It’s Not Easy Being Green: Fascinating Facts Behind The Muppets

The Show Made The Founding Fathers Proud

Jim Henson’s Muppets visit London during The Muppet Show on Tour in 1987. Dr. Teeth performs a dance number with Scooter and Floyd Pepper. (Photo by julio donoso/Sygma via Getty Images)

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In 1978, the Mary Washington Colonial Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution gave The Muppet Show a Television Award Merit.

It was the first non-historical series to be honored with the award. Captain Kangaroo and Mister Rogers Neighborhood would win years later.