Kermit at the parade in his honor in Kermit, Texas.
Texas is the 28th state of the United States of America. The capital is Austin and major cities include Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and El Paso.
- Muppets, Inc. produced a series of ads for Taystee Bread in 1963 to air in Texas markets.
- A second American Sesame Place park existed in Dallas in the early-1980s.
- The state is home to SeaWorld Texas, owned by Busch Entertainment Corp., which is scheduled to feature Sesame Street attractions as of 2008.
- Kermit the Frog visited Kermit, TX as part of his 50th anniversary world tour.
- Kermit visited NASA's Johnson Space Center as part of his 50th anniversary world tour.
- On January 22, 2006, Henson held a special Fraggle Rock screening event in Dallas, TX. [1]
- Heather Henson and the Henson Company held "Handmade Puppet Dreams," a screening of independent puppet films, The Muppet Movie, and early Jim Henson works in Houston, TX on February 25, 2006 and Austin, TX on February 26, 2006. [2]
- Jim Henson's Creature Shop built a large scale Witch puppet for the Houston Opera's production of Hänsel und Gretel in 2006.
- In the book The Muppets Make Puppets!, the mechanical puppet Millicent Meatball has her birthplace listed as Texas.
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