The Rockettes

Kermit and The Rockettes in 2005.

Piggy and The Rockettes in 2014.

The Rockettes are a precision dance company, famous for their flawless kicklines. They are based out of Radio City Music Hall near Rockefeller Center in New York City.

Appearances

• Kermit the Frog appeared with them during his 50th Anniversary World Tour on November 4, 2005.

• Miss Piggy appeared with a trio of Rockettes as their choreographer in "rehearsal footage" shown on The Tony Danza Show promoting the above appearance.

• Miss Piggy appeared with them in October 2014.

References

• In the pilot version of episode 101 of The Muppet Show, Kermit sarcastically tells Fozzie "you're a Radio City Rockette" before ushering him onstage for the "Cowboy Time" sketch.

• A gag in the sales pitch for The Great Santa Claus Switch featured the Elves disguised as rocks, where they did a dance number, a la "The Rockettes."

• In the tag for episode 513 of The Muppet Show, Statler jokes that he knew an entire chorus line that was turned into stone - the Rockettes.

• In Sesame Street Episode 1369, David, Grace, and Mr. Macintosh do a soft-shoe dance routine while sitting on stools. Grace comments at one point that she feels like a Rockette.

• In a series of strips that ran November 16, 1981, The Muppets comic featured a group of singing and dancing worms called "The Wormettes."

• In the Muppet Babies episode "Plan 8 from Outer Space," Baby Rowlf (as investigative reporter Gerowlfo Rivera) looks for missing nannies. He checks out Radio City Music Hall, where he finds the nannies have become dancers known as the Nannettes (a kick line of dancers dressed like Nanny).

The Wormettes debut in The Muppets comic strip

• During their appearance at The Secret Policeman's Ball in 2012, Statler and Waldorf reminisced about their youth: Waldorf saying "Can you believe it, Statler? Radio City Music Hall... we're heckling in the big leagues now." and Statler adding "Remember when we used to come here as kids and watch the Rockettes?" with Waldorf replying "Oh yeah! And then they covered over that hole in the dressing room wall!"