Fozzie Bear in The Muppets Go to the Movies.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (abbreviated as MGM) is a movie studio known for its musicals in the Golden Age of Hollywood (including The Wizard of Oz and Singin' in the Rain), as well as classics such as Gone with the Wind and the theatrical cartoons of Hanna-Barbera and Tex Avery.
The studio's mascot was Leo the Lion, whose roar opened nearly every film (with exceptions such as 2001: A Space Odyssey). The logo has been spoofed multiple times in Muppet productions, including by Animal at the start of The Great Muppet Caper and Fozzie Bear in lion's garb in The Muppets Go to the Movies.
One Sesame Street instance, in Episode 3423, used a chicken in place of the studio's trademark lion within a bannered circle to open The Lion King spoof The Chicken King. This version combined elements from other studios, including the text "Walt Dizzy Presents" (how Walt Disney was credited on his films, as well as one of the titles of his anthology series) and a Warner Bros.-style shield at the bottom (and the ringed circles used for Looney Tunes shorts).
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(1976)
(1977)
"NDR - ARENA VIA SESAMUS - EMPORIUM HAMBURGUM MCMLXXVII"
(1981)
"ARS GRATIA ARTIS - Metro Goldwyn BEAR"
(1981)
"LORD GRADE presents"
(1983)
(1986)
(1986)
(1988)
"MUPPET BABIES"
(1991)
"SESAME STREET"
(1995)
"Walt Dizzy Presents - WD"
(1999)
"THIRTY YEARS AND COUNTING - 30 - SESAME STREET"
(2013)
"Sesamstraße präsentiert - OVIS OVEM MANET - MÖHRE - MMXIII"
(2015)
"Sesamstraße präsentiert - OVIS OVEM MANET - MŒHRE - MMXV"
(2017)
"Sesamstraße präsentiert - OVIS OVEM MANET - MŒHRE - MMXVI"
(Note: The film was not released until the year following the one erroneously indicated!)
(2018)
"Sesamstraße präsentiert - OVIS OVEM MANET - MÖHRE - MMXVIII"
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- A stock lion image used to represent Leo for stills of the MGM logo also appears in the animated Sesame Street insert "Alphabet Jungle," appearing within a letter b for "big, bad roar."