Penguins

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The Penguins are mostly nameless and undifferentiated from one another. Generally playful and wacky in nature, they have appeared in many Muppet productions (sometimes in places where penguins are not commonly seen). They are best known for tossing themselves into the air. The Muppet Penguins usually communicate with sounds that penguins would make, but they have spoken a few times. In The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, the Muppet penguins are referred to by Scooter as "unisex" (gender androgynous or applicable to male and female), reflecting the fact that they function as a collective, identical and indistinguishable.
==The Muppet Show==
Brian Henson built the very first Muppet penguin, which was used by Frank Oz for the "Lullaby of Broadway" on The Muppet Show episode 304.The Muppet Show Fan Club Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 4 He was given the name Winky Pinkerton in episode 308. He was the only penguin in the cast until four penguins popped up in episode 320's "Hawaiian War Chant." The complete group of penguins appeared for the first time in episode 321, in which one of them is the first Muppet affected by the Cluckitis. In episode 424, a supposed penguin affirms that he's a flamingo disguised with a tuxedo. Groups of penguins include the Pilgrim Penguins and the Endangered Species Chorus Line.
==Other Muppet Productions==
Penguins are featured as musicians in the orchestra pit in a few Muppet productions. In Muppet*Vision 3D, Nicky Napoleon and His Emperor Penguins appeared in both puppet and animatronic form. The penguins also provided the background music for Little Muppet Monsters.
Charlotte the Penguin appeared in The Animal Show episode "Penguin & Kiwi." In the episode "Indian Elephant and Human," it is shown that a penguin serves as a camera operator for the show.
Nellie Penguin also made an appearance on an episode of Mopatop's Shop.
On The Muppets, Miss Piggy kept a baby penguin, whom she named Gloria Estefan, after smuggling her back from a vacation in Argentina.
The 2018 Muppet Babies series introduced Summer Penguin as a main character in the Muppet Babies group.
In Muppets Haunted Mansion, penguins are featured as part of the broader ghostly ensemble as well as one of Constance Hatchaway's husbands. This penguin, dressed to play the role of the Marquis de Doome from the attraction and performed by Eric Jacobson, squawks a description of their death so grisly that the other husbands call it something that can't be said on a family show.
==Sesame Street==
Shivers the Penguin, a Caroll Spinney character, made a few live appearances in the early 1980s. However, it would not be until season 23 that an entire array of Muppet penguins would have a more recurring prominence on Sesame Street. These penguins, first appearing in a "Fairy Tales Today" sketch, are different puppets than those on The Muppet Show, possessing orange eyelids and light gray beaks. A team of penguin softball players appeared in Episode 4072, while Episode 4112 featured a graduating class of penguins. An entire episode of Elmo's World was dedicated to the Antarctic bird, including one Caesar Penguin. Telly sang a song about having "Six Penguins in My Shirt" in a Season 39 episode. 
An Elmo the Musical segment features Elmo as a pilot flying a penguin bride-to-be to her wedding. 
Rosita and her abuela throw a fiesta for their visiting friend, Polly the Penguin, in Episode 5025.
Other named penguins include Blubba, Busby, Camille, Kurt, Penelope, Shecky, Sue, and Zero.
;International Sesame Street
A blue-billed penguin named Georges appears on 5, Rue Sésame, the most recent French Sesame Street co-production.
==Filmography==
* The Muppet Show
** Episode 304: Gilda Radner
** Episode 308: Loretta Lynn
** Episode 309: Liberace
** Episode 311: Raquel Welch
** Episode 320: Sylvester Stallone
** Episode 321: Roger Miller
** Episode 402: Crystal Gayle
** Episode 404: Dyan Cannon
** Episode 414: Liza Minnelli
** Episode 416: Jonathan Winters
** Episode 419: Lynda Carter
** Episode 423: Carol Channing 
** Episode 424: Diana Ross
** Episode 501: Gene Kelly
** Episode 503: Joan Baez
** Episode 507: Glenda Jackson
** Episode 510: Jean-Pierre Rampal
** Episode 515: Carol Burnett
** Episode 516: Gladys Knight 
** Episode 517: Hal Linden 
** Episode 519: Chris Langham 
* The Muppets Go to the Movies
* The Muppets Take Manhattan
* Little Muppet Monsters
* The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
* A Muppet Family Christmas
* National Wildlife Federation
* Sing-Along, Dance-Along, Do-Along
* The Muppet Traffic Safety Show
* The Jim Henson Hour
** Episode 103: Power
** Episode 107: Fitness
* The Ghost of Faffner Hall
** Episode 101: Your Body Is an Instrument
** Episode 102: Delighting in Sounds
** Episode 103: Sounds Become Music
** Episode 104: Music Is More Than Technique
** Episode 105: The Voice Is an Instrument
** Episode 107: If You Can Play, It's an Instrument
** Episode 109: Notation: The Sign That Gets the Sound
** Episode 110: Discovering New Sounds
** Episode 111: Music Brings Us Together
** Episode 113: Anyone Can Make Music
* The Cosby Show
* The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
* Muppet*Vision 3D
* The Muppet Christmas Carol
* Billy Bunny's Animal Songs
* Muppets Tonight
** Episode 109: Whoopi Goldberg
** Episode 110: Martin Short
** Episode 203: Heather Locklear
** Episode 204: Pierce Brosnan
** Episode 205: Coolio & Don Rickles
* Muppets from Space
* Mopatop's Shop
** Episode 151: Cold Feet
** Episode 258: Mirror, Mirror
** Episode 328: The Bouncing Pengolinos 
* Muppet RaceMania
* The Muppet Show Live
* Kermit's Swamp Years
* It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
* Keep Fishin' Music Video
* Spy Muppets: License to Croak
* Good Morning America
* America's Funniest Home Videos
* The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
* From the Balcony
* Disney Xtreme Digital
** Muppet Moments
** Secret Elevator Tapes
** "Do Not Touch" button
* Muppet viral videos
** "Stars and Stripes FOREVER!!"
** "Bohemian Rhapsody
* Studio DC Hosted by Selena Gomez
* A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
* Give a Day. Get a Disney Day. commercials
* Andrea Bocelli & David Foster: My Christmas
* The Muppets Kitchen with Cat Cora
* The X Factor
* AMC Theatres
* The Muppets
* Kermit's Party
* Lady Gaga & the Muppets' Holiday Spectacular
* Muppets Most Wanted
* Disney Drive-On with The Muppets
* The Muppets 2015 Presentation Pilot
* The Muppets Take the Bowl
* The Muppets Take the O2
* Muppets Now
** Episode 102: Fever Pitch
** Episode 104: Sleep Mode 
* Muppets Haunted Mansion
* Best in Snow
==Merchandise==
*A pair of Penguins Action Figures were released by Palisades Toys in 2005.
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