Miss Piggy

Miss Piggy

▪ American puppet character
      American television puppet character, a highly articulated pig puppet featured on the prime-time comedy and variety program The Muppet Show.

      Though she began as a relatively minor character, Miss Piggy quickly achieved leading-lady status on The Muppet Show (1976–81) series. A humanlike pig with blue eyes, blond hair, a star's ego, and a forceful will, she pursued with equal determination a life of fame and the love of her costar Kermit the Frog—who at times seemed to share her tender feelings, though he never matched her intensity and often appeared frightened of her.

      Miss Piggy developed into a leading character under the direction of television producer and puppeteer Jim Henson (Henson, Jim) and The Muppet Show staff. For 25 years her movements and voice were performed by puppeteer and film director Frank Oz.

      The most well known of Miss Piggy's Muppet Show segments include Pigs in Space, a Star Trek parody, and Veterinarian's Hospital, which poked fun at medical soap operas. She starred in The Muppet Movie (1979) and several subsequent films, and a toddler version of her appeared in the 1980s animated series Jim Henson's Muppet Babies. Contrary to an often-repeated story, it was not Miss Piggy who danced opposite ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev (Nureyev, Rudolf) in a 1977 Muppet Show episode; rather, another, human-sized pig character was created for the piece. In 1981 the self-help book Miss Piggy's Guide to Life became a best seller.

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