Statler and Waldorf with a giant remote in Muppets Tonight.
Search and Learn Adventures
Times Square is a major intersection and tourist hub located in midtown Manhattan. The area is comprised of intersections between Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street, and is famous for its many shops, attractions, advertisements and popularly hosts the annual ball drop on New Year's Eve.
Appearances[]
- The Muppets have appeared in the area several times when making appearances on Good Morning America, recorded at Times Square Studios.
- The Muppets have also been seen on several advertisements prominently displayed in the area, including Target and Kodak.
- Miss Piggy provided live coverage from Times Square on New Year's Eve 1996 for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
- Statler and Waldorf watch Muppets Tonight on one of the large screens in episode 201. The pair get crushed by a large remote attempting to change the channel.
- Kermit the Frog and Pepe the King Prawn appeared live at the Disney Store in Times Square at a special event in November 2012.
References[]
- Shots of Times Square are featured in the teaser trailer for The Muppets Take Manhattan.
- The Sesame Street gang makes their own New Year's Eve ball drop in Sesame Street Stays Up Late. Wolfgang the Seal balances a beach ball on his nose until the stroke of midnight.
- The WASA moon landing is seen broadcasted on the screens of Times Square in Sesame Street Episode 3740.
- In Search and Learn Adventures, one of the floors reached by the Furry Arms Hotel elevator is Times Square. It is shown to be in the midst of a New Year's celebration, with the advertisements supplemented with the images of Bert, Big Bird, Count von Count, and Forgetful Jones, while featuring one ad for Figgy Fizz.
- The Muppets interfering with the New Year's Eve ball drop is depicted in one of the 2002 Macy's Windows.
- Times Square is rendered in paper in the Sesame Street song "See the Signs" and the opening title sequence for Seasons 38 and 39.
- In an interview for Just Ask the Locals, Elmo says Times Square is his second-favorite street in New York (after Sesame Street, naturally).