrid
• June 28, 2006 : Kermit the Frog, for Charlie Gibson's last day
• December 7, 2006 : Kermit the Frog, to promote Before You Leap and A Green and Red Christmas
• June 19, 2007 : Elmo promotes the book C is for Cooking
• May 4th, 2008 : Rosita appears to promote Talk, Listen, Connect, with Jeanette Betancourt (Sesame Workshop Vice President for Education, Research and Outreach), and a military family. ABC.com video
• November 17, 2008 : Pepe the King Prawn appears on Good Morning America's ABC News Now
• October 5, 2009: Kermit the Frog appears to promote Give a Day. Get a Disney Day.
• November 9, 2009: Oscar, Zoe, Grover, Abby Cadabby, Roscoe Orman, Joan Ganz Cooney, Fran Brill, Caroll Spinney appear to promote Sesame Street’s 40th Anniversary. (video)
• September 23, 2010: Elmo, Super Grover 2.0, and Carol-Lynn Parente appear to promote Sesame Street’s 41st season and discuss the show's controversial Katy Perry video.

Sketches

In 1992, the Muppets appeared in a series of short comedy sketches that appeared on Tuesdays.

Video	Title	Description
200px|center	Muppet Campaign February 18	Miss Piggy and Gonzo face off in a political debate. Gonzo behaves bizarrely, keeps changing the subject, and basically does everything except address the issues. Naturally, he wins the debate.
200px|center	The Muppet Games February 25	A report by Lewis Kazagger on the Geek Winter Games (a much cheaper alternative to the Winter Olympics), where founding geek Gonzo demonstrates demolition speed skating.
200px|center	Pop Psychology March 3	A stressed out monster executive (Behemoth) listening to the radio hears a pyschologist suggest that everyone should release their "inner child." Much to the monster's dismay, a child monster (Boo) literally keeps popping out from inside him.
200px|center	Super Tuesday March 10	Gonzo and Rizzo (two candidates from the 1992 election) try to persuade Muppets to vote for them (leading to a messy tug of war with a whatnot).
200px|center	Spring Training March 17	Lewis Kazagger reports live from a baseball game, talking to the baseballs themselves.
200px|center	Setting Your VCR March 24	Two Whatnots demonstrate how to change the blinking 12:00 clock on your VCR (leading to one of the Whatnots going insane and blowing up the VCR.)
200px|center	Miss Piggy's Interview Show March 31	Miss Piggy reviews a book written by a levitating author.
200px|center	Gonzo's Scandal April 7	Two news reporters interview campaign front runner Gonzo the Great, but when Gonzo develops a sore elbow, the reporters start hounding him with a series of increasingly tabloid-style questions.
200px|center	Tax Audit April 14	A IRS auditor questions Fozzie Bear about outrageous deductions for items such as a rubber chicken, banana peels and custard pies. When Fozzie asks what the IRS wants from him, the auditor responds with a new rendition of "Money."
200px|center	Earth Day April 21	In honor of Earth Day, Kermit the Frog presents a live report from Planet Koozebane on their holiday rituals. The two Koozebanians in this sketch were originally used as Brool the Minstrel and Aretha on Fraggle Rock.

References

• In episode 103 of The Jim Henson Hour, Fozzie Bear accidently locks Willard Scott in a closet and runs onto the set of The Today Show for help. When Fozzie finds out that he's on camera, he says "Good morning, America!", to which Jane Pauley responds "You watch your language!"

• Many episodes of Dinosaurs feature a fictitous show called Good Morning Pangea.